Waking Up is Hard To Do

Too precious for words. Love ya sleepy heads!!!

Do you think you’d like to adopt me?  I can move in with little fanfare!  But if you’d feed me two breakfasts and roll me from the bedroom to the living room every morning, I’d be as faithful and true as these 3 cute pugs!

CORRINE:  LOVED your title . . . LOVED today’s story . . . and LOVED the picture - especially squinty-eyed Henry.  Boom-Boom Benny doesn’t even make a feeble effort to “smile” for this morning photo-op - but La Luna appears totally gracious and camera-ready.  I sympathize with your attempts to gain an extra hour of sleep.  Bella has come to the conclusion that she would rather dine at night when I get home from work as she gets to share a bit of my supper along with her special Science Diet C/D.  But she does feel compelled to get me up around 3 a.m. to go outside to potty.  Doesn’t matter if she has a potty walk just before bed or not.  I think she gets bored sleeping and likes sniffing about her yard when it’s totally quiet outside - no one else stirring - which is a good thing as I stand at the doorway watching her wearing pajamas and major bed head.  We scoot right back to bed and I’m instantly out for another couple of hours sleep before the alarm.  It’s a bad morning when she waits until later - closer to the alarm going off - to summon me off the bed to let her out.  Not enough time to go back to sleep - just lay and wait for the alarm to ring.  Thankfully, she’s pretty regular about her early morning nature break.
Looking at your gang’s picture once again is making me squint along with Henry.  Better refill my ooffee and get rolling with the day.

I, too, have a vivid picture in my mind, placing three pugs on an ottoman, then wheeling them out to the living room. Henry has that “what are you doing” look.  Luna seems to be more alert.  Benny is just out.  Another great picture Corrine.

Romeo has been on steroids before, but the last time, 6 weeks ago, he had other meds to take at a very regular time.  Of course the Prednisone made him very hungry, so at 6 am he started to bark for food.  Because my son is still asleep and is not a happy morning person, I rushed to get food ready, while Romeo is barking the whole time.  Then I began to pick him up and try to fill bowls…that was a chore because Romeo is not small.

  Next I came up with the idea of preparing their food the night before, placing it in a small bowl, then into a plastic container.  That worked for a while, now it can be 5 am, 3 am, or whenever. 

So now I have a squirt bottle by the bed and when he starts in I squirt in his direction, not at him, unless he is persistent, then he gets one squirt. Sometimes he settles down until 6 am, when I usually get up.  Other times it is an on and off thing from 3 am until 6 am.  Each time I squirt in his direction and get back to sleep, but honestly, it is not good sleep.  It might be easier to just get up and feed him, but then he will get into the habit of eating that early and want it every morning and may even try for an earlier feed.  Is he spoiled?  You betcha. 

Gina, Mike has essentially called me an enabler as well, but what are you going to do?

Oh man this picture!  I can hear the snores, huffing and puffing, and grunting from here!

My guys wake up with me at the sound of the alarm.  Once they see me putting on my shoes to get ready to leave for work, they both snuggle in their beds and go back to sleep.  Lucky bastards!

aw they are the sweetest sounds like my house they eat,go out then back to bed.

Utterly precious.  I had to copy it for my computer room.

I’m howling as I am reading your blurb, Corrine.  Such a funny picture comes to me of the pugs being wheeled…kind of like wheeled meals…from one room to another.

Sue VDB, the squirt idea is hilarious as well.  But, hey, if it works….

I don’t think your son, or your husband, Gina, should resort to name calling.  These are pugs we are talking about.  You can’t be a proper pug owner if you don’t acquiesce to their NEEDS.

Lol, many a morning walk in this house has gone the way of the pug (as it didn’t happen).  Lilo usually will stay in bed while i get up to shower and get dressed for work. By 630 she is usually ready to go for a walk, and then there are “those mornings”, where she buries her little black snout back in the blankets and will not budge.  This happened one morning last week.  So i texted my brother, who doesn’t work until 10am to see if she would go for him.  Well I must have looked like quite the site, sitting out in our courtyard at work laughing all by myself.

My brother had texted me back to let me know that Lilo wouldn’t walk for him either. She put the brakes on and wouldn’t budge!! Even funnier, was his comment that: “it really sucks after you have her all bundled up”.  Welcome to my world!!!  He has tried so hard with her, which i have long learned, won’t work anyways, like carrying her down the block and making her walk back in hopes she’ll do her business.  Nope, she got her eye on the prize, nice warm house.

I am not an enabler, I am a Pugaholic.  I don’t believe i’m harming anyone lol.