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Thursday, October 23, 2008

Occupied

Yesterday morning Baby Benny was busy throwing the pillows off the sofa when Henry sauntered into my office and asked to go up into the bin.  Since Benny wasn’t using it, I lifted him up and put him in the bin.  A few minutes later, Benny comes into the office and wants to go in his bin.  I told him Henry already beat him to it, but he wasn’t taking no for an answer.


Occupied from obp on Vimeo.

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Caption This #79

Benjamin

For this week’s Caption This, I went back to the archives and found this picture of Baby Benny when he was about a year old.  Looking forward to your captions in the comments.

Monday, October 20, 2008

Bully Sticks

Benjamin, Henry & Luna with their bully sticks

A few week’s ago, Mike from Best Bully Sticks sent over a few bully sticks for Benjamin, Henry and Luna to enjoy.  The boys and Luna each love to chew and we usually give them a new bone on Sundays for them to work on while we unwind and watch TV and get ready for the work week.  Yesterday, we gave the pugs each their own bully stick and they went to town!

Benjamin & Luna smelling out the bully sticks

Thanks, Mike for sending over the yummy treats!

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Watering Hole

Benjamin, Henry & Luna

Benjamin loves to chew and when he chews for hours on end in the evenings he naturally gets thirsty.  During a normal chewing session, he makes a couple of trips to the water bowl and it isn’t uncommon for him to come close to emptying the pugs’ huge water bowl.  But while he empties the water bowl, I would be surprised if he actually drinks more than a few tablespoons of water.  We have labeled him the most inefficient canine drinker because he somehow always ends up soaking his chin and that cute little bit of extra skin under his neck with water.

I always thought he just dipped his chin in the water while he was drinking, but this super slow motion video of a dog drinking may shed a little bit of light on the subject.  In any case, I found this video of how a dog drinks very fascinating.

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Caption This #77

Benjamin

Just call him cranky in the morning.

Looking forward to your captions in the comments.

Friday, October 3, 2008

Baby Benny’s Pugkin Bread Recipe

Benjamin, Henry & Luna waiting to eat pugkin bread

Ann was kind enough to send over her pugkin bread recipe for me to share.  So without further ado, here it is!

  • ½ c. unbleached all purpose flour
  • ½ c. whole wheat flour
  • ½ c. buckwheat flour
  • ½ c. old-fashioned oatmeal
  • 1 T. baking powder
  • 1 t. cinnamon
  • ¼ t. salt
  • ¼ t. nutmeg
  • ¼ t. ginger
  • 1 can pumpkin
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 T. flaxseed
  • 2 T. wheat germ
  • ½ c. milk
  • 2 T. plain yogurt
  • ¾ c. unsweetened applesauce

Blend ingredients and spoon into prepared (greased and floured) pans.  I use three small loaf pans…or you can use one large loaf pan.  Bake at 350 degrees for about 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the loaf comes out clean.  Cool in the pans for about 10 minutes, then remove loafs to a rack and cool completely.  Serves three hungry pugs….or one Benny.

Note:  This is a very flexible recipe…you can add or subtract here and there to suit the tastes and food sensibilities of your pugs.  If they have allergies to milk or eggs, for example, add more applesauce to moisten the recipe.  I sometimes add a little more oatmeal (love that fiber!), adding just a touch more yogurt or milk for additional liquids.  Oh, and if the pugs will share, this is perfectly suitable for humans, particularly if you are trying to cut down on sugar in your diet.  One more note…I make my own applesauce for this recipe, and I make it using unpeeled apples.  More fiber and vitamins to boot!

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Pugkin Bread from Ann

Pugkin Bread from Ann

When we arrived at the Sock Hop, Ann greeted us with a very special bag.  The bag had a loaf of pugkin bread for each one of the pugs!  When we got home from the Sock Hop on Saturday night Benjamin was very anxious to get a piece of Ann’s special pugkin bread.  So we set them up in the living room each with their own loaf.  The silly pugs thought I was going to let them eat the whole thing!  I snapped a few pictures and then we broke off a few pieces for them.  We did the same thing on Sunday and Monday night too!  The pugs are in heaven!  The best thing is the pugkin bread is very diet friendly for the pugs.  It is made with whole wheat flour and uses applesauce instead of sugar.

Thank you, Ann!  You are so very kind and thoughtful!

Monday, September 29, 2008

At the Hop

Benjman, Henry & Luna with Elvis

On Saturday we went to Central Florida Pug Rescue’s Sock Hop and we had a blast!  First, let me just say, in our mad dash to get out of the house and get the truck setup to ensure the pugs’ maximum comfort on the trip, I forgot to bring the camera!  Yup, how silly am I?

So, our picture with Elvis is the only snapshot we brought home from the event.  That is also our first official photograph with Elvis.  The pugs have been photographed with Santa and even the Easter Bunny, but this was their first time meeting the King.

There were lots of vendors at the event, many of which had free treat samples.  This went over quite with the gang, but especially Benny.  We also got to chat with Ann from Central Florida Pug Rescue.  Ann made the pugs a very special treat, that they had a chance to gobble up a little bit of on Saturday night and some more on Sunday.  More to come about the pugs’ special treat from Ann on Wednesday.

We also had a chance to talk with Marcia and her friends from Compassionate Pug Rescue.  Compassionate Pug Rescue is where we adopted Luna from so it was great to see Marcia again.  We had not seen her since the day we took little Luna home over 2 years ago.

Overall, it was an awesome day that really tired the pugs out.  The pugs slept the whole ride home.  They had a great time and so did we!

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Caption This #75

Benjamin

Care to guess what is in that Bob Evan’s bag?  Yup, it’s pumpkin bread.  Looking forward to your captions in the comments.

Monday, September 15, 2008

Unraveled

Henry and the rawhide

I spent most of the weekend working on the calendar, so the pugs had lots of chewing time this weekend.  They had nice new knucklebones to keep them busy while I worked, but their chewing reminded me of something I wanted to blog about awhile back.

Henry has a thing with compressed rawhide bones.  Instead of just chewing them, he likes to peel the rawhide off in layers.  Unfortunately, he is quite good at it too!  As he peels away the layers, I take them away because they are what we call “choking hazards”.

Benjamin hates it when Henry unravels a rawhide bone.  Benjamin’s preferred plan of attack is to get the bone so slobbery on an end that it pretty much turns to mush.

Depending on the size of the rawhide strip that Henry pulls off, we sometimes let Luna chew on it.  Luna has such a tiny mouth that she couldn’t even come close to getting the larger pieces into her mouth.  She will happily chew for hours on a piece of rawhide that we had to take away from Henry.

On a completely different note, how is everyone that was in Ike’s path doing?  I hope everyone is OK.

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