Monday, April 28, 2008
This weekend was a great weekend for pug and parents! We got almost all of our usual weekend to do items done on Friday night so that we could have some free time on Saturday and Sunday. We went to the grocery store, cut the grass, made the dog food bowls for the week and replenished our stock of turkey by cooking and freezing 14 packages of ground turkey.
We didn’t finish cooking the turkey until about 10ish on Friday night and Baby Benny was so cute because he was falling asleep while sitting up. The turkey can not be cooked without him supervising and he was trying so hard to stay awake until we were completely finished.
Saturday morning we went for a long walk with the pugs before it got too hot. It was a beautiful day and a great walk. When we got back home we went out for a little fun and some shopping giving the pugs a chance to catch a nap. Later that night we caught up on all the TV shows we recorded and the pugs when to work on their knucklebones.
Sunday started much like Saturday in that we took the pugs for a long walk right after Luna finished reading the paper. Then we went to the gym and hopped in the pool for a bit when we got home to cool off. Much to Benjamin & Luna’s liking we didn’t stay in the pool long. The rest of Sunday was just a lazy afternoon. The pugs were happy relaxing in the sun and of course Benjamin was begging to have a chance to chew his knucklebone bone on Sunday night. He is completely obsessed with those bones!
I hope you had a great weekend!
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
When the boys were about 6 months old we thought it would be a good idea to start taking them to the dog park to help socialize them. The closest dog park to us at the time was very nice, but it did not have a separate area for small and large dogs. This made me a tad nervous, but I thought it would be good for the boys to learn to play with big dogs as well.
After a couple trips at times which we thought would be off peak, we soon learned that the park was always fairly busy. We soon settled into the routine of going in the evenings a couple times a week. The boys quickly became known at the park and they did a great job playing with both big and small dogs.
We got to the park one evening as usual and the park was particularly crowded. The boys went into the fenced area and immediately started playing. The dogs were running and the boys were doing their best to keep up, when out of the blue, a greyhound sprints up to baby Benny and picks him up by the scruff of his neck and trots off of him.
I saw the whole thing and I frantically started to look for the greyhound’s owner. Luckily, the owner was on top of things and was already on her way to tell her dog to put down baby Benny, which the greyhound begrudgingly did. The owner pulled a muzzle out of her pocket and quickly put it on her dog. At that point she proceeded to tell me that her dog most likely thought that Benny was a rabbit and she angrily stomped off because she didn’t want to have to muzzle her dog.
I was fine up until the point she got mad at us for her having to muzzle her dog. It wasn’t like we were in the large dog section of the park, the park was for all dogs of all sizes. And Benny never even went up to her dog, so it wasn’t like he was enticing the greyhound. The greyhound sought him out.
I’m just so glad that the greyhound didn’t start to shake Benny when he picked him up. Lucky for us, he just picked him up and started to walk away with him.
When this first happened, I was more than a little irked. But, now when I look back on it I can’t stop laughing. I can picture it plain as day, little baby Benny hanging by the scruff of his neck getting toted around by a greyhound. That will teach him to be so cute!
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Road trip! Looking forward to your captions in the comments!
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
In keeping with the boys’ birthday celebrations, I thought I would pull a photo from the archives for this week’s Caption This. Here we have Benjamin and Henry at about a year old gazing out the front door in Maryland.
Looking forward to your captions in the comments.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Benjamin in his bin wondering what you are talking about. Looking forward to your captions in the comments.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
This is the scene in the early morning hours. Looking forward to your captions in the comments.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
What you say? Looking forward to your captions in the comments.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Here’s an action shot of Benjamin, Henry & Luna playing at the beach. Looking forward to your captions in the comments.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Benny is sending you subliminal messages!
Looking forward to your captions in the comments!
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
We went out to dinner the other night and I wanted to save some room for dessert so I brought home a piece of my steak for the pugs. The pugs rarely ever get any type of red meat so they got very excited when the smelled the steak.
Luna had a hard time “leaving it” while I took the picture. She was ready to pounce and claim that steak all for herself!
