Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Caption This #104

Baby Benny with his empty bowl.  Looking forward to your captions in the comments.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Bowled Over

On Sundays, I make the pugs’ food bowls for the week.  With the addition of Sol, I believe we are now up to a total of 84 bowls.  Ridiculous, I know.  Sure, there are about 100 different ways that we could approach this that would require less bowls.  We could put everything in a food processor and make sorta a wet food that we could store and scoop at each meal, I could make the bowls at each mealtime instead of ahead of time, but this method seems to soothe my OCD tendencies the best and is what we have been able to stick with over the years.  So, If you ever come over to my house and open the fridge, just know that you will be staring at two shelves worth of dog food bowls.  Anything that you may want to eat or drink is on the teeny shelf third from the top.

Monday, January 26, 2009

Spoiled Already

Well it sure didn’t take Sol long to become a spoiled little girl.  Here she is begging for some of the chicken I am carving.  It is pretty much a Sunday ritual.  We get the rotisserie chicken from Sam’s club each Sunday and carve it and use it in some form for our lunches that week.  Sol has been here for at least 3 Sundays when we do this and she knows what is coming.  The girl is quite fond of chicken!

Spoiled Already from obp on Vimeo.

Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Caption This #89

Benjamin & Henry eyeing the Christmas cookies.  Looking forward to your captions in the comments.

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Making the most of Monday

We didn’t get to do much with the pugs this weekend since we were so busy doing our holiday shopping.  So, I thought we would take advantage of Monday night and get the pugs out for some much needed exercise.  The City Center near the house puts up lots of lights for the holidays and it is always beautiful.  We hadn’t been over to see the lights this year, so I thought we would take the pugs over for a nice walk around the lake and enjoy the lights at the same time.

It was such a beautiful night out that we decided to stop and get some ice cream for us and the pugs afterwards.  Needless to say, I think the pugs enjoyed the ice cream more than the lights.

Sorry for the low quality photos, I took them with my phone.

Friday, December 12, 2008

Good Listener

Henry listening intently to every word I say, just waiting for me to ask him if he would like some lunch.  In the 6 years that I have asked Henry that question, his answer has always been YES!  Never once was he still a little full from breakfast or did he ruin his meal by eating to many treats.

Have a good weekend everyone!

Friday, November 28, 2008

Cherry Pie?

What?!?  No pumpkin!

(For the record, there was pumpkin pie, but we were not silly enough to bring any of that home with us - we didn’t want Benny to have to spend the whole night obsessing about the pie.  Don’t worry, we’ll make sure the pugs get some pumpkin bread this weekend.)

Friday, November 14, 2008

No Dessert for Luna

The bowl you see is Luna’s and that blobber you see in there is her spinach.  At my vet’s recommendation, each week, I add a different veggie to the dog’s homemade food.  The main purpose of the veggie is to help keep the pugs full and the variety of veggies is to help them get different vitamins and such.  This week’s veggie is spinach and while none of the veggies are Luna’s favorite, she won’t even eat her spinach.  She is also good at eating around her spinach, because I put her spinach on the top of all her other food.  She some how works it to the side and leaves it at the bottom of the bowl every time.

Henry, who is a veggie lover, loves spinach week because he gets a double serving.  He gets his and Luna’s.

Thursday, November 6, 2008

He Works Hard for the Peanut Butter

As you will see, Benjamin takes his treats very seriously.  When he gets a Kong he doesn’t let up until he gets every bit of peanut butter that I slather inside.  The original video goes on for more than 3 minutes, but I edited it down because you might have other things to get to today and after about a minute you get the gist.  My favorite part is the snorting and sniffling.

He Works Hard for the Peanut Butter from obp on Vimeo.

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Pumpkin Ice Cream

Last weekend, we had a friend visiting from Maryland.  One night we headed out for ice cream and when I saw they had pumpkin ice cream I knew I had to bring a doggie dish home for the pugs.

The only thing the pugs like better than when I bring home ice cream is if they get to go with me to get the ice cream.  The ice cream shop is outdoor only and has several serving windows and the building itself has lots of very big windows so you can see what is going on inside.  The windows have low ledges so if the pugs stand on their hind legs they can see inside.  We mostly take the pugs in the summer and in the summer there are always long lines.  It took a while, but the pugs have learned that they need to wait in line and can not simply rush up to the counter.  I make the boys sit and they become intensely focused on the serving window and they anxiously scoot up each time the line moves.  It is really the funniest thing to watch.  When they get to the front of the line, it is paws up and they spend the whole time peering into the window.  Luna passes the time by getting attention from everyone in line.