Switched to Canned food

So now that I am all better and not throwing up anymore, I have gotten some good news and some not such good news.

First the good news: I get to eat canned food now.  This food tastes so much better and I can trick my parents into giving me a little bit more food then I used to. SCORE!


Bad News: I can no longer have people food.  This is maybe the worst news a pug can hear.  I mean why shouldn't my people share with me their favorite pug on the planet? But since my tummy needs only easily digestible food, I am all canned food for now.

Maybe I should find a new vet that says people food is good for pugs!!

Spins of the pug

You know how to make your parents laugh?  Spin in circles when they first get home and walk in the door.  I tell them how much I missed them by how many spins I do before I jump up on my moms leg.  You also know that I am really excited when I can't seem to stop spinning.  I just miss my parents so much that I can't help but be excited when they get home!

But I don't think that they mind much because they always smile when they see me spinning!  Really that's all I am trying to get them to do is smile at me and give me pets when they get home. 

Sick Pug

Today I am writing from a wrapped up blanket.  Sadly I am very sick, so this is going to be short.  I have had the poops for the last couple of days and I was up all night last night throwing up.  It is so yucky.

I had to go to the vet to get checked out.  They gave me a shot, which I hated.  I also have all kinds of medicine that I have to take.  I just hope I start to feel better soon!  Especially because I miss getting treats!

Waking up early

This past week my mom has started to work again and is getting ready to go back to school.  This is great and all, but there are some big problems for me the pug (and everyone knows I am the most important thing to her). 

The first big problem is she has to be work in the morning.  This means I have to get up WAY too early to sit by her as she is getting ready.  Now I love being by my mom, but this is just silly.  She knows I need my beauty sleep. 

The other problem is when she leaves, my dad doesn't go back to sleep.  He stays up.  This is a problem because all I want to do is go back and snuggle in bed.

This has been the result: more pug naps then normal.  My dad makes fun of me saying all I do is sleep, but I can't help it that waking up early is not my thing.

Pugs love to sleep!

I love you

So lately my mom has been on this kick trying to make me say "I love you" out loud.  It all started when my mom and dad were on vacation and watched YouTube videos of pugs so they wouldn't feel so far away from me.  I guess they hate being away from me as much as I hate being away from them. 

On YouTube there is a video of a pug saying "I love you".  Now ever since my mom has seen this, she is determined that I can say it too.  The problem is I have never been much of a verbal talker.  I like my people to read my thoughts.  My mom tried to teach me to speak, but I just don't get it.  Why would I bark for a treat?  I mean I would do anything for a treat, but I just don't understand it.  I love to bark, but only as a warning for other animals to get away from my people, but I don't like to bark just for the fun of it.  I am not one of those yippy dogs!

So back to my mom trying to convince me to say things out loud.  I just don't get it.  So even though she wants me to say it and I would do almost anything for her, I just can't do it.  Now every time she tells me she loves me more then 2 times in a row I just give her a big kiss.  That was she does know I really do love her even if I can't howl.  Now can someone just break the news to her that I can't talk?

Walking without a Leash

When I was a puppy my mom used to be so scared for me to walk without a leash.  I was known to all of my aunties as a "darter".  I just like to prance around sometimes a little to far away for my mom's liking.  But a pug has to follow the smell or shinny thing that catches her attention doesn't she?

Lately though I have been earning some trust to not be a darter.  My people finally figured out I wasn't trying to run away, I was just trying to run around.  And I never wanted to leave my people, most the time that I did run is because I was mad at my mom for leaving me or I was trying to follow her when she left.  I don't like being away from my mom at all.  Hang on my mom is doing something with food in the kitchen so I have to see if she drops anything on the floor for me to gobble up.

Back and no food dropped.  Bummer.  But back to this leash and walking thing.  Now my mom trusts me to walk without a leash when we walk around our apartment complex.  I am getting much better at listening, but I still like to wander to explore, never to run away.  But I do have to go up to everyone I see and welcome them to the neighborhood, even if I did just see them 5 minutes ago.  I can't help that I am a friendly girl can I?

But I am glad that I am finally getting to walk without a leash.  I am getting some freedom, which every pug needs, but I never wander where I can't see/hear my mom or dad.  I just like to prance for everyone to see.  Do any pugs out there get to walk without a leash?

Flea Medicine

So a couple of weeks ago my dad noticed these little black bugs on my skin.  He told me that I had fleas and they were biting me and making me itch.  Stupid little bugs, go bother someone else.  So my mom went to the pet store and got a liquid flea medicine that the clerk recommended.  Then my mom put the medicine on while my dad held me still.  Everything seemed ok for a little while until that night.

That night it could not seem to cool off and I was breathing heavy running around the house.  Also my side kept having a mind of its own and making me move.  It was making me jump all over and I couldn't let anyone pet me, which makes me so bad because my favorite thing in the world is to get pet.  I was so miserable.  Finally my mom called the vet and she told me I had to go get looked at in the morning.

I don't like going to the vet all that much.  Actually I get a little nervous going to new places in general, but at least I had my mom and dad both there to hold me and let me sit on their laps.  When the vet came in she took my temperature, I hate the way that do that!  And I also had to get a steroid shot which I did not like either.  But the good news is the vet said I didn't have to stay for any more tests.  That's good because I really don't like it when my parents leave me. 

When we got home I had to have a bath in special shampoo, another thing I am not fond of: water.  But that is for another time.  After the bath they had to rub this special oil on my skin so it would stop moving on its own.  That part was nice because I got a nice long rub down, it put me to sleep it felt so good. 

Now two weeks later I am finally starting to feel back to normal.  My skin is not itchy anymore and we have not seen those little stupid black bugs either.  I hope they don't come back, but at least we know what medicine I can use to kill those bugs this time.  Only Frontline for this little pug :)

Day One of blogging

I am sitting on the couch trying to figure out what I should say for my first blog, but my younger brother, Willie Mays the English Bulldog, will not stop pestering me long enough for a thought to come into my head.  I don't know what my parents were thinking the first day they brought him home, wasn't I enough?  And this little puppy used to chase my all over the house, never letting me take any of my naps! But now I am glad he is there now because when my parents leave us at home (I HATE it when they do that!) I have someone to hang out with.  And the best part is since he is still a puppy he goes in his kennel and I lay on the couch for a nap.

I think the only thing I like better then napping is treats! What kind of treats are everyone's favorites?