Wordless Wednesday: Bunnies & Bow Ties
(Thank you to my talented sister who handmade the bunny bow tie for Sid. She also was the one who made him the crocheted Easter egg toy.)
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Baseball Fever
Hope you all had a relaxing FLAT PUG WEEKEND!
I know Sid mentioned in his last post that he was beat from all the activity last week. Well, today’s video will provide further explanation as to his strong desire to remain an F.P. all weekend long…
Even though Sid is quite an athletic pug (I’ve come to accept that my boy is a “jock”), I was still shocked to find him utterly obsessed with baseball. I mean, I guess it is the “American Pastime” and everything, but he’s usually not interested in playing with a ball unless it’s stuffed with peanut butter or salmon treats. Boy was I wrong!
I think if we keep up training, he may be ready for the majors some day!
F.P.W.
After all that mixing and mingling with all the neighborhood pugs the other day, I’m pooped. I’m so glad it’s finally the weekend. I plan to lie low – like LITERALLY. This is a FLAT PUG WEEKEND.
Winnemac Park Pug Pack
Over the winter, I noticed a severe shortage in the number of pugs in our neighborhood. There were a lot of dogs that came to the park regularly but Sid was always the lone pug.
Well, that all changed once the weather started getting warmer.
Pugs have been heading to the park in droves and Sid has been making some local pug friends. For those that have trouble telling all the curly tails apart – including me – Sid is the one in the black harness.
A bunch of the local pugs are actually pairs – I guess you can’t have too much of a good thing!
I wish I had gotten a photo of each pug individually but they were all constantly in motion. Also, whenever pugs get in groups, they all seem to want to have their butts facing the camera (I guess they think it’s hilarious – sorta like their version of a photo-bomb).
Let’s see if I can remember all the names of the neighborhood pugs that we’ve met so far (with a little help from the note I keep in my phone…shhh don’t tell anyone my secret):
- Charles (pictured above)
- Spencer & Armani
- Gigi
- Buddy & Sandy
- Murray & Leo
Sid (on the right) and Leo (or is that Murray?)
Hopefully we’ll run into all of them again soon!
Pug Scrubbing
I hope everyone had a great weekend!
On Sunday morning, I took Sid over to Urban Pooch for some de-skunk-ification. This was his second visit to U.P. and while he was still squirmier than when bathed at home, he seemed more relaxed than the first time we went.
While I was busy scrubbing him, two different pugs came in and had their nails dremeled. Both seemed pretty calm during the process so I thought I’d see how Sid would do. He runs away and hides whenever I get out the nail clippers (hoping to trim his dew claws) and refuses to let me so much as touch his paw so I didn’t have high hopes for the dremel, but I figured I’d at least give it a shot.
After I dried Sid off, the Urban Pooch assistant, Luke, popped Sid up on a table and started dremeling away. My job was to distract Sid with a constant flow of venison jerky straight to the muzzle. Luke was super quick and gentle with the dremel – I don’t think Sid even really had time to process what was going on until it was already over. Sid actually kept his cool for most of the process, and wasn’t bothered at all by the noise (it was a lot quieter than I expected). He started getting super-squirmy near the end so we conceded to let him get away with two nails un-trimmed.
So it looks like two (nicely trimmed) dew claws up for the dremel!
Beach Dog
Like Sid mentioned on Monday, we did head to the Montrose Dog Beach this past weekend. The sun was certainly nice and bright but it was still pretty cold out and the wind was quite blustery. Still, we had a blast.
Sid went bonkers when he reached the water. You probably are aware by now of his strange obsession with water. I was afraid he might head out to sea so I brought him a little further inland so he could sprint on the sand. Here’s a short video of the little guy at top speed!
The Third Coast
Ahoy there!
I’m so glad those insane thunderstorms from last week finally wrapped up on Friday. I was exhausted from being on storm watch the whole time. I hope everyone stayed safe and no one’s basement flooded.
On Saturday, the sun finally decided to return to work after a week-long vacation. My dad and I went on an expedition and we ended up all the way at the Michigan Ocean. OK, well, I guess technically it’s a lake but it is ENORMOUS and I couldn’t even see the other side.
The wind was whipping around and the waves were leaping up onto the shore, but it was definitely not as scary as a thunderstorm (which I WASN’T EVEN AFRAID OF…NO, REALLY, I WASN’T. LET’S LEAVE IT AT THAT).
Oh, and the best part was that I got to go to the beach! Not just any beach but a DOG BEACH! Yeah, you heard me right. A beach devoted to us dogs. It was awesome! But I’ll have to tell you more about it later this week – I gotta run now – it’s DINNER TIME!
