Sid loves baths. I mean really loves baths. Once he gets soaped up he seems to enter some zen state of mind. I don’t know if it’s the soap suds or the chest rubs, but his usual pug purring becomes amplified and he is barely be able to hold his head up. Even though we have to leave his special medicated allergy shampoo on him for 10 minutes, he doesn’t seem to mind. It just gives him more time to meditate.
Witness Sid’s entrance into bath zen:
Sid has many different “modes” that he gets into throughout the day. Usually the mode involves some sort of body positioning, movement, or a certain noise he emits. The mode he is demonstrating here is “Peanut Mode“. We’ll often find him sleeping or resting with his face almost flat against the ground (easy for him to do due to being snout-less). Why he does this, we have no idea, but he usually is very relaxed in this state.
Hopefully we’ll catch some photos of him in different modes…including the rarely-seen but equally-as-cute “Wombat Mode“.
This recent spell of cold weather in Pug Slope has kept us from taking any new exciting photos of everyone’s favorite little turkey. Gone are the long afternoons of meandering through Prospect Park. On Sid’s walks he now stays strictly to the “business” at hand (can I get a rimshot?). He’s very content to curl up indoors and since his Snuggie apparently wasn’t cutting it, he decided to commandeer Jenn’s.
Yes, he did take over the whole darn thing.
He’s also taken to popping up into our bed in the middle of the night – although we can’t complain. Since the radiators in the apartment churn out too much heat (and the one in the bedroom is about 6 inches from my head) we often turn off the one in the bedroom at night. So when it does get a little chilly, what folks commonly refer to as a “One Dog Night”, Sid fits the role perfectly.
Here are the next two Your Daily Siddhartha videos that our friend Adam made while Jenn and I were on a vacation in Europe (For more backstory, please check out the post for Days 1 and 2). The 4th is one of my personal favorites!
Day 3: Getting pet just isn’t as thrilling as it used to be.
Day 4: A day full of eating and sleeping has left Sid all tuckered out. Bless him.
Happy Holidays from Sid, Jenn, and Brian!
This is the face of an evil genius:
I was never under any illusion as to who was calling the shots in this house, but damn this pug is sneaky.
One of the many things we do to keep Sid’s ego in check is enforce a strict “Sid sleeps in Sid’s bed” policy. We’ve gotten lax about it here and there – he’s such a good snuggler – but after a night or two of sleeping in our bed he starts prancing around the apartment like he owns the place and then the next thing you know he’s forcefully sneezing, stomping his little legs and jerking his head towards the fridge in a hilariously misguided attempt to dictate his own feeding schedule (Sid’s ideal feeding schedule = all food, all the time).
Recently, though, Sid realized that at a certain point in the night, Brian and I are both unconscious (because we’re sleeping, duh). So, Sid began sneaking up into our bed in the middle of the night. Brian, being a light sleeper, would immediately send Sid back down to his own bed, and I’d be none the wiser.
Well, apparently Sid noticed that while Brian wakes up easily, I sleep like a rock. For the past week or two I’ve been waking up around four in the morning with this twenty-two pound nimrod SLEEPING ON MY BACK.
That’s right, he bypasses the Brian-threat by walking down to the end of the bed and jumping directly onto my side of the mattress, where he then proceeds to flaunt his ability to concoct evil schemes by SLEEPING DIRECTLY ON TOP OF ME.
Don’t you look at me like that, little man. I know what you’re up to.
Sid’s been camera shy the past few days, so here’s some highlights from the past year.
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