First morning

I woke up at 4:30 with kisses from Buddy. This is going to be a fun two weeks.

These pictures are from last night.

Warming up

When I started spending time with the pugs, I was a little worried about Brutus. He’s Beth’s dog. Brutus never had time for me.  Buddy, on the other hand, is an attention whore, and we get along just great.

Tonight, Brutus started to show me some love.

Pugsitter

Dear Beth,

Your pugsitter has arrived. Brutus has warmed up to me finally. As soon as I walked in the door, they greeted me warmly.  I got all kinds of love.

Love,

Mike

Pug Patrol

It won’t be too long before I start Pug Patrol. I’m pretty excited about this. As you can probably tell, I’ve grown rather attached to Buddy and Brutus. I thought this would be a good way for me to keep the parents informed that all four animals are doing fine. I’m not worried about the bunnies. They’re fairly low maintenance. It’s the pugs that are going to be more work.

remiss

I’ve been remiss posting here ... the guys are totally fine

Either way, I wanted to post that I’m handing the blog over to our pal Mike for a couple of weeks. Diosa is in England, and I’m going over there too for two weeks. Mike will be looking after both the guys and the buns while we’re gone, and we’re hugely greatfull to him for it!

Over to you Mike

Update

The guys went to the groomers on the weekend, they both were getting a little stinky, and Buddy’s nails were getting particularly long. I dropped them off and came home. When I picked them up later, they were so happy it was silly! Big smiles from both of them, tongue hanging out, soft and shiny coats, nice non sharp nails. Even their breath smelt good. Well worth the $30!

Of course, as soon as I got home Buddy jumped in the paddling pool we’ve put out for them (A small kiddies one with a shallow pool in it, no chance of drowning in this!) to keep them cool, but at least he’s stayed nice and soft coated

We’re going on a couple of vacations later this year, and for a while I was freaking out trying to figure out what we were going to do with them. While I’m in England, a friend of a friend (we’ve met him and trust him) is going to house and pug sit for us for two weeks, so that will be nice. When we go on our honeymoon to Mexico, my parents are staying over for a two week vacation and will look after them.

I’m very relieved thats sorted!

Aint dead!

We’re not dead, honest!

Life has been busy recently, but I got to spend some great quality time with the guys while I was off sick. I was at home for almost two weeks, and they loved the attention!

Buddy is getting much better at pooping and peeing than he has been. Now we’ve moved to the ground floor apartment, he is about 90% better at letting us know when he needs to go out! We still have accidents, but not too many.

Something really drove me nutty recently, and I wanted to share.

Someone we know from another community recently got a 12 week old pug. Fine. He made a plea for help post, because even though he was trying all the things the book was telling him, she was still peeing and pooping in the house.

NO shit! She’s 12 weeks old! Buddy is 8 months, and he *still* pees and poops in the house! 12 weeks?!

I sent him a friendly message, I hope he realises that it’s going to take *much* longer than a few days to toilet train a pug.