The Pug FIles

I'm Ready for the Beach!

2008-06-01T20:23:00.000-05:00

When is summer vacation gonna get here?

I'm Ready for the Holiday Festivities!

2007-11-28T20:45:00.000-05:00

Here is the pretty pretty Christmas dress that Mommy made for me. It is from a pattern she found online. She tried to get me a dress from Target, but they didn't have my size, so she made one instead. It means so much more to me that she took the time to sew such a lovely piece of clothing for my furry self. I love Mommy! She's the best.

My Latest Video

2007-09-25T19:53:00.000-05:00

This is Mommy's latest creation. She was practicing making a video on Movie Maker for the workshop she is going to teach at school in a few weeks. She hadn't used it in a while because she likes Adobe Premiere Elements a lot better, but the computers at school don't have Adobe so she had to get reacquainted with Movie Maker. I did all my own stunts in this one. I didn't really hurt Makai in the growly dog scene. (He didn't hurt me either.)

PARL Pet Walk 2007

2007-09-15T18:47:00.000-05:00

I had such a fun morning today. Mom and Dad took Makai and me to the Providence Animal Rescue League's 19th annual pet walk. It was kinda rainy on and off, so Mom put me in my pink and green sweatshirt, but we found a booth that had t-shirts and she FINALLY ended up getting me an FBI t-shirt and I changed into that. I have been begging her to get one now for months. She hasn't taken any pictures of me in it yet, but a bunch of people at the Pet Walk did and they now have me on their cell phones and cameras. (They kept talking about how cute I am.) We took the shorter walk, just by chance...I could have done the longer one, but Mom and Dad didn't ask to see which route we were taking. There were lots of water stops along the way,but Mom knows I like drinking out of a cup rather than a bowl that all the other dogs drank out of. I shared my cup with Makai, 'cause he shares his water bowl with me and doesn't complain. When we got back to the main grounds, some nice lady gave Makai and me each our own Frosty Paws treat. It was yummy. Mom and Dad got to have some people snacks (Mom snuck me a bite of a banana which she put in my Frosty Paws). Oh, there was also an agility ring there and Mom took me to play in it for a little while. I did good. I went along the walk way, I jumped through a ring, and over a few jumps, and even ran through tunnel. (That's my favorite.)

It's Been a While...

2007-09-01T08:39:00.000-05:00

Jeepers, it's been a while since my last post! Mommy has been so busy with grad school she hasn't let me get on the computer to update my blog. All that should be finished soon and then maybe she can take me to learn to do agility training. (I tried it out over the summer one night and it was a blast jumping over those PVC pipes and sneaking through that big long tunnel.)
I helped Mommy get her rules ready for school. She said all the kids paid close attention when she went over the rules because they liked the posters she made of Makai and me. She's got a few good tricks up her sleeve to get those kids excited. I think she should just hold a cookie out in front of them and they will get excited, just like me, but she said they don't like doggie cookies too much.

Happy Birthday to ME!!

2007-05-23T18:24:00.001-05:00

It was my birthday yesterday! I am one year old, if you can believe it. I celebrated by sharing my birthday pie and a bottle of doggie beer with my big brother, Makai. I kinda dribbled it all over my chin, and then helped Daddy to clean the deck by using my wet chin to dust up all those icky things that fall off the trees. They are as yummy as the pie was, but nothing beats those scrumptious dandelions that I keep finding on the edge of everyones yards when we go for walks. Daddy knows how much I like them, so he has been growing some in our yard too.

What I learned today...

2007-04-08T10:38:00.000-05:00

So, today I learned how I can get video clips into my blog! Yippee. I knew there had to be some way of doing it. It involves taking the embedded code from YouTube (where I have my bone thief video posted) and pasting it into a new post! Not too difficult.

Here is a video of the kids. Enjoy!

I Feel Pretty, Oh So Pretty...

2007-04-03T06:25:00.000-05:00

Here I am in my pretty, pretty Easter dress that Mom made for me. I am looking forward to Easter weekend because Mom said she will be home on Friday too, so I get her three days in a row. We are going to go see my puggy friends at the Providence Pug Meet Up on Saturday. Mom said that Gramdma might come with us too. Grandma will get a kick out of all my friends running a muck, curly tails wagging, jumping into laps. Of course I will wear my pretty dress.

Will Work for Food

2007-03-28T20:11:00.000-05:00

Scully's training is going great. (Well, not the potty part of the training.) I just started working with a target stick. She knows how to touch it with her paw and with her nose. Usually when I tell her paw, she does the nose first, but hey, she just started to differentiate this afternoon...before then she only touched with the nose. I have taken it one step up and she now can close the cabinet doors in the kitchen! All I have to do is open the door, get her in position in front of it, touch it with her target stick and tell her "close". I think I might take her to PetSmart tomorrow night to show her training teacher how smart Scully is (and to pick up a telescoping target stick so I can close it and avoid poking my eyes out).

Where did the month go?

2007-03-08T19:59:00.000-05:00

Wow! It's already been almost a month since I posted. What happened to the month? Scully has been working really hard in her training. She now knows how to "gimme five", "stop, drop, and roll" and she is working on crawling. Hopefully soon we will throw in "taking a bow" to her bag of tricks. There are only two weeks left to our beginner training classes. She still has stuff to work on, but she's getting better. I have grad school this weekend, and I will really miss her--not as much time to spend together practicing.

Vacation at last...

2007-02-16T21:09:00.000-05:00

It is Friday night, and we are officially on vacation. Scully and Makai think its just another weekend, but Monday morning they will realize the joy of having Mommy and Daddy around a lot more for a whole week! Scully is just starting to make it through the day without messing her crate, so I hope the change in routine doesn't take another eight weeks to fix (because then we'll be on vacation again). Looking forward to lots of playtime and extra morning snuggles.

They don't play like this much anymore.

Brrrrrrrr.....

2007-02-15T07:07:00.000-05:00

I'm ready for the snow!!

So, the day after our big snow storm (which was mostly sleet and rain) the back yard is frozen over into a sheet of ice. The fur-kids were slip-sliding all over the place when I took them out at 5:45 this morning, and I am lucky that I was able to keep myself vertical. It's hard to find a good spot when you 're sniffing ice.

Spaying Scully

2007-02-14T17:22:00.000-05:00

I'm a little conehead, short and stout...

Scully had her spay surgery in January. She stayed overnight at the vet's and was as spunky as ever when she returned home. So much for the instructions of "no running, no jumping and no swimming for two weeks". Well, at least she didn't go swimming! It's hard to snuggle under the covers with a cone on your head, so it didn't last long. I don't think she could even reach her scar to lick it.

The Pug Files

2007-02-14T09:38:00.001-05:00

So, it is a snow day here in Rhode Island, and I get the day off from work. (Only to be made up on a nice sunny day in June.) It's the perfect time for me to play around and create a blog about Scully, my almost 9 month old pug. After about three years of pestering my husband about getting a pug, he finally gave in, and Scully became part of our fa mily one happy night last August. I was worried at first about how her big brother, Makai, an 8 year old pound puppy would take to her. He has demonstrated remarkable patience in dealing with her pug attacks in the 6 months since we have had her.