Bright eyed and curly tailed!

Petunia at the keyboard today! 

I went to the ophthalmologist today, all the way in Chesapeake and all by myself with mom. 

It was a beautiful day and I had a blast looking out the window at all the cars. 

But then we got there and immediately my tail drooped. 

As soon as we walked in, I knew we were at a vet's office. It just smelled wrong!

This clinic is for specialties like surgery, allergy and dermatology and opthalmology. 

We sat between the eye clinic and the allergy clinic. The allergy people LOVED me! Because I was a pug, they thought I was there to see them! Nope, my skin is pretty good, thank you very much. 

I was very concerned that the vet was going to poke me and put gunk in my eyes and take my temperature!

But nope, none of that.  I was a big baby and shook like a leaf! The vet rubbed my ears and said they didn't eat little doggies like me. (Um, hope so!)

She just looked into my eyes with lights. No poking or anything!

She gave us good news though. The spot that looked like a wrinkle was gone, just a little scar on my cornea that had already healed over. I did have a little pigmentation on that eye, but it wasn't bad enough to do anything about. My other eye was gorgeous! The vet said so. 

The best part was the cookie I got! You can see in that picture above that there were TREATS on the counter! I did my best to get to them, but unfortunately, they had chicken in them. The vet went to get me a special non-chicken treat that I totally snarfed down. 

PS, there was a pug painting on the allergy side. I was not impressed. 

Although the jacket would be cute in pink!

So, we are all clear on the eye ball problem! Whoo for me and hoo for mom's bank account!

Happy (belated) Gotcha Day!

To our friend Lilo!

Lilo chilling at our birthday party

Three years ago in late August, our mom went to the SPCA to check on some pugs that were rescued from a puppy mill. She saw this one little girl pug who was really anxious to get out of her cage. She knew her friends were thinking about a sister for their pug Stitch. So she took a picture, sent a text to her friends. 

And the rest is history!

Lilo with big brother Stitch

Lilo had some medical and behavioral issues after being trapped in a cage and bred for a few years. But she's made some wonderful progress. She plays with toys, chews on bones and bullies, even snuggles with other pugs.

Stitch, Tallulah and Lilo

We are so glad you were rescued and found the most perfect family for you!

It's all fun and games until someone gets a wrinkle on their cornea

We had a great post planned for this weekend. There was steak and a pug meet up and swimming and steak. 

Everything was going great. We had a fabulous meet up on Saturday (no pictures). Then we went swimming because it was soooo hot (also no pictures). Today, mom grilled so much steak. It smelled so good. No pictures there either. 

But before we got to eat our steak, Petunia started squinting. Then she clenched her eye shut. Two eye washes and an hour later, no change. So off to the emergency vet!

See her left eye? Squinty

 Miraculously, as soon as we got into the lobby, Petunia's eye opened wide up.

What fun! V*E*T spells steak, right?

 No immediate worries. No ulcer or scratch. No meds or anything!

Waiting on the bill

The vet did notice that Petunia has an apparent wrinkle in her cornea, so we will be seeing an opthamologist to make sure that it isn't serious. 

The vet and the tech just LOVED Petunia. Her exam notes prove it! The vet said that Petunia was the healthiest pug she has ever seen, minus the eye issue, of course. And since she wasn't with her partner in crime, Tallulah, she was a sweetheart instead of a punk. 

See where it says very sweet and fit!

It's not a holiday weekend without a trip to the vet. Thankfully, it all worked out!

Happy holiday everybody!

A burger in slow motion or POLO (Pugs Only Live Once)

Where did summer go?

It was just here last week. Now it's rainy and cool, like fall. It's August, nature! Bring back our pool weather!

Mom starts her last semester of actual course work on Monday. That's a three week break between summer and fall semesters. Not enough time to do anything! She's been alternating between sleeping a lot (which we like) and cooking (which we also like). And going to her regular job, of course. 

Our chest freezer. Those blue lidded containers are our food.

She usually spends the summer cooking meals to freeze for those crazy days when she barely has time to eat. But because of classes, she saved all of it for now. And she still doesn't have enough stuff! But she did what she could. 

There's peach/blackberry muffins for breakfast, vegetables and chicken pot pies (a first!). That ought to get her through a few weeks. Plus, she got a Foodsaver vacuum sealer and has been going nuts, sealing stuff. Nerd. 

And awesome news! After four years, mom finally moved from a cube to a real office with a door! 

And she got a reserved parking space and everything!

See how the walls go all the way to the ceiling!

City view.

It even has a water view, if you squish to one side and look left. 

If you look beyond the blue roof, that's the Elizabeth River. 

But the gallery of us is the best view of all. 

No, she didn't get a promotion or a raise, just what the job deserved from the beginning. If your people work in a cube farm, they will understand. For anyone who hasn't experienced that joy, it's a really big deal. Mom is the only woman supervisor and the only supervisor without an office. Now she feels that her position is respected. If one supervisor has an office, they all should. And now they do!

Congratulations to Oliver!

Friday night, Oliver went to his forever home with a wonderful family.

 John and Diane are new volunteers with Pugs U Gotta Save and 

were a tremendous help with Pugapalooza. 

We will get to see Oliver and his new sister Daisy a lot. 

They'll be in the parade with us in November and at the meet ups plus all the PUGS events. 

Oliver really hit the jackpot with his new family, and we hope he lives a long and happy life with them. 

Congratulations, Oliver!

National Night Out!

The summer semester is finally over, thank pug! Mom has a few weeks break until she starts back in the fall. We are going to try to catch up on laundry and dishes and swimming and naps!

So tonight we participated in National Night Out! We haven't been before because August and pugs usually aren't friends. But it was just cool enough for us to go.

National Night Out is celebrated all over the US (October in Texas). It's one night where neighbors get together to show support for one another and to tell the criminals that we do fight back for our neighborhoods. In our city, we celebrate a different neighborhood every year. We had a parade and a giant picnic. Unfortunately, we got rained out at the end, but it was okay. We totally scored a hot dog!

Mom, give us the hot dog!

Tallulah

 Come on already!

Petunia

In baby bird news, things didn't go very well. We had nothing to do with the outcome, by the way. But one baby was taken to a wildlife rehabilitator where we are believing that she will survive and thrive. 

PS, secret shout out to one of our favorite people. We are super happy for you! Teal is your lucky color!