daily(ish) photos of the princess pug
I asked her if she wanted to play ball, and this is the look I got. SOOOO cute!
My apologies to you if I scared you yesterday; several folks wrote in to say I’d initially scared the heck out of them, making them think Merry had died. Not to worry. Writing the post the day Merry passes away is not one I look forward to, but as I said yesterday, I plan for it to be 21 odd years from now, so I (and all of you) have lots of time to prepare! :)
There’s a distressingly long list of things I cannot read, watch, or listen to:
Yes, I know all these things happen. I know that one day, they will happen to me. But you all have to understand that this is my first dog ever – my first pet ever, really, except for some goldfish a couple of times when I was much younger.
And the stats be damned, I need a Guiness Book pug. I need one who will live to 30. I tell Merry this every day, that she has to take care of her teeth and bones and other body parts because she will be the world’s first 30 year old dog.
This post inspired not by anything wrong with the pug – she’s fine – but by inadvertently stumbling across this discussion on Ask MeFi. Darnit!
She loves playing in hallways. Always has. My parents live in an awesomely huge apartment which has a long hallway running through it and she and I used to sit there endlessly, with my back to the wall, playing fetch aaaaallll the way down the hall and back with every throw.
Of course, these days, she howls a lot more. :)
Makes me yawn every time I look at it. Hopefully we’ll make time for a nap this weekend! The pug’s been getting plenty of sleep but her “Mom”? Not so much!
I also think she looks a little bit like the Grinch when she yawns. Yes? No?
Enjoy the weekend folks!
Merry and I checked out the back yard briefly during lunch hour today. She doesn’t seem sure about this new space yet. Ah, well, she’ll get used to it. :)
Is everyone sick of playtime photos yet? I just can’t stop myself from posting more play photos. It was a long, hard winter of acclimating Merry to her new surroundings and I’m just so thrilled that, finally, she seems ready to throw off her gloomies and actually play outside.
It’s not perfect. She gets distracted easily, and one glancing sniff can distract her enough that she loses the ball and you have to find it for her. I’m going to be experimenting with essential oils on the outdoor ball to see if that helps her find it more readily.
But look: playtime! We’re both so happy about that.
It’s Friday, everyone! Are you ready to shake your boo-tay? Shake that groove thing? Do a little dance? Make a little love? Get down tonight?
Merry the princess pug says a big YES to all of these activities. It’s the weekend. Enjoy. Have chocolate. We’ll see you all back here on Monday.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the playground, the incredible howling pug strikes again! :) I love the frustrated look on her face. SOOO cute.
Oh, the patented Merry howl. She uses it more and more often now in playtime to communicate her excitement – it really started getting more frequent after her eyesight started to dwindle.
It’s a tough thing to catch on camera, though, because she hurls herself up in the air when she howls and that always means she’s blurry and only her chest is in focus. :) This one was closer, though, so I thought I’d share!
Somehow after that whole two day weekend I don’t feel any more rested and, clearly, the pug is exhausted as well despite her gorgeous new threads (see this month’s reviews for the scoop). However, we did get lots done – lots of yummy cooking, an estate sale, some garden store shopping, planting and watering, painting a mirror for our bathroom, and some good outdoor walking in the sunshine (long overdue) as well as pug nail trimming (ALSO long overdue, goodness gracious).
Hope everyone had a good one!