Our Getaway to SC...

Hi it's Sophie... wow are we hug-over. (Remember when Mommy was? Now we are.)

We got real sick of that stoooopid weather so we got outta town. We hitch-hiked to the airport and took the first flight out to South Carolina! Our Daddy was there for a Batch-Lore pawty, whatever that is. We got there just in time to hit the bars! Here's a photo of us late into the night.

Not my finest moment, for sure. I was not feelin' too well after so many pawtini's!

We found out that the house we were staying in was a huge mansion that was rented for the guys for the weekend! It had it's own pool and like 16 beds. The next morning after our kibbles, Dixie and Harles headed out by the pool with some more pawtinis.

I stayed in bed all day. Boy was I hurting! No more pawtinis for me for a long, long time!

We headed back with Dad and gave him a great Father's Day card yesterday. He was soooo happy that we came to spend time with him! Mommy works too much anyway, she barelllly noticed we were gone! BOL!

A Severe Pug Madness Warning

There are no happy pugs tonight. Their wonderful loving Daddy ABANDONED us all to go to South Carolina for a bachelor party. And then I get on Twitter and what do I see? Oh only Tornado Watch information.

That's right, we are under a Severe Thunderstorm Warning and Tornado Watch until 3am. The sirens are going off. And Brian is states away. I thought about sleeping in our (scary, unfinished, gross) basement with the pugs but Brian convinced me that we'd be fine. But you know what thunder means... a long night of barking, unhappy pugs. Yippee.

Wordless Wednesday (aka LAZY Wednesday)

Vote Fur Mee!

Hai itz dah bugg gooroo an I iz givin yoo dah linkz to votez fur mee!

Mah mommeh she mesed up dah link befur an I maydez hur fix it an here it iz again.

Vote Fur Meeeee!

Tankz u guyz ar so gud to meh! Mah mommeh sez if yoo all can juss sendz it too yoor famuly an yoor co-wurkerz we can WINZ an I will be famus!!!!! I wont furget abot yoo all wen I iz dah 2010 postur pooch.

VOTE FOR THE BUGG!

See this beautiful Bugg here? She could be FAMOUS!

Remember the Mutt Strutt last month for the Indianapolis Humane Society? Dixie is up to be the MUTT STRUT 2010 POSTER POOCH! We are hopeful that she can win- all we need are your votes. Each vote is $1, with a minimum of 5, and goes to the Indianapolis Humane Society, so it will be benefiting a great cause. If you could please take a few minutes and 1) VOTE! 2) send the link to your dog-loving friends!

Dixie not only is a good-hearted little bugg, but she is a CANCER SURVIVOR! How many of these dogs can say that? Let's let her show all the other doggies out there that there is life after rescue! This would also be a great way to get KENTUCKIANA PUG RESCUE's name out and about here in Indy!

Ok ok, I know I am not the best blogger right now- and I haven't even formerly thanked those of you who DONATED to our Mutt Strutt walk- but know that we are so so so grateful for all of you, our pug and dog blog friends, and love sharing fun things like this with you guys!

Here is the link to vote:

VOTE HERE!

Thanks friends! Send this out to everyone you know who loves dogs!

Sleepy Bed-Pugs

Kelly here. I worked last night at my restaurant job, and after tomorrow and Saturday, I will be DONE, hopefully forever! I love working at a restaurant, but this economy makes it hard, and the hours aren't optimal. Last night I got in around 1 am and tried to wind down and fall asleep as quickly as possible. Brian had been asleep for a while, since he actually had to go to work this morning! Sophie and Dixie snuggled up between us and Harles, always a Momma's boy, jammed himself as close to me as possible.

Their little snorts and sighs enamored me while I waited for sleep. I outlined my next blog post in my mind... when did we start letting the pugs in our bed? I couldn't remember the specific day. I thought a lot about Oliver- I wished he had been able to sleep with us. Being crate trained from day one, he was fine sleeping in his little "home." But our pugs- they need the bed. They aren't okay unless they are next to us. There isn't anything I've experienced as gratifying and humbling as that. It melted my heart last night. Around 1:30am, I drifted off to sleep.

Oh, and hour later... thunder. Intense thunder. In fact, until nearly 5:30am. Which wouldn't have woken us up if the pugs weren't here. Harles was mostly fine and only responded to the other pugs' barking. But Dixie... oh we wanted to put her in a straightjacket. Every single thunderboom, every lightning strike... barking. Which got Sophie all nervous. We couldn't fault them because they were obviously stressed and upset. There isn't a way we know of to tell them, "it's just weather, go back to sleep." Sophie would bark, but Dixie would get up off the bed, run around, barking incessantly. It only seemed to shut them up when I would pet them. Which presents a challenge when you have two hands and three pugs. I stayed up until the storm was over petting them, since I didn't have to work today, hoping Brian could get some sleep. Jeez, what a NIGHT! I laughed aloud at one point and told them that they'd really screwed up that nice blog I planned on writing.

What about all of you? Do you pups sleep with your owners, or have your own beds? And how do you deal with thunder?

Oh and in the meantime... some sleep pug pictures.

Since, you know, they had all day to sleep...

...but couldn't let us sleep at night.

Thanks for that, puggies.

...I still adore you though.

Pee-S: I have twitter now! I know a lot of you pups and your paw-rents have it, so "pee-mail" us at the address on our sidebar if you want to follow me!

Birthdays Forgotten

Sophie here on behalf of my siblings. They are too depressed to write.

Friday? Dixie's 5th barkday. Today? Harles' 7th barkday.

Where were our pawrents?!?!?!?! Well I can tell you that Mom was WORKING major "doubles," whatever that is. And so we figure Saturday will be fine- we will go to the meetup, or Pugpalooza, and they'll apologize. Nope.

I hope these two can get over it. My barkday is on the 27th so fair warning to all pawrents to remind our Mom and Dad in case they forget. Which they won't, cause I'm Sophie, duh!

Oliver's Tick Story

Our good friends Tinkerbell, Oscar, and Tucker posted about ICKY TICKS today. (PS- if you haven't visited them, you should!) This reminded me (Kelly) of a hilarious story about my first pug, Oliver, that I wanted to share with you all. I will interject the story with some of my favorite pictures of him.

In case you don't know- Oliver aka Oli was my first pug. I got him my senior year in high school, and he belonged to me, my parents, and my two sisters. Oli lived only four short years, and died tragically of liver failure (KEEP SUGAR FREE GUM AWAY FROM YOUR DOGS!) But, that is a different story.

The tick story with Oliver is this. My sister Melinda had her good friend Andy over at our house. Andy was in church choir with us so I am also friends with him too. We were all hanging out when he noticed that Oli had a tick on his stomach. Melinda was grossed out so Andy was trying to get it out while I went to go get tweezers.

Like always, I got distracted along the way, but eventually came back to remove the tick. Andy stopped trying and I took the tweezers to go at it... when I noticed something. I said, "Andy, that's not a tick- it's his nipple!!!!!!"

Andy had unknowingly been fondling Oli's nipple for about 20 minutes! When I let go of him, Oli jumped right into Andy's lap, and we joked he was gay ever since.

I hope you enjoyed this story of my wonderful Oli, and some of my favorite pictures of him!!!! Now go visit Tinkerbell, Tucker, and Oscar's link to find out what you should REALLY do if you find a tick on your dog!

Operation: Keep Mommy Home

See how sad and pathetic we are? Here's why:

Mommy got a job. Yea and we know, she already has two. But they are like, "sometimes" jobs and not like her old job, like Daddy's, where she is gone the same time every day. Her two jobs now are like, sometimes she's home, sometimes she's not. But she had to go get another job like Daddy's and now she will be NEVER HOME during the day!

To make matters worse, I think this may be an epidemic. Our friend Jemima Jones Beck's Mom got a job yesterday too. Her Mom was home like, ALL THE TIME for like, MONTHS and now she's leaving her. Jemima is stashing treats to prepare for the apocalypse and we think we will do that too. Who knows when our super-employed busy humans will forget to feed us...

We have until June 15th, which is when she starts. We hope to convince her otherwise before then.

My Baby-est Little Baby Girl

Seriously, how can you not love MAH SOPHIE?

I was sitting on the computer and she was sitting on top of the chair, licking me. Sophie bath... a nightly ritual. Brian took out the camera...

Sophie full-on posed for him! Check her out!

Finally, a kiss from my sweet little baby girl!

Plus with her licking, we can save water by not showering! "BOL"- just kidding!