This is Charlie. He is soon to own Meldav38 (Um, i mean Meldav38 is a new pug owner from Australia). Anyway, Charlie’s parent asks about pug food in the urban pug forums and wants to know about what the best kind of food to feed your pug is.
What do you think? What do you feed your dog? Help a new pug owner out and let us know by replying to his post in the forums. Click here to see the post.
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So this weekend, we went to the Pug Meetup group, and there was a new member! Everyone loved seeing the really tiny puppy. I think her name is Chloe.
We took Lexy, along with Gizmo and Gadget. Tricia’s parents have given away some of their pugs, so we got to see some of them at the meetup.
Chrissy was there, and so were two post-katrina pugs (you may have seen them as tiny puppies when I posted pictures around that time). Anyway, one of them was sired by Gizmo and Gadget’s brother, and the resemblance was striking. He looked like a combination of Gizmo and Gadget — Beautiful!
In the picture, Lexy spent half the meetup fixated on this puppy. It’s funny, because when she had puppies, she didnt want anything to do with them. Now, she’s totally into it. Maybe it’s because she didnt have to carry this one around in her belly for a long time that makes her not dislike it.
Don’t forget, if you have a question, bring it over to the Urban Pug Forums
Also, if you’re a flickr member, please click on the photo of the puppy and leave comments / favorite the photo!
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. They work great!
are great for cleaning up messes, and are reusable.
I just noticed this feature about H Doodle: The H Doodle Birthday Club.
You sign your dog up, and they’ll receive “cool treats from H. Doodle during their birthday month” — We’ve still got a ways to go before G&G turn 4, but I’m sure going to do it!
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Gadget is suddenly a Saints fan. (Or maybe he’s just pretending to get the treats?) What kind of treats do your dogs like? Let us know in the forums
Also, H Doodle is now a sponsor of Urban Pug. Check their store out, they’ve got some great products for small dogs.
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So, Malacetic products are those that contain boric acid and acetic acid (vinegar). They’re useful for cleaning hard to reach places on dogs because the acidity isnt so much that it irritates their skin, but it’s enough to kill any bacteria that are hanging around.
We’ve been using something called “epi-otic” to clean Gizmo and Gadget’s ears and folds, but the product is in a bottle, and you have to pour some on a cotton ball, and use that to clean them.
However, my mother’s vet sold her some wipes that already came with the solution, and they seem to work pretty well for Gizmo and Gadget, so I just ordered some. I got a 100 pack of the dermapet brand of wipes for about 15 bucks + 5 bucks shipping.
There’s a thread about pug folds on the forums: “My Pug’s Face Creases”
Are there any other brands out there? What do you use? Where do you get it?
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Gizmo and Gadget recently got their first bath in a real tub, and here’s a picture of Gadget in there. I find that they shed A LOT right after I give them a bath, but it dies down. I think that it’s because the bath loosens a lot of their hair and removes a lot of the natural oil from their coats.
Anyway, I was at Sam’s and I found this stuff called “Minute Groom” — It supposedly has some natural oils in it that will help. We’ll see if it works or not, because man, after bathtime, pugs shed like crazy. If you have any solutions for shedding, go make a post in the forums, let us all know what you do. I’ll get one started.
In other news, they boys are settling into their new house. Gizmo is finding more places to hop up onto (the window sill, anywhere where there’s a bunch of pillows) and gadget’s getting sneaky.
Today, Gadget sneaked into the cabinet and pulled down the bag of chicken jerky (we’re talking a huge bag of it), and was about to start chowing down, right when tricia caught him.
During the day, the boys are staying in the kitchen, which is completely closed off, with no corners or tree-like objects for them to have the urge to mark, so they’ve been doing relatively well during the days while we’re out. Other times, though, we’re having a bit of trouble. We’re not sure if they’re getting mad at us or what. I think it’s time to start getting them some more walking time (just for the exercise and mental health aspects, not the actual need for them to relieve themselves. They get plenty of “outside” time now, so much to the point where they don’t really wanna go half the time, cause that would mean that they’re not sleeping on your head, at your feet, or otherwise right next to you.
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Here’s a picture of Gizmo and Gadget in the U-Haul while we were moving. We were able to bring most of the stuff to the new place with Tricia’s SUV, but the BIG stuff doesn’t fit there, so we had to rent a truck.
Gizmo and Gadget helped, of course.
We’re mostly moved in, and i’ll start posting pictures of us in the new place, including some REALLY CUTE pictures of their first bath in a LONG time (i’ve been giving them showers since we didn’t have a bathtub)
Anyway, we both start school again tomorrow. First day. Ick.
Gotta get back into school mode.
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We’re in the process of moving. In the course of boxing things up, I just had to take this picture.
Anyway, we’re moving from a condo to a house due to a severe space shortage. So… Gizmo and Gadget won’t technically be “urban pugs” anymore. they’ll always be urban at heart, but soon, they’ll be Suburban Pugs.
Have a Merry Pug Christmas, Everyone!
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So, my sister won a trip to Paris. She called in to win a CD on the radio, and she won. Then, she was entered into a drawing to win a trip, and she won. It was a promotion for her and a friend to go and see a Christina Aguilera concert. Anyway, she had a great time, which included some shopping. She happened to go to a GAP store there, and she saw a Parisian woman with her PUG in the store! She talked to the woman, and said that SHE had a pug, too. (My sister lives with my parents, and they all have Lexy)
Anyway, the woman suggested she buy her pug a sweater like the one her pug had. So, my sister got this sweater for lexy. The picture is of Gizmo trying it on. He loves fashion, but he didn’t particularly like this sweater.
He’d get used to it, though.
Oh, and for male dogs, this gap sweater is much better than normal dog outfits, as it’s “V” shaped around the belly, which means it lets them pee without getting the clothes messy. That’s smart design, there.
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I’m just taking a quick break from studying, before I go to bed, to put a new picture up. This one’s of Gizmo, putting his face into Tricia’s book as she’s studying. If you click on the link, and go to flickr, and look at the “original image” you can even read the text of the book.
It’s maritime law.
Gizmo doesn’t like learning about the outer continental shelf. He likes learning about Paris fashion. (More about that next post)
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This dog breed has amazing capabilities!
They’re not pugs, but I just found this article. really neat.
Read all about the Lundehund here
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Just a quick note, because I’m in the midst of law school finals. Sometimes, we use belly bands on gizmo and gadget. The ones I got here are really good and reasonably priced (about 10 bucks each for Pugs) — We have 5 of them in assorted colors.
I’m just posting this to take a little break, and the boys are wearing them right now. It’s not their favorite thing, but they don’t actively try to take them off. They probably wouldn’t stay on for 8 hours, though.
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Gizmo has got to be one of the most persistent, ridiculous pugs there is. He will put himself in the place HE wants to be in, which is usually on top of whatever’s available, especially if it’s comfortable.
Here, he’s on tricia’s bag, as she was unpacking from a small trip we took to baton rouge for the weekend.
To his credit, he is cute.
I didn’t get a picture of it, but right now, he has made his way to the top of the kitchen table, and he’s resting his head in the middle of a book that’s open and upright on one of those book holder things.
Completely Ridic!
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