Attention all pug owners: Your pugs want turkey! They want it now! Their sense of smell is a lot better than yours, and they’ve been sitting around smelling that turkey all morning. It’s torturous! Just a few pieces is all they ask. Pleeeease give them some! They will love you forever.
Some gravy, too. Oh, and cranberry sauce would be nice.
Did you say there was pie? They’re going to need some of that, too.
The picture is of Gizmo, knocked out last night. Not from turkey, yet.
November 23, 2006 at 11:13 am · Show more about: Pug
Sponsored Post:
Pet Boogaloo has a Free Pet Award Certificate Maker that I’m reviewing. Basically, it’s a fun little tool that lets you make printable “certificates” for your pet. The program has four steps.
In the first, step, you enter your name, and your pet’s name. I had a problem here, because there wasn’t enough room for me to give an award to both Gizmo and Gadget.
In the second step, you enter what the award is for. You can select from one of the pre-made awards, such as “Honorable Hound” or “Wondrous Tail Wagger”
In the third step, you can select a background color for your certificate, a border style, and a decoration for the document. The borders are things like paw prints, bones, stars, or snowflakes. The “decorations” are things like a “seal” to make the document look official, bones, stars, birthday cakes, etc.
In the last step, you can upload an image of your pet that gets inserted into the document, to really personalize your certificate.
Then, you’re done. All that’s left to do is print! Overall, this tool is pretty neat, especially for those of us that are pet-crazy. So, if you’re looking for something fun to do, especially if there are kids around, this could be a fun project that passes some quality time.
November 13, 2006 at 12:45 pm · Show more about: Pug
Has your pug ever had eye problems? Gizmo’s had a scratched cornea before. It wasn’t fun, but he recovered in a week or so. Leeder asks in the Urban Pug Forums if anyone else’s pugs have had eye problems?
I know it’s an issue with the breed, with their lack of eye protection. However, I’m curious if other people actually have had this kind of problem. Let us know in the forums.
November 11, 2006 at 8:02 pm · Show more about: Products
Occasionally, we’ll be reviewing things on Urban Pug. Some of these reviews, including this one, are sponsored. It’s a small amount of money, but it helps pay the bills. Both Tricia and myself are in school right now, so a few extra bucks really helps out.
Anyway, the first review is of a site called Sloppy Kiss Cards. The site sends E-Cards for dog lovers, but they’re not just pictures, they’re animated cards, so they are much more creative and interactive than the e-cards you might have gotten a few years ago, or from Urban Pug. (yes, we have Pug E-Cards, too).
Sloppy Kiss Cards costs $9.99 per year, for unlimited E-Card sending. That might seem like a lot for something that you usually can get for free, and I do kinda think it’s odd that they are doing a “paid e-card” business. However, they DO have a really large selection of dogs to choose from, including a few pugs, and the cards really are a step above anything I’ve seen anyone do with e-cards before. You can see a list of the dogs they have available to send, which you can get by clicking here.
So, if it’s your thing, which, if you’re reading this blog, it might very well be, go check out Sloppy Kiss Cards. Oh, you can look at all the cards, and even build one yourself for free. You just can’t send them. (So go over to the site and look at them)
They also have a list of dog stories that they base their cards on, and they invite people to submit stories about their dogs. If you’ve got a good story, submit one to them!
This weekend, we tried to go to the Mirliton Festival in the Bywater. Unfortunately, Saturday was a “no dogs” day, so we couldn’t get in. We did, however, get some pictures of Gizmo and Gadget on Desire street. The lettering of the street name is common throughout certain parts of new orleans, and, to many, iconifies the city.
October 29, 2006 at 10:20 am · Show more about: Products
Barkslope is advertising on the site now, and they sent us a new collar for Gizmo. This one, in my opinion, looks really good on a fawn pug. The black collar matches Gizmo’s ears, and the goldish stitching matches the rest of him.
Anyway, we’re off to the pug halloween party. If you’re interested in a dog collar like this, barkslope sells them.
So, Gadget went to sleep with one of his new toys, and he looked really cute, so I went to take a picture of him. I snapped a few, but then he woke up and i caught this!
How cute is this picture?
Oh, and remember, there are only a few more days left to enter the Pug Poetry contest in the Urban Pug Forums
October 16, 2006 at 10:21 pm · Show more about: Pugs
October 14th is Gizmo, Gadget, and Gonnie’s (Their other brother) birthday, so we went up to Baton Rouge to give the boys a treat and to have some study space. They like going places, doing different things, having a backyard, etc. We went to the dollar store and picked up some toys and snacks for them, and we found a pretty decent Chinese place in BR. Oh, and my image resizing website, resizr.com got mentioned on a big email newsletter on G&G’s birthday, so that was really exciting. I had LOTS of traffic to the website. It’s really rewarding to have people recognize what you’ve created.
Anyway, here are pictures!
Gizmo with his new monkey friend.
I had to buy them. (No, they don’t like them)
Gadget doesnt particularly like this mask either, but it’s really cute on him.
Finally, the CUPCAKES! Yellow cake with chocolate icing. They got some of the yellow cake, but no chocolate.
Today, we took the boys to a nearby park for a walk. There’s a fountain there, and Gizmo hopped into it! He really wanted to cool off a little bit after running around and playing for a while.
If you click the picture, it’ll take you to flickr, where there is a picture of gadget in the fountain, lying down. He was hot enough so that the water didn’t bother him as much as the heat. I chose this picture to post instead of Gadget just because gizmo’s SO HAPPY in this one.
Oh, and don’t forget about the Pug Poetry Contest. We already have two entries. You don’t have to be a pro, and you could win a cop of “Pug Therapy” and P is for Pug T-Shirt!
October 6, 2006 at 10:40 pm · Show more about: Pugs
So, today, I went with Tricia to the local DMV to get her car’s registration address changed. As we were leaving, the sun was bright and i was squinting, and had my head down. I opened the door to Tricia’s car, and I hit myself in the head with the side of the door.
I immediately fell to the ground, and when i got up, i was bleeding. Now, I have a huge gash in my forehead. We’re doing the whole neosporin thing, but it still is a huge gash in the forehead.
We went to wal-mart after, and for most of the time there, I was really out of it. It took a a good 2 hours to really clear myself of the bump to the head.
I know the symptoms of concussion. I really doubt i had one. Just a minor bump to the head with some visible after effects. It was a good thing that Tricia had a first aid kit in the car, as I was bleeding pretty strongly.
Oh, and don’t forget about the poetry contest. Check the forums and win a prize! Your poem doesnt have to be metered verse. Even a pug haiku will do!
. They work great!
are great for cleaning up messes, and are reusable.
