Santa Claus is coming to town

"Did you hear that? Is Santa here already?"

"Hold on, I'll check!"

"No, no no! I thought I had a few more weeks to make up for all the naughty stuff I did this year"

Haha...Awesome

My thoughts exactly.

Kool Collars

Last April I had a booth at this thing called "the Spring Shopping Affair" where I was selling shirts. None of the vendors there seemed to be having any luck except for this guy selling "Kool Collars" for dogs. The idea is you can fill the collar with ice when they're outside or re-freezable, non-leaking ice packs when they're inside. The goal is to keep your dog cool during hot days and avoid heat stroke. Any of you that own pugs know how they can literally wilt in the heat, so these things have been a lifesaver this summer especially riding in the car.

Otis who is very dignified is horrified that I'm posting pics of him wearing the collar upside down.

Puggy Bank

First off Allie is all better. We have no idea what was wrong in the first place but he's fine now.

So... I've officially been lost to the dark side. I've never been one of those people who bought pug stuff before. Yes, it's true that I have things like a pug callender, magnets, stationary etc. but, I didn't buy that stuff. Every holiday/ birthday people always get me pug-ish stuff to satisfy their own secret pug person cravings. I'm not saying I don't enjoy those things, heck pugs are cute so of course I enjoy pug accessories, I just swore to myself I wouldn't be one of the people who went over board. Anyway... that all changed yesterday when my friend pointed out a "puggy bank" in a little store we went to. OMG too cute! I totally lost control of my senses (and wallet apparently) and got him. My excuse is that Jamie and I are going to start trying to get pregnant soon so we could put this in a baby's roon. HAHA I even needed an excuse, maybe I'm not totally lost to the dark side after all!?

Allie's trip to the hospital

I'm so sick of allergies! We spend over 3 1/2 hours at the emergency vet on Thursday night after I noticed the right side of Allie's face was swelling up like crazy. He didn't even look like himself he had lost his wrinkles in his forehead and under his right eye and they had turned into huge puffy masses. When we tried to touch his face to see if there was a bee stinger in it he cried out in pain. Wegot scared, called Dove Lewis and they told us to bring him right in. They ended up giving him a Benydryl shot which didn't seem to work on it's own so then the gave him a steroid shot. After waiting with him for what seemed like forever we noticed it going down slightly and decided to bring him home.

They couldn't tell us what caused it, only that they have dogs come in with the same problem on a nightly basis.

All day friday he was still really puffy. Saturday he looked a ton better. However today he's looking swollen again. I'm going to give it another day and then take hime to his normal vet if it looks bad. I'm starting to wonder if he may have an infection or something and maybe the swelling is fluid build up. If anyone had any idea let me know.

You can really tell from the pic but he's still swollen (not horribly) in this pic. He's also drugged out from all the anti histamines we've been giving him.

Missing Mom and Dad

Jamie and I just got back from a week long vacation in which we had to leave the dogs at home. Luckily I have a great friend who I trust to stay at the house and watch them. It's funny how it becomes such an ordeal to leave these little guys. I didn't want them to stay somewhere else because Otis can't settle down when he's at a new place with strange things and he won't sleep, and Allie in different environments can have horrible allergic reactions. So it was a huge relief to have my friend stay at the house with them.

The day before we left though Allie's face started breaking out with the allergy sores he gets. It was worse and more at one time than we had seen in six months or so, so we got really worried about leaving him. We've been trying very hard to not use antibiotics in case he one day really needs them we want to make sure they stay effective. So, we went through our routine of popping his sores to drain the infection as much as we can. Doing additional face cleanings (he usually gets one medicated face wipe a day) and upping his anti-histamine pills. We also had our vet give us a antibiotic prescription just in case our friend needed it while we were gone.

Fast forward to a week later, we are home now and his face is healing really nicely. The antibiotics weren't necessary so we now have them on hand just in case. It's so nice to finally get to the point where we have figured out how to control some of the breakouts.

Oh yeah, and we're so glad to be home and missed our babies a ton!

aww

Otis always acts so tough. Poor Allie is always trying to cuddle up to Otis or kiss his face or just try and be close to his big brother. Usually Otis cannot be bothered with his pest of a little brother, but tonight must have been a full moon or something because it was Otis spooning Allie

Done with the holidays!

Allie is officially done with the holidays.  We went over to my parents house for brunch today and the first thing Allie did was run over and pee on their Christmas tree.  I think he's over the whole family togetherness thing for awhile.