Oopsy as a Puppy!
This is a video I recently found of OOPSY as a puppy. So cute! Who knew she would be with us 3 years later?
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Snow Pugs!
We live in New Orleans. Not to say that New Orleans is hell, but when it snows here, well, it’s about as likely as hell freezing over. Oopsy didn’t want to go outside, but she did go out later, and I snapped a few pictures.
Notice how Gizmo sees the snow, and runs back inside, into Oopsy’s crate. Poor Gizmo! (but, you still have to go out to do your business)
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We use Bissell Pet Carpet Products
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Microfiber Cleaning Cloths
are great for cleaning up messes, and are reusable.
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Oops is back
Oopsy is back, and we’re happy to have her here. Her surgery went well, but unfortunately, she needs to go back to the vet to have a few teeth pulled and have her other teeth cleaned up.
These pictures are of Oopsy relaxing in bed after coming home, wearing one of Martine’s winter hats.
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Happy Holidays!
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Video Chatting with Oopsy
We recently got a webcam for our computer so Tricia’s parents can do video chat to see Martine, since they live in South Carolina. However, Oopsy is in on the chatting too, talking to her mother, Ipsy (and Tricia’s mother). Actually, Oopsy’s not all that into chatting on the webcam, but Martine is. She can recognize faces and hands on the screen, and sometimes she will even wave to the person on the other side, which is really cute!
Also, Oopsy’s at the vet today! She’s getting spayed right now so we make sure we don’t have a little Oopsigadg or a Gizmoops running around.
We miss you Oops! Get healed soon so you can come back home and run around and nibble our fingers and get in our faces again.
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FunnyFur Coupon
Jin from FunnyFur wanted to let me know that he’s running a special for Urban Pug readers. If you use the code “UPUGHOL20” at checkout, you can get 20% off, sitewide. The coupon is valid for until December 31, 2008.
To visit FunnyFur, click the FunnyFur ad over on the right column.
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Frick the Pug – Hotel for Dogs
I just found out about this movie via LJCFYI, and I love that there is a Pug in the movie. His character’s name is Frick. Gizmo is jealous! He wants to act!
It’s called Hotel for Dogs, and their website has lots of fun stuff to download — screen savers, backgrounds, aim icons, email signatures, etc. Check it out.
Hotel for Dogs - Frick the Pug
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Canine Cooler Bed?
Tricia just found a canine cooler in a catalog. It would be perfect for gadget, because he is always getting out of bed to go lie down on the tiles, where it’s cool.
Has anyone tried one of these?
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What are the most common pug behavior problems?
In your opinion and experience, what do you think the most common pug behavior problems are? I’m talking correctable behavior problems, not health problems.
What behavior problems have you had? How did you fix it?
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Dog Cupcakes – PUPCAKES!
There is a local cupcake bakery called the Kupcake Factory that makes dog cupcakes on Saturdays.
We really like their cupcakes, and our pugs LOVE the Pupcakes!! They are bananna bread-like with peanut butter frosting, and the pugs devour them!
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Happy Halloween
Tricia bought Martine a monkey costume this year, and we took pictures out in the front yard with the pugs and our pumpkins.
After we did that, though, my dad somehow found out about a “special” costume for sale at K-Mart, and he got this “special” costume for us. It was so perfect for us, that we had to take another set of pictures.
I don’t think this requires any extra explanation. Happy Halloween!
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Banana Peanut Butter Dog Cake Recipe
This is the recipe for the cake I made for Gizmo and Gadget’s 5th Birthday. Just as a note, I think dog cake recipe I made last year came out better, except I like the icing on this one a lot better. It’s essentially peanut butter buttercream, and who doesn’t like that?
This recipe is relatively easy to make. The only part to note is that it does take a relatively long time to bake and cool, so plan ahead. And don’t ice until it’s all the way cooled down!!
For cake:
2 cups water
2 ripe bananas
1/8 teaspoon vanilla
3 cups flour (whole wheat preferred, but I used all purpose
1/2 tablespoon baking powder
1 egg
2 tablespoons honey
For icings:
1/2 cup cottage cheese
1/4 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup vegetable shortening (or butter)
food coloring
enough powdered sugar
Instructions
Heat oven to 350.
Mix cake ingredients.
Place in one 8 or 9 inch cake pan.
Cook for 60 to 75 minutes.
For icing, mix cottage cheese and if you’re feeling nice, a bit of powdered sugar and food coloring in a food processor until smooth. Use this to top the cake. Then, take the peanut butter and shortening or butter (at room temp) and mix really well. Then, add powdered sugar a little bit at a time, incorporating it into the icing completely before adding more. Keep adding until it’s sweet enough for your birthday dog.
Cover the cake with the cottage cheese icing, then decorate with the peanut butter icing. The peanut butter icing has extra sugar in it, so don’t use too much. However, this is a treat, so you be the judge.
To decorate, you can put the icing in a ziplock bag with a corner cut off, and use that as a piping bag. If you have icing piping nozzles, then you can do some really nice decorations with this icing. If you NEED a piping bag and nozzles, you can get them from Amazon relatively cheaply.
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Happy 5th Birthday Gizmo and Gadget!
I can’t believe it. They’re FIVE!
I baked a cake for them again this year. I didn’t use last year’s dog cake recipe. Instead, I modified another recipe on the internet to make a peanut butter and banana cake — they loved it! (and that peanut butter icing was really good by human standards, too!)
I took several pictures of the making & eating of the cake, and posted them in their own gallery.
I’ll do a separate post on the cake recipe itself.
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Three Little Pigs
This is a picture of Gizmo, Oopsy, and Martine, all together on the bed. Oopsy is still learning what it’s like to live here, and she’s got some things down, but not others. For example, she knows that the best place to be at night is right on top of Tricia’s head, hogging all the pillows. However, she doesn’t yet fully appreciate, “don’t step on the humans.” She will walk on top of you without understanding that you want her to walk around you. This isn’t so bad for us (Oopsy is light), but even though she’s not anywhere near aggressive towards Martine, she’s a little bit… inconsiderate? Oblivious?
Oopsy definitely is a good dog, but she just needs to learn the rules a bit better.
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