Fuji's Driver's Licence has been revoked......

It seems like Fuji experienced a couple of seizures this morning.   Although she was her usual perky self this morning at ate a full breakfast,  this kids noticed she was acting very strangely shortly after she ate.    "Mom!  Fuji's shaking!" 

After two epsiodes of this wiggley behavior, she had some trouble getting up and keeping her butt in the right place. After about 5 minutes she seemed back to normal, but it was pretty unsettling, so we took her to the vet.

Over the past few weeks, Fuji has had increasing trouble getting up the stairs. At ten years old, we chalked it up to arthritis.    Last night she was being extra cuddly and peaceful on my lap;  a sure sign that she wasn't feeling right.  But we now know that she's lost 2 pounds.   She checked out pretty well on her exam, with no apparent neurological deficits, suggesting she did not have a stroke.  The vet called back to let us know all of her blood work was completely normal, so that rules out a metabolic cause for the seizures.    Sadly, that leaves one likely scenario:  a tumor or lesion of the brain.

Of course, there is no way to know how quickly the problem will progress.  So while we do need to take back her driver's licence, we plan on spoiling her ridonkulously for as long as we can.

Anyone have any experience with pug seizures?   We'd love to hear any suggestions on keeping the Foo safe and comfortable. 

Merry Pugmas to All!

Hope Everypug had a safe and happy holiday filled with lotsa treats........and belly rubs!

Love,

Gen & the Foo

Holiday Humiliation.......

Oh....... what Mom does to us in the name of the holidays.  

Can you believe what she makes us wear?

First it's the bows and nametages...

something about not getting lost at MeetUp,

then it's the Snow Princess get-ups,

and finally, the deepest humilation of all.

The dreidle head-dress.

And she wonders why we weren't very cooperative for the holiday card photo shoot?

Seriously, how much can a pug take?

Happy Holidays!

Love,

Gen & the Foo

We finally made it to MeetUp!

Well, Mom finally got off her lazy butt and took us to a Chicago Pug MeetUp party! It was full of other puggies and we sniffed met lots of other fun pugs! Of course, Mom had to dress us up.......but we had fun even if we did look a little silly.

We went to the dog hotel where they had a great open space for us to play inside. As you can see, the weather was rather...wintery!

Here we are in the car, so exciting!!!

There were over 30 pugs at the meet-up. It was  a little scary to see sooo many pugs in one place. Fuji was a little shy.  We met Gatsyby, Romy, Stubby, and so many other pugs it's hard to remember everyones names. 

I quickly found the buffet and strategically positioned myself for dropped nuggets of holiday goodness.

It was easy to get lots of butt scratches and belly rubs.  Oooh, yes, right behind the ear please!!

Here we are in our holiday finery.   Doesn't Dad have cute legs?

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Love, Gen & the Foo

Walkin' in a Winter Wonderland!

Mom got us up reeeeeally early this morning for walkies.  This is what we saw:

Brrrr.  Cold paws!!! We did our business very quickly.

 Now that Mom has her new fancy camera, she stayed outside in the cold taking pictures.  

Here's what we did:

Yeah, that's us battling over the heat vent.......

While mom snapped even more pics:

Silly Mommy, you just got the garage cleaned!  Put the car inside, OK?

So, you get the idea.......

Don't worry, we stayed inside.   All snuggly & warm.

Happy Winter everyone!

PugMama's Birthday

Mom's birthday was on December 1st.   She says's she's going to be 39, again.  (Fuji tells me she liked being 9 so much, she's gonna be 9 a few more times.)   All kinds of craziness has been happening around the house the past few days. That whole turkey thing an all....

So, we decided to help out.   We figured someone had to get the wrapping paper, so we set out from the backyard to go over to Walgreens to get some.   We slipped under the fence in the backyard.  Figured we could get there and back before Mom even noticed, it's only a few blocks.  Fuji got a little scared and wanted to go back.   She told me we needed money, but I thought my plan of using my special cute face with big liquid brown eyes to get whatever I want definitety would have worked.  And then she wouldn't follow me home.  She hid at Honey's house.   I took matters into my own paws and alerted one of the 2-leggers.  She helped me get back inside to Mom.   That's when Mom noticed Fuji was NOT WHERE SHE BELONGED.    I kept trying to tell her, but she couldn't understand my barks.  

Fuji was too scared to come back even with Mom yelling her fool head off all up and down the block. I think she thought she was gonna get in BIG TROUBLE.    But Mom was just really worried.   Finally she got in the car to drive around the block.   I heard another 2-legger walking her dogs asked Mom if the "little dog" was hers.  That's when Mom followed Fuji to Honey's front yard.  All before 7:30 am.

That adventure tired us out for the rest of the day!    Fortunately, honey remembered the wrapping paper. Mom got lots of booty when Honey and the kid's took her out for dinners. See:

http://www.etsy.com/shop/pugnotes

Recognize this?  Yeah - it's even cooler in person!!

Thanks Grama Judy!

And then we all had yummy Carvel cake.  Nom, nom, nom. See:

She was really happy with all her gifts. 

No bones though, poor Mom.

Some people will do ANYTHING for the sale......

Did The Limited suddenly start selling dog outfits?  

Because I am a little confused about how a pug relates to their brand......

Happy Cyber Monday,

Shop On!

Something smells yummy......

It's that time of year again...time to get the big bird ready in celebration of one of our favorite holidays. And why is it a favorite? It involves a great deal of FOOD.......

And it should not go without saying that, at this special time of year, we honor one of the lesser known, but nonetheless, very important  4-pawed passengers aboard the Mayflower,  Sir Miles Pugish.   Sir Pugish is indeed one of Genevieve's own forefathers who fled the oppression of the English in 1620.   Feeling the journey to an unknown land, with no certain availability of Iams kibble,  Greenie Lite, or other special dog treats, he made the difficult decision to leave a part of the family in England.   The rest of the story is for another time, but on this holiday, we take time to remember this brave pug.

Knock, knock........who's there?

Well, us pugs, of course!

See!

(OK, this picture is staged-no pugs were harmed in creation of this blog post, well, almost.)

Hey, it's us!

On the FRONT stairs......

Hey! Wait a minute!! There's something wrong with that!

You see, here is the back door, where we usually sit waiting to be let back in after morning walkies. 

As you can see, no pugs here.

Or here, looking for a sun spot on the deck..........

Or even sniffing all the smells in the big back yard.

Sometimes we like to hide behindy Willy the tree,

but not today.......

But Mom did not panic.

She just went to check the front door, and there we were!

Guess we got busted on slipping thru the fence door, huh?

Mom's 1st Roast Beef

Mom made a roast beef and all we got was this.........

Hey, it's EMPTY!!

She says it's the first time she's tried this.


It smelled sooooo yummy all afternoon.   But he tall ones ate almost ALL of it!  No fair.   Mom was very suprised the humans ate so much, and actually asked for more. (What???? who's house are we in? Surely not mine!)

So we did get some yummy beef leftovers, but not as much as we would have liked. 

OK, MOM, you get two four paws up!  That one IS a "Do over"........please.

Thirteenth, Shmirteenth!!!

Anxious about Friday the 13th?  

Not even a little bit........

Gen is such a good pillow, see?

Happy Friday the 13th!

Birthday Prezzie Wish List....

Here's what Mom Fuji REALLY wants for her special day:

Get it here.

The Birthday Princess Gets Her Beauty Rest

Today is Fuji's 10th Birthday.

Here, she is getting her beauty rest in preparation for the big day.

Because we love her so much, we will NOT be giving her this cake*:

Rear view:

* Actual cake served at this wedding. Not even kidding.  From TipsyCake, Chicago, IL

Pug Stories........New York City style.

It ain't easy being a city dog.  A lovely story from mom's old stomping grounds.  Back in the day, mom tells us she spent alot of time in this park. (Before the dog run.)

Boo!

OK, get ready......... it's ............

REALLY SCARY!

Happy Howl-oween to all our friends!