Midnight snack

Walter sez: We can do this the hard way or we can do this the easy way, but I assure you, I'm getting a cookie.

Pugtini

Walter and I are staying home tonight because it is THREE degrees below zero. We think it's probably cocktail time.
(This wonderful pugtini image can be purchased. Proceeds go to a great pug rescue group! check out: www.pugbutts.com/boutiquerev.html

92 cats need homes!

Walter and I went to the humane society in Austin MN today www.mowercountyhumanesociety.org

I couldn't believe how many cats they have up for adoption. They have 92 cats looking for their forever home. The worst part is some of them have been there for over FOUR years.

MCHS is run completely by volunteers and donations. There is no city pound, just this group of wonderful people running a no-kill shelter out of the hugeness of their hearts. They also have dogs and puppies, but not nearly as many.

If you or anyone you know is looking for a pet, please consider taking the gorgeous drive to Austin MN (Home of SPAM and the SPAM museum!) and adopting a pet from the Mower County Humane Society.

Check out their website for more info:

http://www.mowercountyhumanesociety.org/

Big Pig Loses Bum

In another vicious attack, Big Pig once again finds himself at the center of a hateful campaign of terror launched by one small pug. Walter. Walter has a very strange love/hate reationship with Big Pig and even he seemed concerned after his last molestation of his "favorite" toy. Much like an abusive spouse that goes too far and the authorities are called in, after nearly killing Big Pig Walter dragged him into my office and folornly dropped his stuffing-free pig at my feet. Like he was saying, "Look, I didn't hit him that hard. He's totally over reacting, but he's also, you know - unconscious. Can you fix him?" For now emergency medical procedures are underway. I have to go buy more pink thread.

Walter in repose

Wally Woo is exhausted after huckstering his wares at the charity gift wrap....

Pug Rescue at Barnes and Noble

Our Barnes and Noble Pug Rescue Charity Wrap was overrun by meatloafs on legs!

KISS A PUG and SAVE A LIFE!
Kiss our pugs and make a donation to MN Pug Rescue. 100% of your donation goes to needy local pugs for life saving medical treatments. Everything helps!

OUR PUGS DESPERATELY WANT TO KISS YOU!
Tomorrow at Barnes and Noble I will be gift wrapping for Pug Rescue WITH Walter, and several other of my Pug Rescue pals and their pugs. all dresssed for the holidays of course. Santa Pug, Elf Pug, Mince Meat Pie Pug.

So come on down tomorrow- Xmas Eve, and make a donation to Pug Rescue (no amount to large or small!) and get sloppy goggle-eyed kissed by a pack of pugs! You haven't lived till these freaks have had their way with you!!!

Walter watches a dog show, and hates it.

This is Walnut barking ferociously at the ESPN televised Dog Show and the G-damn dogs running around on his television.

He would pop back and forth between the TV and the window, barking his wee head off. He thinks the TV is just another window, so he expected these freaking Akitas and japanese Chins to show up in the yard.

He's basically saying "You damn kids get outta my yard!"

Best of show went to a (stunning) Akita, and the only way to calm Wally down was to turn it off and give him chicken fingers. Thank God Papa John's delivers.

sweeping in de strollie

Pug Vs. Peacock

When's Lunch?

I ordered the Lobster Bisque a half hour ago.

Thug Pug

Walter got arrested. It was so embarrassing. They caught him trying to hold-up a Hot Dog Stand by the convention center...and brought him home in a squad car. Here he is in the back seat, already planning his next attempt...

It's a Wunnerful Pug

They Remixed It's A Wonderful Life to include Walter. His agents talked the MGM movie execs into going for the pug vote. It didn't go so well though, after initial test screenings the execs thought he came across as a token diversity character, and he cost them an arm and a leg by pooping on a Zac Posen dress and then ate the Christmas ham.

what would you say??

I was fired from my position as Assistant Needs Director for Wallingford. He felt my snack production levels were unacceptable and my general snap-to-it-ness was lacking. He said I needed an attitude adjustment. I wasn't actually fired, just demoted to Beef Jerkey Boy. I said I didn't know what that was, and he raised an eyebrow and said, "You get me Beef Jerkey."

Doxie Love

Could it be Walter's experience with Mod Dog that made him fall so hard for this toy Doxie? he made me play fetch with it for an hour. All I know is dog toy manufacturers have GOT to stop putting shrill, ear-piercing music boxes inside their plush toys. It's how serial dog-toy killers are made.

Makka-makka-makka

The sound I make when I see the new cover of The Ugly Pugling: Wilson the Pug in Love by Nancy Levine. Nancy's pug, Wilson, is apparently the direct descendent ot Pug-tzu, Lao-Tzu's pug. Of course I can't post the picture here - walter reads this blog daily, (and barks at his own picture) I certainly CAN'T post a pic of Wilson....who is on the cover of a book and a Chinese legacy super star and who's name starts with W etc...etc...Walter would freak. So I'll put a picture of Walter above (to throw him off) and the link to the book below. (shhhhhhhh)

http://www.amazon.com/Ugly-Pugling-Wilson-Pug-Love/dp/0670063223

Wally Waffles

Every time I made myself Waffles, Walter would hoot and holler to get some, so I finally bought him a box of Kellogg's "Mini waffles" and made him his own. Voila. Wally Waffles.

Sock Monkeh Day 2

The destruction begins. Bye bye pom-pom.

Sock Monkeh

Introducing Sock MOnkeh, Walter's new favorite toy. We can only hope Big Pig does not get jealous and seek some sort of elaborate revenge. On the other hand, maybe Big Pig is happy to have a little break from being Wally Woo's "favorite."

Please vote for Walter Biggie Smalls

Walter is in a photo contest, and if he wins $1,000 dollars goes to pug rescue!!! So if you have time, please stop by http://tinyurl.com/2eu26j and click on walter's photo (as above.) His name is Walter Biggie Smalls, and you can vote every day! click on Wally, save a life!

Bad Boy is actually Good Boy

I took an over-the-counter sleeping pill last night, and it knocked me for a loop! I slept in and poor Wally couldn't got outside to go potty when he needed to. I woke up and thought "Oh dear, better go find where Wally went pooty...and I looked and looked, and I thought maybe I cold smell something...but then I couldn't find it...so we went for a walk but no pooty, so I KNEW he had to have gone in the house. We made breakfast and I did the laundry and while I was folding clothes I noticed a big pooty on the windowsill. What??? Walter climbed the couch, used acrobatic balance and manage to do his buisness right on the windowsill. What I couldn't figure out was why he went there...and then I realized, it's the one window in the house he can reach, it overlooks the backyard, and it must seem almost like outside! So Wally tried to go outside! He really did! Good bad boy Wally! Extra treats for you!!!

Stealing the Show

I got to do an interview with "Shoe Are You?" This great Shoe blog by Meghan Cleary, and she wanted a picture of my favorite shoes. (Gold Jimmy Choo ballet flats pictured above!) I kept trying to take a picture, but Wallingford has rarely, if ever seen a camera when it wasn't pointed at him, and so got in every shot. I ended up just going with it and giving the blog this picture. The only problem is - who cares about the shoes when there's a puggin muggin in the frame?

Scary Wally

Wally sleeps at my feet when I write. He is my gatekeeper. If I ever stop writing and look at him, this is what I see....and I quick get back to writing.

Walter scored!

I already told you guys that I used to peddle poor Walter around in this stroller when I was huckstering my book to bookstores, and how great he was at making friends AND helping momma bring home the rent money. But now it looks like Wally has scored one for his brother and sistah pugs!

The Barnes and Noble at Calhoun Village, who we met during those rounds, asked us if MN Pug Rescue would like to come and be one of the holiday charities that wraps presents for donations. The manager, one Miss Fabulous Kelley, thought it would be great to help needy pugs. Many are waiting for surgeries and medical treatments that are incredibly expensive, and the rescue group help pays for these, so the more money we raise, the more pugs we can help.

The best part is the store is letting us bring our pugs! we're going to dress them for the holidays, except as I've already explained to Walter, he'll have a bandaged leg and a little crutch like Tiny Tim. I'm also making him an "amnesia patient" head bandage, and a small sign to carry that says, I NEED MONEY.

Dogs in Danger.com

New Web site tries to save dogs slated for death: http://www.dogsindanger.com/