hi there- well, this weekend went smoothly enough. The girls always love visiting their grandparents, and we went down into Oxnard (to see the fam) this weekend because we had some post-turkey day events to attend. Saturday was one of Steve's cousin's quincinera's (sp?), and Sunday was a day to spend with my family.... Unfortunately the puppies could come to neither one of them. oh well. its just another Monday- although it has been rainy here and Gertrude HATES it, especially in the morning when i force her to wear a sweater because she shivers and it upsets me. Muppy doesnt like it either, but she has A LOT of fur so it doesn't really affect her as much. other than that, its been quiet at the apartment. i can't wait until this friday when Gerti will be done with her shots and can come on walks with Muppy and I. DOG PARKS HERE WE COME!!! i posted some pictures of what the girls have been up to tonight since Steve and i got home....

Happy Thanksgiving everyone... As i previously posted, i have pictures from today at my grandmother's house. it went really well... Well.... 2 things actually.... My sister, Chloe, couldn't make it because she was sick, therefore Tilly, my sister's Westie, also could not attend. Also, Muppy was a tad bit jittery in my mom's (new to Muppy) car- so when we got to Torrance she threw up a little.... But after that she was fine and dandy. They really had a good time with my grandmother (she LOVES them so) and all the rest of my relatives, and my grandmother's dog, Wellington the Maltese, whom we threw a tea party for a few weeks ago for his birthday. I got the both of them new dresses for the occasion and of course it was ridiculously adorable- and i think they had fun eating the random things i am sure my relatives decided to feed them, as well as getting to explore a new house and reuniting with Wellington. I am really happy because the other night i went out with my pal Lauren and her teacup Chihuahua Zoe, to get the girls their dresses for today, and Muppy really bonded with her (Zoe). Today she did splendidly with Wellington... THIS means a lot to me since before we got Gertrude my hubby and i didn't do such a good job of socializing her to other dogs, so to see her act in a friendly way with dogs other than Gerti was wonderful. The trip to the pet store was like torture for Gerti because she had to remain in her bag, since she doesnt get her last round of shots until next week (yaay!) and there were so many other dogs there that she just wanted to get rowdy with. i felt bad for her.... Today made up for it though. anyway, thats all i have to say for now. will probably post more about the babies later this week....

hello there-
well, its been over a week since i last posted, and i apologiza for that. unfortunately this is the week that the long-awaited ps3 came out, and there has been a frenzy about it in my household from who else but my hubby steve. it is LITERALLY all he has been talking about for the last- oh.... i want to say week but i know it is more. anyway, he DID end up getting it (ordering it online, but that is much saner than waiting in line and risking getting shot or maimed) so all is right with the world and hopefully i wont have to HEAR about it anymore. anyway, this week again has been uneventful. muppy is still into her poo-thing. gerti barfed the other night, but i dont think it was anything serious as she has been acting normally otherwise. she has been really bad about going on her pads lately though, which has been driving steve and i insane, but we are just trying even harder to get her to learn. last night we went to petsmart because the puppies were out of food, and of course we ended up getting more than just that. Gerti has also been teething like gangbusters and chewing on anything she can- therefore we got her some (more) teethers. the last couple of days has just been waiting for steve to stop talking about and obsessing over the PS3. so, i am posting some pictures we took last night of the babies being sleepy and bored (like me) with me on the couch. nothing much else going on. i will probably post more after thanksgiving, since the puppies are invited to my grandmother's house (she loves them so much) for turkey day. much pictures to follow from the event.

so, i have many cute new pictures from today and yesterday. Yesterday i was off work and steve was home sick, so i ran some errands, etc. even though he was sick, i made him come out with me because some of the errands were steve-related (guitar hero 2). We brought Muppy and Gertrude into town with us and since steve's car has little to no air conditioning, the puppies got hot. we had plenty of cool water on hand, of course, but these photos are the first we actually have on gert PANTING. and let me tell you, a pug panting, and GERTI a puppy especially panting is the cutest damned thing you will ever see. this is rare because even after playing with muppy, when muppy gets winded and is panting furiously, gerti never pants. so basically only the heat phases her. also TODAY steve gave them a bath, so there are pictures of gerti and muppy wet, although you can only really tell with muppy, who looks like a wet rat. everything else here has been good lately with the girls. Muppy has been really evil and been on some kind of poo-binge lately, which has been driving me insane, but today it has been a lot better. i made dinner tonight (spaghetti with veggie meat-balls) and gerti sat there the whole time waiting for me to drop something (such a smart girl). other than that, nothing. it is LOST night again tonight. i will be sure to post more about the babies later tomorrow.

hello there again... it has been a lazy weekend for the puppies, although i have been hard at work making them (please bear with me) dresses to wear for the christmas photos we are going to send out in christmas cards. i basically finished them both a couple of days ago and have been really lazy posting. Every day Gerti is bigger and i am happy but it is so sad that her puppy time is going so fast. Muppy is all done with her medicine for intestinal parasites, and that all went pretty smoothly. Friday she decided to be finicky about eating it all right away, but i had all the time in the world since i had the day off of work to keep an eye on everyone. I xan't wait until Gerti gets older and has the rest of her vaccinations so that we can go out and visit other dogs. There is a pug meetup group around here in Thousand Oaks that I intend to visit once Gerti is safe from evil poopoo germs. anyhow, i wont waste any more time and i will post some pictures of the excapades of this last weekend!

well, i promised i would post more pictures of the puppies, so hopefully these suffice. these are some of my favorites, although i do not yet have pictures from this past weekend, where we went to the pumpkin patch IN costume, and also a birthday tea party for my grandmother's Maltese, Wellington. all very cute, as you can only imagine.

Hello again.
So, i am still trying to get used to all of this blogging stuff. Last night we had guests over for the usual LOST night, and Muppy and Gertrude were very happy to have more people in the apartment besides us(for more loving i assume). Gertrude is always happy to see our pal Jenny because Jenny is in love with Gertrude:). I think Muppy has more of a thing for Isaiah, who also came over last night and gives her lots of love. Whereas Kit, Jenny's husband, seems more wary of them and their evil intentions to distract our guests so Steve and I can pick-pocket them. i don't blame him:). This morning, Muppy got to start her final regiment of intestinal parasite medicine after a bout of terrifying sickness a few weeks ago, coincidentally around the same time we got Gerti. And of course, once we got Gerti's stool tested, she was the one with the internal parasite and had given it to Muppy. Hundreds of dollars later, mystery solved. But of course its a small price to pay to have both of our puppies healthy. Anyway, Muppy, who is normally a VERY picky eater, ate all of her food with the medicine mixed in with it this morning, which was a pleasant surprise to me and made life easier because if Muppy doesn't eat all of her food, Gertrude will finish it off, and I didn't really want to risk her getting sick from eating Muppy's medicine-food. It has been a complicated couple of weeks for my husband, Steve, and I, and these dogs. First, about a week or 2 after getting Gerti, we were visiting our in-laws (who think of Muppy as an almost literal granddaughter) and Muppy got VERY sick. she was vomiting and had bloody diareah, and we were terrified, being that in the year we have had her she has not as much as had a cold. the thing you have to know about Muppy, and when she is at Steve's parent's house, is that she does basically whatever she wants when she is there, and she is used to that. so at the apartment, she doesn't try to eat her own excrement, or Gertrude's, but at Steve's parents it is impossible to watch them the entire time, and we think she probably ate some of Gerti's leavings and got the "infection" or parasite and became gravely ill. A couple of trips to the vet emergency later, we decided to keep the 2 dogs apart until Muppy was feeling better. That next week it was time for Gertrude's next round of vaccinations, and i mentioned to the vet that she coughed in the mornings, but that i sort of assumed that it was normal as pugs are very.... i dunno- LOUD. snorty and snarfy and all that fun stuff. she was acting completely normal (for her) otherwise. Turns out Gertrude had a slight case of PUPPY PNEUMONIA and had to be nebulized and given antibiotics and all that fun and kept away from other dogs (so Muppy being at the in-laws was a blessing in disguise). Gerti's recheck was the following week, where they told me she had fully recovered (thank god), but that she had an intestinal parasite. more medicine and 5 days later, Gerti was parasite free and Muppy was good to go home too (we missed her so much- you have no idea). Muppy's parasite treatment was apparently different, as hers was a 3 day regiment, then three weeks medicine free, and now three more days of medicine. as i said, it was a complicated, but we are happy to have them back and be able to blog about them finally! yaay! i can't wait to see the both of them today after work, as they are the cutest things in the world. i tend to wake up early, definitely unlike my hubby, and when his alarm goes off they go running into the room and lick him to death. its the cutest thing EVER and i will have to get photographic evidence and put it in this blog. thats all for now. hopefully more pictures later.

Hi there-
this blog is about the lives and adventures of Muppy, a shih-tzu puppy, and her sister Gertrude, a pug puppy. i just want to put a disclaimer out there right now that this is my first blog ever, i don't even use myspace, so bear with me. i only do this for the love of the puppies. anyway, many pictures and love are to come soon, once i figure this majigee out. thanks for reading.