Hi Everybody –
I just had the worst nightmare! My owner took me to a country fair and I got lost and we couldn’t find each other!
It was so realistic! I’ve never been so sad and scared! But then I woke up and it was just a dream and so I was happy again!
— Lightning 
Hi Mom! Happy Mothers Day! How are things in Iowa?
Here’s a recent picture of me at the dog park. You can see I have an underbite just like Dad. Some people tease me about it but I don’t care.
You would be so proud of me. I’m the alpha dog of my whole neighborhood!
People think that dogs don’t remember their families but of course I remember you and I always love you even though you’re far away.
Your son,
Lightning
My owner took me to the dog park this morning and then we went to the Starbucks drive-thru.
I like to stick my head out the window and say hi to the drive-thru people!
This morning, the drive-thru girl said, “Oh I want a pug so bad! Is it true that they snore?”
I don’t snore.
“Some do,” my owner said, “but this one doesn’t.”
“When I get my pug,” the girl said, “if she snores I’m going to love her snoring SO MUCH!”
That’s sweet. What a nice girl.
“She’ll be a lucky pug,” my owner said.
— Lightning
THIS IS THW MOST INSANE THING IV EVER SEEN! IM LAIUGHTING SOHARD I CANR EVEN TYPE1
LOL!!!
— Lightning
What’s with all these awards? They’re always giving out awards. Best Fascist Dictator: Adolf Hitler.
LOL! Woody Allen cracks me up!
I’m not going to watch the Oscars but I hope Slumdog Millionaire wins a lot of awards because my owner says it’s good and because I love movies about dogs.
Unless Owen Wilson is in it.
— Lightning
A cat in Seattle is having a photo exhibition! I have to admit that a couple of the photos are pretty good.
I don’t have a camera. 
— Lightning
HA HA, Marshmallow pwned the pug hater! Marshmallow is my BKFF — Best Kitteh Friend Forever.
What? You don’t think dogs and cats can be friends? They can!
Look — here’s a picture I found on Flickr that proves it . . .
— Lightning
I don’t like this dog food.
I will eat almost ANYTHING, including things that you normally wouldn’t think of as edible, like kleenex from the wastebasket, so if a dog food company produces something I don’t like to eat, they must really be doing something wrong.
— Lightning
One of my owner’s friends sent him this image of a police dog in action.
I’ll bet that guy didn’t expect the dog to jump over the car like that! I wish the image was bigger so I could see the look on his face!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
— Lightning
I love movies about dogs! Wait — is Owen Wilson in that? I HATE Owen Wilson!
Whenever I meet a new bitch at the dog park, the first thing I ask her is “Do you think Owen Wilson is funny?”
And if she says yes, I am OUTTA there.
Rating: Two paws down.
— Lightning
FYI — I’m a small dog, but I’m not a “pretend to be brave at the end of a leash” small dog, I’m a “this leash really is holding me back” small dog, as a neighborhood rottweiler learned when he bounded across the street at me a few minutes ago.
I don’t like big dogs running up on me — it’s disrespectful — but the woman walking him was too small to hold him back. So I put my front paws on his shoulder and growled in his ear, and when he couldn’t look me in the eye, I knew everything was okay.
My owner said later he thought at least one of us was going to be killed . . .
— Lightning
One of my owner’s friends gave me a Christmas pug to use on my blog. My first present of the season! Thanks, MS!
The pug looks a little sad, probably because someone made him wear that stupid Santa hat. Pugs don’t like to wear hats. We may look like funny little animals, but don’t forget we are descended from the mighty gray wolf. Before you put a Santa hat on a pug, try putting a Santa hat on a wolf. That will teach you a good lesson.
Don’t think that the pug is sad because of the snow. Pugs love snow! A day in the snow is the best day ever! Now that I think about it, every day is the best day ever!
Oh, one more thing: I do NOT endorse Popdarts.com. Do not go to that site. Go to sites that support pugs.
Oops — my owner just told me that if you tell people not to do something, that just makes them want to do it even more. It’s called “reverse psychology.” That doesn’t make sense to me. Pugs can be a little stubborn, but mostly we like to do what we’re told, because it makes our owners happy.
Here’s another phrase my owner taught me recently: “eating your own dogfood.” To humans, it means doing what you tell other people to do. To dogs, it means . . . well, I guess it’s pretty obvious what it means.
Merry Christmas, everybody! I’ll post some more Christmas pug pictures later.
— Lightning
A 3-year-old Virginia boy was rescued Saturday after spending the night in the woods with only his puppies to keep him warm. . . .
Around 300 people helped search for the missing child, and a command center was set up at the local Baptist church.
“God really protected the boy,” Grace Baptist Church Pastor Dave Kline said. “We are happy that we were able to help.”
God is “dog” spelled backwards! I say God could have saved everyone a lot of time by not letting the boy get lost in the first place.
Good thing he had his puppies to keep him warm!
Don’t try this with kittens!
— Lightning
P.S. That is a photo of me keeping my owner warm when I was a puppy.
I love this picture! Pugs love to play tug-of-war even though we’re not very good at it!
There’s also a good pug photo set here.
— Lightning
I read where someone said the Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web. A lot of people say the Drudge Report is ugly.
Ha! A lot of people say pugs are ugly too. It doesn’t matter to me. Beautiful and ugly are just opposites that people made up. According to the Tao, there are no opposites.
The Drudge Report is the pug of web sites.
— Lightning
I can still remember so clearly when I was a puppy with all my brothers and sisters.
I can’t believe 35 dog years have gone by so fast!
Good thing I can still keep in touch with them through my blog!
— Lightning
I read this weekend that the Obamas are trying to decide what kind of dog to get when they move into the White House.
I recommend a pug puppy. Pugs possess the heart of a giant. They are brave, intelligent, loving, and excellent with kids!
The AKC took a vote and people said the Obamas should get a poodle.
I hate to say it, but poodles are not very smart. Or brave. But even a poodle is better than a cat.
Cats appeal to single women with low self-esteem, but real Americans like the Obamas should have a dog.
— Lightning
My owner was telling me about a conversation he had with a co-worker, explaining to her that dogs have a special relationship with humans.
“So do cats,” she said.
“Would your cat save you if you were drowning?” he asked.
“No, but your dog wouldn’t save you either.”
“He sure would.”
“He’s not any bigger than your head.”
“He would try to do something.”
“Exactly. He’d make things worse.”
That’s not very nice and if I ever meet this woman I’m going to growl at her.
I’m not a big dog like Lassie or Rin Tin Tin, but I’m not a cat either, so I would definitely try to save him.
It’s a roll of the dice. I might save him or I might kill both of us, but he was going to drown anyway and I don’t want to be alive without him.
If you want to see how dogs and cats think differently under pressure, read this story about a family with two dogs and one cat. One of the dogs died trying (successfully) to save the family and (unsuccessfully) to save the other dog. The cat escaped unharmed.
Dogs will risk their lives trying to save humans and other dogs. If you’re a cat owner, you’re on your own.
— Lightning
A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.
BIG DEAL! I said the same thing last week!
Who needs Warren Buffett when you have a good dog?
Talking about Warren Buffett is making me hungry because his name looks like “buffet.” I wish someone would open an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant for dogs.
I would invest in that . . .
— Lightning
