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 
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I’ve got the dog all hooked up for a walk but I don’t have shoes on . . .
Look! Right here by the front door are my son’s prized possession — his red sneakers!
He notices me slipping my feet into them and says, “Hey! What size are your feet? You’re not going to stretch them out, are you?”
“Actually,” I say, “they feel a little loose.”
“OK,” he says grudgingly. “Don’t step in any puddles.”
The dog and I are having a great time this morning playing tug-of-war. My wife is ironing clothes.
“What time is it?” she asks.
“It’s 7:22. Are you trying to tell me to stop playing around and go to work?”
“No, I’m trying to time it so I can stop ironing and make Casey’s breakfast before he has to go to school.”
“Apology accepted.”
Up late last night, up early this morning . . . my wife and I take Lightning to the dog beach. We get home a little after 10 . . .
Nap time!
When I wake up and look at the (analog) clock over the fireplace, it’s already 3 p.m. My god, I’ve slept the whole day away!
No, wait . . . the big hand is on the 3 and the little hand is on the 12. It’s only 12:15!
Back to sleep . . .
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
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THIS IS THW MOST INSANE THING IV EVER SEEN! IM LAIUGHTING SOHARD I CANR EVEN TYPE1
LOL!!!
— Lightning
The dog has a stuffed bear he likes to sleep with. Unfortunately, it’s now bedtime and we don’t know where the bear is.
“Have you seen his bear?” I ask my wife.
“I think he had it upstairs,” she says. “Either in our room or Casey’s room.”
“Upstairs” and “bear” are two of the words the dog recognizes so he’s already charged upstairs and waiting for me on the top step.
I walk up and ask him, “Where’s your bear?”
He runs into my room. We look around in there and can’t find it so we go down the hall to the boy’s room where he’s sitting on the bed doing homework.
I say to him, “Where is it, you bear-stealin’ varmint?”
He gets up and walks out of the room.
“Thanks for the help,” I call after him. “Come on, Lightning, we’ll conduct the search without him.”
A few moments later, the boy walks back in with the bear in his hand.
“How lame are you?” he asks.
“Where was it?”
“I walked downstairs to the sofa, lifted up the blanket and it was right there,” he says. Why couldn’t you find it?”
“I didn’t look there because Mom said it was upstairs. See, that’s what you get for trusting people.”
That’s my dog in the top photo, sleeping in his favorite spot. The bottom photo I saw on Flickr . . .
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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
It was a weird day for dog walking. Just after Lightning had a run-in with a rottweiler, who fortunately turned out to be docile, we came upon a young man and what looked like his mom walking a pit bull.
The woman said “Hold ‘im, Cody” to the kid in a chain-smoker voice and I veered Lightning in another direction.
I wasn’t taking any chances because they looked exactly like the kind of people who’d own a violent pit bull. You’ve got Ma, the chain-smoking meth addict, and her boy Cody, the kid with the white trash name.
Whenever I hear someone say “Hold ‘im, Cody” to a guy with a pit bull, I am outta there . . .
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
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
