and We Thank the Academy....

As you probably noticed, if you are a follower of our blog, we have been mostly absent in the last few weeks due to the inability of Mack and me to type since we don't have thumbs and having to wait on hu-mom to do it for us. Oh, if only our useless dew claws worked!  Not only would we be blogging, we'd be on Face Book,  tweeting and playing games on Pogo.com, sending emails, among other things.... any way, back to what I was going to say earlier.  Our wonderful blogging friends have bestowed upon us *2* awards in the last few weeks and we haven't posted about them.  So we're going to post the2 different awards given to us recently.  Our blogging friends are so special to us and we've made so many friends in the last 1 1/2 years that we been blogging.  It's really exciting.

Payton gave this award to us.  Along with this honor comes some responsibility…I have to answer the 10 questions below and share 10 random thoughts and/or facts about myself before passing it on to 10 other blogs.  So here it goes:

Question/answer section

1. Name your favorite activity. 

Mack:  Sleeping

Minnie: Eating

2. Name your favorite treat.  

Mack: Anything edible and not poisonous to dogs

Minnie:  Cat food and cat "treats" (those of you with kitty litter boxes know what I mean)

3. What ticks you off?

Mack:  Having the compressed air shot near keep me from barking a warning when a car drives by the house

Minnie:  Someone taking my personal stuff

4. When you’re upset, what do you do?

Mack: My tail goes between my legs

Minnie: Shiver and shake and hide under the bed

5. What makes you indescribably happy?

Mack: When my humans come home, I sing to them!

Minnie:  Playing fetch with the mini tennis balls and my people coming home, I sing along with Mack

6. What do you do when you are excited? 

Mack:  Sing and wiggle the butt

Minnie:  Run around like a crazy woman

7. What is your biggest fear?

Mack:  Missing a meal

Minnie: Loud noises, like thunder, lighting, fireworks, cars backfiring and workmen hammering on the roof for 2 days straight

8. Describe your everyday attitude.

Mack: Laid back, sweet and snuggle bug

Minnie:  Ready to play at any moment, ready to eat at any hour

 Name your favorite toy.

Mack: Destuffed square green or blue stuffie sheep (Thanks, Minnie, for destuffing it)

Minnie:  Mini tennis balls

10. Name your favorite place to sleep or nap. 

Mack:  Back of the couch so I can be on guard duty and let humans know of impending danger

Minnie:  Big bed, under the covers

Random facts/thoughts section 

1. Minnie is living with pancreatitis 
2. Minnie does not like to get up in the AM, would rather sleep in
3. Minnie would be happy to be an only dog
4. Mack loves company
5. Mack loves other dogs
6. Mack is on allergy shots, he is known as the scratching king
7. Minnie loves pink
8. Mack's ears are turning a beautiful silver color
9. Mack's tongue is so short he can barely stick it out of his mouth (compared to most pugs)
10. Mack likes to watch TV, will bark at any animal or anything that resembles an animal

I would like to give this award to the following blogs.

1.  Salinger the pug and his new brother, Toby

2.  Minnie Moo and her brother, Lincoln

3.  Bunk, the crazy pug

4.  Amber the weenie dog

5.  Nola, another weenie dog

6.  Mollie Jo and Bobo

7.  Lexi and her siblings at Blue Bird Farm in VA

8.  Yoda, Brutus and Ellie

9.  The Devil Dog

10.  Vito and brother, Vinny 

We want to thank Payton for giving us this awesome award.  The recipients are under no obligation to post this award, but we want you guys to know that we enjoy your blog!

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From Bunk we received this lovely award!  Thank you Bunk, we love your blog and you are one crazy, black pug puppy!

I am so happy to receive this award because the purpose of this award is to simply to recognize the efforts of fellow bloggers and to let them know that their work is appreciated. 

We pass this lovely award to the following lovely blogs:

1. Buschi and Ebbie

2. Biconpawz 

3. Frankie and his brother, Ernie

4. Honey, the great dane

5. Fred and Hayley

Again, please don't feel obligated to post this award or pass it on. But dear readers, if you are not familiar with these blogs, please check them out. 

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I was tagged by Lola to answers a few questions about myself and Mack.

Here we go:

1. Describe yourself in 7 words.

Minnie:  Sweet, playful, loving, shy, energetic, beautiful, shiny fur

Mack:  Snugly, sleepy, laid back, lumpy, calm, snorty, turning silver in the face

2. What keeps you up at night?

Minnie: Mack's snoring, not much else

Mack:  Hu-mom being up in the middle of the  night on the 'puter

3.  Who would you like to be?

Mack:  Honey, (a male version of) the Great Dane, I am a small doggie with a big dog attitude

Minnie:  Lassie, so I could run free in the meadow and save Timmy from the well

4. What are you wearing right now?

Mack: Naked as a jail bird

Minnie:  A lady never tells!

5. What scares you?

Minnie:  Everything and anything LOUD

Mack:  Not much, I'm a man!  (Maybe going to the V E T)

6. The best and worst of blogging.

Mack: Waiting for hu-mom to post and follow up on our reading and learning of our friends going over the Rainbow Bridge

Minnie:  Same thing as Mack....

7. The last website I visited.

Mack:  A Pug's Tale by Lola

Minnie:  The Adventures of the Tank

8. What is one thing I would change about myself.

Minnie:  I need to be braver!

Mack:  Hmmm,  I guess try to sleep and bark less!

9. Slankets yes or no.  We had no idea what Slankets are/is, we asked Google. (seems they are like the snuggie)

Mack:  Hell, yes, in camo please.

Minnie:  Nice, warm and a thick one in PINK!

10. Tell us something about the dog that tagged you.

Lola is one of the funniest pugs we've met in a long time and her hu-mom is running at a close 2nd!  Visit their blog to find out.

We can tag other blogs, but I think it would be wonderful if everyone reading this would tag themselves and tell us more about themselves!  No need to be tagged by anyone.

Thanks Lola and her mom for sharing this with us.  We are truly honored.

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This has been a really long, long. long post today.  I hope we didn't bore you.

Please visit the blogs we've touched today, they are all wonderful.  There are so many other blogs that we didn't mention but are just as great.  So if we didn't mention you, please know that we love all of  you equally.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Love,

Minnie  : )