Lazy Afternoon at Casa Cooper

Yesterday the weather got up into the low 60's!  Woo Hoo! Mack and I knew what that meant-a trip to the dog park!  After lunch, hu-mom packed Mack and me into van and off we went.  We spent a glorious hour sniffing butts, running around and visiting!  Hu-mom doesn't let us stand still.  She is always walking the perimeter of the park so we keep moving since we really don't play anymore.  If she stops, Mack tends to hang out near her and not move. 

We even met a cute little pug mix named Sandy.  She was part pug and part Jack Russel. She had Minnie's coloring, pug body and Jack Russel head, if you can picture it and very smart. 

After our hour was up at the dog park, we came home.  Hu-mom took Mack and me for a short walk, dropped off Mack at home, then hu-mom and I went for a long walk.  We were pooped when we got back.  

Later that night, while the humans were watching AI, this is what we did:

Brodie doing cat-ga (cat yoga)

 He he he, Mack was so tired, he didn't care if he was falling off the top cushions on the couch!

Here I am, sleeping on my favorite pillow and blankie.

Snoring away!  Not me....

It's going to be another beautiful day today, so we hope to repeat what we did yesterday.  Cold weather is back tomorrow and back into the high 40's.  Hu-mom hates cold weather, so our outside activities will be few and far between again....

Have a great day!

Love, Minnie : )

Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Pink Polka Dot Harness and Leash

Last month, I got a new harness and leash from Cody's Creations, an Etsy shop.  I picked out the Pink Dot Harness and matching leash.  Mack's harness and leash are also from Cody's Creations.  He has  Mr. Al pattern which we purchased in Sept 2010.  Hu-mom really likes Cody's Creations harnesses and leashes.  They are machine washable, and very sturdy and have the matching pairs and the patterns are outstanding!  Mine is a little big because I'm still losing weight...

On one trip to PetsMart, hu-mom saw this neat leash holder (see below).  Finding a good spot for the leashes and harnesses was always a problem for her. This was just the thing!  Now when it's time to go, all of our stuff is right by the door!

As I said before, I've been losing weight since I was sick this summer.  Hu-mom took me to get weighed today and I'm only 20 lbs.  I was 30 when I got sick!  Of course, I needed to shed a few extra pounds but 10 is too much.  They think it is the special food I'm on.  So guess what?  I will be fed more of it!!!!  and poor Mack is up to 24 lbs.  Now he needs to lose 1 or 2 lbs before he goes out in his speedo this summer! Don't worry about me not being healthy....I am healthy and full of energy except when hu-mom took these pictures this afternoon. I was in the middle of my nap!

The man on the TV box said we were going to get snow.  We got nadda, not a drop, no rain, no nothing!
Hu-mom was happy. Hu-dad had a nice fire in the fire place anyway, and the 4 of us snuggled on the couch in front of the fire!!  Nothin' is better than that.  Well, except for maybe treats while snuggling in front of the fire place.  One can always hope!

Have a great week,
Minnie  : )

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  : )

The Week In Between...

We had a wonderful Christmas with our family!  Pressies were opened and we even got to taste a new treat or two.  (Since Minnie was sick right before Christmas, Hu-mom is only letting us have 1 treat for now!)

We received gifts from Benny and Lily for Jazzi's Gift Exchange.  Hu-mom made us put the pressies under the tree and wait for Christmas morning to open them.  You won't believe what we received!!!! We each got a bully stick!  I received a cool toy...it was a nest with 3 squirrel babies in it.  I love pulling out the babies and making them squeak, he he he.  Hu-mom said it was an educational toy! Mack received this awesome blankie that is incredibly soft.  It said it is a couch cover.   Well, Mack loves to get on the arm and back of the couch and look out the window (he usually sleeps and doesn't look).  Now there are a few little holes on the arm.  This blankie fits perfectly on the arm and covers up the little holes!  and Mack likes to sit on the soft cover.  We also received a bag of Old Mother Hubbard treats and we are sharing a gift card from Petco!  Thanks Benny and Lily, you guys are awesome.  We will be having some pictures of us opening the pressies, we're just waiting for Aunt Tori to download the pictures and send them to us.  Hu-mom was too busy with the activities of the day to take pictures!

After reading our friends blogs today, it seems like we all did the same thing---rest up from all the Christmas excitement!

Have a great and short week!

Love,  Minnie  : )

Christmas Entertainment

We saw this very cute video on Max the Quilt Cat's blog and wanted to share this with you!

We hope you enjoy it as much as we did.  

Love, Minnie :  )

Christmas Lights and Santa Paws

Hi Blogville friends!  We hope everyone is enjoying the holiday season and not stressing out too much! 

My family loves to drive and see the Christmas lights.  Just down the road from us is the most beautifully decorated house that hu-mom has ever seen.  The pictures below do not do it justice! The backyard is also fully decorated as well. The house is on a corner lot so you can see into the back rooms and there are 4 Christmas trees around the interior that are also decorated in white lights and another one on the deck.  In the window above the foyer are snowmen waving at you. There are also Christmas carols playing. Of course there is a steady stream of traffic driving by to see the beauty. Please click on the pictures to "bigyfy" them.

Then we drive back to our little house with the one string of lights and a wreath on the front door....

Mack and I went to see Santa Paws today.  We even got to sit in his lap!  Everything was going fine until 

Santa jumped and did the girly scream....Mack had stepped on his crotch.  Hu-mom tried not to laugh but she said it was sooo funny.  Sorry, Santa...it was an accident, so please don't put Mack on your naughty list.

The camera at Petsmart wasn't  working very well, so we were in Santa's lap for a very long time.  He was nice and said we were good doggies.  :)  The pictures weren't great but the green papers we paid were going to Petsmart Charities, so we were happy with that!

Then when we finally got down, guess what Mack did?  You got it, he pooped, right there in front of Santa Paws!!!!!!  and not only did he poop, he did the walking poop.  Hu-mom was mortified but the Petsmart folks just laughed it off and hu-mom cleaned it up.  Now I'm really worried that Mack is on the naughty list.  We'll just have to wait and see. I can always share by stuff with him if he doesn't get any.

We hope everyone has a great week!

Love, Minnie : )

Foam Isn't Only Found on Beer!!!

 Today hu-mom gave Mack and me a bully stick since it was another dreary day outside.

Pictures are better than words for this post.  Hu-mom has never seen a dog foam up when enjoying a bully stick!  Have you?

Not only was the foam on the bully stick, it was also all over his lips and mouth!   Payton, do you still want to kiss this?? He he he.

Love, Minnie : )

Good Dog, Minnie!

Yesterday Hu-mom and I were working in the back yard.  We were raking leaves and hauling them to the curb for pick up. At some point, hu-mom heard first and then saw a man out walking a big dog and calling out "Lucky, lucky...." .  Hu-mom figured out pretty quick that "Lucky" must have gotten out of his yard.  We didn't know Lucky.  We didn't talk to the man as he as about 3/4 of a block away. So being a good neighbor, I kept my eyes open and watched for the lost dog. 


At some point later, we had moved over to the opposite side of the yard. Hu-mom said she saw me take off like a streak to the other side of the yard barking my head off.  She looked over and saw a Jack Russell Terrier checking me out from the other side of the fence.  We figured it must be Lucky!  Hu-mom approached Lucky.  She is always hesitant to meet new doggies that were lost.  After about a minute, Lucky came over to her and she was able to check him out and pick him up.  He didn't have on tags.  She was in a quandary as to how to find out where he lived or find his man but they must live nearby. She didn't want to put him in our backyard since she was not sure how Lucky and I would interact. And Mack was inside and she had the same worry.  Hu-mom walked from the backyard to the front yard.  And guess what!!!!!!  At the corner intersection, hu-mom saw the man in his car this time, driving slowly and calling out.  She waved her arms at him and lifted up the dog.  He drove right over. He was sooo happy to find him.  It turns out his name is Rocky, LOL, and he got out of his fenced in yard.  He lives around the corner from us.  We had never met him, just heard him bark as we past his house on our walks.  The man was really nice and kept thanking us!  


Hu-mom was very proud of me for getting her attention and helping Rocky find his man. Of course, I received a special treat!!!!!!!!!


It's raining all day today, so Mack and I will spend a day napping on the couch.  


Love, Minnie :)

Veterans Day Salute

Today we are saluting our US Veterans where ever they are in this world.  We appreciate your service to our county and to protect our freedom!  We pray for your safe return!

We saw this image the other day. As for most who follow our blog, this is a special thought for us!

Below is a photo of our hu-bro Josh.  He is joining the Army and will leave home January 17th.  We are very proud of him and his commitment to serve our county!  Mack loves to sleep next to Josh and snuggle and will miss him terribly!

God bless to all our veterans and the USA!

Love, Minnie and Mack  : )

Flashback Friday

Payton at Pugnacious P  (Mack's lovey) gave us the idea to flashback to this time last year!  Thanks for the idea, Payton!

1st we carved Pugkins!

Then we donned our costumes:

And greeted children at the door:

We were tired and we came in and I played with my stuffie Mr. Pumpkin!

Osiris was NOT thrilled with the commotion by the front door so he stayed in the back of the house.

Hope everyone has a safe and fun Halloween!

PeeS:  Please stay away from chocolates, even though they are wonderful, they don't like us much.  There are a lot of other goodies to try to get hold of! Trust me.

Love, Minnie :)