Pickles had her annual vet visit yesterday and she now weighs nearly 20 pounds! While "technically" that is not obese for a pug, she has reached the limit of her ideal weight range and she's not even two years old yet. And everyone knows, once pugs reach 2 years old, their activity level goes WAAAAAAY down. So, we're monitoring her diet. She's gotten in the habit of finishing whatever Lexi doesn't eat. So we're putting a stop to that. If both of them haven't finished their food in 30 minutes we're taking it away. And NO MORE TREATS FOR ANYONE! Except in special circumstances, like the other night when I cleaned Pickles' ears I had to give her peanut butter and a pig strip because it was such a harrowing experience.
We're also going to try teaching the damn dogs some manners. While they are pretty well-behaved at home, they are just awful whenever we leave the house. Pulling on the leash, jumping on people, not listening, general bad behavior. It's embarrassing to take them out in public. I'm not sure how I'm going to get them used to not jumping on people when we don't have any friends who could come over to practice. I guess Timmy and I could pretend to be new people. Not sure how this is going to work. SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE.
Pug party today. We'll see how they do.
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