Category Archives: Family and Relationships

Pug Pandemonium: Pickles the Pug Shows Off Her Tricks…And How We Taught Her to Be Such a Little Genius

Because yes, now that we can film everything that happens all day we do, here is Pickles with her limited repertoire tricks. See how she does almost everything with hand signals? That’s all me, baby. I rock at training my dog. Just her, though. The other two couldn’t care less about rolling over or even sitting. Oh well. At least… Read more »

Mastiff Mayhem — Today’s Episode of “Things Murphy Destroyed or Ate”: A Framed Photo of the Dogs

Well, if this isn’t irony, I don’t know what is. I came home from being gone maybe an hour, and found the house in utter disarray. Now, before I get into the details, it’s important to point out that with as well as things have been going since Bark Busters came, we’ve started leaving the dogs loose in the house… Read more »

Hidden Dangers at the Animal Shelter (or why I almost got a fourth dog yesterday)

This is not one of those upsetting posts about serious animal neglect or anything like that, so don’t worry. Yesterday, I visited the local animal shelter to pick up paperwork for Julius’ scheduled alteration later this week (more on that as the situation develops), and I swung through the dog kennel on my way out to check for black pugs… Read more »