Saturday, June 6, 2009

my girls

As long as I have been blogging, I can't remember if I have EVER blogged about "my girls", Rizzi (the fawn one) and Berni(the black one)- my wonderful, beautfil, not so great smelling PUGS. Rizzi is my 'baby'. She was born on December 22, 2002, while Rudd and I were attending a CHER concert in Boise Idaho. Berni was born 4 years later. Rizzi is Berni's mom. Both of them are named after New York Yankee Baseball Players.

Rizzi is a spoiled brat. She is very good at getting what she wants. She is so good with Reid, we are surpised she hasn't nipped at him EVER. Rizzi is allergic to chicken, she breaks out in hives if she eats food with chicken in it. A week before Reid was born, she had to have a $500 operation to remove cancer in her breast. and our friend Lindsey took care of Rizzi while we were in the hospital. Oh, and I almost forgot, she ALWAYS gets UTI's because she won't go potty in the rain...hello, we live in Raymond, we get a whopping 90 inches of rain a year...when will she learn that it's always raining here...I guess pugs really aren't that bright.

Berni is so neurotic, it's not even funny. For the longest time, she had to have a "binkie" aka stuffed animal before she would calm down and go to bed. When you go to pet her, she cowers down like we are going to hit her, but we NEVER have and NEVER will. Berni has inhereited her mothers's allergies, and then some. She is allergic to trees, weeds, dustmites, kelp, soy, wheat, chicken, lamb, venison, oh, and grass. How do I know this you might ask, well...the wonderful vet in Raymond convinced us that if we do this $400 allergy test we would know what she was allergic to so we could control her "skin" issues. She still has skin issues. We have tried Salmon and Yogurt dog food, duck and sweet potato, potato and salmon, and now vegetarian. Nothing seems to be working. Berni, for some reason, does not care for Reid too much. I think it's because he is always getting her bone and teasing her with it.

Here are just a few pictures of my four legged babies!!!


















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