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The Sure Way to Prevent Your Pug from Catching a Cold
Yeah, that’s me in the blue and white polka-dotted raincoat, right before I was shooed out the door into the rain to “do my business”. After a couple of days of soggy weather, I caught the sniffles. I might have even had a slight cough. I’m positive I sneezed a couple of times.
Humans have had indoor plumbing of some sort for hundreds of years. Cats have litter boxes. Maybe that’s why they have nine lives – they can stay inside when it’s nasty outside.
Why is it we pugs are stuck in some Deliverance-style backwoods plumbing time warp?
I’m not saying we want to go to the bathroom indoors all the time. We like going outside when it’s nice and not too cold. But have you ever tried to go to the restroom when it’s freezing cold and raindrops are beating dents into your head?
Just this morning I had to go out in the snow. When I lifted my leg to pee against a bush I felt like I was sticking my you-know-what into a bowl of ice. It’s pretty hard to get anything going, if you know what I mean.
I’d assumed that no one had invented indoor plumbing for dogs, and that peeing al fresco in horrid weather was just a fact of pug life. Just to make sure, I sneaked some time on my mom’s laptop.
Boy, was I wrong.
There’s the Wizdog Indoor Dog Potty , the Pup-Head Portable Indoor/Outdoor Potty,the Ugodog Indoor Dog Litter Box, a self-rinsing potty (really!) called the Porch Potty, and dozens more.
But the thing that really put me into a pug snit was when I found out that Bo, President Obama’s dog, has an official White House Dog Potty.
Hello!
Bo is a Portuguese WATER dog! If even a water dog won’t go out in bad weather, then why are you guys dragging us sink-to-the-bottom-of-the-pool pugs out into monsoon conditions?
So, have a heart. Stop the pug cold epidemic. Buy a pug an indoor potty. Please.
Respectfully,
Waldo T. Pug
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Comment by Beth Ann Blackwood on January 23, 2013 at 8:04am -
Love those names!
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Comment by Hernan Marquez on January 22, 2013 at 2:59pm -
Oh what a funny and refreshing reading this was, it made us laugh a good bit. Moe will side with Waldo T. Pug, The only water he likes is the one in the drinking bowl on the other hand we have Jojoe, he is a 4x4 all weather kind of pug.
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Comment by Beth Ann Blackwood on January 22, 2013 at 6:56am
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Such a delicate princess! Sounds like my princess Jonesy.
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Comment by mary milton on January 21, 2013 at 5:39pm -
Calla gets princess paws when the grass is soggy drives us nuts! she will not go pee or poop on it you will let her out and she just stands there bring her back in and she will do the old I have to go and runs from the front door to the back door we repeat this untill she cannot hold it anymore
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Comment by Beth Ann Blackwood on January 21, 2013 at 10:22am
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Maybe Hektor could teach my pugs some lessons!
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Comment by The Wee Woman on January 21, 2013 at 9:54am -
Hektor is a tough guy, no weather will keep him in. He was skipping round the field in the snow this morning. Now we were trudging whilst the snow/ice was stinging our eyes wishing he would just go. Thought the coats were wonderful and the indoor potty selection was ideal for those who have difficulties. I am afraid mine would rather be out, he is missing his friends right now because that is what he mostly likes to go out for as well as the necessarys.
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Comment by Pug Chick on January 16, 2013 at 9:51am
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Cute blog. You have made some excellent points here my friend. I too shall not be sharing with my pack as I don't want them to get any fancy pants ideas.
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Comment by Pugnacious on January 15, 2013 at 7:26pm
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Hmmm,im for sure not letting my girls read this! We live in the PNW its always rainy and they dont even own rain coats..Ill be checking there heads for dents though,lol.
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