Pug Tales: Can I Trust Simon?

Whether or not to trust Simon all depends on what you are talking about.  Do I trust that he'll tear into anyone that dares to come too close to the 3 of us outside our home.  Yes, absolutely!  Simon recently stared down a worker here at our apartment complex while we were riding the elevator. The guy riding along with us got so nervous that he commented on Simon's stance and decided to get off a floor early.  Do I trust he'll be a good boy when we aren't home to watch his every move.  Yes, he'll just lay down and sleep.  Or worst case scenario I'll find him in sitting in his toy box when I return.  Do I trust him around my tomato plant?  NO! 

The tomato plant is very much in bloom.  Lots and lots of tomatoes are on their way.  I normally brush the boys coats out on the balcony.  Early this morning when we were out on the balcony Simon looked up at the plant.  He now has to look up at it since it's been raised up to the table because he proved himself untrustworthy once before. 

Skip ahead to late afternoon...just a few minutes ago he was anxiously asking to go out on the balcony.  That is common for Cody but a bit uncommon for Simon.  Cody loves laying on the balcony, just to chill from his incredibly stressful life! LOL! ;) Well I fell for Simon's ploy and let him outside.  I then opened the blinds to watch him.  He noticed right away I was watching him from the window. He looked a bit dejected.  A few minutes later I got up to survey the side dish items for tonight's dinner.  As I turn around to look back towards the window I see Simon craning his neck while balancing on his back little legs as he stretched as far up as he could in his attempt to snag a green tomato.  I instantly ran to the window to reprimand him.  He quickly gave me his sad puppy eyes!  Those don't work on me!  However, I didn't make him come inside right away.  I sat down to watch him instead.  It wasn't long though before he decided he was ready to come in.  He doesn't have much patience and likely wasn't willing to wait for me to turn my back again so he could try a second attempt.  Plus he likely knows I wasn't about to turn my back on him again.

Oh my! Simon and his desire to eat the world!  The great outdoors is his buffet!