Three Incidents

With a busted lip, 2 messed up fingers, and one pug dripping blood...it was quite the interesting week for this pug mommie. It's not easy being a mommie to fur-babies sometimes. LOL! During the week I was sporting quite the battle wounds and so was one pug, thanks to 3 separate incidents.

Incident number one happened while I was holding Simon. He gets held a lot nowadays. Never goes a day without special holding time from one of his human parents. Yes, I realize such an admission may ruin his street credit as he has such a tough guy aura when he walks out of our house. Anyway,there I was holding Simon in my arms, like a baby. Don't judge...he is after all a fur-BABY! As I held him he jerked his head around super quick to see what Piper was doing someway-somehow he caught me in the mouth. A bleeding busted lip was the result. Just one of those freak things that happens, he certainly didn't intend to cause an injury.

Next up, while walking the boys I see Simon grab something. Not wanting him to ingest something harmful I dive down to his level and begin "wrestling" with a pug to get whatever he has out of his mouth. Well I can confirm Simon still has a good amount of teeth left. He has lost some thanks to his advanced age but trust me he's got plenty left and they are sharp too. In the process of our wrestling two of my fingers got bit. One finger was chomped on so hard there's now an indentation in the fingernail.

Lastly, this one was the most bothersome. The boys are brothers, through and through. Okay so they weren't actually from the same litter and Cody does like to throw it in Simon's face that he is the OLDER more DISTINGUISHED pug, still they are brothers, getting along perfectly 98% of the time. Yet they also fight like brothers, same as the "human" kind. So I come home for the day, upon entering the front door I immediately notice a few drops of blood on the rug. I continue down the entryway hall, looking out into our living room to see one pug is sound asleep in a pet bed by the fish tank. The other pug is staring in my direction with a small amount of blood dripping from his mouth/chin as he sat in a pet bed by the window. I walked towards the bleeding pug, noticing as I get closer blood on a pet bed and a towel too. Geesh! I clean up the bleeding pug, asking him the whole time what happened? Of course he didn't answer except with his eyes. His eyes told me his pathetic story of how his little brother beat him up again.

I know these boys. I don't have to guess what happened. I know what happened! Cody tries to "punk" Simon. Simon is then forced to defend himself. In 14 years of his life, I've never seen Simon start a fight. Cody has started every fight that has ever gone down between him and Simon as well as between him and Piper. Fights between him and Piper are super minor because she has a mini white flag she keeps near and waves it without much thought. She'll never be brave enough to stand up to him! Simon is great at avoiding Cody and his issues when he recognizes Cody is in a certain mood. But when provoked Simon's attitude switches to "I don't want to tear your head off but I will if you make me".

Other than a week spotted with weird fur baby incidents to deal with, what else has been going on you ask? Well, Brad is settling into his new job with a new company and at a new property. The new property is quite the mess according to him lots of files and things to organize. He loves his huge office and this is the newest property he has worked at in about 8 years. Newer the property means less major things going wrong. Yesterday, Brad started physical therapy for his knee. He's rather excited to be doing physical therapy. I guess because he knows his knee will now finish recovering. Our evenings for the last 12 days have consisted of watching the Aussie Open on a nightly basis. It will end with a showdown between Federer and Nadal in the finals. How sweet it is! I'm also looking forward to the Pro Bowl tomorrow night. Yes, I know they don't play very hard. But I'll always enjoy the Pro Bowl whether it's serious play or not. I still like to see who shows up. There was lack of interest for awhile from the players. Now it seems the players are more interested, I think they needed to get it out of Hawaii sooner. Plus there's newer players to the league that are getting good enough to earn Pro Bowl recognition. I realize some might disagree with me about moving it out of Hawaii but think about it like this, it's harder to get to Hawaii. Based on proximity getting to Orlando, or Dallas, or Phoenix is easier and quicker. NFL players can afford a trip to Hawaii whenever they want so trying to dazzle them with that is useless. Just have the Pro Bowl in a somewhat easy location to get to or have it in the stadium hosting the Super Bowl and be done with it. Just my opinion certainly my humble opinion is of zero concern to the NFL. Understandably! :)