Happy Birthday Little Boy!

(Finn as a little tiny baby)

Dear Finnie, (yes i know Finn is a dog and cannot read this)

Today you are one year old. This morning you didn't seem to know that today was different than any other day. You were especially sleepy. Seems like yesterday that you were still a tiny puppy.
Some of our favorite memories of your life so far:

• Meeting you at a gas station in Hopkinton and seeing your little head sticking up out the window of the truck you came in.
• The time you drank about 15 gallons of water and peed all over our couch. I was convinced you had diabetes but Dr Tucker told us it was just a puppy thing.
• You sleeping flat on your back - who knew dogs did that
• Watching you do circle track dog over and over
• Your pant biting phase - glad that is over!
• Letting you sleep in bed with me for the first time (look how that turned out - now you rule the bed)
  
• Your first trip to the beach and digging in the sand makes you go nuts!!
• You running down the dock with an engagement ring on your collar

and so much more!!

Here are some of my favorite pictures of you over this past year. Thanks for giving us lots of laughs and teaching us lots and lots of patience. I hope we have many many more birthdays with you!

Sneak Preview

Here's Finn - testing out the grass in his soon-to-be new yard. He approves.



PS Looks like this grass does not yet live up to Wheaton standards!!

It's not easy being a pug.

Well folks...life has been busy. And once your dog is not a puppy anymore, there really isn't anything exciting to write about. "Finn pooped in the house again!" or, "finn chewed up my underwear again!!" doesn't seem like super interesting blog fare.

Anyway...our poor little pug is not having a good month. We noticed a while ago that he had white spots in his mouth. We, like any good dog parent, said "maybe if we ignore them they'll go away". They didn't they just got freakishly large to the point where one was hanging out of Finn's mouth. Yup.

So Finn took a trip to his favorite vet's office and guess what! Poor little Finn has doggy papilloma virus. He likely caught it from a member of his motley crew in the below post!

In addition to that, he also has an ear infection and I was told that Finn needs to slim down a bit. It's just his winter weight!!

So - everyone send nice wishes to Finn. He is getting better but has to go on solo walks for a whole month and won't get to see any of his friends else he will infect them with his disease!

Poor little guy.

The People Have Spoken!

Ok by people I mean...2 people (ralli and my dad) and they demanded a new post!!

We are still alive over here. I guess I still have readers because when I check my stats - I somehow have over 200 hits a week? Who are these people? I feel bad for you.

Anyway...

Finn doesn't go to work with Matt any more so now he is home every day alone, but luckily we have great dog walkers taking care of him. They come twice a day and he treks out with the neighborhood gang of dogs. Let me take a chance to introduce you to Finn's "posse" that he hangs out with every day, gallivanting around the streets of Salem.



What a motley crew.

How hilarious is Cooper's haircut?? Cooper is one of the first dogs we met in Salem with Finn. He is very sweet but very, very shy. Finn loves to terrorize Cooper.

Charlie, the other pug, is Finn's brother and littermate! And Jack, the Boston Terrier, lives with Charlie.

I don't know much about Copper except that his name always shows up in the notes that the dogwalkers leave us.

That brings us to Zoe. Finn's one true love. One note we got recently told us that Finn and Zoe ran into Zoe's crate together, snuggled up and took a nap. How sweet. They are very smitten with each other. Matt and I feel like maybe we should call Zoe's parents and make sure she comes from a good home.

So that's whats new over here. I'm reseraching dog walkers in the woburn / burlington / stoneham area since we will hopefully be moving there soon. If anyone has recommendations please let me know! Not sure how we will tell Finn that he's moving away from Zoe. I see a broken heart in his future.

Dog, or demon? You decide.

The video quality on this isn't great, but this is finn's nightly freak out. Usually it's more dramatic. Pay the most attention to the noises that come from this dog. Pretty sure he becomes possessed by the devil.

At the end of the video, Finn runs over and grabs a shoe. Sigh.




And this is Finn five minutes after his freak out....

Flashback

Here's Finn a couple days after we got him sitting in front of my engagement ring Matt's race car.

Isn't he cute?

Pug Art