Urban Pug

Marigny Loves Momo!

matt — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:06:31 +0000

It would be sacrilegious for someone living in this house not to love pugs. Fortunately, Marigny will need no education enhancing her pug affection. She is actually more into pugs than Martine was! Of course, Martine adores Gizmo, but as a baby, she was more interested in pug fur than in pugs.

Also, I think I should address my marked lack of recent posts. I love doing Urban Pug. However, because I have been in school, over the past several years I’ve had some extra free time. In the past 10 months: (1) I started a new job as an attorney; (2) Tricia had our second child; (3) I took (and passed) the Patent Bar exam (which means I’m now a Registered Patent Attorney); (4) I’ve released several iPhone applications (see, e.g., Louisiana Civil Code – review 1, review 2, review 3) and (5) Work has been unusually busy with a deluge of litigation. So, priorities are priorities. Urban Pug sometimes has to wait, and for the past several months, it has waited. Hopefully I will be able to post more often!

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Martine Loves Gizmo!!

matt — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:14:50 +0000

Here’s a quick picture of Martine with Gizmo and Marigny. As you may have guessed, Martine is as fond of Gizmo as ever (in fact, she routinely tells Gizmo that she loves him). Whenever we are in the car near our house, she will point out our house, at first calling it “Tine’s House,” but then also saying “Mommy’s house, Daddy’s House, Momo’s house, Manny’s (that’s how she says Marigny) house).

She’s a serious pug aficionado!

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An Important Blog Post

matt — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 16:18:24 +0000

I’ve posted on the topic of free pugs in the past, and I think it’s important to keep people informed about pugs for free, specifically, why you shouldn’t get one for free. If you agree, please forward on the link to others and post a link on your blog, if you run one, to that post.

Thanks!

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The Princess and the Pug

matt — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 23:39:56 +0000

Martine’s growing up right before our eyes! She’s just learned about playing “dress up” (and I presume it will not be much longer until she learns to “dress” Gizmo). Anyway, she was outside playing in her costume yesterday, and I managed to take this snapshot of her with Gizmo.

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Remember the Easter Pug!

matt — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:03:56 +0000

Every year we do an “Easter Pug” picture, and most of the time, it was Gadget. One of those pictures (the one with this post) is today’s picture in the Cute Overload 2010 Page-A-Day Calendar.

We miss you Gadget!

We’re not doing Easter Pug pictures this year, but you can click to see our previous Easter Pug pictures.

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Life goes on…

matt — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:43:39 +0000

Although we are still very sad that Gadget is not with us anymore, life goes on. Marigny hasn’t made much of an appearance on Urban Pug yet, and I’m happy to report that Gizmo gets along great with BOTH of his sisters now. Martine has been “raised by pugs” so to speak, so there’s absolutely nothing odd to her about this first picture that I took this morning. Tonight, though, I managed to snap a somewhat decent shot of Martine holding Marigny with Gizmo sitting next to both of them.

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Gadget – Final Update

matt — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:38:35 +0000

To all Urban Pug fans: It is with tears in our eyes that we must report that Gadget just passed away. A piece of our family and of our hearts is gone. I will post a fitting tribute at some point, but right now it is too difficult. You were our baby boy Gadget. We loved you as you loved us–unconditionally.

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Gadget Update

matt — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:38:21 +0000

I posted a while back that Gadget had been sick. Unfortunately, he hasn’t recovered as we had hoped. We had to bring him to the vet, and he’s been staying there for about a week now.

As those of you with dogs know, dealing with this is very difficult, and it’s equally as difficult to talk about it here. So, please when you read this, say a little prayer for Gadget. We’re hoping he will get better.

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Happy Mardi Gras!

matt — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 17:13:06 +0000

Happy Mardi Gras from Urban Pug!

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Black and Gold Saints WHO DAT PUG

matt — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:32:56 +0000

BLACK AND GOLD SUPER BOWL!!!

DEMI IS THE WHO DAT PUG!!!!

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All Night Long!

matt — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:10:28 +0000

The advantage of having a new pug arrive after your human child is that the new pug doesn’t have the experience of years of sleeping with YOU. Last night Demi slept all night with Martine in her toddler bed. G&G are too used to our bed to make their way into Marine’s room (but you never know)

Demi was supposed to stay with us for a little while, then go live with my parents, as a companion for their current solo pug, Lexy. However, last night Martine stayed in her bed ALL NIGHT, even though she woke up and cried. Somehow, having Demi there kept her in her bed. If this keeps up, we might just have to keep Demi with us… or maybe we can train Gadget to sleep there in Demi’s place.

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What’s different about this picture?

matt — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:45:11 +0000

First, go look at this post and this one. Take a look at the pictures there. Then, look at these pictures, and try to figure out the differences.

There are three differences in these pictures.

There is a third pug. But, the third pug is Demi, not Oopsy. Oopsy has gone back to live with Tricia’s mother, and Demi has come to New Orleans. See pictures of Demi here, here, and here.
Gadget has lost 10 pounds. He’s a lot skinnier — we even had to get him a new collar!! (Although, if you look at the first link to a picture of Demi, it’s a post dated November 11, 2005, where I mention that Gadget is only 21 pounds — he was just about 2 years old, then)
The baby in the picture is not Martine. It’s Marigny! Yes, that’s right, we now have TWO human children. Marigny’s name comes from the Faubourg Marigny, a neighborhood in New Orleans, which itself is named after Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville, whose family’s lands became the neighborhood. Her name is more about being unique (as we have an extremely common last name) and representing our (and her) hometown. It’s pronounced like “air” and “knee” — Mair-a-knee. Martine is taking fabulously to being a big sister. She absolutely LOVES baby. Here is a picture of Martine holding her little sister:

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Way behind on posting!

matt — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 20:55:22 +0000

I’m way behind on posting to the blog, but I promise to keep posting as often as I can. However, we do have some big news here, as the past two months have been a really long pug-related drama.

First, Gadget started having chronic diarrhea. When it didn’t go away, we took him to the vet, who gave him a shot and some medicine to take. That worked for a little while, but after his diarrhea came back for another week, we took him back into the vet. This time, the vet took some blood and noticed that he had really low “albumen” in his blood, basically, because he had not been absorbing enough nutrients from his food. At this point, Gadget had gone from about 31 pounds to 24.5 pounds, but the low albumen was causing him to have edema (swelling), making him look as though he was bigger than usual. So, he had to stay in the hospital. During his stay, they determined that he had to have a biopsy of his lower intestine in order to figure out what was wrong. So, they checked out all his organs and took a little piece of his small intestine to deliver to a lab for testing.

Finally, Gadget got to come home, but the end of the story (so far) is that he has some serious food allergies, and he has to eat special food (Hill’s Prescription Diet d/d duck formula) to manage the allergies. He also has to take some steroids every day in order to manage his allergic symptoms (for now, at least).

Now, he’s home and doing fine. However, his diet is very limited (he can only eat small quantities at a time), so he’s always hungry! Moreover, because of his restricted diet (which will increase a little bit over time), he’s lost even more weight… he’s now 21 pounds! He hasn’t been 21 pounds since he was 8 months old (when he became a champion!!!)

Here are some pictures of him… Notice that he’s much skinnier, and you can see his big stitches!

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Houma Pug in need

matt — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:54:08 +0000

If you know anyone in south Louisiana who is interested in providing a home for a pug, please check this craigslist ad:

http://neworleans.craigslist.org/pet/1519325544.html

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What a weekend!

matt — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:42:28 +0000

This weekend was super busy with lots of fun things to do. Of course, the holiday began on Thursday, with thanksgiving. You’ll see here what Gadget likes to do…

Just what everyone else does after dinner, take a NAP!

Oopsy likes the sofa too… each pug took a person.

And there’s no doubt that Oopsy loves Jessica!

On Friday, we took Martine to Lafreniere Park to feed the ducks. She doesn’t really understand ducks yet, so she kept running after them, trying to hand-feed them bread. She would run up to them and say “here you go duck.” We also took Oopsy to the park.

She loved it, but we couldn’t let her get too close to those ducks!!!

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