Shocking News

Hi buddies,

In less than a month it's my birthday. I had plans, great plans.

I had planned to move out to my very own pugpartment. I even started visiting some places close to my parents' home.

I had planned to bring my cute self to mom's office more often, as a stress-relief team member, and I agreed to be paid with total access to the fridge instead of a salary.

I also considered getting a second job in a colombian hot dog restaurant, where apparently dogs are allowed.

I thought I may visit my parents every weekend, when daddy brings breakfast in bed for mom, just to show them what a good son I am, that I care and I haven't forgotten them.

I had planned to move out right after my birthday in September, when I turn four and I was kind enough to let my parents know ahead of time.

"No way", they said.

"What do you mean?! Why?!"

"You are not big enough to be on your own"

"I will be 32 human-years old. Doesn't that sound like old enough?"

Important Business Brunch

Friends,

As you all know, I am in charge of helping employees cope with the daily work-related complications and stress in mom's office. Putting my wrinkles to work, I had a superb idea. Why not expand my services regionally? (Even internationally?)

I immediatly decided two wrinkles were necessary on such an intricated business idea so I called my pal Jaxson to be my partner. He lives two counties away, in a key area for our future expansion. Jax and I met for brunch in Delray Beach Sunday morning. We took turns to occupy the director's chair, that way we both knew we were contributing in the decisions fairly.

* deciding*

*not deciding*

* deciding*

Being Jax in charge of calling and pee-mailing a few key contacts I went on to make a careful study of the actual market - using local newspapers as our main source of information.

We have concluded that there is a huge gap in the market of stressed-at-work people who are in desperately need of having a dog right next to them in the office to help de-stress and increase their productivity, and the demand seems to be increasing minute by minute. We now need to find a way to let the bosses know...

Where's the snow?

Hello buddies!
What a nice surprise I received the other day! I got ready with my suitcase and my bone - for proper entertainment - to go to work with mom. I've had a lot of fun with my bone but, you know, it is kind of boring sometimes. THE SAME BONE. Always.

Then, the mailman came to the rescue. He had a box for me from Peggy, Babe, Jeannie, Bob, Isis, Summer and Romeo! It was my Christmas in July present!!! Thank you friends! (And thank you Liss for organizing!)

I got wonderful goodies. There was something that I thought may be for mom but I liked it so much we are both sharing it now. It is a cute, warm and soft throw. Everything else was for me ONLY! I loved the pig ear and the rawhide. Mom is saving the treats for later. Now, is it appropiate for someone to take someone else's present away for a while???

Lessons In Pug-ometry

Good morning students,
Today we will learn important facts about the most adorable creatures living on earth: Us.

Pugs originated in China.

Then spread all over the world.

There are many colors of pugs. I am fawn, Rosie is apricot and Roxy is black, just to name a few examples. Do you know of any silver pugs? I don't.

We have a flat face and because of that we have to live in the comfort of a big tiled home with air conditioning and a fridge full of cold goodies.

We have face wrinkles that serve not only the purpose of having our humans clean them out every day but also gives us our special cute look.

And if somebody have a doubt about our intelligence, they should know that our wrinkles have important meanings in chinese. Therefore pugs are bilingual, or even trilingual - in fact, I am.

Pugs have pink long tongues that are useful when we need to make our begging face.

Pugs have curly tails. The curlier the better. Humans laugh at the sight of us and the tail provokes them an immediate impulse to give butt scratches and massages to us.

Some pugs have bulging eyes. Some doesn't have bulging eyes. Some doesn't have eyes. No problem, as long as we can make a puppy face using other methods (i.e. tongue, wrinkles), we survive.

Pugs need little grooming - unless your human is extremely allergic and needs to spend a lot of money trying to find an inexisting method to get rid of all the fur we shed - and we need a bath every 6 months, or once a year better.

I'd rather skip the health chapter. We are cute, intelligent and funny. That's all that matters.

Now students, are there any questions?

Working With The Snuggle Puggle

Boss,
This week's job position was one of high responsibility. I was assigned to determine through sucessive quality control tests the safety and durability of retractable leashes. I did what I, as a dog, normally do:

Final Result: The retractable leash broke two days later.

Recommendations: Buy a new leash at least every three years, specially if you use it to roll on the sand at the beach.

Boss, I would also like to use this opportunity to share my newest award. Roxy said that I was a very sweet guy and I would say the same but, well, she is your girlfriend and I don't want to sound disrespectful in any way... but she is sweet indeed! Thank you Roxy!

Now I have to pass the award to three sweet bloggers - and of course they are girls!

Pearly-Poo, Annie, and Dixie. *Hugs and kisses to all of them*

Thank You.

Coco Clock Out.

Working With The Snuggle Puggle

Good afternoon,
Here is my portfolio of creative ideas now that I am trying to start a business in the fashion industry. Well, the first project was actually a homework that mom helped the kid with. She had to create the attire for either Romeo or Juliet using this as a model, but on a bigger scale:

The kid's initial idea was to cut and paste pieces of fabric to form Romeo's attire. Mom told her that a dress for Juliet would be easier and nicer. Instead of using glue, they used thread and needle and the fabric of an old blouse the kids had. The kid finally glued the dress, the shoes (beans) and hair on top of a drawing of the head and hands. She got an A!

Now, this is my very own project - and I didn't use any help to do it. Dad had a white t-shirt with orange short sleeves (I posted a picture a while ago). It was boring. I found the t-shirt lying on the floor, about to be washed with other red and orange clothes. I got inspired by all the sort of bright colors lying around the boring t-shirt.

And I did this:

A batik design using natural eco-friendly organic dyes*!

What do you think?

Coco,

Professional Fabric Designer

* Technical Information: The orange hue is obtained by an intricated process using as its main source a chewed carrot.