SUPERFUN WEEK

We had some superfun adventures this weekend and that means it's going to be a superfun week for you here on the DP. Today's picture is a clue of how it all started.

But before Superfun Week starts, there's some stuff from last week to fill you in on. Warning: not all of it is Superfun.


GRACIE
Little foster Gracie's c-word has been eating up the juju faster than you can send it. Our favorite PRL (Pug Rescue Lady) has been giving us updates and things don't sound so great for Gracie.

The good news is Gracie's getting tons of love and all sorts of ridiculously eatables at PRL's house, so at least she's happy place. Here she is supermodeling with the Omegas Layfayette Lola donated to her:

I know supermodels are supposed to be skinny and everything, but not pug supermodels. My human says the stupid c-word will do that do you so I was *really* glad to see this picture of Gracie's trying to get at the Omegas - just like a big fat healthy pug should. Go Gracie!


ANGRY SEA LION
Thanks to some rescue connections (thank PRL!) we have an update on last week's lion rescue. The Marine Mammal Center has this really cool online tracking system thing so you can find out how the animals they rescued are doing.

So far, all we know about our lion is he weighs 215.6 pounds (!) and his name is Delancey. His diagnosis is listed as 'bad location' so we're hoping this means he isn't sick and just ended up somewhere he shouldn't have been.

FURREAKY VIDEO
My human found it and it's SUPER embarrassing!! My human's been using it to bribe me into doing stuff I don't really want to do, but as soon as that stops working she'll let you all laugh at it too.

INTERNATIONAL TURKEY DAY
In case you missed it, Ollie the Canadian beagle made an important announcement last week: today is Turkey Day in Canada! I know most of us aren't Canadian, but I'm still going to try and score some turkey or something to celebrate. You should all totally do the same.

Thanks Ollie for the paws up on Turkey Day. If you live in another country and celebrate a food-related holiday we don't, please let us know so we can eat with you :)

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I think that's it from last week. Tomorrow the Superfun begins! Oh, except Dutch still has to tell you about his two #1 favorite things from Canada. But don't worry - he totally won't let me forget about that.

FURREAKY!

Ok. Before I say anything about anything I just have to say how awesome it was to hear from everyone yesterday. And when I say awesome, I mean like bacon awesome.

Seriously.

I asked my human if she could print out all your comments and hang them on the wall above my dog bed so I can read them over and over again. She said she'd think about it; Dutch said my head would get huge, explode and make a terrible mess from all the supernice things you said about me. I think if he knew about all the secret crushes I'm not supposed to tell him about he'd be waaay into having Daily Puglet wallpaper.

OK. Now I have to tell you about something really crazy that happened last weekend. I don't 100% understand the whole thing, so if what I'm about to tell you makes no sense - don't feel bad. It made no sense to me either. Even after I read a sign with all the rules on it.

Because last Sunday there was a petting zoo outside our house. I mean, like right outside the front door where cars usually go. And instead of goats and sheep and stuff Google says usually lives in petting zoos, there were great big freaky animals. Like this human-sized raccoon:

There was also a ginormous fox, a superfreaky chicken and a gorilla. Yeah. Right in front of our house.

Now. You have to understand that right-in-front-of-our-house is my territory. I don't even like when strange dogs are in front of my house and here was an entire zoo of giant furry freaky creatures. I was totally NOT happy. And just between you and me, completely furrreaked out.

I barked my head off but the giant furry things didn't even blink. They were not afraid of me at all. My barking did get the attention of the zoo's human, a supernice dude named Riley. He told me not to worry and promised the giant furreaky animals are all really friendly.

Riley also explained that his zoo was there to raise money for PAWS, a group that helps people and animals stay together if the humans gets too sick or old. He didn't explain why they were doing it in front on my house, but my human says PAWS is awesome so I was cool with it.

I even posed with Riley for a ton of people taking pictures. I've never seen so many iPhones! Rumor has it there's also a video of me too - a "very hysterical video" - but my human hasn't found it yet. I'll keep you posted on that. Unless it's too embarrassing, then I'll just pretend it never happened.

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SPECIALNESS!
Happy Gotcha Day to my man Massimo here in the Bay Area! Massimo is a huge fan of eating socks, but my human says we'll be eating cookies to celebrate his big day. Let's all eat cookies for Massimo :)

WHERE ARE YOU + HOW DID YOU GET HERE?

Dutch was going to tell you about his two #1 favorite things from the Ginormous Canadian Box today, but he's still totally freaked out about yesterday's near-death lion encounter. And even though Frank is in today's picture, he went home last night and can't be the blog either.

I know I had a bunch of stuff to tell you about, but my human's gimpy brain must be contagious or something because I totally can't remember any of it. So. Instead of talking about me, today we're going to talk about you. Because I've been wondering something for awhile now. Well, more like two somethings:

Something #1: Where do you live?

Something #2: How did you get here?

Something #1 should be totally easy to answer. Something #2 just means how did you find me. Y'know, here. On the internet.

In case you don't already know the answers to my somethings: I live in San Francisco. I got here on April 1st, 2009 when my human finally agreed to let me blog, stuck a fake mohawk on my head, and called me Mr. P.

Can't wait to hear everyone else's somethings!

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OOPS! TODAY IS SUPERSPECIAL
We wrote today's blog really late last night and totally forgot to check if today is special... and it totally is! Happy superspecial Whelp Day to my man Spencer Bartholomew. We'll be finishing off the last of the fancy Canada cookies in your honor :)

* * * BLOGGER COMMENT SNAFU * * *

We got an email today from the 3Es that their comments were going POOF! My human asked Google about the malfunction and I guess Blogger is having some sort of issue.

The Blogger people are working to fix things, but until that happens a new (and kinda funky) comment form is in effect. It should stop things from going POOF! and give everyone their voices back :)

OPERATION LION RESCUE

I figured you might need a day or two to digest the Ginormous Canadian Box, so today I was going to tell you all about the crazy rain storms we're having (and how crazy it is that rain is back so soon). But when I woke up this morning the skies were totally blue so we headed straight to the beach.

Good thing for you we did too, because what happened at the beach is way more exciting than weather. Way more. Because you see that giant blob Frank is posing with because I was too busy protecting us from a possibly life-threatening attack to pose for stupid pictures? Well, it was at the beach too. Obviously.

At first I thought the blob was a ginormous slug. Until Dutch wandered out onto the pier thing by mistake and it totally roared at him. Like ARRGHGHHH! Freaked me out. And Dutch too -- I seriously don't think he noticed the giant blob until it AAARGHGHHH'd at him.


Nobody ARRGHGHHHs at brother Dutch but me, so I totally went into attack mode... which is when my human put me on a leash and told us all to keep walking. She said it's not cool to harass wildlife. I didn't know slugs counted as wild life, no matter how ginormous they are. But my human explained that the blob was a sea lion, not a slug. Kinda explains the roaring, I guess.

Anyway. We walked for awhile and by the time we got back to where the lion was, some people from the Marine Mammal Center had shown up. They had a giant net and a box just like the one my human makes Frank ride in because he goes crazy in the car. Except their box was bigger. Waaay bigger.

I guess the lion was sick and they were there to help him. To do that, they had to get him in the box first. That's when the leashes came out again. My human tied us to a fence so she could help the lion savers without worrying about me doing something crazy (her words).

While we stood there tied to a stupid fence, my human helped the lion savers. Her job was to sit on the box so it wouldn't move when the lion got angry. She took pictures of the rescue until they were ready for her to box sit.

For the record, it's way easier to get Frank in a box than an angry lion. It took 4 people, a net, a rope and a few big shield things to convince him to go inside.

The lion must not have known they were trying to save him because he was NOT happy about any of it. I don't think he liked the net much either.

It took awhile, but the lion savers finally got the sick lion into the box and onto a truck. I know it's been a busy week for juju but if anyone has any left to give, I think the lion could use some. I don't know his name, but he'll be staying at the Marine Mammal Center for awhile. It's on the other side of the big orange bridge - I'm sure juju will know how to find it.

OH, CANADA!

Ready to see what came in the Ginormous Canadian Box? I know you are! But first, a great big huge fat thank you to Ollie the Canadian beagle for sending us such a ridiculously awesome surprise.

Oh. And if you don't like cookies, you might as well leave now because today it's all about the cookies. Not that the Ginormous Canadian Box (GCB) wasn't full of other good stuff (it totally was!!) but my human said I had to pick my two #1 most favorite things to talk about or we'd be talking about the GCB until Christmas.

so many amazing Canadian things!

OK, so my #1 most favorite thing in the GCB was the cookies. Not just any cookies. I mean real, fancy cookies that someone made by hand and put in a special box. Y'know, the kind of cookies with pretty icing and stuff (Dutch pointed out the pretty and the fancy part, of course). Ollie said his human drove through pouring rain and road construction to get us these cookies and I am soooooo freaking glad she did.

I don't really have words for the cookies. So here. You can just see:

special box = special things

Dutch's extra-special birthday cookies

MUST. HAVE. COOKIES!!!

more special cookies

MUST. HAVE. MORE. COOKIES!!!

I could talk about the cookies all day long. But that probably wouldn't be cool since none of you got to eat them. So, my #2 #1 thing in the GCB was this bag of "Traditional Liver Filets":

Holy Spam. I've had liver stuff before, but I guess Canadian liver stuff must be different than Amerian liver stuff because... yeah. Just insane. I tried to eat the whole bag, bag and everything. Yummmm!

My human says the GCB was for me and Dutch (there was also a card and a bunch of pink things) so he'll be here tomorrow to tell you about his two #1 most favorite Canadian things.

Thanks again Ollie (+ Ollie human) for making everyone here at Casa de Puglet so happy!!

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TODAY IS SUPERSPECIAL
Fredzio in Poland celebrates his special day today and we'll all be eating Canadian to celebrate. Since Fredzik/io hasn't been feeling 100% great, please send him a dose of mega juju along with your whelp day wish.

PS: I know everyone has been wondering about Gracie. We got news from the Pug Rescue Lady (PRL) last night and it wasn't good. Gracie is very sick and even though she is my age, probably won't be with us much longer. PRL is taking awesome care of her and making sure she feels much love and gets all the good food she can eat. We sent her the Omegas Lafayette Lola donated, so at least we know Gracie will get to enjoy lots of good eatables until it's time to sleep.