Penelope seriously hates the Orbit commercials, she can be in a dead silent sleep and the horn will wake her up.

Pugapalooza took place this past weekend (2006-10-07) and it was a great success! We raised over $3,500 for Pittsburgh area animal shelters. Go to the website to download some desktops and learn more about the event.

I borrowed Jeff’s Nikon D50 for the weekend and I have grown to love it. Below are a few of my favorite photos from the weekend.

Abbey at Pugapalooza

Matilda at Pugapalooza

Penelope chewing her kong bone

As part of a series of small updates to my site I wanted to add flash multimedia to my postings. This includes flash video from Google and You Tube which can be seen below. I will be releasing the plugin that I am using to embed the video shortly, just a few small issues to work out.

Winston and Stella stayed over a few weeks ago, this is a video of them goofing off upstairs on our new carpet.

We had a pug meetup,

a halloween party,

a trip to Frick park…

and some funny Penelope photos from tha car ride home.

We took Penelope to the August Pittsburgh Pug Meetup at the Frick Park O.L.E.A. Saturday morning. Only two other pugs came, Baxter and Liu Liu, but they all played and had a great time. Penelope continued her trend of wanting to play with the bigger dogs rather than the pugs her size, and Liu Liu was beating up on Baxter pretty good. Good times were had by all the pugs and their owners.

See all photos from the meetup

Monica, Penelope and I went to Erie to see my mom and decided to hit the beach while we were there. We bought Pen a life vest so she wouldn’t sink which she seemed to take to pretty well. The water had more chop than we expected so we kept her swimming to a minimum.