100 Lovable Things about Noodles

This was scheduled for midnight July 4. Lesson learned - do not use the
Blogger scheduler.

1. Ears
2. Her soft, velvet ears
3. Eyes
4. Eyelashes
5. Nose
6. Snores
7. Fold
8. Muzzle
9. Wrinkles
10. Butt wrinkles
11. Left/Right Tail
12. Playing mode
13. Ready stance
14. Panting
15. Growl
16. Paw
17. Fingers
18. Paw print
19. Sleepy face
20. Confused face
21. Tongue
22. Yawn
23. Sneezes
24. Pouty face
25. Prance walk
26. Happy face
27. Sad face
28. Pissed off face
29. Trotting
30. Leave me alone face
31. Licking
32. Whimper
33. Begging
34. Sleep growl
35. Curliness in Tail
36. Curliness in Tongue
37. After bath crazies
38. How she runs to our pillows when she gets in trouble
39. Puppy dog face
40. Craziness
41. Dream twitches
42. How she has to be in the middle of the mommies
43. How she always steal our spot
44. How excited she gets when we say the word:
45. -bye bye
46. -walk
47. -treat
48. -wanna go to bed
49. -auntie Bev
50. -wanna go to the park
51. Head tilt
52. Bouncing ears
53. Smile
54. Goofy ear
55. When her tail straightens when tired or exhausted
56. The way she poo poos and pee pees
57. How she always pees on the edge of the pee pee pad
58. How she lays on her pee pee pad like a bed
59. Her diamond wrinkle
60. The frog
61. Spaghetti dog
62. High fives
63. Shakes
64.  Knuckle touch
65. Lays down
66. How she looks at the treat
67. How she will always be under Mommys feet
68. Softness of fur
69. How she sits on our heads and hair
70. Her butt thigh
71. Soft, pink tummy
72. Pug sit
73. how her eyes close when people massage her neck
74. Ear twitches
75. Nares twitches
76. How she sneezes when you pick her up
77. How she will be under Auntie Bonnie's feet
78. How she would always be under the table when we eat
79. How she will always be under peoples feet when cooking
80. Curlie Qs
81. How she come to you when you call and the sits on you
82. Wattle
83. Sighs
84. Eye color to black to brown
85. Any ear Movements
86. Her Freckles
87. Back twitch
88. Jealous Mood
89. How she plays
90. Her snores
91. Tummy
92. How She Looks in Clothing
93. How She Gulps Her Water
94. How She Always Has a Wet Face when She Is Done Drinking Water
95. How excited she gets when someone gets home
96. How protective she is,
97. Her forehead Rub
98. Her Face when She is waiting for her treat like a good girl
99. Her mask
100. Her "Leave me Alone" face

I THOUGHT OF TWO MORE. . .

1. How her ears look like butterflies flapping their wings when she runs
2. How she helps to get her harness on

Celebrate WITH ME! I am Five Years YOUNG today!

I'm FIVE today

Five years ago TODAY I was born. My mother, Fiona, had 4 other puppies that day - all boys. NOT ME! I was the only GIRL in the litter. So as you can tell, I was SPECIAL from the start.

My Mommys wanted a GIRL PUG even though everybody told them a BOY would be easier. They are never ones to take the easy route so they INSISTED on *ME. They were told I was headstrong, energetic, and uncontrollable. My fold had not developed and my tail was too low, they said, so I would not be good for showing. My Mommys didn't care, they weren't looking for a show dog. They wanted me.

*SIDE NOTE: We couldn't do rescue because there were 2 kids under the age of 10 in the house and so no one would adopt to them.

I fooled them! My tail is NEARLY perfect (I have 2 awards to prove it) and my fold. . . well you can see from the above picture that it developed just fine. I am, in short, BEAUTIFUL.

This is all ancient HERSTORY, though. Today the NATION comes together to celebrate ME. I am humbled and honored.

Next week is Molly's SECOND birthday so we are celebrating today with CAKES and PRESENTS.

I'm gonna be TWO

I am so excited. I think I will go on a walk to calm down. But first. . .

We are ready to PAWTY

FINALLY. . . HAPPY THING #100: YOU

I can't think of anything happier than my FOLLOWERS

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY EVERYPUGGY

Get YOUR VOTES IN BY Midnight

Click this link to go to the picture page

Keep On Voting - Two New Pics - and Did You Notice??????? I Hit 1000 Posts!

Yes, you saw correctly. Yesterday I posted for the 1000th time! Whew! That took a long time. Four years, to be exact. Four years of FIVE DAYS A WEEK, more or less. And know what? I have loved every minute of it. I loves loves loves the community of Blogville. I have so many FURiends and they have blogs so I am entertained a LOT! Thank you ALL for making it such a pleasure to publish each and every day.

Back to the contest. We have some GRRRRRRRRRRR8 entries so far. Remember, you have until Midnight tonight to send me a picture of YOU IN A PARTY HAT. Then voting will continue through MY BIRTHDAY (you know the day - the whole country celebrates FOR me - July 4).

Today I am adding TWO new pictures. At the end of today's 1001th post I will add the other pictures as well. Remember to VOTE in the comments - oh, and tell your FURiends to come by and vote too.

Sarge and the 2 Crabby Girls

Lassie 

Make that three pictures! Ranger would like to join inthe fun!

AND SO YOU DON'T FORGET:

ANNA

MADI

 SHASTA & SHILOH

  ERNIE & FRANKIE

GRETA

TALLULAH & PETUNIA

 KRISSY

CASEY & CINDERELLA

I JUST LOVE ALL OF THESE PICTURES!!!

HAPPY THING #99: WRITING

and especially this blog for all of you

VOTE TODAY - I have pictures

THE DEADLINE TO ENTER IS EXTENDED TO THURSDAY MIDNIGHT (7/3)

AND 

Voting will continue through July 4 (Midnight) with winners, YES I SAID WINNERS, announced on Tuesday July 8

Remember to vote in the comments:

Anna

Casey and Cinderella

Ernie and Frankie

Greta

Krissy

Madi

Petunia and Tallulah

Shasta and Shiloh

I am LOVIN" these PARTY HATS!

So please commence with the voting!

HAPPY THING #98: Hats

What says party MORE than a hat?

Okay. . . Well. . . Ummmmm. . .

This is BY FAR the most exciting part of my day

So, I was, um, planning on posting pictures of you all for the contest. But UNFORTUNATELY I did not get a single entry for the PARTY HAT PICTURE CONTEST. 

Not One.

I am totally unprepared to write a blog today. I guess I will jump ahead a write a review of my latest Chewy.com treat.

Molly and I got the opportunity to review some treats for Chewy.com last month. We decided we wanted to try Merrick BIG BRUSH DENTAL BONES and TEXAS TOOTHPICKS. We had no idea what they were at the time, but we know Merrick is a great company that cares about what goes in our lil' bodies.

We chose these particular treats because we CARE ABOUT OUR teeth and gums. And I know for me brushing is pretty much not an option. Are you familiar with the dragon Toothless from "How to Train Your Dragon" parts one and two? Well, I am like him - I can hide my teeth at any time. On whim. And especially when Mommy comes at me with a toothbrush.

So Molly and I figured this was the best of all worlds - a treat that will clean our teeth and freshen our breaths.

Now you can read all about them because I linked to the Merrick pages for each product. The biggest selling point about both of these treats is they are completely digestible. They are also grain-free and gluten-free. This is important especially for TOY breeds, like Molly and me.

At first we thought the size of both treats was TOO BIG.
Especially the toothpick! It looks like one of those mini-baseball bats kids always want to get at the big league games. Yes, it really is that big. . . LOOK ------------------------------------------->
But if you look closely you will see lines scored along the toothpick. These are spots where it can be broken into smaller pieces. And this is totally doable for small mouths like Molly's.

The bone is large. Large even for me who has a more SUBSTANTIAL sized mouth. But it can be cut into smaller, more manageable pieces and still do its job of cleaning my teeth. Merrick does make a smaller size bone, in case you don't feel like cutting the larger one down.

Molly and I CONCUR - these are top-notch treats by any standard. They taste good - like food, not chemicals. They are toothsome without being damaging to our teeth, too. And I don't know about Molly, but I do know the V-E-T noted that for my age my teeth were in pretty good shape. It must be the MERRICK BIG DENTAL BONE and MERRICK TEXAS TOOTHPICK. I have been SAMPLING them for a couple of weeks now.

As far as our TRICKWORTHY meter. . . . well I give these a 2-3 paws up. I will definitely do tricks for them but nothing outrageous like dancing on my back legs.

Thanks Chewy.com for another wonderful adventure into TREATVILLE. We really enjoyed this one.

HAPPY THING #97: Good Dental Check-ups

AND GET THOSE PHOTOS IN TODAY FOR OUR BIG CONTEST!!!!!

noodlesthepug@aol.com

Countdown Week - AND How About a Little Contest?

MY NEW CONTEST IS A PHOTO CONTEST!

Send me a picture of you in your BEST party hat (real or photoshopped, I don't care).

I will post the entries daily and the winner is the one who gets the MOST comments.

SO - The RULES are

1. Send me your photo to noodlesthepug@aol.com. The sooner the better. Multiple pets can have multiple photos but please specify who is who.
2. ALL ENTRIES MUST BE IN BY MIDNIGHT WEDNESDAY JULY 2.
3. VOTE FOR your favorite in the "COMMENTS" section of this blog. 
4. You can totally vote for yourself. But ONLY ONE VOTE PER BLOG/PERSON/PET/ALIEN/ and so on.
5. The WINNER will be chosen by NUMBER of votes and a panel of Judges chosen by ME!

That's it. Have fun and I am looking forward to seeing your party hats.

HAPPY THING # 96: SUMMER

It's FINALLY here

Entitled to a Title BUT Couldn't Think of Anything. . . FRIDAY

I, Noodles the PRINCESS Pug, wish to thank each and every one of my FANS for sending me get-well-wishes. I a still not quite up to my normal PUGGINESS but I am on my way. In fact, last night I was LOUDLY begging in the kitchen while my auntie was cooking. I didn't GET anything. . . but at least I tried. I hadn't been trying at ALL.

So I look forward to next week - MY BIRTHDAY WEEK. A lot more is happening all at once and believe me - I DID NOT PLAN IT! This is just how it all came together. Here is the TIMELINE for the first week of JULY:

Tuesday, July 1 - I will publish my 1000th post
Friday, July 4 - I will have listed my 100th Happy Thing
Friday, July 4 - Happy Birthday to ME! I turn 5 years old


So I think you can see, it will be a pretty auspicious week for us all. I know what you are all thinking -
"So Noodles. How are we gonna CELEBRATE all this goodness?"

You know me all too well - WITH A CONTEST, OF COURSE!!!

I will post the details on Monday, June 30 and the contest will end Thursday, July 3 at Midnight PT.

Winners will be posted on MY BIRTHDAY!!!

Yes, I said - WINNERS. There will be multiple.

In the meantime, HAPPY FRIDAY.

HAPPY THING #95: T.G.I.F
Because Friday means you usually have a weekend of fun ahead of you.