Dr. Salinger Is On Call!

Hello everyone. I've got my hands full taking care of my hooman brother again today.

Ugh....Holden is SIIIIICK!



He's been honking and making all kinds of goose noises and mom SWEARS she saw THIS happen last night.....

Ok, maybe not THAT bad. But he's all phlegmy and gross sounding. Mom is thinking about loading up the paint sprayer with hand sanitizer and Lysol and giving this place a good hosedown!



I got to go to the pharmacy yesterday with Mom to pick up his prescriptions to make him better and then spent the rest of the day on duty like THIS...

He's feeling a bit better today, but I'm going to make sure he gets LOTS of rest and fluids today while he's still home from school.

Take care of YOUR hoomans everyone!

Wordless Wednesday...Dr. Salinger/Patient Holden Edition

Sore throat? Dr. Salinger prescribes a full day of the GAME SHOW NETWORK!

Big money...no whammies and NO TALKING!

Halloween festivities

BOO everyone!!!! I hope you all had a fun Halloween and got a lot of good loot trick or treating last night!
Check me out in my costume!!!

I'm DR. SALINGER!!!


I even had my own puggy STETHOSCOPE!

It came with one of the bouffant surgical caps, which I would NOT wear. NOOOOOOOO HAT!!!!


Mom and I were kind of a "set" because she was MY PATIENT (and evidently I'm not a good doctor from the looks of her!)



We went visiting some of our favorite people....

It's Gail and Lloyd from Little Rascal's Pet Motel! I figured I'd start out my reign as the 2009 Pet of the Year by thanking them again!


We went to visit my PugBrother Bert and PugMommy Gertie! Look at Bert all snuggled up to mom!



Holden had a few buddies over for trick or treating and then a fun sleepover!

Justin is a spooky dead thing, Joe is a football player and Holden is a derranged psycho killer (last minute costume change...he was going to be a chef but maybe next year).


Here is Daddy as the Joker from the Dark Knight along with our neighbor India who is dressed as the same thing! Two Jokers!

"WHYYYYY SSSSSSO SSSSSSSERIOUS????"



Mom, Dad and I stayed here and handed out candy to all the 'hood kids...

while Holden and his buddies trick or treated with Doug (Holden's dad). They got a TON of candy!


Just LOOK at all this!

The boys sat for almost two hours negotiating trades with their candy! I think they had a great time!

Hope everyone out there in bloggerland had a SPOOKTACULAR Halloween too!

Pug healing powers and a PSA for all doggies out there.

Hi everyone!
Part of my MIA week last week was spent taking care of my Daddy...he was SICK! He didn't have the Oink Oink Flu or anything...just a nasty cold (that mom refuses to catch!). He stayed in the big cloud bed for TWO DAYS! It was WONDERFUL!

That big lump behind me is Daddy!

I stayed right next to him the whole time!


Mom decided to enhance my PugHealing powers with some homemade chicken soup...

Once the schmaltz was skimmed off...it was VERY yummy!

Here is me waiting for my sample before it went up to Mr. Hacky McMucus


Ahhhhhhh...yummy!


Daddy is doing just fine and is all better now...but we also wanted to share something else with all of you in case you weren't aware of it...

CANINE INFLUENZA! (CLICK HERE to read all about it)
My awesome Vet, Dr. Graves, told mom about this and recommended that I get vaccinated against this yucky disease. I got my first shot a few weeks ago and I get a booster on 11/2. It didn't hurt at all and it was only $20!!!!

Thank you Dr. Graves!!!!
We recommend that EVERYDOGGIE check with your vet to see if this might be something for YOU!

Happy and HEALTHY Thursday to all of you!!!

PeeS. We especially want to send out some "feel better" wishes to our sweet friend Lilo. She's been feeling yucky for a few days now and we hope it goes away asap!

Paging Dr. Salinger!!!

Oh no...Holden is SICK! Mom thought he was just getting a cold, but he woke up feeling and sounding HORRIBLE this morning (she said he sounded like FROGGY from the Little Rascals!), so she decided to keep him home from school and take him to the doctor. I KNEW something was wrong with him, so I stood guard when he went back to bed.



Mom took Holden to the doctor (the one with the MD after his name) and he asked a lot of questions and checked Holden out and listened to his chest and said "Uh oh! That's not good!" and then told mom that he has PNEUMONIA!!! No school today, tomorrow and possibly Friday if he's still feeling yucky!

SO...that means time for me to get to work making sure Holden gets better...

They stopped at the pharmacy on the way home to fill these prescriptions and I stood there watching and made sure he took them correctly...

Down the hatch, Holden!!! Dr. Salinger's orders!


Mom made us some yummy homemade chicken noodle soup!

None of that saltwater crap in a can!!!!

I tasted it first to make sure it was ok....

Yep...it's good...go ahead and eat it, Brother...Dr. Salinger's orders!


THEN mom made up the couch like a bed for Holden. I brought him Grace and Phoebe (the stuffed Pugs) to help keep him company.

My job as Dr. Salinger is to make sure Holden gets lots of rest, plenty to drink and can reach the TV remote at all times!

FEEL BETTER SOON HOLDEN!!!


In other news...we want to wish a VERY VERY VERY happy 12th birthday to our buddy STUBBY the Eco-Pug!!! If you don't know Stubby, make sure you click on his name to drop by his blog and say HI. He is a VERY cool dude and is very wise and enviornmentally savvy and shares lots of cool tips about making our planet better. Happy birhday, dude!!!!