Offered a friend a favour to look after her pug for 2 weeks.
He has been here 2 sleeps so far. He is stuck to my side, I can’t have a wee without him scratching the door. I left him in the house to look for something in the garage and he pinned like I’d left him all day!
He has a thing about our tv , it’s on the wall (I’m wondering if that’s where his confusion is) he barks at it constantly and jumps up to sit on the unit.
He is such a little gorgeous bundle of fun but it’s CONSTANT, he talks to me and the zooms around the room barking. We are having lots of walks and playing and I have a garden (he lives in a flat)
Every time I talk to my friend she just says he is normally chilled out.
Will he calm down a little bit or is this just a pugs life?
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I’m pug sitting. It’s like looking after a baby goat, will he calm down?
CheekyFuckersDontGetPastMe · 22/12/2019 17:37
I think people with small dogs don’t notice how mad they are... I have 3, my dp came along last and he frequently reminds me that 3 toddlers fed on a diet of smarties and cola would be less neurotic 
One gets jealous if I wipe the baby and not her.. if you say cheese the biggest will run to find you like her life depends on it (shout her name for a week n you’ll get fuck all of a reaction) and the third is my Velcro baby.. I used to take his bed into the bathroom with me if I wanted a relaxing bath 
his head is on my shoulder as we speak and I’m sitting up.. he’s a chihuahua.
Careful not to over exercise him, though. An overtired, over stimulated dog can appear very similar to a bored dog in need of exercise! Very similar to toddlers really. Good luck, sounds like you’re all having a ball
Ah, such a lovely thread. I'm kicked up on my sofa with my couch potato FilthyDogs and chuckling at your zoomy pug goat. At least it's only for 2 weeks. Enjoy it, you'll miss him when he's gone 
This thread has made me giggle
I know my dog can be quite calm all day when he's with me (to the point of refusing to get out of bed, and happily going 12-15 hours without a wee, even when offered) until late afternoon, when he knows he's due a long walk.
On the other hand, when he's with DF he knows there's no recognisable routine (he's retired) so he's up the moment DF gets up, and generally seems to have far more energy because there could be a walk or something interesting happening at any moment. DF prefers morning walks, DF sometimes takes him for a pub lunch, and DF has a much more exciting garden than I do (he has wildlife, I have a concrete jungle!). On a similar note he rarely tries begging from me at home as he knows it won't work, but when I visit DGM he will beg from all and sundry in her kitchen because he knows it's frequently rewarded (DGM is incorrigible, had generations of begging dogs and really doesn't give a monkeys!)
Can you message your friend and ask what pug goat's routine is and then try to stick to it where you can? Probably going to be a struggle given it's Christmas and only a fortnight, but it might provide some help if you can stick to meal and walk times.
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