Jake saved his money, he was only 7 but wanted a pug. So our oldest son did just that and bought her with his own money. Just under $200 he saved from Christmas and all the way till May, when he got his birthday money from aunts and uncles. His birthday had just passed and he wanted a fat, snorting little puppy, we never had a pug before. At the time we just had 2 dogs Sumo and Julie . Sumo is now in heaven but we have 3 pugs Julie, Harper and Stan Lee ( Stan for short) and a white Shepard makes Charlie . Needless to say we LOVE pugs as we have 3 now!

We sold our houses and we moved to our new home on 3 plus acres just east of the city. Little did we know our previous owners left a pregnant cat on our property living under our old leaning to the left shed . So my first project was a new cat house for them, nothing big 9x9. Small enough a little heater can keep it warm no problem in the winter, a perfect place for our mouse hunters to live. 3 windows for them to look out of. Most importantly a place for them to hide from predators. Here is a pic of the glorious cat house. I’ve had friends say “why did you make it so nice ?” Well my answer is always the same, I love those little cats and just in case Lee makes me sleep in the dog house, I’ll choose to sleep in the cat house.

Well the Mama kitty, KITKAT, had babies and soon got inside our house to snoop around. Curiosity of a cat am I right ? Julie went to chase and play and mama didn’t want any of what she was offering. Being a new mom was also protecting her little ones, so swatted at Julie. We didn’t think anything of it, she acted normal no issues. Then a day later we notice she was squinting, so in the morning we take her to the vet and she had a scratch on her cornea. Cats scratches are very infectious, cat scratch fever is not just a song by Ted Nugent.

We got some drops and off we went back home to administer drops for a few days. A couple days later all of a sudden we notice her eye is huge, popping out of her head. She still acted 100% normal, didn’t act any different. It’s Sunday morning and nothing is open but the Emergency Vet. Anyone with animals hates those two words .

🚨EMERGENCY VET🚨

Emergency vets, They are 3 times the price, they don’t know you like your vet does but What can we do? This is our little pug so we jump in the car, Pug on my lap looking out the window at all the passing traffic. The vet says Julies eye is about to explode from infection and needs to be removed right now. They need a credit card before they would do the surgery, so reluctantly I bring out the plastic. SIGH 😔 The pug princess has the surgery, everything went well, we did an upgrade and the put a “ marble “ in place of her eye . This stopped it from concaving in, it just looks like her eye is shut or winking 😉

When we got home Julie didn’t change one bit, you would never know that she had an eye removed. It really does look like she is blinking. My only hope is that she would stop chasing the cats. I have a fear she will end up with no sight at all one day. Well she has not changed at all, Now she charges the cats and turtles herself hides her head so she can check them. Reminds me of Zack Kassian and Mathew Tkachuk, only Julie is the turtle In this story ( Sorry Calgary, couldn’t resist )

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