My diva is a garbage pug!

I was sitting quietly in the living room, watching a CSI:Miami rerun, and I heard a metallic "clang" from the bathroom. And there she was, my delicate little diva, my heart pug, Penny Lane, with her face in the tipped-over trash can, munching away on an old kleenex!!!!! This is new. She has never shown an interest in trash before. I now have the living room trash can on a table and the bathroom can perched on the toilet. Anyone else have this problem, and what do you do??? Is it a sign of something awful? Any ideas?????? I would have taken and posted a picture, but I was just too appalled.

The lust for paper, particularly used kleenex and toilet paper (sometimes other unmentionable paper products) runs deep in the pug soul. Tank, at age 10, has a deep love of used kleenex. All of our garbage cans have lids that can't be opened by pugs--and the bathroom one is like Fort Knox.

Don't ask me why, but it's a pug thing.

If it's a sign of some horrible illness, it's something with a LOOOONG incubation period because Nell has been a trash snatcher for almost 8 years now and she's still kickin'! She personally prefers dirty q-tips. Because of now having Ava we basically have everything kid and pug proofed. Pre-Ava we just made sure to either keep the trash cans in the bathroom cabinet if feasible or just keep the bathroom door shut. Nell was just digging through the fabric scraps in my sewing trash can last night.

Both Hooli and Sophie are paper product eaters (well, really just eaters of ANYTHING).

We have to hide all the toilet paper rolls in Sophie's room, or put them out of reach, and then put our trash on the stairs, which is baby gated. Ahh, the joys of pugs.

Thanks. I feel better now. I think. So I'm gonna have to get a lidded trash can for the bathroom, then. It's a real pain to have to put it up on the toilet every time. Sigh. Oh well, she's worth it.

Dre is a consumate paper eater. The rest prefer the bathroom trash, but Dre will knock my trash can off the desk to get to the paper...(yes Sarina, this is the truth).

It's normal...

I got a bathroom can with a lid on it (and a little foot pedal). I had one too many too-gross-to-be-told incidents.

I can see that is how I'm gonna have to go. Sigh.

Beavis in his old age just doesn't really care that much about "being good". It's like he's decided he's old and he might as well have fun with the time he has left. He's taken to raiding purses, snatching treats and other things he used to not do.

And I let him.......

We keep the bathroom door shut. The kitchen garbage can has a lid on it so that's not too much of a problem. Mack and Mattie tag team though. Mack will knock over the garbage (if it's too full) and Mattie stands on lookout and helps raid it. She doesn't bother the bathroom garbage, just the yummy kitchen garbage.

From day one Lola will get into the trash any chance she gets. We have our trash under the kitchen sink and the bathroom trash has a lid on it. When we stay with my Mom in Boston she will wack the trash down, tear apart the bathroom trash and get into the trash in the back room. She is so fresh. She is also a purse snatcher, will knock a beer bottle down with one swipe of her paw, a napkin stealer and forget it if you turn your head and food is within her reach.
She acts so innocent too.

Logan never did any of the above mentioned. He's my good little Momma's boy.

lola's mom wrote:From day one Lola will get into the trash any chance she gets. We have our trash under the kitchen sink and the bathroom trash has a lid on it. When we stay with my Mom in Boston she will wack the trash down, tear apart the bathroom trash and get into the trash in the back room. She is so fresh. She is also a purse snatcher, will knock a beer bottle down with one swipe of her paw, a napkin stealer and forget it if you turn your head and food is within her reach.
She acts so innocent too.

Logan never did any of the above mentioned. He's my good little Momma's boy.

You need to come to Vegas and bring Lola. She is Hooli's twin. He does all that too! He also likes to try and create a distraction by barking and get the others riled up and then he goes and does something bad.

Saira wrote:

lola's mom wrote:From day one Lola will get into the trash any chance she gets. We have our trash under the kitchen sink and the bathroom trash has a lid on it. When we stay with my Mom in Boston she will wack the trash down, tear apart the bathroom trash and get into the trash in the back room. She is so fresh. She is also a purse snatcher, will knock a beer bottle down with one swipe of her paw, a napkin stealer and forget it if you turn your head and food is within her reach.
She acts so innocent too.

Logan never did any of the above mentioned. He's my good little Momma's boy.

You need to come to Vegas and bring Lola. She is Hooli's twin. He does all that too! He also likes to try and create a distraction by barking and get the others riled up and then he goes and does something bad.

Oh my god Lola does that bark thing too! She gets Logan flying off the couch when she barks and she will just sit there. I will never forget the one time she barked at nothing, I turned my head and she snatched my english muffin right off my plate! I only fell for that trick once!

Isn't it funny how Hooli and Lola look all innocent in photo's.

lola's mom wrote:

Saira wrote:

lola's mom wrote:From day one Lola will get into the trash any chance she gets. We have our trash under the kitchen sink and the bathroom trash has a lid on it. When we stay with my Mom in Boston she will wack the trash down, tear apart the bathroom trash and get into the trash in the back room. She is so fresh. She is also a purse snatcher, will knock a beer bottle down with one swipe of her paw, a napkin stealer and forget it if you turn your head and food is within her reach.
She acts so innocent too.

Logan never did any of the above mentioned. He's my good little Momma's boy.

You need to come to Vegas and bring Lola. She is Hooli's twin. He does all that too! He also likes to try and create a distraction by barking and get the others riled up and then he goes and does something bad.

Oh my god Lola does that bark thing too! She gets Logan flying off the couch when she barks and she will just sit there. I will never forget the one time she barked at nothing, I turned my head and she snatched my english muffin right off my plate! I only fell for that trick once!

Isn't it funny how Hooli and Lola look all innocent in photo's.

Oh I have met Lola, I do not believe she would ever trick her mama to steal food, NEVER!

Oh and Co-Pilot LOVES trash and whatever she can get her paws on, all our trash cans are put away in cabinets, we HAVE to!

Sigh... we have to keep the bathroom door shut because Beau loves grabbing the toilet paper on the roll and running down the hall with the paper flying behind him like a flag. He's taught this trick to Chloe now.

Our bathroom trash is behind the door under the sink, the kitchen trash issue was harder to solve when we got Moose. He's knock it over and all the pugs would dive in. We found a large Christmas paper wrap holder (the standing-up type), and it cannot come apart. Moose doesn't even try to knock it over.

Pugs and trash, not a good combination. *LOL*

Maryjo wrote:Sigh... we have to keep the bathroom door shut because Beau loves grabbing the toilet paper on the roll and running down the hall with the paper flying behind him like a flag. He's taught this trick to Chloe now.

We need that "laughing yourself silly" icon. The mental image of Beau taking off down the hall with a banner of tp behind him has me scuttling for the bathroom.

Pugsaunt wrote:

Maryjo wrote:Sigh... we have to keep the bathroom door shut because Beau loves grabbing the toilet paper on the roll and running down the hall with the paper flying behind him like a flag. He's taught this trick to Chloe now.

We need that "laughing yourself silly" icon. The mental image of Beau taking off down the hall with a banner of tp behind him has me scuttling for the bathroom.

It wouldn't be so bad if the banner were finite. But somehow he manages to keep it attached to the roller on the wall, and you can hear the roller clacking while he's running! He is such joker! If I catch him getting ready to grab the tp, I tell him NO, and you can see him laughing at me!

How about this icon?

Maryjo wrote:

Pugsaunt wrote:

Maryjo wrote:Sigh... we have to keep the bathroom door shut because Beau loves grabbing the toilet paper on the roll and running down the hall with the paper flying behind him like a flag. He's taught this trick to Chloe now.

We need that "laughing yourself silly" icon. The mental image of Beau taking off down the hall with a banner of tp behind him has me scuttling for the bathroom.

It wouldn't be so bad if the banner were finite. But somehow he manages to keep it attached to the roller on the wall, and you can hear the roller clacking while he's running! He is such joker! If I catch him getting ready to grab the tp, I tell him NO, and you can see him laughing at me!

How about this icon?

You know, I can see him laughing at you, because Penny does it to me. And I like the icon!