It’s been hard for me to get back into the swing of things since I got out of the hospital a couple of weeks ago, and I just didn’t know how to jump back in. I’d wanted to start a Crohn’s series for a while and this seemed like the perfect timing. So many people […]
This weekend we did some great local shopping. On Saturday we hit the farmer’s market and on Sunday we went to the grand opening of a new Treats Unleashed location in the Central West End.
Soon after Pugs officially became a member of our family I wrote an introduction post about him, explaining how I had met him at Strut Your Mutt months beforehand. Pugs’ owner Debbie had become terminally ill with brain cancer and her friend and founder of his rescue, Gunner’s Run, had taken him in. Pugs stayed […]
It’s finally time for our last #PugsTakeChicago post. Bittersweet, I’m happy to have all the footage posted, but now it really feels over. I need to plan another trip so I have something to look forward to! Saturday night, Hotel Allegro hosted a private Prosecco hour just for Pugs Take Chicago guests. Since it was […]
The second public event of the weekend was a pug rescue fundraiser at Clark Street Ale House. Clark street donated the space, and since they don’t serve food, dogs are allowed inside the bar as well as outside on the patio! There were some really awesome raffle prizes up for grabs (sadly, I didn’t win […]
The “main event” for Pugs Take Chicago was a public meetup at Lake Shore East dog park near Millenium Park. Now, I’m from the burbs and have never needed to use a dog park, so I have nothing to compare it to. But it seemed really nice. It was kind of sunken in the middle […]