My Name & Blue´s Chocolate Cake

People always come around and ask me about my name, what does it mean and why did Sara and Ricardo chose it for me. So today I’ll try to explain this complex subject.

Meaning of Pufas (by Wikipedia): Polyunsaturated fatty acid - Polyunsaturated fatty acids
(PUFA) are those which contain more than one double bond

Errrmmm… this yucky thing definitely does not define me at all…

Meaning of Pu (by Wikipedia): Plutonium is a rare transuranic radioctive element.

Errrmmmm… that explains my extraterrestrial behavior…

Let’s try explaining where we came up with the name:

Sara’s father used to have a nickname back in college – POFAS. His friend gave him this nickname because, instead of using a bad word to curse, Sara’s father would say PPOOOOFASSS, which is a harmless and meaningless word.
Nowadays no one calls him that, but we still joke about it.

My name came up while Sara, Ricardo, Uncle Rob and Sara’s father (also Rob) went to a soccer match (BENFICA!!!), they were all goofing around, and trying to find a name for a future dog (yes, I did not exist then… but they were already making plans for me!)
And suddenly they said: “why don’t we call him POFAS? That’s cool! And it honors his human granddad right?”
They gave it a little twist, so that it didn’t sound exactly like Sara’s dad nickname, and came up with PUFAS.

When it came to choose the puppy, they had to make sure that it had a Pufas face :) so, here I am little puffy PU!

Now, you may ask, how do you say it?? PU? Phu?? Pa???
Ok, so you say it like PU from Purré.

I also have a Chinese name (yes, because Sara was born in Asia… and her family also speaks Chinese :) ):

Pou Fat

Now my Chinese name it’s much easier to explain! It means treasure, because I’m my famillies little treasure hehehe
If you would like to have a Chinese name, just let me know, and we’ll try to find you a perfect name, and explain the meaning ok?

:)

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Master chef PU brings you today an excellent treat for your humans!

Blue’s Chocolate Cake!

(yup, it was my upstairs neighbor that gave me the original recipe)
yes, I know... it’s not fair that we can’t have it... but the toxins that are in the chocolate can make any puppy go wacko... and we don’t want that right?
So, if it is your humans birthday, or if you just wanna look good, and score some point with them... this is your secret weapon!

Ingredientes:

4 eggs
2 tea cups of flour
1 tea cup of sugar
1 tea cup of oil
1 tea cup of chocolate powder (any chocolate milk powder will do! here in Portugal I recommend using Nestlé’s hot chocolate powder)
1 tea cup of hot water
1 tea spoon of baking powder

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
In a large bowl combine all the ingredients and mix well.
Pour batter into prepared pan.Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until inserted toothpick comes out clean. Cool cake in pan for 10 minutes. Remove from pan, and top with the fowling topping.

Topping:
7 table spoons of sugar
6 table spoons of milk
2 table spoons of butter
4 table spoons of chocolate powder (the same you used for the cake)
Put all the ingredients in a pan and bring to a boil, about 5 minutes.

enjoy :)

Lot’s of puffy licks
Pu

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Golden Sunday #3 (Domingo Goldalhado #3)

Last Sunday we had our third reunion of the Golden Gang. This time, to celebrate Pipa’s first Birthday (she’s all grown up already!!!) and Byte’s second “come home” party.

It was so cool! So much fun!
So I’m presenting the pups to you all:

PU – That’s me, Myself & I

Pipa – Now this girl need no introduction… you all know our crazy Pipa! But what you don’t know is that she’s also a lovely and tender girl! Love her

Emma – Sweet little Emma, I really loved knowing her! She is a little shy, but I could tell she had a blast Sunday :) and I know that she will become more and more friendly  she’s really beautiful…

Indy – Wow… what a big Boy! This is our Alfa male!, yup! He’s in love with Pipa, and let’s no one near her… but he’s also a gentleman

Maggie – She’s a big girl!!! And I don’t mean at her age, she’s only 2 years old. She’s really big for a girl and so friendly.

Vicky – what a cutie! She’s the little one of the group! Plus, she was diagnosed whit hip dysplasia, so she had all the attentions of the group. She’s so fluffy that Sara wanted to adopt her (I don’t think her mommy would let us keep her… ).

Timon – Timon, also a lovely dog, beautiful and slim . I think Timon it’s a Golden version of Marley (Labrador from the book Marley & Me), because he is always getting in trouble. Hakuna Matata Timon !


Byte – The gentlemen off the group! He’s so gorgeous! A beautiful golden… I wish to grow up and be just like him…

We went for a walk, a biiiiig walk in the forest:

Then we found a little spot with sand… yessss beach sand!!! Can you believe it??
So… what did we had to do?? Of course!!! Dig some holes there!!

I started… and then Pipa saw what I was doing and came to give me a hand (paw).




We were trying to find the lake, they all said that there was a lake… so we walked and walked for miles and miles…
We even took a break to catch our breath…. Ufff

This is me resting...

And we kept looking for that so called lake thing. I dunno what that was, because I never been to a lake before… Sara and Ricardo told me it was kind of like the beach water… but smaller… hummm I wonder if it is like our bathroom tub?!?!?!?

Well… no luck for us… we didn’t find the lake… not even whit a GPS!!!

So, we decided to head up to the picnic park. WEEEEEEEEEEEE here we go!!!

I also had a bite or two…. Eeerrrm…. 3 or 4?? Well I lost count! Everyone was giving me food!! It was paradise!!!!

I ate my apple…. Humm…. And then Emma’s apple (she didn’t want it!!! I just didn’t want it to waste it right?)

Then… Timon wasn’t eating his dog food… so I just tried to show him how it was done… hihihi

And Carla (Pipa´s mommy) gave me, was it 2 or 3 cookies???

Hum…. And I also gave my home made biscuit to all my furry friends… and off course… showed them how to eat them lol

Now this is my little princess Vicky enjoying my biscuit’s. Do you think I can win her over thru her stomach?? lol

OK – now the group photo part… I think the photos speak for them self… lol

Heyyyy Maggie!! where are you going??? come back!!!

When is the next meeting?? hum???

Can it be tomorow!?

Licks

Pu

8 months (already) & Chiken and Carrots biscuits

Lalala lalala Today I’m turning 8 months already

I have accomplished a couple of thing this last month, and Sara and Ricardo are really proud of me. Yup! “Good boy Pu!”

Remember that in the 7 months post I talked about my “peeing at home” problem? Well… problem solved! FOREVER (I hope)!!! Since then, I never peed at home again… “good boy PU!”

I’m also trying not to beg for food… but it’s soooo hard. But I’m getting better at this! Normally, if I behave my self during dinner, I’ll get a reward afterwards! Got biscuits the last few nights… so I must be doing it right don’t you think?

Now, at the new tricks department… Sara and Ricardo haven’t been teaching me that much lately “Bad Sara & Ricardo! Bad!”
But I’m starting to learn how to Slalom around their legs, I can do it following a biscuit… but not yet on my oneself! Have to practice some more!

And Sara started to put a biscuit on my nose… and then she asks me nor to eat it!?!?!??! Come on!?!??! Are you kidding me?
It’s really hard!!! I always star to drool intensely … and then I begin to shake (yep… my nerves)… but now I can wait for, let see, 3 or 4 seconds ahahahah
But Sara’s not giving up on me… we’ll keep training! (I’ll try to put a video up)

I have grown a bit this month :)
Sara says I’m the perfect size now, because she doesn’t have to get down to pet me anymore! I’m tall enough to reach her hand… see?
So I’m 35kg, and still growing



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We also decided to start posting about canine cuisine.
This new feature will be held by Pu can Cook (Master Chef PU, named after: Yan can cook):


Today we will be making some chicken and carrots biscuits for my furry friends :).

And we will be offering this on our 3rd golden Sunday.

The ingredients:
flour
½ tea spoon baking soda
1 egg
2 carrots (pureed or Juliana)
1 chicken’s chest (no bones)

And here’s how we make it:
Boil the chicken’s chest in plain water, until it is cooked. Put in to a food processor, until it is all chopped up.Add the egg and carrots, and then stat adding the flour and baking soda, mixing it very well (you may have to adjust the quantity of flour).


Put the mixture into a pastry bag and start making small size cookies. Now here’s were you can get creative!

And then the final result:
This is what we came up with! (can´t show you yet... because it´s a surprise for my furry Friends tomorrow at the picnic)




The master chef’s checking the taste…and he gives a paws up!


And remember... If Pu can cook, so can you!
licks
Pu

Marley and Me

Just finished reading Marley and me. What a great journey!

Whether or not you consider yourself a dog person, the book will make you laugh and cry, reminding you that you only live once, and that life should be lived to its fullest.
The author captured perfectly the essence of Marley (and many other crazy retrievers), sharing his adventures and struggles thru life.

I believe many of you have probably read the book already, but if you didn’t, well… you are going to love it!

I’m going to watch the movie this weekend… hope it is as good as the book :)

Sara

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