Attack of the Pugs, Coming to a Neighborhood Near You

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I always thought Pugs were really ugly, as verified by the expression UGLY PUGly. But then they started showing up everywhere. Lots of stores nears my apartment have resident pugs. Our old downstairs neighbor had one, who I miss more than the neighbors themselves. I can't go on a walk anywhere without passing someone walking a pug.

Now I want one.

Have pugs used their powers against you yet? Do you have one?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:05 (5 years ago) Permalink

What stupid movie had the alien pug in it? Oh, was it Men in Black?

Has anyone else noticed this fad? And where do pet fads come from?

Also, what's the deal with Puggles (pug/beagle mixes)? Do you think they're the next big thing?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:08 (5 years ago) Permalink

Pugs are cute. If you put them on their back, their eyes bug out. Like gremlins.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:09 (5 years ago) Permalink

I feel sorry for them and their human-breeding-enforced respiratory difficulties though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:09 (5 years ago) Permalink

Boston Terriers are probably even bigger, as far as trends go.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:10 (5 years ago) Permalink

Are pugs the new iPods?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:10 (5 years ago) Permalink

whats up with that photo of the girl? it seems to load when i click on other things

pugs are fun but i prefer english bulldogs

― kephm, Monday, 4 October 2004 20:10 (5 years ago) Permalink

iPugs

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:11 (5 years ago) Permalink

I used to feel the same way, 'til I met my wife and she introduced me to a few pugs in person (most especially Maude at Paper Doll on Division Street). We got a faun female last year and we've never looked back -- she's our baby.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:11 (5 years ago) Permalink

I like some pugs, but I was recently dating a girl with a pug and I HATED this f*cking stupid awful animal. I think it mainly had to do with the fact that she never punished it for bad behavior - but I immediately thought, this will never be the mother of my children (not that we were very serious or anything, but still). I knew another girl with a similarly haughty and ill-mannered pug.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:12 (5 years ago) Permalink

(god, did I really just post that?)

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:12 (5 years ago) Permalink

(most especially Maude at Paper Doll on Division Street).

This is one of our local pugs.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:13 (5 years ago) Permalink

Along with the pugs at Penelope's.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:14 (5 years ago) Permalink

What girl, kephm?

I think Puggles were bred to resolve the pug breathing problem, but are they cute enough?

x-post - Yeah, Maude closed the deal for me.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:14 (5 years ago) Permalink

I read an article recently that at a lot of people buy pugs because the breed is trendy and then end up giving the pugs up because the owners are not prepared to deal with the shedding and the high-strung personality. That's probably the type of people who like to carry their dog around in their purse.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:16 (5 years ago) Permalink

this "puggle" is an ABOMINATION!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:16 (5 years ago) Permalink

seriously, cooler than a pug:

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:17 (5 years ago) Permalink

Looks cute enough (the puggle).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:17 (5 years ago) Permalink

Hstencil otm.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:19 (5 years ago) Permalink

Pugs do shed a lot (pity you when you wear black in the presence of a faun one) and, uh, yes, they do have energy to spare, but I find them to be the friendliest, funniest breed of dog around. The few large-scale pug meetups I've been to have featured very few trendy types, too.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:20 (5 years ago) Permalink

xpost - finally! sheesh, blinded by the pug.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:20 (5 years ago) Permalink

Pugs seem like sweet dogs. I'm just partial to the Boston Terrier because my grandparents used to own one.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:21 (5 years ago) Permalink

I like dogs with short muzzles. The French Bulldog is another good one.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:21 (5 years ago) Permalink

Pugs do not breed well with other kinds of dogs.

And how are French bulldogs to own?

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:22 (5 years ago) Permalink

I don't know. But they look cool.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:22 (5 years ago) Permalink

I mean I love just about any kind of dog, but getting any specific kind of dog because they're "cool" is of course nonsense.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:23 (5 years ago) Permalink

Pugs do shed a lot (pity you when you wear black in the presence of a faun one) and, uh, yes, they do have energy to spare

Oh yeah, I hated the shedding. Pug hair was on every inch of her apartment, and she let it sleep in her bed (ARGH!). I took to only wearing certain clothes when I knew I would be over there.

Actually, in retrospect, I liked the dog and it could be very cute, but it was definitely the king of her apartment. I kinda feel sorry for them both.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:23 (5 years ago) Permalink

Wiener doggies are much more suited for the "hot dog" look.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:26 (5 years ago) Permalink

French bulldogs are my *favorite*.

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:26 (5 years ago) Permalink

They are adorable. I've been really wanting a dog lately, but it wouldn't be fair because I'm almost never home.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:28 (5 years ago) Permalink

WTF, it's like a little pixie-dog.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:29 (5 years ago) Permalink

they get bigger, at least some of them.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:30 (5 years ago) Permalink

Do all French bulldogs have those weird pink ears? I mean, I know the ears stick up like a rabbit's, but that color is freaky.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:31 (5 years ago) Permalink

I would get one if it dressed as a hot-dog. Baked Bean Teeth's pug is adorable.

― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 4 October 2004 21:02 (5 years ago) Permalink

Perhaps this points towards a disturbing trend in the cultishness of pug ownership (in Chicago at least--googling also turns up a Portland Pug Party):
Chicago Pug Party

From that website, the scariest pug in the world:

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 05:50 (5 years ago) Permalink

Leon, I too am desperate for a pooch but working full time makes the joy of dog ownership virtually impossible. It's not fair because the out of work drug addicts on my street keep dogs and are with them all day but barely feed them.

Something is wrong here.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 06:21 (5 years ago) Permalink

Are pugs the ones whose eyes fall out if you smack them in the back of the head?

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 06:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

PUGFAP.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 07:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

that last picture is truly terrifying!

― PinXorchiXoR (Pinkpanther), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 09:01 (5 years ago) Permalink

my ex has a pug. i didn't think i'd like it, since i generally don't love small dogs. but he's really quite sweet and cute. and his name is max. he's also the boss of their flat. maybe it's a characteristic of them. maybe only people that want to get bossed by their dogs get pugs.

i think the puggle is way cuter than normal pugs.

i fucking hate boston terriers.

― colette (a2lette), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 09:06 (5 years ago) Permalink

Max is the perfect name for a pug, though I really liked Louis, which was our neighbor's pug's name.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 12:33 (5 years ago) Permalink

Here is my Calvin, the best pug possible!

Seattle has a massive pug social scene. He'll be going to an all-pug halloween party, dressed as a PIMP. He's a really sweet, smart little guy, with much attitude.

People who don't like small dogs often like pugs - because they aren't *really* small dogs. They're just smallish mastiffs. :-)

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 14:16 (5 years ago) Permalink

Repost it Layna! Use "i" before the http://,,, addy.

Our neighbors used to go to Pug meet-ups all the time. Have you made friends at those or is it all about staring at cute dogs?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 14:19 (5 years ago) Permalink

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 14:22 (5 years ago) Permalink

We've made friends, AND stared at the cute dogs. :-) Note that Calvin gets more invitations than we do.

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 14:23 (5 years ago) Permalink

I LOVE YOU CALVIN

― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 14:40 (5 years ago) Permalink

Here is my Calvin, the best pug possible!

I'm at work, and I got this quizzical message when trying to view Calvin's photo:

Access Denied (content_filter_denied)

Your request was denied because of its content categorization: "Sex"

?????

p.s. the Pug Party is HUGE -- the last one I went to at "Joe's on Weed Street" had 500 dogs or something like that.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 15:30 (5 years ago) Permalink

BBT, I can assure you there's nothing sexual about the Calvin picture; although he does get up to some mischief in the dog park!

The annual Seattle Pug Gala had over a THOUSAND pugs this year. Surreal. :-)

― Layna Andersen (Layna Andersen), Tuesday, 5 October 2004 18:19 (5 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Portland Pugcrawl 2007

Legions were in attendance, incl. costume parade, pug kissing booth, etc.

― kingfish, Monday, 21 May 2007 20:14 (3 years ago) Permalink

CREEPY

― C0L1N B..., Monday, 21 May 2007 20:20 (3 years ago) Permalink

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― kingfish, Tuesday, 3 March 2009 16:22 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/13803131@N00/sets/72157619151125352/

― kingfish, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 19:36 (1 year ago) Permalink

Between these guys and the otter mama and baby from last night I am going to die. GAH!!

The people in the houses on either side of my current place have pugs - Baxter and Teddy. Teddy smells and Baxter's tongue sticks out 24/7 but I don't care I love them. There are also like 500 million other pugs in the hood. It's like someone is trying to torture me!

― Chaki Demus & Pliers (ENBB), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 19:45 (1 year ago) Permalink

maria bamford does a great impression of a pug here:

― brian krakow has a posse (bug), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 20:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

Damn! I always miss the Pug Crawl. Our puppy is a major pug enthusiast and would have had a great time checking them all out.

― Darin, Tuesday, 2 June 2009 22:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Maggie is a silly silly dog. Molly is like, "Wut now?"

― Fennec fox which does grooming (ENBB), Sunday, 21 June 2009 01:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

i luv pugs

― latebloomer, Sunday, 21 June 2009 02:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

They are nice, but they can't breathe right (like, audibly so) and are constantly all messed up with breathing / panting / temperature / water / exertion balances, and when you think about it they're just plain malformed and bizarre and have been made to have no faces, to the point where now they have to be crossbred with nosey dogs like beagles in order to restore the various important things that a face actually does for a dog, and ... also I find their tails sort of gross, though I don't know why, so ... I like a pug, don't get me wrong, they're very nice, but I find it hard to be all like pro-pug as a breed.

― nabisco, Monday, August 27, 2007 12:46 PM (1 year ago)

nabisco otm

this is mostly true of Bostons as well, except that they are more athletic and energetic and also more crazy

mostly true of French Bulldogs too, except that they are made of marshmallows and love

― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 21 June 2009 02:54 (1 year ago) Permalink

ENBB, those are some seriously awesome pugs.

― Darin, Sunday, 21 June 2009 06:18 (1 year ago) Permalink

old pugs have the best faces

― more tang than an astronaut (bug), Sunday, 21 June 2009 06:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

PUGS

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 21 June 2009 06:25 (1 year ago) Permalink

tbh, the only thing that can top your average run-of-the-mill pug in cuteness is otters, baby hippos and the top 25% of pekingeses

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 21 June 2009 06:27 (1 year ago) Permalink

M&M are awesome. Neither of them are actually very good looking pugs by breed standards but the fact that they're pretty ridiculous looking makes them 100% more awesome. Also, they're best friends which is one of the cutest things ever. Sadly they're my parents' and not mine.

ps - One is fighting with the laptop for space on my lap and the the other is laying on my feet as I type this.

― Fennec fox which does grooming (ENBB), Sunday, 21 June 2009 10:32 (1 year ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

― neden stacey (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 21:16 (1 year ago) Permalink

― StanM, Saturday, 1 August 2009 12:00 (1 year ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 17 August 2009 19:33 (1 year ago) Permalink

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 17 August 2009 19:34 (1 year ago) Permalink

if these have been here for close to an hour and erica hasn't gone mental over them then she is probably lying incapacitated somewhere and i should probably call emergency services

― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:28 (1 year ago) Permalink

FYI the number here is 911.

― The Lion's Mane Jellyfish, pictured here with its only natural predator (Laurel), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

huh, i thought that was information. no wonder they always sound so pissed at me.

― Roberto Spiralli, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink

I saw them. No need to call 911. I'm ok.

Tbh these guys are old news - have seen before.

(Still v v cute, of course - that little tongue!)

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:37 (1 year ago) Permalink

also the top one if pretty freaky looking tbh. I'm not sure that even I like him.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

he looks even more defective than pugs normally do

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:38 (1 year ago) Permalink

man i also used to hate on pugs but now i am all about them.

― nice! he have the balls to say the truth! (the table is the table), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:47 (1 year ago) Permalink

ptht.

― Moka Pwnly (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 16:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

from http://fuckyeahpugs.tumblr.com/

― Moka Pwnly (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 16:49 (1 year ago) Permalink

Oh no, now THIS will surely be the end of me.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

OMG NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:10 (1 year ago) Permalink

AHAHAHAHA this guy is like, "OK WTF is this ppl?? What are you doing to me?"

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:13 (1 year ago) Permalink

The pug loaf is almost as disturbing to me as the time a friend told me that a bunch of baby orangutans in a wheelbarrow in a pic I showed him were probably being hauled away to be turned into orangujam. ;_;

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:19 (1 year ago) Permalink

HAHAHAHAHA was just searching for pictures of pugs and orangutans together and found the wheelbarrow pic:

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

orang marmalade

― The Lion's Mane Jellyfish, pictured here with its only natural predator (Laurel), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:21 (1 year ago) Permalink

(;O;)

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink

― kingfish, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:29 (1 year ago) Permalink

Way way way upthread I was WRONG about that pug and the person - we never dated again, but she's a great pug-mom and her pug has mellowed with age.

― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:39 (1 year ago) Permalink

Henry met an 8 year old pug named walter at obedience class yesterday and they became fast friends - although there were a couple of weezing times where he kept giving me a look like "isnt anyone going to help this puppy he is choking!"

― please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:41 (1 year ago) Permalink

Aw at the wheezing. I would like to see Henry and Walter hang out.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:46 (1 year ago) Permalink

at one point he appeared to attempt the heimlich but in fact it was really just humping.

― please link to them and breathe into a paper bag (jjjusten), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 17:48 (1 year ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

Postmodernism, in pug form:

― kingfish, Saturday, 12 September 2009 16:01 (11 months ago) Permalink

At my favorite breakfast/coffee place just now one of the workers came in with one of her two pugs, a very energetic and goofy little guy.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 September 2009 16:03 (11 months ago) Permalink

― ENBB Otter's Pug Band Christmas (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 24 September 2009 06:23 (11 months ago) Permalink

lol oh no what are they doing to it?! hahaha.

― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Thursday, 24 September 2009 10:11 (11 months ago) Permalink

― Pancakes Batman (Pancakes Hackman), Thursday, 24 September 2009 12:21 (11 months ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

Police: Dogs Fed on Owner's Body
Pugs Left Alone without Food after Nebraska Man Killed Himself

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/16/ap/strange/main5988667.shtml

PAPILLION, Neb., Dec. 16, 2009

(AP) The Nebraska Humane Society is seeking a new home for two small dogs that police say fed on their owner's body after he killed himself.

Police in the Omaha suburb of Papillion found the pugs named Harry and Sally late last week. Lt. Chris Whitted said Wednesday an autopsy showed the man was dead for two weeks of a self-inflicted gunshot before his body was found.

Humane Society spokesman Mark Langan says he can't verify the dogs had fed on the body, but he says it would be normal behavior for dogs left without food or water for two weeks.

Langan says the dogs appear to be well-adjusted and in excellent shape. He says they're unlikely to suffer from long-term psychological effects because "they don't have memories like people."

― kingfish, Friday, 18 December 2009 19:00 (8 months ago) Permalink

That one on the right is thinking, 'I miss our human. He tasted good.'

― l'homme moderne: il forniquait et lisait des journaux (Michael White), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:09 (8 months ago) Permalink

Poor puggies.

I used to feel the same way, 'til I met my wife and she introduced me to a few pugs in person (most especially Maude at Paper Doll on Division Street).

^^^^^^THIS X A MILLION. Maude is one of the most endearing dogs I've ever met. If and when I get to the point where having an animal around seems like anything resembling a good idea, I can totally see getting a pug. I cared for the sweetest little pug puppy for a summer and got very attached, and then she was sadly hit by a car only a couple of months later. ;_;

― Zoo Snickers (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:26 (8 months ago) Permalink

BEWARE:

MAN EATING DOGS

― aarrissi-a-roni, Friday, 18 December 2009 19:28 (8 months ago) Permalink

What a dumbshit. If there's any proof that life is worth living, it's the continued existence of pugs!

― miccione youth (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 18 December 2009 19:41 (8 months ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

― Whiney G. Weingarten???? (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 19 January 2010 20:03 (7 months ago) Permalink

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