### Author:  [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-puppy/212802/1 "2003-11-12T13:36:33Z")
I have a pupppppy and yoooouuuuu don’t! Envy me!
She sits on my lap while I work on my computer. She cries like a baby when she wants attention. She’s the cutest thing that ever lived.
Don’t you agree with me, lil’ Edy? \
[Here](http://www.nemthanatos.com/pics/Edith_2.jpg) she is!
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-puppy/212802/2 "2003-11-12T13:44:32Z")
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, what a little cutie! My daughter wants a pug more than anything in the world. I informed her that when she has her own place and her own income, she can have any kind of puppy she wants. I don’t need a new baby doggie to torment my poor old baby doggie.
But I think pugs are such neat little dogs…
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### Author:  [@skeptic\_ev](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skeptic_ev)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-puppy/212802/3 "2003-11-12T13:47:54Z")
What a cutie! I am a bit envious, actually. Someday, when we get a fenced-in back yard, I’m going to get a beagle.
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### Author:  [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-puppy/212802/4 "2003-11-12T13:59:57Z")
We had considered a beagle as well. Our first choice was a pug - Mr. Athena has wanted a pug for years - but the lack of local breeders and the high cost of pug puppies had turned us off. Beagles, however, are ubiquitous around here. Either would make a good companion for our current dog, a 3 year old Shiba Inu.
I opened up Friday’s paper to see an ad for 2 female pug puppies at a reasonable price, 20 miles from us. We had her by Saturday noon.
She’s the most babylike puppy I’ve ever had, and I’ve had a few. She had three phases - “Hold me!”, “Let’s Play!”, and “Sleeeeeeeping.” So far, our other dog absolutely loves her. They’ve figured out how to play together even though she’s smaller than most of the older dog’s toys.
She doesn’t bark, she cries like a baby.
Awwwww, she’s sleeping now. Shhhhh!
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Blunty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Blunty)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-puppy/212802/5 "2003-11-12T14:11:22Z")
Soooo cute **Athena**! Give her a kiss and snuggle from me!
I want to get another furbaby myself, but I just started a new job and have absolutely no time to spend with a new puppy. Ironic, isn’t it? Before, I wanted another baby and didn’t have the money, and now, I have the money and no time!
If I win the Lotto, I swear I will buy a farm and own around ten dogs. 🙂 Enjoy the love your new baby brings!
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### Author:  [@Rue\_DeDay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rue_DeDay)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-puppy/212802/6 "2003-11-12T14:52:07Z")
A pug? I mean a _pug_? Sheesh, I thought you’d get a _good_ dog.
Ha! I kid. Puppy! Puppy puppy puppy!
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### Author:  [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-puppy/212802/7 "2003-11-12T15:52:54Z")
I wubs me some puggies. They’re so cute! And when they’re puppies, the adorable factor is off the scale!
Give Edy kisses from her Auntie Gazelle.
Can’t leave without plugging my own [short ‘n’ furry girl](http://www2e.biglobe.ne.jp/~y-kiku/inuternet/crease/ecrease.htm).
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### Author:  [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-puppy/212802/8 "2003-11-12T15:53:10Z")
Precious Angel!!! I think pugs are amazingly cute ugly dogs. If I was ever going to have a little dog, I’d have a pug. Or maybe an Italian Greyhound.
And you also have a Shiba Inu! Very cool! I had an Akita many years ago. She was A Good Dog.
I want a puppy, especially since my Sasha dog died. But we’ve got 3 other dogs and the dog family needs to attrit (is that a word?) down before we add another animal. ☹
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### Author:  [@Archergal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archergal)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-puppy/212802/9 "2003-11-12T16:13:27Z")
Precious Angel!!! I think pugs are amazingly cute ugly dogs. If I was ever going to have a little dog, I’d have a pug. Or maybe an Italian Greyhound.
And you also have a Shiba Inu! Very cool! I had an Akita many years ago. She was A Good Dog.
I want a puppy, especially since my Sasha dog died. But we’ve got 3 other dogs and the dog family needs to attrit (is that a word?) down before we add another animal. ☹
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### Author:  [@CanadianVampyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianVampyr)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-puppy/212802/10 "2003-11-12T16:19:57Z")
Awwwwww! She’s so cute! I’ve wanted a pug for years, but they have this silly rule about pets in dorm rooms. C’mon, I’d walk her! I promise I’ll take care of her! I even have a name picked out! (Sassquatch, Sassy for short, to go with my Uncle Joel’s pug, Monster) Can I have one pleeeeeeeese?
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### Author:  [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-puppy/212802/11 "2003-11-12T18:51:00Z")
Aw, Athena, she is just precious! Welcome to pug ownership. I think you will find it extremely rewarding. They are such sociable little guys…they love everyone. My own particular theory is that they have evolved that way because if they try to growl, their little wrinkles come up and cover their eyes. 😃 If I may extend a piece of advice from the voice of experience, don’t put a collar on her. Use a harness only. Pugs tend toward tracheal problems and collars make matters worse. My two pugs go bare-nekked while inside and the snore factor is greatly reduced.
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### Author:  [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-puppy/212802/12 "2003-11-12T18:59:38Z")
A puppy! I love puppies. I don’t ever want one, but I will happily fuss over yours!
Pugs are pretty cute. Awwww…
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### Author:  [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-puppy/212802/13 "2003-11-12T19:02:52Z")
Hehe, cute.
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### Author:  [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-puppy/212802/14 "2003-11-12T19:03:00Z")
::clicking on link and making cooing noises::
It ought to be illegal for puppies to be so cute. I know all about the snuffly, snertly noises. That’s pug talk and means “give us a kiss, mums!”
Another piece of pugly advice: They are total pigs and will eat everything and anything, so even if they make cow-eyes at you at the dinner table, you must be strong and keep the table treats to a minimum. Otherwise they balloon up into little curly-tailed zeppelins – not good.
Enjoy your new baby. You picked the best breed in the world. (Here come the flames!)
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### Author:  [@CaptBushido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptBushido)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-puppy/212802/15 "2003-11-12T19:10:25Z")
Personally, I don’t care for pugs, but you just can’t say no to a puppy, no matter what breed is.
I never considered myself an animal person until I realised that the one thing I miss more than anything else after moving out of the house for college, is not my parents, not the home-cooked meals, not the abundance of wide open space, but my dogs. Labradors, three of them, one a black-mix, one a brown-mix, and one a pure yellow Lab.
My tough guy facade crumbles at the mere mention of sweet, loveable, friendly dogs…
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### Author:  [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-puppy/212802/16 "2003-11-12T20:41:44Z")
Haha! Your puppy has a bung eye! 🙂
_Very_ cute pug. My teacher had two, some of the nices dogs I knew.
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### Author:  [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-puppy/212802/17 "2003-11-12T21:30:29Z")
::looking again::
She looks like she’s christening your spotless carpet in that photo.
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### Author:  [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-puppy/212802/18 "2003-11-13T00:33:12Z")
oh my.
I have wanted a pug for so long… I would hug him and squeeze him and call him Chester.
We have one dog and two cats right now. No time nor space for a puggy puppy. As soon as we get a house with a yard (or, god forbid, we lose our dear Hockey) I GET A DOG OF MY OWN.
My mother bought me a stuffed pug doll to help with the disappointment.
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### Author:  [@AntaresJB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AntaresJB)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-puppy/212802/19 "2003-11-13T01:32:35Z")
Ohhhhhh! Awwwwwww!! Wookit da widdle puppy face isn’t she just the mosht pweshus thing EVER!! Puppeee! She’s sooo kyooote! I just wants to shnuggle her to bitses and give her lots of kisses and stuff. She is so freaking Adorable!!
Can you tell small furry animals are my biggest weakness? 😃