We have been stuck looking after our neighbors pug for a week. While it is not the creatures name, I prefer to call it ‘Slimer’. I say ‘creature’ because I refuse to believe that it is derived from the animals known as ‘dogs’.
Frankly, a dog should look like a dog. It should look similar to its cousins in the wild (Coyote). If it does not then the term ‘dog’ is being used interchangeably with ‘mammal’.
Because a pug only resembles a proper dog by accident. It has a similar number of legs, a tail, and maybe a head although the only way to tell is based upon the location of the tail which I can only surmise is on the ass end of the thing. Remove the tail and you only have direct observation to rely on based upon where the food goes in or comes.
The creatures snores while awake. Flops on the cool marble after being outside for 5 minutes resulting in pulling it along the ground to the elevator. Snots all over the place. It doesn’t know how to pee like any other dog I’ve seen as it continuously bumps its head against the tree, being unable to turn sideways to lift its leg. Is dumb as a stump and reminds me of this creature more than any dog.Link To call that a dog is an insult to real dogs.
Apparently, I’m not the only one who thinks this way. Onion article
What is the purpose of this thing? It is neither cute, smart, or useful. It would eat your shoes before bringing them to you and would die immediately if you threw a ball for it to fetch. All it does is eat, shit and produce slime. Jezus! When the crap are the neighbors coming home?
One of my ex-housemates had a pug she named Romeo.
Right.
A biological machine designed for turning food into mucus and gas with accompanying sound effects, rooting around in my cats litter box and peeing on everything in the house.
I called him Pugsly.
Sure, some pugs are overbred, some very drooly and sneezy, and all tend to be sensitive to heat. They originated in cooler climates, as companion animals after all. My Sweet Pea, though not as bright as Lady the Wonder Border Collie, tain’t so much stupid as stubborn, pees just like any other female dog, and snores only when deep asleep.
She’s absolutely a joy-- cheerful, silly (and silly-looking, true) and loving. I can’t believe I wasted all those years not having a pug in my life.
I dunno what happened to the one you’re taking care of, but my two are nothing like you describe. My girly pug will happily play fetch all day if you want her to; the boy tends to chase her, not the ball, but it results in the same thing.
They both love to take walks, and routinely pester us to let them outside so they can run around in our very large front yard.
They sometimes snore, but not so much that we don’t sleep with them 3 or 4 nights a week. And Mr. Athena is a VERY light sleeper; any hint of snorage from the pugs (or me, for that matter) wakes him up.
They can pee just fine.
They’re small, they’re portable, they like to cuddle, and they’re cute as all hell. I"ll never not have a pug in my life.
Ny niece and nephew have a dog that’s a pug/shih-tzu mix. (a shihtzug?)
You know what makes a pug more attractive? Not any of the following:
[ul][li] Adding a neck between its head and shoulders[/li][li]covering it in medium-shaggy black fur[/li][li]giving it the ability to jump into your unsuspecting lap[/ul][/li]This dog-related object looks like someone took an Oscar the Grouch puppet, set it on fire, let it get good and charred, and then put it out by rolling it in the dirt. Its head resembles a grinning, oozing tennis ball. Upholstered in charred Grouch fur. And WHY won’t it take no for an answer when it wants to jump in my lap and smear me with ooze?
Its owners, of course, think it’s the cutest thing ever.
Weird looking I’m sure, and beauty is in the eye of the beholder of course, but from a health point of view it is probably in finer fettle than it would be were it a pedigree.
Given the alternatives I’m all for weird looking mongrels.
We have a 5 year old black pug. He can be a pain in the ass, and stupid, and gross… But he’s also incredibly sweet, absolutely wonderful with kids, and a good little watchdog (at least when the “threat” is outside… Though if a burgler got inside we have to hope that he’ll slobber the intruder to death.
The smartest dog I ever had was a pug. Now, to be sure, he was an anomaly - pugs are not really known for their intelligence. But Butch was a thing apart.
I think they’re adorable (the truly bulging eyed ones are not normal, nor accepted breed standard) and sweet. They have the personality of a big dog in an apartment dog sized body. They can be active companions if you keep 'em trim, but they’re just as happy to be couch potatoes if you are. They’re not yappy, they’re not nervous, they’re just awesome.
Plus, they look like little tiny dragons! How can you not love having your very own personal good luck dragon?!
I saw a guy riding a motorcycle the other day. There was a red plastic milk case on the back of the bike. In there sat a pug, wearing a little leather cap. Made me wonder about acid flashbacks, but my son saw it as well.
My wife was cleaning its face folds because it was snotting up our furniture. She found little tiny ants crawling around in there. I have no way to describe my feelings of revulsion on that.
Out little minpin has tried to eat the damned thing when it blunders near her, but she can’t penetrate the skin. It just keeps stumbling along oblivious to her snapping at it to keep away. It is tough for something that is the equivalent of a land piranha to admit defeat. She tries to ignore it now as much as possible.
When I was kid, we adopted a rescue pug, named him Archie (for Archie Bunker). Unfortunately did not last long because he got out and hit by a car.
Archie LOVED Tangerines. Absolutely went bonkers whenever we peeled a tangerine. He would be asleep in the bedroom and he would smell someone in the kitchen peeling a tangerine.
Oranges did nothing for him, only tangerines. I have never seen a dog react that passionately for a any type of food before.
