January 2011
6 posts
How I Became Pug Obsessed (4th installment)
I slowly came to realize that there was indeed a very large annual dog show in San Francisco, and that my dream of meeting Pug breeders and their champion Pugs was within my grasp. With my girlfriend in tow I began a two year journey of visiting the Golden Gate Kennel Association dog show at the Cow Palace. Anyone who had attended this festival of canine worship can attest to what an amazing...
How I Became Pug Obsessed (3rd installment)
I could have bought one out of the newspapers but in all my extensive research and reading about Pugs I agreed with the advice of the best breeders. They suggested that you never buy a puppy out of the paper, because it was highly likely they could be from puppy mills, with all the attendant horrors such as serious health and behavior problems. It was best to go to the local AKC dog shows and...
How I became Pug Obsessed 2nd installment
When I found out that Nick was a Pug, and that there were Pugs in the world, something came over me. A deep desire to know a Pug. Intimately. Really. Know a Pug. Not just visit with one. I became obsessed with the idea of having my own Pug. Suddenly I saw them everywhere. In stores, walking down streets. One day I was in a pet store buying cat food when a woman walked in with a Pug puppy. It was...
How I Became Pug Obsessed
It started almost fourteen years ago. My obsession with Pugs. I was walking in the beautiful hills of North Berkeley, strolling down a leafy green street, when a little black dog came out of its front yard and walked right up to me.
It was the strangest looking dog I had ever seen, and yet when I say strange I mean strangely beautiful. Strangely, compellingly, beautiful. It looked up at me with...
