After looking at this adorable photo online (not our pugs!), I was reminded of our own pugs, which we got 3 years ago this month. That will forever be, hands down, the best Christmas present ever. The kids say it every year since then---a splendid Christmas. And being that it was on the heels of the death of my close neighbor from ALS, it was doubly sweet. A darling gift of pugs.Anyway, after I saw the photo above, I got to looking at pugs online. My goodness. Breeders in our state are asking an average of $1,500.00/puppy. Can you imagine? Well, they're registered, etc., but still. Amazing. Ours came from a rescue situation and were, I think $60 a piece. And ours are pedigreed as well, but with the rescue, we don't have papers to prove that, but who cares, right? Bottom photo is of ours shortly after we'd gotten both (on different days), December 2007. And they were just 5-1/2 weeks old. Also, for anyone interested---it's Violet on the left, and Daisy on the right.
Must go hug my pugs now. Still the most wonderful of dogs---and while I'd never have picked this breed if I'd been picking being that I had no knowledge of pugs at all, the Lord always knows best. We'd asked Him for help in getting a puppy, and we got two. So cool.
(top photo courtesy of ihasahotdog.com)
