Watch who you callin’ Puggle!

[ornoth]

Is nothing sacred anymore?

Fifteen years ago, in northern Maine, a little kittycat was born. A certain little girl saw him and gave him the name “Pug”, which was later modified to “The Puggle”. He’s been my roommate now for eleven years.

Now, there have always been synonyms for “puggle”. Everyone knows that a baby echidna is called a puggle. And certain Brit quarrymen use a tool they call a puggle.

But this is too much. People who, having way too much time on their hands, make a habit of cross-breeding dogs have gone One Step Beyond. They caused beagles to have extramarital relations with pugs, and have dubbed the resulting offspring “puggles”, as you can see at the breed’s official homepage, puggle.org. They have apparently become all the rage in the doggy world. Me and my roommate… we find it repugnant.

As you and I know, there can be only one Puggle. The self-cleaning Eviscerator who also cleans bike chains, camps out in bass drums, and flosses before and after meals. An avowed misogynist who has earned the seasonal nickname Puggle Claws, whose only known weakness is strength-sapping sunbeams. He’s the One True Pug, who likes to “reach out, touch face”, and remember: it’s not sex unless Puggle is watching.

“You call that a Puggle? Naw, mate… That’s a Puggle!”

Comments

We have a puggle!

[lucyalyce.livejournal.com]

he's 2 and the best...quite a barker, but the best thing that ever happened to our family! I can't say enought about how much we love him! And he is great with our 5 year old!

Re: We have a puggle!

[ornoth.livejournal.com]

That’s cool. But he’s not the Puggle… My poor cat’s getting a complex!

Remind me… do I know you or are you one of the folks who ran into me randomly and added me? Not defensive, just axeing…

Re: We have a puggle!

[lucyalyce.livejournal.com]

Axe away! yes, I randomly stumbled across you one day. I can't remember how. Probably a search by interest. I do that sometimes.

Re: We have a puggle!

[ornoth.livejournal.com]

Okay. Nothing wrong with that. Just wanted to make sure the Alzheimers wasn't setting in oily...

[slinkr.livejournal.com]

Puggle could probably take down one of those dogs with one paw behind his back.

[lothie.livejournal.com]

Har har!

[cvirtue.livejournal.com]

I love the "flossing" picture!

Don't call me Flossie!

[ornoth.livejournal.com]

There's another one here (http://pics.livejournal.com/ornoth/pic/00031hsr) which shows that it's all him; no human intervention required...

[jtroutman.livejournal.com]

Hey, I was the midwife at Puggle's birth (which happened in at the house in Minot, as I recall, in Ailsa's old room). He is quite a cat, that is for sure. His mother cat, Marion, was also known in various households as "the sex cat", as she, too, loved to watch. Sadly, Marion disappeared about ~5 years ago.

[ornoth.livejournal.com]

Wow, that’s quite a history. I know he was presumably fathered by a stray in Talmar Wood, but I didn’t know he’d been to to cattery in West Minot.

I’ll have to do a Puggle status posting sometime soon, since he seems to be very popular with my readers!

[angelovernh.livejournal.com]

ROFLMAO! I had never heard of the dog mixed breed called a Puggle before. Thanks for sharing that.

Nawww, there can only be ONE PUGGLE, and he's got you. :)

How is he doing lately?

[ornoth.livejournal.com]

I’ll do a Puggle status post in a while, maybe after his next vet trip. The bottom line tho is that he&rsqou;s fine, but showing his age…

[angelovernh.livejournal.com]

The pic of him inside the drum is awesome!! :)

I posted George pix earlier today.