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Hello! It's Alli here, with a cute fix. I got to spend some quality time with a puggle this weekend. Not this puggle, but another really cute one. Figured the best way to start a Monday morning is with a photo of an adorable dog.
[photo by the jyan]
Liz Spikol is senior contributing editor of Philadelphia Weekly. She writes the award-winning column The Trouble With Spikol, which began as a chronicle of her struggle with mental illness, and has since expanded into humorous musings on everything from graphic novels to how to use a mop. She also writes the paper's book review column, Lit Gloss. This blog -- named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 by PsychCentral -- is about mental illness policy, news, personal journeys and more.
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This description of a confused-by-genetics puggle was in a NY Times Magazine story about cross-breeding dogs. I find the last quote hilarious.
>>>While designer-dog sellers often claim to combine only the most functional and lovable qualities of each breed, here I was being told just the opposite: that mixing breeds would create an intractable slop house of each breed’s most problematic traits. “A pug has no doggie sense whatsoever,” said Jutta Beard, who had driven to Oconomowoc from Maryland in her motor home with one husband and 13 pugs. “You put this dog out on the next street over, and it will never find its way home. Now a beagle has wanderlust. It’s a little hound breed. It puts its nose to the ground and just goes. So now you’ve got a dog with wanderlust and no doggie sense.”
Many offered the same analysis. (One woman projected a “confused” puggle:
“He wants to run, but he doesn’t know why he wants to run, and he doesn’t know how to get home.”)<<<<
Poor little puggle.
Posted by: sc | July 23, 2007 11:41 AM
Pugs are adorable. If I had a house, instead of an apartment, I would have a pug.
Thank you for the cuteness Alli, on a very wet Monday!
Posted by: susan | July 23, 2007 01:25 PM