The Pug puppy is a breed of toy dog that stand approximately eleven inches tall. Adult Pugs weighs between fourteen and eighteen pounds. The Pug's coat is fine, soft and short, and can be black, silver or apricot in color. The Pug's smiling, smashed in face is covered with a black mask that extends onto the Pug's back. The rear end of the Pug puppy is topped with a tail that curls across the dog's back.

At or around 400 BC it is believed that someone in Asia decided to see what would happen if they bred their shorthaired Pekinese dog to an undersized Bulldog. Eventually the result of that breed evolved into the small dog breed called the Pug. At some point Dutch explorers are believed to have taken the breed from its native Asia and introduced it to Europe.

Pugs can be apricot-fawn, silver or black. The Pug puppy's coat is short, fine and soft to the touch. Pug puppies have a black mask on their faces that cover their cheeks, muzzle and ears, before tracing down the Pug's back. The Pug's smashed in face and bulging eyes are very distinctive. The Pug's tail curls up and over its back. The breed became an international phenomenon when it appeared in the original Men In Black movie.

The Pug puppy has an endearing personality. Dog lovers would find it hard to find a happier breed of dog. The best thing about the pug is that it gets seems to get along with everybody and everything. It likes people, children, cats and other dogs. Dog lovers are surprised that a dog with such an amicable nature also makes an excellent watchdog. The reason the Pug puppy makes such a great watchdog is because it's alert. It's impossible for someone to approach the house without the Pug noticing.

Pug puppies are active but as long as they're routinely walked they do well in apartments. Pug puppies are an excellent choice for a dog owner who also doesn't want to spend a lot of time grooming. Occasionally running a brush over the Pug's short coat and routinely trimming the small dog's nails is all the grooming the average Pug puppy requires.

Bringing home a Pug puppy can be both an exciting and terrifying time, both for you and the new puppy. This is the first time your Pug puppy has been separated from its mother and littermates, adding the separation to the fact that the puppy is in a strange environment and it bound to be a stressful time for your new pup. Your state of mind might not be any better. You are responsible for a new life, one that isn't housebroken. The key to keeping the big day as stress free as possible is to be organized.

Making sure you have the right equipment before bringing your puppy home. You'll need a crate, food dishes, a dog collar, a leash, chew toys and puppy food. Make sure the crate is somewhere in your house that is quiet but not so quiet that the new Pug puppy will feel isolated.

In addition to being organized, try to remember that you are not only taking the Pug puppy to a completely new and strange environment you are also taking it away from it's mother and littermates. Be ready to comfort your puppy and make sure it feels safe and secure with the sudden changes in its world.

You might wonder why I'm bothering to write an article on finding a Pug puppy for sale. Everyone knows all you have to do is go to a pet store and buy a Pug puppy, along with your Pug puppy supplies, right? Wrong! Going to a pet store is the worst place you can go to find a decent Pug puppy for sale. This is because their puppies are from puppy mills, which are horrendous places full of suffering.

If you really want a Pug puppy, and want that puppy to be a good companion for you during the fifteen or so years of a Pug's life, then you need to use other ways of going on a Pug hunt.

All pet stores get every single one of their Pug puppies for sale from puppy mills. Even if they buy from a puppy broker, the puppy broker still gets his or her puppies from inhumane puppy mills.

If you do not know how to tell a healthy Pug puppy from a sickly Pug puppy, then you will not be able to pick a puppy well. Also, you often don't get any training support from one of these breeders.

You can also look online for Pug puppies for sale. There are many legitimate breeders who care about the dogs they bring into the world who have web sites. There are also scams and puppy mills pretending to be breeders. A real Pug breeder will have a lot of free Pug information on their sites, will never ship their puppies, and only have a few Pug puppies for sale throughout the year.

You can also go online to find local Pug breeders in your area. Avoid any site that sells puppies all year round or offers to ship a young Pug puppy for sale anywhere in the country. They usually are fronts for puppy mills. However, there are many good breeders who also have websites. You can contact the AKC for information on any Pug breeders in your area.

Although technically not for sale, older Pug puppies can be found sometimes at animal shelters and Pug breed rescue groups. You still have to pay adoption fees of a few hundred dollars, but that is still cheaper than from a pet store.

A Pug rescue group will have you fill out an application, meet certain requirements and then wait. Older Pugs have the advantage of being trained, neutered and full grown, so please consider adopting an older Pug rather than a Pug puppy for sale.

For such a small dog, the Pug has a very large history. They have gone through many changes over the centuries, but one fact has always been the same - they love being with people. Many famous people owned Pugs throughout history, which helped to spread their popularity among the fashionable of the world. Looking at their history shows us a glimpse of what living with a Pug is like.

The origins of the Pug are shrouded in mystery and controversy. Some say there is written proof that they existed in 400 BCE, but some insist that there was proof they existed as far back as 700 BCE. It is generally believed that Pugs were originally from Asia, most likely China. This is logical, since all other breeds of snubbed-faced dogs originated in China, in particular, the Pekingese. There is some thought that the snub-nosed dogs mentioned in Chinese writings around 700 BCE were actually Pekingese and not Pugs.

The Pug as we recognize it did not exist until the 1800's. The Pug went through a long series of changes in body shape, body size and color that (for unknown reasons) some were encouraged while others were not. Some writings from Dutch traders in China indicated that there were longhaired and shorthaired Pugs, and that most of them were golden in color all over.

If Hogarth's representations of his Pug were accurate, then Pugs in his day (1697 - 1764) were probably barely recognizable as Pugs. They had longer legs, a slimmer body and a longer nose. They were bred in a variety of colors like fawn, black and silver. There were a limited number of Pugs brought to Holland, and then they spread out to other countries. It is commonly thought that Pugs were bred to small Bulldogs or an extinct small Mastiff in order to continue the breed.

Over the centuries, the Pug came in many different colors. They came in all golden-tan, brindle and bicolor (splotches or brown or black on a white coat). For some reason, the shorthaired Pug was much preferred to the longhair variety, which has been bred out.

The Pug as we know it didn't come into being until the formation of a breed standard in the 1800's. Although Pugs had been longhaired, they now had to come in short haired coats in order to be shown. Pugs used to come in many different colors, but for some reason only three official colors are allowed in both the show rings of Europe and America.

Pugs are now entirely dependent on people for survival. Because of their flat, wrinkly faces, they cannot clean themselves properly. They cannot live for very long out of doors. One of the reasons Pugs have become more popular in the last twenty years is seen to the Pug who plays an alien on Earth in the hit movie "Men In Black".

The AKC, incidentally, was founded in 1884. Pugs have been consistently one of the top twenty most registered dog breeds in America for decades. Their plan to take over the world is nearly complete.

When you begin to look for Pug puppies for sale, you may start out hopeful but may end a little less then that because there are just so many different ways to shop for that perfect pup and it can all become extremely confusing. There are pros and cons to all of the different ways that we can shop for Pug puppies so it can be confusing to try and figure out which way is the best way.

It is extremely exciting and when you begin to think about shopping for Pug puppies, you can sometimes forget about the importance of certain issues because of the excitement and the love that you already have in your heart for the puppy who has not yet even made it into your arms. But you must remain calm and open-minded so that you can think with a clear head in order to make sure you do not make any mistakes. You want to make sure that you have gone over all the different places that you can find puppies for sale.

Back in the day, the only way to shop for Pug puppies for sale was by visiting your local pet shop and whether or not they would have any Pug puppies available was sort of like a coin toss. But today with our impatience and the world of technology, it is no wonder we have found new ways to do things such as puppy shopping. There are two main ways, above pet store shopping, that are used in finding pugs and those are the Internet and the local newspapers or flyers.

When searching the newspaper, you may be surprised at how many or how few ads there are for Pug puppies. This will all be dependant upon how large your town and the surrounding areas are, along with how many people in your area are actually breeding Pug puppies. The best thing about finding Pug puppies for sale this way is that you can go and see them in person, which is the best thing ever. But, if there are not a lot of ads that pop up, then you could be waiting a while.

Now whether you have been trying to find Pug puppies for sale through the local newspaper and it just is not working out for you or you have not even attempted it because of the time it would take, there is another option for you in finding Pug puppies.

The Internet has become a valuable tool in finding a lot of things such as cars, household items and even Pug puppies. But as with the newspaper route, there are good things and bad things about looking on the Internet.

With shopping for Pug puppies on the Internet you will have a much wider selection of puppies to pick from and you can generally have one in your arms pretty soon. The problems with going this way is that you do not have the can not see and play with the pup in person before buying and for some people, this is a deal breaker.

Also, there is going to be a pretty big shipping fee that you will be required to pay so as long as you understand all of that, you are pretty well off.