10 things you should know about puggles...

1. Puggles are ALWAYS hungry - as in will go to serious lengths to obtain food if they think there is even the smallest chance that it could be in their bellies.

  

2. Puggles are half-monkey. The puggle, whose legs are only about 8 inches tall, and whose bellies are at least 2x that in circumference, can easily defy gravity. Jump from the floor to the dining room in table in one nimble hop? No Problem-o! From the counter to the top of the refrigerator? Easy Squeezy!

 {exhibit a}

3. Puggles LOVE to sleep. In fact, not much wakes them up, especially not their parents trying to move them off of pillow at 3am. Nope, out like a light.

4. Despite puggle trait #3, puggles can hear a refrigerator opening from anywhere, even if they are in the deepest of slumbers, in the backyard mid-pee or passionately trying to find a place to hide their bones {so the humans don't steal them!}. And they will literally stop EVERYTHING to go find out what exactly the human is doing in the fridge (refer to puggle trait numero uno).

5. Puggles are masters in the art of selective hearing. Unless there is food involved, you can bet your ass that Cooper will not sit, stay, lay down or stop howling. In fact, most times, he pretends to not even know his own name when you're calling for him. And if you yell a command from somewhere not directly in his line of sight, he will even go so far as to come up to you to see if you have food or not before he chooses to obey or ignore your command.

6. Puggles are scared {terrified in fact} of random inanimate objects. It’s really quite a spectacle when in the middle of a jog, the hair on the back of your puggle's neck stands up, he starts growling, then howling, then attempting to run in the opposite direction to avoid said object. This can be a trash bin, grill, neighbor's kid's tricycle, anything that he's seen 100 times before but this time decides is definitely evil.

7. Puggles hate photo shoots. Really, in all pictures of the puggle his face clearly says "I hate my humans. Please save me from this ridiculous form of torture from the flashy, click-y thing before I lose it"

8. Puggles LOVE anything furry & fuzzy. Don't wear fleece to my house unless you plan on being seduced by my dog. He will literally make eyes at you, prance back and forth in front of you so you can see the puggle goods, snuggle up real close to you on the couch and then, when you least expect it, grab your fleece covered limb with his puggle hands and begin unapologetically humping the daylights out of you. Not even grandmas are safe.

9. Puggles are very good at training their owners. Cooper has figured out where meals & treats come from, and when he gets them. So now, anytime the puggle decides it's meal time, he sits by the pantry (where his bag of food lives) and barks. Anytime he decides he wants a treat, he puts himself in his crate and howls. How did this happen?!?

10. Puggles are the sweetest, cuddliest, most adventurous and loveable dogs on the planet! Even those who "aren't really a dog person" have admitted to missing Cooper when they left. (Unless they were wearing fleece, in which case they should have read this post before coming over).