PUGS OF ANOTHER COLOUR

 

 

First off - let there be NO mistakes. Pugs come in 2 colours - FAWN and BLACK.

 

There are differing shades of FAWN - from a pale cream to a reddish tan.

Sometimes the Fawn will have very little black or black tipped guard hairs in their bodies and sometimes they will have a lot. If they have have a lot of black hairs in their bodies they look grayish in colour.

 

 

This is termed "Smutty" as the colour between the mask on the face and the body colour and the "Trace" or the black line down the top of the back is NOT clear and distinct as it should be.

This is a "Fault" in the show ring and "Reputable Breeders" do not breed for this. It is NOT "RARE" !!!!!!!!

It will not make the dog any less "perfect" as a companion, it just means that as a "Show Dog" it is undesirable.

Reputable breeders will sell these pups as companions and will NOT breed them or advertise them as RARE and ask more for them.

 

WHITE PUGS

Pugs DO carry a gene for white SPOTTING. This means that sometimes puppies can be born with a white spot on their chests or on their toes or even sometimes a white foot.

They DO NOT carry a gene for producing a totally white puppy. The ONLY way to get a dog that is totally white is to cross a white dog with a Pug. Probably a French Bulldog as they DO come in solid white and crosses of this breed closely resemble a Pug, especially if bred to another Pug that is a pale cream with little black pigment in the faces, ears and toenails. Unless, of course, the dog is an Albino, in which case it would have blue eyes.

People who are breeding these so-called White Pugs do NO health testing on their dogs.

White dogs have many problems with their hearing, White Shaker Dog Syndrome, skin problems along with other problems that can occur in the Pug and the breed they were originally crossed with, especially if it was a French Bulldog who have many skeletal problems that can occur in the Pug.

It is NOT a "RARE" colour. It is NOT an acceptable colour. It never has been a colour in the PUREBRED PUG.

 

BRINDLE

Pugs DO NOT and NEVER HAVE carried the gene to produce this colour.

The Dog Genome Project proved that the Pug is one of the oldest UNMIXED breed and the Pug has been known as a breed since approx. 700 BC.

In all the documentation and paintings available throughout history, there has NEVER been any showing or telling about a Brindle Pug.

The ONLY WAY to get this colour into the Pug was to cross another breed into the Pug.

This colour came into being around the early 1990's on the West Coast of the USA. It first appeared in a kennel that also bred French Bulldogs that just happen to be the exact same kind of Brindle that the litter of Pug pups turned out to be.

 

Now for a Genetics lesson.

 

Black is what is called a Dominant colour. Brindle is called a Dominant colour. Fawn is a Recessive colour.

What this means is that a Fawn bred to a Black will ONLY have Black pups. Because Brindle involves more alleles a Brindle bred to a Black will also have Black pups. Therefore a Brindle can "hide" under a Black to Brindle breeding UNTIL bred to a Fawn.

It is NOT a "RARE" Colour. It is NOT an acceptable colour. It has NEVER been a colour in the PUREBRED PUG.

 

But, you say, people say that their "Pugs" are AKC registered.

 

Yes, they probably are. The AKC relies on people filling out the Litter Registration Form and TELLING THE TRUTH on it.

 

People who are interested in making BIG MONEY from breeding and selling "RARE COLOURS" are NOT going to "Tell The Truth" on these forms any more than they are going to spend money health testing, showing their dogs to make sure that they conform to the standard and are of sufficient quality TO be bred or to give YOU a Health Guarantee that protects YOU as well as themselves. ( A 1 year genetic health guarantee is useless)

Instead, they deride the "Show Breeder" and claim that they are only interested in producing "healthy companions".

 

Well what on earth do they think that SHOW BREEDERS are interested in???

 

Do they seriously think that we KEEP all the puppies in each litter?

Most of the puppies produced by Show Breeders go into loving companion homes and our Pugs that we keep are OUR companions as well. We want our Pugs to live for many healthy years the same as YOU do. The way that WE Reputable Show Breeders do this is by heath testing and SHOWING our Pugs to make sure that we are breeding QUALITY Pugs both inside and outside.