UNCLE AL'S PUGS
As Uncle Al says over and over, "Aren't they just beautiful?!"
Uncle Al with his girls, plus misc pictures of family and friends with the Pugs coming soon to slide show at bottom of the page.
We help my Uncle so his dogs are also health tested. They have all had OFA eye exams done by an actual ophthalmologist, and its not required but most also have hearts checked by a cardiologist. Plus once they are 2 years old they will have OFA hip and patella examinations completed, which may have been done after I worked on this update.
My Uncle does not do anything on the computer so has left this up to me. He is best at sitting in the chair and holding the puppies and dogs, or supervising "recess" when the dogs play in the back yard together. 🙂
These are Uncle Al's AKC Pugs.
Parents are retired and available for adoption at 6 years old. They will be on the retired page when that happens. Sugar has been retired but she was his first love and he has kept her as a pet.
AKC. Uncle Al's Boris. Just a big puppy in the photos.
Bella had one litter with us as she was 5 when we adopted her and retired her at 6. We got her from the same family chub had come from. She is completely unrelated to the other Pugs.
Their dad is Cecile who we have since adopted out. This was the only litter we had with him as all our other girls were related to him. Whitey is their grandfather and Glitter their grandmother.
So he carries white color while adding a cute new bloodline. Photos at about 9 months old.
I think he is the best looking Pug we have, athletic, chunky but not round. 🙂
AKC Fortners White Wonton Nija, is our new white stud dog. He is just a doll. We got him at 4 years old, in October 2023, from a responsible breeder in KS. Lots of health testing has been done on him, and in his background.
Photos By Fortners. He is nervous, I need photos with his tail up as he has a great curled tail and his puppies are just adorable!
AKC Uncle Al's Zelda. She daughter of Daffodli and Whitey. A friend with her little girl was visiting. Kyra loves Pugs, and loves Zelda! She named her.
Ignore "Test" on the photos, I had help and they put "test " on every single picture on the website slide shows and it will take years for me to fix it.
She's a big puppy in the photos. 5 months old. She is 'training' Uncle Al well already 🙂
Zelda is going to be adopted to a forever home in late 2025, although uncle Al wants to keep her too. Uncle Al's health is declining (he is 78 in 2024. He had serious heart surgery in January 2024, which went well. He then got ill in June 2024, not better at the time of this update in late July.) We are going to try and rearrange all his stuff and make his bathroom walker/wheelchair accesable so he can be downstairs with his pugs. Currently he is upstairs and cant manage the stairs. He misses them and they miss him!
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*Retired, and in her new home. AKC Uncle Al's Hilde. She is a daughter of Tilly and Chub. Super cute!
Diva had not had puppies in almost 2 years so we kept a black girl to be sure we didn't lose the ability to get black puppies.
She is super smart! Has been know to dig to get under the fence and then runs all over giving Uncle Al a heart attack. Now that she is older she comes when called pretty good for him. I cant say Uncle Al is a very good trainer. All the pugs have him wrapped around their little paws!
*Retired, staying with Uncle Al. AKC Sally Can't Dance is a brindle. AKA 'Sally Doesn't Listen'
She is a younger sister to Debutante, and Diva, also a daughter of Sugar and Sonnyboy. She has been retired, but lives with Uncle Al permanently, like her mom Sugar.
She is a very happy agile girl. Uncle Al has been trying to get her to climb a small pool ladder. He's not a very good trainer, and the ladder is not an easy one for a dog, so she will probably never do it on cue. She can climb up a bit already anyway. She listens really well for the rest of us but she knows Uncle Al is just all talk and sometimes she would rather run around playing instead of doing what he tells her. She is a wild spoiled child, one of his favorites! She had her last litter 9/24/23, Uncle Al is keeping her as one of his forevers, which he wants to do with all the retired dogs but I put a limit on it..... Oprah is her daughter who we kept for breeding, and lives in a guardianship home. Plus Gabriella is her daughter and will eventually be a mom in 2023/2024. She is the most active Pug Uncle Al has! Like Sallie when she was young. Sallie is now very mellow.
AKC Uncle Al's Shep. Our new puppy, future stud dog. He is sable color, some call the color silver fawn, but its nothing like silver, which is a black dog with sliver sides. He is growing bigger then we expected. We may only breed him a couple times and retire him.
He is a doll, super sweet personality!
Shep has been adopted. He became much larger then anticipated, and With Uncle Al having had a second surgery we have to have less Pugs for him to worr about.
Shep has grown much larger then expected, for a stud dog. He has a really sweet personality!
Uncle Al's health is declining (he is 78 in 2024. He had serious heart surgery in January 2024, which went well. He then got ill in June 2024, not better at the time of this update in late July.)
We are going to try and rearrange all his stuff and make his bathroom walker/wheelchair accesable so he can be downstairs with his pugs. Currently he is upstairs and cant manage the stairs. He misses them and they miss him! He needs less dogs in general to worry about trying to help care for.
*Retired, was staying here with Uncle Al, but due to Uncle Al's health issues we got some help finding him a great new home. AKC "Ricky Bobby", AKA Tug, AKA Chub. He has the double curl tail, and a great head with "smushed" face. He is short and stocky, just adorable! He is also chubby!
Uncle Al got him when he was 6 years old because we have a couple of Whiteys daughters and needed a unrelated male. He is super sweet! Uncle Al likes to feed them when they look hungry. All our dogs are usually on full feed. (Means we keep food down at all times.) They are rarely overweight. Well Chub must have been on limited measured food as a puppy because he does the typical 'eats more then he needs' for any dog who had measured food as a puppy. They know they will be hungry so they learn to gulp food and to over-eat. Instead if people would allow food down at all times for puppies, they nibble only when hungry, and only what they need. Rarely are they overweight once they grow up with this system.
Anyway Tug i.e. Chub is the only Pug here who needs measured food. Chub is aging now and he can actually have food down 24/7 and eats what he needs.
*Retired, has gone to his new home. AKC Uncle Al's Sir William. He is a lovely brindle color.
He adores uncle Al, but was the most sh Pug we have ever had.
*Retired. AKC "Sir White Lighting", Whitey. He retired a long time ago, but he is on the pedigree of his daughters, or granddaughters, who are our current parents.
He has the double curl tail, and a great huge head with "smushed" face. Such a love bug.
He though, when we first got him as an adult was far from housebroken. He would mark; the girls, us if we hold still, and anything else. Needless to say he was on a leash when inside the house and watched closely.
He is crate trained and gets to run around loose in the yard to play and exercise when not crated, or if not there he is in the kennel yard to run around for more time outside. They had told us the dogs had a doggie door off their doggie room and would go outside to potty with no accidents. We do have lots of females in heat and it's very hard on stud dogs in this situation. We're hoping he gets the hang of it. He loves everyone he meets! No doubt he has classic sweet Pug personality and adorable looks!
Update: Whitey is now much better about waiting until outside to mark. He still will go right on the girls when outside, but even when our vet tech borrowed him she said he was actually very good in the house. Here he marks inside so he doesn't get to run free indoors.
Photo at 18 months. He is even more handsome and his head is even bigger now that he's mature.
*Both Retired. AKC Debutante, fawn, and Diva black, are Sugar and Sonnyboy's girls. They were born the same day as Uncle Al's 3rd grandson!
They have been retired and are living in forever adoptive new homes.
We couldn't decide which one to keep so ended up he kept them both. They are both lovely. Debby is a bit more vocal, loves to supervise and be the queen bee. Diva is a bit more cuddly, but also can talk to Uncle Al quite well too. I knew he would love having the dogs but I had no idea he would hold lively conversations with them!
*Retired. AKC Daffodil, AKA Dilly, was my Uncles fawn pup who was 6 months old in the group photos in the slide show and 23 months in the photos with a red collar. She has been retired and is living in her adoptive new home.
She was a wild child as a puppy! She loved to rough house with the other pups, kids, or anyone who will play with her. She had a lot of energy but isn't hyper. She will nap in her crate and is very well behaved.
Now that she's mature she's really mellow. She is much more snuggly and happy to cuddle now.
Dilly likes to hop up on anyones lap and play with whoever else is occupying the lap, as you can see from the photos. She is super cute! Uncle Al just raves how sweet they all are and constantly says how beautiful Dilly is.
*Both Retired. AKC Lilly and AKC Tilly full sisters. Glitter and Whitey are their parents. Tilly looks just like her mother Glitter, and Lilly looks just like her aunt, Sugar. They are both super sweet and were very bonded to each other.
Lilly has never had puppies. Tilly has had puppies twice as of this update. Lilly doesn't seem to mind at all when Tilly is occupied with her babies and she will play with the other dogs just fine. It seemed to actually help both of them learn to play better with the other dogs and not just each other, so now they are great apart.
Update; Lilly has been spayed and adopted to a great family. Uncle Al wanted to keep her, but when the family met Lilly and fell in love with her he was "ok" letting her go to be a spoiled baby with a family who dotes on her. Since then Tilly has been retired and went to an adoptive hime where they just adore her too. We kept 3 puppies of Tilly and Chub's. Hilde, Joanna and Ibid
History of how My Uncle AL started with Pugs.
My Uncle moved in with us a several years ago. He is retired, his last job was his all time favorite, a learning disabled teacher for over 15 years. He would avoid the mid-west cold by going to Louisiana for the worst part of the winter where he had raised his family.
He/we built a fenced yard outside his door. Our home has a walk-out basement which is set up as a complete separate apartment. I love it. Al has his own space and yet with basement stairs we can still be family. He takes the pugs out into his yard and sits with them as they play and have a chance to potty outside, "recess" as he calls it! They love to sit on his lap. He in turn talks to them all the time and they get tons of attention! He puts toy in his jacket pockets so they can "hunt for them". Sugar loves the kids and anyone who will pet her. Glitter was a bit shy at first and likes the kids attention only if they sit in Al's chair. Sugar is very white, Glitter is a white sliver. Dilly was 6 months old and is the fawn. She was a bundle of energy! They are all are super cute!
He dislikes my writing as it has so many grammar errors he can't read it. Some day he may tackle this page and correct it himself. Until then please forgive my scattered ramblings and poor grammar!
Uncle Al loves dogs and often has someone sitting in his lap when he is watching TV or playing on the computer. He had always had a dog as a best buddy and I thought he needed his own who would be more attached to him then us.
If you have read any on the Shar Pei page you would know we planned to get a male pug to breed to our Shar Pei.
We needed a quality AKC pug to breed our AKC Shar Pei for "Ori-Pei" puppies (what Shar Pei / Pug cross puppies are called). Personaly I think Shar-Pug or Pug -Pei makes more sense for a hybrid name.
Since we needed a male I searched and found a white AKC Pug male pup, we named "Cecil Turtle".
White is a rare color in Pugs, it has been DNA tested to be purebred Pug in AKC registered Pugs, and these are all AKC registered Pugs.
Art and Uncle Al drove a 17 hour trip to get Cecil Turtle, our future stud dog puppy. I stayed home with the pack since Art and I could never leave at the same time for a long trip back then.
I was excited to find a recessive colored Pug so when we have puppies we can still get the huge range of color the Shar Pei come in. Otherwise the pups would be fawn, or black.
Long story (trying to be) short: The family who had Cecil's father, plus 2- 18 month old Pugs, and a 6 month old Pug pup contacted us after we had adopted Cecil.
They had decided to sell their pugs in order to travel. They didnt know how to ensure they would go to a good home until they met Art and Uncle Al when they had picked up Cecil.
They offered the group to us and Uncle Al as a package. I felt it would give my Uncle some doggie friends of his own, and something to do besides watch TV! It is working out wonderfully for the dogs and Uncle AL. 🙂
