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The Complete Pug By Ellen S. Brown

This book and many others show undeniable proof that silvers,whites, and Brindles not only existed,but played an important role in the breed's history .

A Silver Grey Pug

The Brindle Pug

In 1730 Jean -Baptiste Ourdry (1686-1755),a french artist renowned for painting dogs,painted a picture titled Pug Dog.It was a painting of Louis XVs
favorite dogs and can be seen in the Lille Museum in France.Said to be one of the earliest pug paintings is "Old Virtue" by Leonard knyff (1650-1722)

The White Pug

George,Duke of York(later King George V and grandfather to Queen Elizabeth the II) with a (white pug )c 1890s

 
A painting from Kopenhagen in Rosenberg Castle. 
This white pug was owned by Queen Anne-Kathrine.

CDV by Lombardi of London showing a woman with a small Pug dog sitting at her feet, the pair are in a studio setting.

Taken directly from A Kennel Club Book
Titled "PUG" by Juliette Cunliffe

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"This Charming photograph from the 1930s shows a pug lover with an armful of Brindle and Black puppies"

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The Pug Comes West
"Since arriving to the West,the Pug has changed considerably in conformation.
The modern Pug is posing with a Victorian plaster model that may reveal some of the Continental crosses to Bulldogs."

Black Pugs today are considered acceptable and desirable.In times gone by,the black coat color was frowned upon.

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Black Pugs
In 1877 black was considered a "new " color in the breed.Again there there has always been a debate as to the actual origin of lady Brassey's black Pugs,but she certainly exhibited some black ones at Britain's Maidstone show in 1886.One of these was jack Spratt,who possibly may have been acquired by Lady brassey on her short trip to China.However,although black was then claimed as a new color,we know from the paintings of William Hogarth that blacks existed before then.Hogarth's House of cards ,painted in 1730,depicts a black pug.a hundred years later Queen Victoria owned a black pug that was marked with white (silver?) the latter though may have been brought into England perhaps as a gift to the queen from China.
It has been said that black pugs had been bred for many years earlier in England,but because they had been bred from apricot-fawns they were considered mutations and thus destroyed at birth.It is also possible,however,that such "blacks" were not true blacks(ebonies),but instead were smuts,so were not considered attractive.

This is just one of many antique european paintings from the 1800s that shows the true exsistense of the silver/grey pug.This painting is titled "Nest of Puppy Pugs."by Otto Eerelman

The picture is a Japanese Print dated 1795, sporting Lo-Sze type Pug dogs.

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The Pug Comes To America
Although we lack documentation on the arrival of the first Pugs to America,we do know that some dogs were in the country shortly after the Civil War.The breed gained attention because of it's uniqueness and, during the 1880s many pugs were shown.the breed gained recognition from American Kennel Club(AKC) in 1885 and was classified in the Toy Group,as it is in other countries around the world.
The breed fell into relative obscurity at the turn of the 20th century as other breeds gained favor,many of which were " exotic imports" at the time.Breeders on the east coast began stirring up interest in the pug again,and by 1931 a club was formed.Twenty years later the pug Dog of America(PDCA)the current parent club for the pug,was established as the breed's principal promoter and were prominent Pug people such as Dr.Nancy Riser,Filomena Doherty,Mrs. Joseph Rowe,Suzanne Bellinger,Dr.James Stubbs,Ralph Mary Lou Mann,Adair,Miriam Dock,Mr. and Mrs. John Madore,and J. Hartly.
By the 1940s,Pug breeders began producing consistent winners..Such kennels as Catawba,Winna Pugs,Paramount,Gin Ricky,Lucky Ace,lavone and others began to dominate the show scene in North America.The following decade,breeders such as Filomena Doherty,Frederic soderberg, Mrs. Edward Pickhardt,Gordon Winders and Rolla Blaylock producedtop winners,including an early Best in show winner,Ch.Pugholm Peter Punkin Eater .To add to the growing pug fraternity,Peter and Carolyn Standish,Ann Crowley,Shirley and Rayne Thomas,Esther and Gus Wolf,Hazel Martens,Barbara Minella and Agnes Miner represent just some of the important breeders responsible for the Pug's climb to fame in the US in the 1960s and 1970s.
Since those decades , the Pug has remained a popular breed, frequently seen in the show ring and counted among the top 20 breeds according to the AKC's registration statistics.Although the Pug is not as flashy and intense as other top contenders in the Toy group,including his relatives,the pekingese and Shih Tzu,the breed does well in conformation shows and has racked up an impressive number of Best in Show awards over the years. In 1981,the first pug ever to win the famous Westminster Kennel lCub Show was named Ch. Dhandys favorite Wood Chuck,owned bt Robert A.Hauslohner.To date "Chucky," as his friends call him,is the only pug to recieve this great honor. he was bred by Mrs. W. D. Hutchinson and was handled to win by Robert Barlow.

QUOTES FROM

THE NEW PUG by SHIRLEY THOMAS

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Shirrayne is also working on a project to produce a dominant line of correct legs and rears. This we all know might be impossible to achieve due to the fact that the Pug was cross-bred. There are so many hidden genes that trace all the way back to Pugs in China and England. We may never be able to eradicate them. Never forget that when you breed you can throw back twenty or thirty generations. This is because Pugs were cross-bred in china to the Lion Dog, Pekinese, and a few unknown breeds. Also, in England, they were cross-bred to the Bulldog and many other breeds. Inbreeding then took over for many generations. As a result of these many factors you can see what we are up against, but I am looking forward to this challenge.

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Breeding Black Pugs

     Never breed black pugs to fawns. Nothing is ever accomplished from these breedings. Crossing colors will not improve the pigment of a fawn, head or substance on black dogs or coat and color on either.

     The color genes behind fawn and black Pugs are Blue, black, liver, yellow, brown, white, silver fawn, tan, and apricot –fawn. Quite a combination, isn’t it? Everyone considering breeding Pugs should study the basic coat color genes in dogs to learn how indiscriminate breeding can destroy the color genes in Pugs. Improper breeding has just about wiped out our silvers: which color is next?

     It is not the intention of this book to go into an elaborate discussion of all these genes or all the symbols that will come into play. A couple of examples to illustrate my point are below. In Pugs the following genes are present;

                      As    B    C    D    Em    g    m    S    t

                        Ay    b    cch    Bb



Black Pugs are solid-colored dogs, but they are carry SS, which is the white gene. The B gene produces black coat color. Its alternative and recessive form b produces liver and brown. The silver-fawn, on the other hand, shows a dullness and paling of the nonblack and does not carry the black gene. They carry the Cch, which is of chinchilla animal’s pigment. The apricot-fawns are in the group ay and also carry the black gene Em, and they are fully pigmented by the C gene. Black pugs also carry the Bb gene, which is also a diluted black gene that produces blue. Fawn Pugs also carry the SS white gene.

      We know that there were chestnut and white, black and white, all white and blue Pugs imported into America from England and China. In 1905 interbreeding took place between fawn and black Pugs and whatever else the English threw in back then. The Chinese were known for the array of colors, and bred for the white markings on the pugs.

       If you breed your fawn to black you can luck out and have two clear black puppies, but what about the rest of the litter? Would you just sell them off to someone for a pet? Or – heaven forbid – use the dye bottle on the Pugs and then hide them after you are through showing them. Breeding them will certainly make things even worse. Over the last thirty years I have seen ZEBRA STRIPED puppies out of a fawn to black cross. While judging out West I excused a Pug for improper coat color. I did not know what color it was. It was half black and half fawn with a brown mask and ears and a white chest with white feet. Is this what we want our Pugs to look like?

        I have seen pugs that were black and white, all brown and even two blues out of black to black breeding. In England, from a fawn to fawn breeding black Pugs were produced. I have also heard of three different fawn to fawn breedings in the last five years that reproduced blacks. Over the years I have seen fawns with white legs and white blazes on their chest. I have seen fawns with black heads, legs and white around the anus. I have seen a totally white Pug out of two fawns.

       Is this why people are breeding blacks to fawns?

White pugs