Post by Admin on Jun 19, 2007 13:28:02 GMT -5
Puggle History
Wallace Havens - Godfather of the Puggle
Wallace Havens holds up a puggle puppy as its mother watches. Havens is widely credited with naming and popularizing puggles, a pug/beagle hybrid. Photo by Craig Schreiner / Lee Newspapers
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Havens, a towering man of 70, has spent much of his career breeding cattle and owns a chain of Play Haven day-care centers. He is best known as the originator of the puggle, a pug-beagle cross with an irresistibly wrinkled muzzle, forlorn eyes and suitable dimensions for cramped city apartments. He first marketed puggles 20 years ago, but by late 2005, the dog suddenly had a cadre of celebrity owners, four-figure price tags and a brimming portfolio of magazine write-ups and morning-TV appearances. Puggle-emblazoned messenger bags and ladies’ track suits followed. For a time, in New York especially, you couldn’t swing a cat without hitting a puggle.
Havens’ creation has similarly been pirated. One of every four litters that the American Canine Hybrid Club now registers is a litter of puggles. There are 40 breeders registering at least one puggle litter with the organization every month. As ads for puggles have proliferated on the Internet, some people, Havens said — people who don’t know better — are now breeding pugs to any old foxhound and selling them as puggles, at puggle prices. Some are crossing puggles with puggles and passing off those disorderly second-generations as puggles. “It’s giving the puggle a bad name,” he said.
Read entire article: www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/magazine/04dogs.t.html?ex=1329454800&en=afbd882fd9c20509&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink
Several celebrities find them irresistible. Big-name Puggle owners include Uma Thurman, Penelope Cruz, Sylvester Stallone, Julianne Moore and James Gandolfini and Jake Gyllenhaal, the original celebrity Puggle owner.
Puggles make fantastic pets and companions, whether you want a buddy to go with you on hikes or walks in the park, or a tracking dog to go hunting with you, or a guard dog to let you know if there are strangers lurking about, or to snuggle on the couch with, the puggle is a spectacular animal!
UPDATE: Puppy Haven Kennel - Sold