When Bob the Wonder Pug was put out by his owners at dinnertime, he nearly became dinner for a wolf waiting in his Prince Rupert yard.
Seconds after owner Courtney Scott put her "furry son" out the door, her neighbours Norm and Colleen Hebert saw a large grey wolf carrying the pug into the front yard, settling in to kill it.
"Norm grabbed his hockey stick and ran through the screen door — he forgot to open the screen — he was swinging at the wolf and hit the wolf with the hockey stick, but he wouldn't drop the dog," Scott told The Vancouver Sun. "[The wolf] took off down the embankment between our houses and it's steep."
Norm came straight over to Scott's home shouting that Bob had been taken by the wolf.
"This is just 20 seconds after I put the dog out," said Scott.
Scott, who had given birth to her newest son Marcus just six days earlier, ran to the top of the embankment and could see the wolf gnawing on Bob. "He was trying to kill it again, trying to break his neck."
Posted by PugNews on Fri Apr 02, 2010 11:15 pm (679 reads)
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A house fire Thursday on Pimlico Parkway in Lexington KY killed Lillian Lewis, 62.
Lewis was found in the den, according to the Fayette County coroner's office. She was last seen sitting on a recliner in that room, which is where the fire started.
Lewis lived in the home with her husband, who was not home when the fire started and was not injured, Lexington Division of Fire battalion chief Marshall Griggs said.
Capt. Mike Henderson and firefighter Chris Spears treated a dog suffering from smoke inhalation at the scene of a house fire on Pimlico Parkway in Lexington. The fire department carries a special animal rescue kit. A coroner also was called to the scene Thursday morning.
Lewis was a known smoker, and oxygen tanks were in use inside the house, according to a report by the coroner's office. The fire's cause was still under investigation Thursday evening.
Firefighters were able to revive a pug dog named Noah that had suffered smoke inhalation in the home and stopped breathing, Griggs said. Paramedics used a pet respirator donated by the Lexington Kennel Club (shown in photo as Noah is worked on at the scene).
The dog was given to Lexington Animal Control and is being rehabilitated by the Humane Society's Second Chances program. Madison Carey, director for the Humane Society, said the dog, whose name is Noah, would be returned to the family Friday.
The fire was spotted at about 9:45 a.m. by a sheriff's deputy who saw smoke while driving by. Sgt. Robert Stephens and off-duty firefighter Ken Ridge, who was remodeling a friend's house across the street, forced open the house's front door before fire trucks arrived, Ridge said.
Ridge said flames were visible out a front window, and heavy black smoke filled the home's interior from ceiling to floor. "No entry was possible without protective gear," he said.
When firefighters arrived about four minutes after the fire was reported, they entered the house and found Lewis, Fire Chief Bob Hendricks said.
The fire was confined to one room, Griggs said. He said fighting the fire was "tricky" because of medical oxygen tanks in the home.
Smoke detectors were being used in the home, but Griggs said investigators could not determine if they had been working because of fire damage.
Police detectives and Fayette County coroner officials stayed on the scene after the fire was extinguished, which is common after a fatal fire, Hendricks said.
"Any time we have a fire victim, we just want to be sure that all evidence is preserved in the best manner possible," Hendricks said. Police will aid in the investigation, he said.
Posted by PugNews on Wed Mar 17, 2010 4:39 am (582 reads)
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With a small sweater wrapped around his neck, Bandit the pug breathes heavily while he sleeps in the corner of a small couch.
The pug and his family have had a very trying week.
Bandit belongs to Tabitha and Vance Russell. The Niles couple, their daughter Precious, 9, and friends Kasey Neidlinger and John Matarazzo were awakened Christmas morning by the dog’s incessant barking – something he only does when someone is outside, Vance said.
When he went out into the living room and kitchen area of the home to find out what had caught Bandit’s attention, Russell said he saw flames outside the window.
“I heard something hit the house,” he said, banging his fist against a coffee table to illustrate.
Immediately Vance called out to his family, Matarazzo and Neidlinger who have been living with them for some time and told them to get out of the house.
“I said, ‘What? A fire?’” Tabitha recalled.
“We got up and went out the front door,” Neidlinger said. “And there was fire outside the front door.”
The family had to escape the house through the back door.
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SANTA ANA, CA – Pearl the pug rolled and wiggled on the summer grass, her tongue hanging from her mouth like a giant wad of stretched-out bubble gum. Her owner, Richard Rodriguez, patted her stomach and cooed, "Buddha belly, Buddha belly," just like he used to.
He has no idea where Pearl has been for the past four years. All he knows is that she vanished from his yard about a month after he brought her home, in 2005. And that the phone call he received this week from a Riverside animal shelter was so surprising he couldn't even make sense of it at first.
"We found your pug."
Rodriguez, 56, is a long-haul driver for UPS who's been known to rescue stray kittens from the road and bring them home. But he has a soft spot for little dogs with flat faces: "A lot of people find them ugly," he says, "but they've got that kind of ugly-cute."
Posted by PugNews on Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:21 am (1692 reads)
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A formerly-engaged couple has spent $20,000 each in their custody battle over a pug dog. The court case may change N.J. law. This separation is no longer about homes, cars or cash. Instead, Eric Dare and Doreen Houseman want a judge to decide who gets Dexter, the beloved pug.
Doreen Houseman and Eric Dare raised their dog Dexter together. Breaking off their engagement three years ago and going their separate ways, Dexter remains in a tug-of-war resembling a child custody battle.
The two sides returned Wednesday for a trial before Superior Court Judge John Tomasello, who has determined that the pet is joint property and a suitable arrangement must now be determined. The judge has yet to make a decision on the matter. Various reports state that Houseman and Dare have collectively spent $40,000 in legal fees for a dog that cost $1,500.
Dare and Houseman, who spent 13 years together but never married, split up in 2006.
In the beginning, Houseman had sole custody of the pooch. After a few months, however, the two decided to share their time with Dexter. But when Houseman began dating one of Dare’s friends in February 2007, Dare, who purchased the dog with his own money, decided in March 2007 to end that agreement and has since had total custody of the pet.
Posted by PugNews on Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:30 pm (1591 reads)
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PLYMOUTH — A dog, possibly looking to avoid surgery, is being blamed for crashing a pickup truck through the wall of a veterinary clinic.
Kay Emond, who works at the Plymouth Veterinary Clinic, said the waiting room was empty about 7:40 a.m. Friday, when she heard a loud noise and looked up.
"I just saw this truck coming through the wall," Emond said.
Plymouth police officer Trent Shively said he arrived to find the 2004 four-door Ford F-150 completely inside the building’s waiting room, with the truck’s front bumper stopping against the clinic’s front desk.
"They’re lucky that nobody was in the waiting room," Shively said. "But they said somebody had been sitting there just 30 seconds earlier."
The truck’s owner, Kay Mutti, of Bremen, told police that she had pulled into a parking space when her dog, a pug, jumped off the seat and onto the gas pedal. Shively said Mutti was unable to step on the brake because the pug was in her way.
Posted by PugNews on Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:05 pm (2060 reads)
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Alex Cohen has a mission. The 11-year-old was troubled when he found out that people are giving up their dogs and other pets because of financial challenges. He says he cried the first time he visited the pound at 5 years old. And he has decided that he wants to do whatever he can to help animals stay in their homes and to make those that lose their homes and families more comfortable in shelters and rescues.
So for his 5th grade community service project, he is gathering supplies to help these animals.
Alex has been able to collect food, blankets and rugs, and other items, and his mom is helping out by making chew toys while his dad is gathering doghouse-building supplies. They have already donated items to Casa de Los Gatos and Cold Wet Noses. The family volunteers with Cold Wet Noses, helping to walk the rescued dogs. They are also planning a donation to Paws For The Cause, who will give some of the supplies to an Arizona Lethal White Aussies (Australian Shepherds) rescue.
Posted by PugNews on Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:26 pm (1906 reads)
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Flutist and Pug Team Up for Holiday CD
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Article by Brenda Ridge, Charleston Post & Courier
Winston the pug took a different path from the rest of his family.
While they were show dogs — his grandfather was once even "Best in Breed" at the Westminster Dog Show — Winston had different aspirations. He also has a white paw that kept him from being a show dog.
"When I purchased Winston, his breeder actually gave me a $100 discount because Winston was very vocal and she was afraid that I might bring him back," says his owner, Regina Helcher Yost of Mount Pleasant. "She told me, 'Winston really lets you know what he wants.' "
Now almost 5, Winston has just become a recording artist.
Winston and Yost, a flutist with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, have released a CD of Christmas music, "Winston's Wonderland."
"I have wanted to make a Christmas flute CD for many years," Yost says. "I decided that since Winston was so vocal, why not make a CD with him? It sounds like a weird idea, but people seem to really like it."
The recording took four years, as Yost captured Winston making sounds and later set them to her music.
Posted by PugNews on Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:22 pm (2386 reads)
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Holiday guests headed your way? Here are a dozen of Trey Russell's strategies for imparting a pared-down, decidedly unfussy sense of sophistication:
1. Mini-gallery
To showcase his collection of black-and-white photographs in the apartment's hallway, Russell not only added four 3-foot-long picture rails from Pottery Barn but also stood photographs on the floor, leaned against the wall. "It's like a mini-gallery," he says. "I can move pictures around easily without wrecking the walls."
2. Art books, sans jackets
To create a focal point for the living room, Russell placed three bays of espresso-hued West Elm bookcases together to appear as one large piece. He decorated the shelves with low stacks of color-coordinated art and lifestyle books -- without jackets -- and a few beautiful objects. "Book jackets just get torn, anyway, you might as well get rid of them," he says. "It creates a more monochromatic, less chaotic look."
Posted by PugNews on Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:21 pm (2495 reads)
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Pug The New Face For ALPO!
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ST. LOUIS, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/
Every dog has his day. And for Ike, a four-year-old, 18-pound pug who lives in Barrington Hills, Illinois, that day is putting him in the national spotlight. Ike is the grand prize winner of the ALPO(R) Real Meat Moments video contest and will serve as the new face of the iconic dog food brand, appearing on millions of cans of ALPO and in national print advertising.
Hundreds of owners entered their dogs in the national video contest and Ike licked his competition by demonstrating how excited he gets when his meaty meal is served. Celebrity judge Joy Behar, dog lover and co-host of The View, crowned Ike the biggest Meat Maniac in America based on his star potential, as well as his video's originality and appropriateness to the contest theme.
"As the owner of two dogs who go bonkers at mealtime, I know a meat maniac when I see one," said Behar. "I am delighted to award Ike with this honor. His frenzied feeding moment made me laugh out loud and any dog who does a headstand in his bowl because he is so excited for his meaty meal deserves to be named the new face of ALPO."
"My husband, son and I are just so excited - we are still in shock," said Mary Beth Holsteen, Ike's owner. "Ever since Ike was a puppy, he has been entertaining us with his dizzying dinnertime antics. Mealtime is truly the highlight of Ike's day!"
To view Ike's winning video submission, as well as the runners-up entries, go to alporealmeatmoments.com
Posted by PugNews on Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:29 pm (2942 reads)
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SANTA ANA, CA – Pearl the pug rolled and wiggled on the summer grass, her tongue hanging from her mouth like a giant wad of stretched-out bubble gum. Her owner, Richard Rodriguez, patted her stomach and cooed, "Buddha belly, Buddha belly," just like he used to.
Alex Cohen has a mission. The 11-year-old was troubled when he found out that people are giving up their dogs and other pets because of financial challenges. He says he cried the first time he visited the pound at 5 years old. And he has decided that he wants to do whatever he can to help animals stay in their homes and to make those that lose their homes and families more comfortable in shelters and rescues.
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