Friday, September 17, 2004
Meet the family
Hi, and welcome to the Pug blog of Smeg and Diosa.
We are both IT professionals living a little north of Boston, right by the Atlantic. We are picking up our first pug tomorrow, and this blog is going to tell our story 
Brutus is a 1 and a half year old male fawn pug. His current owners don’t have the time to spend with him any more, and pugs need a lot of love and attention. With great reluctance he posted a message to a forum on http://www.pugs.com offering to give him up to a good home. His preference was for a home that already has pugs, but I figured nothing ventured nothing gained and dropped him an email.
Allow me to back track as to why we were looking on pugs.com in the first place
Several months ago we lived in Jamaica Plain, a town in Boston. We’d had a horrible day at work, we had worked long hours and the commute back home had taken over an hour. We needed beer. So off we went to the local liquer store to pick something up ... while I was picking some beer out, a guy carrying his pug wandered past. The little guy dived out of his dads arms and landed in Diosas, licking her face furiously.
That one puppy absolutely made our day. Stress vanished. The joy and laughter he brought from that stunt was amazing.
I think that got us hooked. Some how, without thinking about it, we ended up with a pug plushy toy and pug t shirts ... we started reading more about this little, so butt ugly they are cute dog. We couldn’t have one in our apartment at that point, but we wondered “what if” ...
Fast forward, we’ve moved out of Boston. Our apartment is large and our landlords huge dog lovers. We have a *home*, and not just a rented place to sleep.
We started pug hunting. We played with pugs we met in the streets. We fell even more in love with the breed.
Diosa has a long history of Rabbit rescue. She has fostered rabbits for many years, so the first place we looked was the local Pug rescue group, PRONE. We spoke to a nice lady there, told her what we were looking for and she seemed incredibly keen and eager to adpopt to us. We left her with references, and waited.
Nearly 4 weeks later, we’ve not heard anything. No calls have gone to our references. I fully understand that they are volunteer organisations, and I support everything they do, but 4 weeks without contact led us to keep looking.
And thats how we ended up with Brutus.
I feel for his current owner. It’s not easy giving up a dog you have so much love for. I hope he realises that Brutus will be getting a great home with us, and he will be welcome to keep in contact to check in on the little guy. It’s led us to starting this blog. I hope there will be many more posts to come!
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