My Hairitage

Hello friends!

Many of you may not know something about me. I am a multiracial pug. No, I am not a mutt or a mixed breed, but my hairitage (or is it heritage?) is very rich. You see, I am a chinese-peruvian-cuban-american pug. That's why I can bark and understand spanish and english!

So before you start guessing, here goes the story:

I am a pug, and pugs originated in China, but I was born in the U.S.

My mom was born and lived most of her life (27 years) in Perú.

Dad was born in the U.S. but his parents were both born in Cuba.

So today, 188 years ago, it was the independence of Perú. It is a big country, not as big as this one though. But it looks big in this map.

Mom was born in Lima, grandma was born in Moquegua and grandpa was born in a little province in Lima, up in the mountains. Doesn't mom look like an andean girl?

Yesterday mom brought a "Paneton" home to celebrate the tradition. It smells yummilicious but she said that I can't have any. Well mom, since I can't have any, let me tell you that Panettone's are originally from Italy. How come you say that's a tradition to eat on Perú's Independence Day? (And on Christmas, also).

Lessons In Pug-ometry

Good morning students,
Today we will learn important facts about the most adorable creatures living on earth: Us.

Pugs originated in China.

Then spread all over the world.

There are many colors of pugs. I am fawn, Rosie is apricot and Roxy is black, just to name a few examples. Do you know of any silver pugs? I don't.

We have a flat face and because of that we have to live in the comfort of a big tiled home with air conditioning and a fridge full of cold goodies.

We have face wrinkles that serve not only the purpose of having our humans clean them out every day but also gives us our special cute look.

And if somebody have a doubt about our intelligence, they should know that our wrinkles have important meanings in chinese. Therefore pugs are bilingual, or even trilingual - in fact, I am.

Pugs have pink long tongues that are useful when we need to make our begging face.

Pugs have curly tails. The curlier the better. Humans laugh at the sight of us and the tail provokes them an immediate impulse to give butt scratches and massages to us.

Some pugs have bulging eyes. Some doesn't have bulging eyes. Some doesn't have eyes. No problem, as long as we can make a puppy face using other methods (i.e. tongue, wrinkles), we survive.

Pugs need little grooming - unless your human is extremely allergic and needs to spend a lot of money trying to find an inexisting method to get rid of all the fur we shed - and we need a bath every 6 months, or once a year better.

I'd rather skip the health chapter. We are cute, intelligent and funny. That's all that matters.

Now students, are there any questions?