He snores, sheds, takes up most of the bed, and I love him to death!

This is Herbie "The Love Pug" a 5 year old black pug. Having a pug is not for the faint of heart. They are obstinate, shed enough that we could make another pug daily, snore, and must always be on top of you, not just by you, but actually on you!

Don't let that cute face fool you! He has the personality of a thug. "Bring it on!" is his motto and he does. Oh, he is all wind and no substance, but that doesn't stop him. He takes his thug job very seriously. The only reason we have not been attacked by a garbage can, is because he was on the job. Leaves, branches, stray garbage blowing in the wind, have not wrecked havoc on his family, because he stood his ground and said "Not on my watch!" He believes delivery men were sent here just to torment him. Garbage men are truly the work of the devil. Small children laughing down at the park, exist only to annoy his sleep.

But every time we return to the home, he welcomes us as if we have been gone for years. 8 seconds to go and check the mail, requires 10 minutes of a leaping, wiggling pug. Closing the door to take a shower, requires 15 minutes of exclaiming "That we did indeed miss him and thought him gone for ever, and it was our lucky day that we found each other in the hallway!"

So we put up with disemboweled stuffed toys, looking like a yeti in our day to day activities, the fact that he has the ability to bark for 20 minutes at the UPS man who has been gone for 18 of those minutes, the fact that he can climb onto my desk, drink my coffee and eat 1/2 lb. of melty mints and feel no remorse when I return 5 minutes later, all because he believes that his family rocks his world. And in this day and age, that is something pretty spectacular.