The Pug, also called Mops or Carlin, is a toy breed that originated in China some where around 400 B.C. This small dog stands between 10 and 11 inches and weighs between 13 and 18 pounds. They have a short, glossy coat that comes in a variety of colors including fawn, black, silver and apricot. It is not uncommon for the Pug to also have a black face or muzzle mask. This is a healthy breed, but they are known for having problems with epilepsy and certain respiratory issues as well.
Pugs are known for a goofy and fun personality and when raised correctly enjoy pleasing their owner.
This breed can be somewhat stubborn to train but with patience can make a very obedient companion. Spend a lot of time ‘showing’ your dog what is expected before you use corrections to proof their obedience training. Start training your pug at a young age as they can be prone to dominance and the related unwanted behaviors that come with dominance
The biggest mistake a Pug owner can do is allowing the Pug get away with the unpleasant behaviors. It is very common for people to shrug off the bad behavior because they easily get infatuated by the cute demeanor of the pug. But this is wrong; this is just making the Pugs believe that their actions are acceptable. They are very stubborn and once learned it will be nearly impossible to undo the disagreeable manners when they become adults.
The moment the Pug sets it paws to your home, day one of training has begun. Pugs should be trained right away. In fact, the first six months of its life will determine its personality for the rest of its life. Alter bad behavior as early possible.
First and foremost, extensively socialize the Pugs. Introduce them to all the people in the house. Bring them to crowded areas especially if you live in urban places. Introduce them to other animals as well. Doing this will be good to your Pug’s behavior development.
Next and probably the most difficult thing to do is house training you Pug. They have poor bladder and bowel control especially when young. You must be patient and consistent when house training them. Crate training is great for Pugs. You should try this method while giving positive reinforcement.
Interestingly, Pugs are very sensitive to the tone of the human voice. When you want to reward them with vocal praises after they have done something right, you have to go over the top with it. Express your approval worthy of an academy award. The more expressive your tone is the more they will believe that they have done something right. So the next time your Pug achieve something, praise like your life depends on it!
In training Pugs, you must establish firm leadership. They have pack mentality and if they believe that there is no pack leader, they may try taking that role. Pugs who had taken this role are impossible to train.
Pugs are naturally very friendly little creatures. Sometimes, too friendly for their own good. They seem to get along with everyone. They are very playful and believe that all people must pay attention to them.
Pugs are very sensitive to attention. If you get indifferent towards them, they will feel agitated and anxious. They think that there is something wrong with them. Doing this often will make your Pug a miserable wreck, but that shouldn’t be an issue as they are natural attention-getters.
my pug is 1 yr old. he bites almost everything, like pillows, slippers, and when i slightly bumps his mouth he gets agressive and wants to bite my hand. what will i do?? pls help me
I made a quick video with some tips for what you can do- http://www.dogbehavioronline.com/stop-a-pug-from-biting
Good vid, TyBrown! Great tips, however I must say when dealing with a bitey young pup, the “yelp” and turn away method really works. Thank you so much for posting, much appreciated!
I have a male and female pugs And i love them they are really obedient
everyone who is saying ur pug is hyper is lucky i bought my dog off cregslist and all she does is sleep,eat and poop…… litrally!!
i wish i had a pug that accaly did somthing
You wish you had a dog that actually did something??? Do your sweet little puggy a favor and find a home where he’ll be loved! With your attitude I hate to think of the future your new pug will have. I had a pug for 14 years and he was the best thing that ever happened to me! A dog isn’t just a novelty you buy off Craiglist because you think it might be cool to get a dog. Love your pug for who he is or find him a more loving home!
Wow! I hope u ppl aren’t serious! All he said was he wishes his dog was more playful. I really hope “jarod” is a woman. Tellinghim to love his dog for who he is!?! Lol U need go to toughen up and quit being such a sensitive sissy. He’s on a dog website. I’m sure he cared about his dog. Why u say u feel bad for the dog “with your attitude” is beyond me. U two that are attacking him are seriously some sad excuses for men. I wish my dog wasn’t so lazy as well, in no way does that mean I don’t love her, don’t take care of her, don’t want her, ect. Grow a pair and toughen up u wimps. Quit acting like he said something bad about his dog….sissies like you two make me sick.
my pug sometimes ignores me and keeps typing when called. seriously though, i love my jake bub , he turns 11 feb 1 and i would gladly offer my home to your pooch. I live in Buffalo NY and would travel, i dont want to think of your pooch not having a well loved life, if you need help with this matter , she can sleep all day if she wants in my home. fully fenced privacy yard and a no children home , just me and my girl.
what ir rate of female pug
around 7weeks-10weeks
around 1yr – 2yr..
Hi,
I have 3 dogs at home: one poodle (7yo), one female schnauzer (3 yo) and a pug (1yo). And, of course, my pug is just lovely, but I’m facing some problems to make him eat the correct amount of food. For that reason he is way overweight and I’m really concerned about his health. The problem I mentioned occurs when I go feed them, which happens 3 times a day with the amount suggested in the food package, but then, my lovely pug rushes to finish his own food and go grab the others. Please help me!!!! I don’t know what else to do to make him eat from his own plate!
Hello, I have a pug that is almost 7years old. He would eat himself to death if I let him. I feed my pug 1/2 cup of food a day. He gets treats thru out the day and I occasionally give him vegetables and eggs. I have to feed him alone or crate him when other dogs are here and eating. I think most pugs are the same. Good luck! My pug is pretty tall and in great shape. He has no health problems. I think if you feed them too much then they are prone to more health risks .Hope this helps.
I have two pugs, 9 years old; one black, one fawn. They are both the biggest joy and so much fun. Personalities are completely different. The fawn has always been Alfa but as the years go by, my black one is starting to stand up to the fawn and take control. Lacey (the fawn) doesn’t care about food at all, she is much more interested in toys; Sassie, the black one, could careless about toys but has an obsession with food – not to mention, she is also a poop eater. Amazing, but she is less likely to ever go to the vets, where Lacey goes for ear infections all the time. We have a dog door so Lacey comes and goes as she likes and never has an accident in the house, but Sassie is much more conservative and refuses to use the dog door, therefore I have to leave a pee-pee pad out for her during the day, while at work, and it never fails, she uses it daily. For the first couple of years, they were both caged; in the same cage, and that worked well too. As they got older, I no longer had to use a cage. But training them is fairly easy, they love the interaction with people and love to please us no matter how difficult their task. Pugs are absolutely the most amazing little funny dogs and I can’t imagine living without mine!! BTW: Lacey is 18lbs and Sassie is 21lbs – they get Cherio’s and non-fat yogart for breakfast and Pro-Mgmt Weight Control with canned mixed veggies for dinner, 1/2 cup @ each feeding. No treats during the day, other than an occasional bite of chicken or SOMETIMES they get a ‘little’ piece of hotdog – shhhhh! Don’t tell the VET she’ll have a fit.
I had a pug at one point with this problem. I also had a golden and chocolate lab. Your answer is simple. When you feed them all just stick the pug in the bathroom with his food and shut the door until your other 2 dogs are finished. Your dogs health means more than him crying for 2 minutes. Then just play with him after.
Easy peasy, put all of your dogs into a sit and stay before feeding, you cannot feed them all together until the Pug is trained not to grab and go. He needs to learn that he is only allowed to eat when YOU give him permission. It won’t take long, trust me, they learn fast
hi, Im a pug owner, my first pug is 8yrs old female. she was spayed at 6 mothes. Even tho housetraining was hard, she matured to the most loving and wonderful pet to our entire family. she won the hearts of my husband and boys. so this xmas they decided to get me another pug. she was 12 wks when we got her. even tho my older pug wasnt thrilled. the puppy increasing became more aggressive. Im sure it was to astablish that she belonged here. She is very aggressive,in playing will not come to us even with a treat, and very buzy non stop. never takes naps until she is caged at nite. im geting very fustrated with her. she has lots of bones and toys. she has been spade and vet checked. I know i shouldnt compare her to my other pug, because just like kids they can be different. But I try correcting her with sturnness. but she takes off. I hate caging her but its the only way we can have peace. please help.
What do you mean, correcting with sternness?
What have you done to establish the correct obedience foundation?
Hi, I have planned to adopt a pug 8 months old. He will be there in a couple of days and i am wondering if i will be able to train him properly or not. Will i have to keep him in a cage or something?
well…… all dogs are different. like dr.suess said there is no one youer than you. when he comes you’ll find out. my pug will do anything for food.ANYTHING. she lovess attention. it is important to tell your pug (in some way) if he doesn’t please you. if you don’t he will always keep on doing it over and over again. DOn’t be fooled by their cuteness! if he does please you, praise him! pugs luv that! like i said all dogs are different, a cage is not neccessary if you feel that he is perfectly fine.
My pug is 1 & 1/2 yrs old, he is house trained and can sit and lie down, for the past week i’ve been trying to get him to rollover but after about 1min he just gets bored and leaves the room, even with treats he just doesn’t seem to understand. I’ve tried demonstrating but nothing is working. Can someone help me?
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I have a Chug that is half pug and half chuahua. Se looks like a pug with a chuawaua face with wrinkles. I didn’t know alot abou either breed exept that they were small. I need a small breed because of my living situation.She is about two years old so she has som set expectations maiinly considering her feeding habits She was priorly given alot of table food so she beggs alot but she is very eager to please so she is very trainable. She is a very loving companion and gets along well with my three cats. She dosent seem to be very social around other dogs but all and all she is a sweet and loyal companion
So excited! My wife and I are going to be the proud parents of our first “Bug”. 1/4 Boston Terrier and 3/4 Pug. we pick up Ladybug this weekend. She 6 weeks old and so cute! We’ve made our home puppy safe and eagerly wait for our new family addition. Connor, our 5 year grandson, is excited as well! Thank you for posting comments about Pugs. Its very benefical.
Pug dogs are unique breeds. They are inherently well-behaved, but you have to train him if you want to take advantage of his
natural behavior. Train him early and try to establish rank because they follow command behavior. Pug dogs are funny, lovable, and family-friendly, which is why they are adored by Emperors, Kings, and Queens. Training a pug is not easy, but with patience and persistence. You can train him yourself but if you’re not up to the task, hire a professional dog trainer.
I have a 1 and a half year old pug that just doesn’t listen. He behaves when my boyfriend and I are home but tends to do bad things when we leave him by himself. He’ll chew everything, poo everywhere and pee on our bed when left alone. We don’t know what to do.. he can’t be trusted when we leave the house and I hate keeping him in his crate. Please help. My boyfriend is losing his patience and wants to get rid of him. I obviously don’t want this. We also want to get him fixed but worry it might be too late–he is almost 17 months.
Couple things to think about:
- Getting him fixed is a good idea but fixing a dog is not training a dog. Getting him fixed will do nothing to stop these behaviors.
- Which do you hate more; him being in a crate or him being sent to a shelter because you weren’t willing to put him in a crate?
- Why do you hate that he’s in a crate? Dogs have a den instinct and, when presented properly, dogs love crates. Why would you hate to put him in something he likes or loves?
I know getting him fixed isn’t training the dog. I have heard from others and read online that it will slightly calm him down. I obviously don’t want him in a shelter, that’s not even an option here, I just want to be able to trust him out of his crate when we’re not home. I’m just seeking advice for the bigger issue I mentioned above–how do I train him to behave when we’re not home. He wouldn’t dare to chew pillows, duvets etc. or even pee or poo in the house when we’re around, but the moment we leave he does whatever he wants. How do we train him to believe all of this is wrong even when we’re not home.
At this age the chance is better that fixing him will not calm him down or do anything for his personality. I still recommend it but I doubt you’d see much change in behavior. I could be wrong, I’m just going off of how most dogs are.
The first step is to use a crate as I mentioned. The crate stops the behavior right away and starts the dog on a new conditioning path.
From there it’s a matter of obedience training to keep his mind active, proper exercise to make sure he’s fulfilled, providing proper things to chew on, exiting the home and coming home with calmness, and a variety of other things that help fulfill the dog so he doesn’t have a need to be destructive in the first place.
But first things first. Use the crate. It’s a silent teacher. It shows the dog the skill set of how to relax and how to ‘just be’ without chewing. Don’t symbolically put yourself in the crate, you’re a person and of course you wouldn’t like it. He’s a dog and has completely different instincts than you.
I haven’t read all of the posts, but as a foster Pug Mom who has fostered 12 Pugs, I CAN tell you this, Pugs crave discipline, they want to know the house rules! They can be bossy, esp. the girls, and u need to nip any naughty behavior in the bud, they need to know that YOU, the human, is in charge. They are smart, but cunning, I find they respond to a combination of cuddles and rules. They need to realize that you the human, is in charge, not them! Simply training the basic SIT STAY commands will go a long way towards giving you a Pug who looks to you for leadership. If you have a naughty Pug, be STERN, but provide rewards. All the best, those rascals are all different!
I just adopted a 1 yr. Old female miniature pug. Shes so cute but isn’t potty trained. I have raised lots of puppys and potty trained
All of them sucessfully but have never had to potty train a 1 yr old. Will I be able to? She also will not come when I call her so I am unable to let her off leash. Any suggestions?
Simona — take the advice. Go buy a crate! We had a situation identical to yours. We finally wised up…and started doing the crate while we were gone. Our boy was the exact same way. After the crate it was awesome. He loves it so much now (he is almost 10) he goes in there just to chill cause its his den. Biggest rookie pug owner mistake we ever made were those first 8 months we didn’t do a crate!! Btw we own 2 fawns. They will be 10 and 8 this year. Love my snuggle bugs. They love us. And their crates.
Hello, my boyfriend and I just rescued a pug two days ago, she was left abandoned tied to her crate at the side of the road at a gas station, so we took her to our vet, and turns out she was micro-chipped and registered and it just turns out that the original owners didn’t want her anymore, so we took her, got her checked out and vaccinated, and other than a parasite that we got medicine for, shes healthy. Shes about a year and a half old, and i’m not sure if shes still just getting used to new surroundings, but shes very hyper and I haven’t seen her sleep or relax yet. The last two nights, we’ve tried putting her comfortably in the crate at night, but she cries, if we left her on the floor, she’d cry. When we brought her on the bed, she thought it was play time. Its almost as if she has no recognition of play time VS. bed time. I’m trying my best to have her calm down, but maybe a more experienced pug owner can help me… thanks!
Cindi, please message me for more advise, OK? I so want your Puggie and you to be happy!
Hi I have a pugs named ginger she’s 5. We also have an husky mix names cosmo that’s threeyears old and my dad just went and bought me a new 8week old puppy that’s a dascshund named Luna. My pug has became aggressive toward the husky about 3 months ago. But now that we have a puppy in the house the has became aggressive toward her now. But for the first few days she was okay with the puppy. I don’t think she would be jealous because she sleeps in bed with me and the puppy sleep in a crate at night. And she gets alot of attention along with the others. It’s almost as if her personality had changed because she used to be very happy and hyper and playful until about 3 months ago now she nips at people and our other dogs and grabs on to our shoes when we try to leave and all of a sudden stopped going potty out side. We don’t know what to do and my parent are thinkin about giving her to some one that can give her alot of attention and that can love her and play with her if she doesn’t change her additude. What can we do to fix her problem? Or is it better if we maybe found her a new home with some one?
Why were you in a position where you had one dog being aggressive to another dog and you decided to bring even another dog into the mix? Did it not occur that this would be a bad idea?
There are so many things going wrong in this situation that I struggle to find where to even begin with advice:
- Your dog isn’t being aggressive out of jealousy. She’s being aggressive because you’ve set up a standard where that is allowed.
- Your dog shouldn’t be sleeping in the bed with you.
- Your dog needs tons of obedience and structure to set the order on how things should be.
But I wasn’t the one to bring a puppy home my dad bought it for me thinking that it would help with my surgery recovery cause I’m not able to go out and on alot of rest. He thought having a puppy around my help with the depression of being cooped up
It doesn’t matter who brought the dog home. The point is that a dog was knowingly brought into a dangerous situation.
I’m open to any suggestions to help me potty train my 1yr old female rescue pog.
She doesn’t come when I call her either so I can’t let her off leash. She is crate trained. Please
Offer any suggestions.
It’s tough to offer suggestions when we don’t know what the problem is? When is she going to the bathroom in the house? Why isn’t she being supervised when it happens?
She is never unsupervised, in fact I never let her out of my site. She has only pottied in the house twice, both times were within the
First 2 days we had her. The problem is that she doesn’t really let me know she has to go other than running around looking for a place to go and i see her doing that and i take her out. She doesn’t go to the door so I’m trying to train her to ring bells that I’ve hung on the door. She had been to 3 previous homes and nobody took the time to work with her. I’m trying to train her as if she were a brand new puppy which I’ve successfully done many times in the past. I’m looking for suggestions as to other ways I can get her to let me know she has to go by going to the door.
Personally, I would never train a dog to use the bell to go potty. In fact, I never train the dog to let me know at all. I train the dog to wait until I let him or her out-
http://www.dogbehavioronline.com/how-to-train-a-dog-to-use-a-bell-to-go-outside/
Our recue pug was about 7 months when we got her with pee pee pad and not much other information. She would sometimes go on the pad. It is very important to have a lot of patience and be consistent. We brought her to training classes at petsmart to learn some click training and helpful directions. After unsuccessful attempts at house breaking we got a crate, a pen outdoor (because ours didn’t know what she was outside to do and either played or roamed around until the magical pen), and basically from what I can remember we would kennel her at bedtime and first thing let her out. And then figure out your pugs schedule. Ours goes out first thing in the morning, 1/2 an hour after eating a meal and before bed time of course (and when we come home, have your dog kenneled when away and let out immediately when you get home until fully trained to go outside, otherwise backsliding behavior may go on as has happened with ours). After a long while, on her own, our pug began scratching the door to let me know she has to go potty. And as someone else mentioned, be over the top with praise when your dog goes outside/let’s you know she has to go. Good luck and don’t give up
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