Two of my favorite butterballs (not the Thanksgiving kind)

Boy, are these babies getting plump!

The boy is out of Ch. Coryrex's Shooting Star x Arvay's Sugar Moon Lagoon. The girl is Cricket, who is out of Ch. Candyland's BlkHawk of Arvay x Arvay's Lonestar to Treasure (needs a 3pt major to finish her championship).

Girl - Cricket

Boy

Newest Puppy born at Arvay Pugs

Arvay's Rikki Tikki Tavi gave birth to a beautiful black baby boy. Isn't he a cutie! He is our last puppy born until later next year. It will be nice to take a break for awhile. Hopefully, we will have a couple new black girls to raise and train for the show ring for late spring.

Pug Shapes printable

I just love these! They are great for scrapbooking, altered art and you can even make gift tags with them. Each of the 6 Pugs measure 3 1/2 x 3 inches and are so simple. Just print on cardstock, cut and use. They are on sale this week for $2.50 so get them while you can! Click on the image or more info button to learn more.

Pug Puppies at 9 and 14 days old

Here are the babies today. The boy is the younger of the two but weighs a bit more than Cricket. I think they are so cute.

Boy


Cricket (has her peepers open (:)

New Black male Pug puppy

We have a beautiful black male born on Halloween. He's out of Ch. Coryrex's Shooting Star x Arvay's Sugar Moon Lagoon. It was a difficult birth and unfortunately his black sister didn't make it into the world. However, he's doing very well and Bindy is doing fine.

I'm looking for name suggestions if anyone has any. He was born Halloween, so any ideas with that theme (or not) are welcome. I'm going to watch how he matures and then decide if he will be available to the right home.

New Cricket Pictures

She's starting to look less like a baby gorilla and more like a baby black bear LOL! Here she is at 5 days old. It's been a learning experience for me having a singleton. The biggest challenge has been the fact that with a singleton, Mom's milk supply is wonky (is that a word?). Anyway, she wasn't gaining like she should of been. Fortunately, thanks to the advice of a friend we are back on track and I think have overcome that challenge. For those interested, what I am doing is expressing milk from her Mom, Tiggy and tube feeding Cricket 2-3 ounces and then letting her nurse. This has worked and she's now gaining well. The hope is to get Tiggy's milk supply steady enough to sustain Cricket. But if that doesn't happen, then the next thing would be to at least buy her some time until Bindy's puppies are here and her milk comes in. The logic would be that Cricket could then sidle up to Bindy's milk bar and nurse with the other puppies.

Here are a few pictures of Cricket today. She is just too cute for words. One other interesting thing about Cricket that I've never experienced is that she doesn't cry. I mean literally. I've heard her make little squeak noises and what I would classify as a cry when she had her dew claws removed, but other than that she just never cries. I guess she's just very content. Now watch, Bindy's puppies will be screamers LOL!

New Black Pug Puppy Born

I'd like to introduce you to the newest member here at Arvay Pugs. She arrived this morning via C-section and weighed in at 6.3 ounces. Her Mom, Tiggy is doing very well. She's not quite sure yet what to think of this little squeaky black puppy but I'm sure she'll get the hang of it.

I think I've decided to name her Arvay's Midnight Lullaby and call her Cricket.

We also had Bindy's Xray done today and she is carrying 2 puppies.