mobilehaa.blogg.se - december 2022

A piebald pug with cropped ears, painting from 1780.

This Pug ideal means that the appearance of the Pug approaches the “normal dog” somewhat from the perspective that “Excessive deviations from the normal dog’s exterior may mean that the breed has health concerns” (Lindholm et al. The focus of our work is on the Pug’s health and its ability to be a dog fully, with the senses, the anatomy and in activity. We want to work to ensure that the Pug breed can maintain its lovely, pugish mentality and have an exterior that more closely resembles the Pug as it looked like in the 18th and 19th centuries. What do we want the Pug to look like and why? We welcome all Pug breeders to take this new path to give back health to the Pug. We work in line with the latter and hope to contribute to the spreading of those ways of breeding the Pug. Later, German breeders also saw the necessity to crossbreed in order to have a genetically and anatomically healthy Pug. The Germans commonly call Pugs with this conformation “altdeutsche Möpse” (“Old German Pugs”). This work has been started above all by German breeders who already 20 years ago began to develop breeding clubs with modified standards of the Pug.

In order to do that we need a modified breed standard that takes scientific research and knowledge about canine anatomy as a point of departure.

This breed standard has been developed to encourage Pug breeders to work towards a Pug that resembles the “normal dog” more and is less brachycephalic.