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Adrian "Bink" Beamer, 85, was in satisfactory condition at Central Washington Hospital this morning after apparently falling down a steep hill in his backyard and getting tangled in thick brush, wedged between a tree and a retaining wall Thursday.

It took Wenatchee firefighters 20 minutes to free him. DJ Goodell, Beamer's neighbor in Castle Rock Heights, discovered him at about 4:30 p.m. after her dog led her to him.

Sadie, a black pug, usually barks at Beamer. When let out, the dog routinely runs down the steep hill from her house to his and barks.

Thursday afternoon, Sadie ran down to Beamer's yard and returned quietly.

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Pug Parliament was established in 2003 as a pug gathering event for the greater Kansas City area. Pugs and their owners from both Kansas and Missouri gather at the PugSpeak homestead located in Overland Park, KS to visit, eat, and discuss their favorite topic - pugs!


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Tori Spelling is mourning the death of her beloved pug, Mimi LaRue. Mimi died Tuesday of natural causes at age 11. Spelling, husband Dean McDermott, son Liam, and their newborn daughter Stella were with Mimi when she died.

“I’m devastated. I’m convinced she waited around to make sure I had the daughter I always dreamt about before she left us,” Spelling told People magazine.

“She was a star and a true lady, and she will be missed greatly. People everywhere knew her by name. I loved when fans wanted her over me. I felt proud!” said the actress.

Tori Spelling's beloved Pug Mimi LaRue died Tuesday of natural causes at the age of 11.

"She was a star and a true lady, and she will be missed greatly," says Spelling. "People everywhere knew her by name. I loved when fans wanted her over me. I felt proud!"

Mimi LaRue died at home surrounded by her family, including Spelling's husband Dean McDermott, 41, son Liam, 1, and newborn daughter Stella, 10 days old. "I'm devastated," said Spelling, who reveals her dog had suffered from medical problems relating to her hips and neck for years. "I'm convinced she waited around to make sure I had the daughter I always dreamt about before she left us."

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You like kids reading to you, Ricky?

“Oh, he says, ‘I do — go find me one. I love kids!’ ”

Ricky’s owner, Ina Dunlap, responds for him. But the adorable black pug with the stuck-out tongue that just refuses to retreat is at no loss for words.

In fact, his little pug ears are loaded with them, because every child who came to Barnes & Noble on Tuesday as part of a release party for the new “Percy Jackson & The Olympians” book, “The Battle of Labyrinth,” wants to read to him.

Reading to a dog is way better than reading to a human being, says Jack Ohlsen-Johnson of Eugene, who came to the bookstore on the eve of his eighth birthday today. “Plus he’s cute and they lay on your leg,” he says, pointing to Ricky.

Ricky, who was born with a cleft palette that has left his tongue permanently dangling, and Dunlap are members People and Animals Who Serve, the Eugene nonprofit group that provides animals to hospitals, nursing homes, after-school programs and special events such as the one Tuesday at Barnes & Noble. PAAWS is an affiliate of Delta Society Pet Partners, which began in Portland in 1977 as an organization that provided dogs to help ill and disabled people.

Ricky was one of four dogs who lapped up a good story or two Tuesday. All are certified under the Reading Education Assistance Dogs program that aims to improve children’s skills by having them read to someone who isn’t judgmental.
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Tiffany is all about grand entrances. The 24-pound pug sashays across the lobby, rolls her dark buggy eyes, sticks out her tongue, wags her very short curly tail, and makes loud snuffing noises.

No one can ignore her. A group of residents at Terrace Gardens Healthcare Center, so sedate just moments before, starts buzzing excitedly to each other and to the dog.

"There's Tiffany," calls out one lady.

"Come see me, baby," begs another.

Tawanna Illescas, who has been a resident here for only a few days, says, "This sure brightens my day. Whose dog is it?"

Tiffany belongs to 96-year-old Louise Flinn, who has been living at Terrace Gardens, in Colorado Springs, Colo., for about two years. But the dog lives with John and Mary Norton, Tiffany's "foster parents." ]]> 156@http://pugnews.com news 2008-03-23T12:03:39-04:00 Posted by pugnews http://pugnews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=155
When Nike the pug was a few weeks old, he was diagnosed with a heart murmur. A veterinarian recommended he be euthanized.

But Debbie Muldowney had already fallen in love with the dog she named after the several pairs of shoes he chewed.

Ten years later, Muldowney found herself fighting for Nike again.

Last month, his neck was swollen, he was lethargic and he was gasping for breath.

Nike's vet sent him to Florida Veterinary Specialists in Tampa. The diagnosis: a degenerative heart problem. They gave Muldowney and her husband, Timothy, two choices:

- Take Nike home to die.

- Spend thousands of dollars on a pacemaker.

"I was so dumbfounded," Muldowney said. "A pacemaker for a dog?"

A $4,200 pacemaker for a 10-year-old dog?

Nike's hourlong surgery was Jan. 20. Today, he's acting like a puppy. ]]> 155@http://pugnews.com health 2008-02-16T08:15:00-04:00 Posted by pugnews http://pugnews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=154
There is an email titled “screen cleaner” that is being forwarded faster than a speeding bullet. It features a pug dog licking a computer screen from the inside. The popularity of this email confirms the popularity of this breed, which is one reason that the Southeast Pug Rescue & Adoption, Inc. (SEPRA) is holding a shopping fundraiser on Saturday, March 1, from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m., at the Precious Pets boutique, located at 9 South Peachtree St., in Historic Norcross.

Fundraising takes place three ways. First, because SEPRA volunteers work in the store helping to sell product and greet customers, Precious Pets gives SEPRA 20% of the total sales before taxes for the day worked. In addition, shoppers can buy items provided by SEPRA with the organization’s name and logo on them, such as PugFest t-shirts, mouse pads, static clings and bumper stickers, with all proceeds from those sales going to SEPRA. Lastly, people can drop dollar bills and loose change into SEPRA’s donation jar.

In addition to raising money for the care of rescued pugs and pug mixes alike, the fundraiser gives shoppers a chance to learn about the breed and the pugs’ personalities and traits. SEPRA will have a few foster pugs on site for learning (but NOT adoption, because SEPRA requires applications and rigorous home checks first), and people can learn how to become foster or adoptive parents and how to volunteer for other fundraisers.

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Wilton, Connecticut, USA

On Feb. 11 and 12, Spike (4 years old) and Daphne (20 months) will join 2,627 dogs, 122 from Connecticut, at the 132nd Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden. Among the competitors will be a total of 37 pugs.

Only champion dogs can enter Westminster. They become champions by winning the required number of points at other dog shows.

“I was lucky,”Ashley Fischer of Ridgefield Road, the owner, said. “There are many more dogs than places and so there’s a lottery and I won for both dogs.”

This is Spike’s last hurrah. He’s about to retire as a show dog and just take it easy.

“Spike is a cool dog,” Ms. Fischer said. “He loves to be trained, he’s a wonderful student, so I have to find something else for him to do after he retires, maybe a therapy dog. The few times he’s been in a nursing home, they love him!”

Spike is not only a champion, a winner at many dog shows, he is the 14th best dog of his breed in the country. He’s been at Westminster four times. This is Daphne’s debut and Ms. Fischer plans to get her used to the size of the Garden, the noise, the crowds, the lights, beforehand.

Pugs were bred in China 2,500 years ago as companion dogs. Both Spike and Daphne fulfill all the required standards for the breed: square body, round head, curly tail and the proper configuration of face and head wrinkles. The shoulder angle should match the angle of the hind quarters and they should have a nice, wide under jaw.



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Sherbrooke, Quebec, CANADA



The Record’s own adopted weather-predicting creature has forecast an early spring in the Eastern Townships. Pugsutawney Pug (dog-lovers will note he is not actually a rodent) failed to see his shadow when he emerged from his snowy burrow Saturday morning, otherwise known as Groundhog Day.

As legend has it, if a hibernating groundhog comes out of his burrow and sees his shadow Feb. 2, there is supposed to be another six weeks of winter; no shadow means spring is on the way. Unfortunately, celebrity groundhogs have had very poor forecasting success in the past. However this year, Wiarton Willie in Ontario was on the same page as our own Pug, predicting the harsh winter will give way to an early spring. An early spring was similarly forecast by Canada’s other famous groundhog, Nova Scotia’s Shubenacadie Sam. But Pennsylvania’s Punxsutawney Phil disagreed, after seeing his shadow when roused from sleep. The first official day of spring is March 21.]]> 152@http://pugnews.com news 2008-02-07T11:20:14-04:00 Posted by pugnews