Smushie-faced dog club summer extravaganza

We hosted the smushie club last August and I promised jw some pictures and now I'm finally posting them
This is Pugslie

plenty of "Butt-sniffing"

Mack the English Bulldog

Daisey the Boston Terrier

Enjoying the day

Chuck in the garden...He knows better than to go in there

Chuck with his Lotus

Great pictures, I dig dogs.

Looks like fun.

Chuck is an Olde English Bulldogge.
The breed was the original "bullfighting" dog.
I guess that was a popular sport back in England in the 1800's
I did a little reading on it and it was a brutal "sport" where the dog would try to attack a bull and bite down on the bull's face and nose in order to suffocate the bull
The people kept trying to breed a dog with a shorter and shorter nose with all of their "bulk" in the front end of the dog's body so that once the dog clamped down on the bull's nose the bull wouldn't have as much leverage that was needed to toss the dog off as the bull was spinning in place.
Olde English Bulldogges are not a breed that is recognized by the AKC, so not many people have heard of them. Chuck is a wonderful dog, smart as a whip and very friendly. He loves to train and can do several tricks like roll over and "high 5"
He doesn't need to be put on a leash in the yard because he never leaves "his" territory,so he just goes outside whenever he wants and comes back and sits at the door waiting to come back in. I would recommend this breed to anyone that is considering a bull dog because they don't have the health issues of an English Bulldog or get as large as an American Bulldog, but at 80 pounds is still a pretty big dog

Beautiful dogs - I love them all

OK, ya'll aren't helping my hankerin' for a doggie!

If I could afford it, I'd have enough room to take in all the dogs in our area!! I LOVE doggies!!! I guess I've even always sided with the "underdogs", and I seem to gravitate toward squishie faces! I've had 2 Boston Terriers, a Boxer, 3 Chows, 1 Dachschund, many, many Pit Bulls, and numerous other mixes.

I JUST WANT A DOGGIE!!!

Oh, and Freddie, yours are beuatiful!

Well here's Loonie the big lovable one, all of the kids in the neighborhood love Loonie. She is an Italiano Spimano, bred for assisting Game wardens apprehend poachers in England. Very laid back but you don't ever want to see her riled.



Freeway, our deaf cat. My wife came upon several dead kittens on the highway, someone had just dumped them. This one little white kitten was left. My wife "Kitty Kittied" a lot and finally caught her. She found out that all white cats with blue eyes are deaf and Freeway couldn't hear her calling.



Garfield, the big orange one laying on his momma Sheba and the Rita rescue cat Bogard.



Location, location, location. Here's Bogard.



Garfield, gold eyes on an orange cat.



He keeps stray dogs out of the yard. That dog is catching third gear and burning rubber.



Vicki's old chinchilla Cleopatra..



Her man..



Spook



Takoda when he was a pup, he is huge now.



Takoda and Nahi, we kept both of them and they are inseparable now.

I too loved the pictures of your pets. LOL @ Garfield and mesmerized by the blue eyes of the white cat and dogs.

We have had lots of different pets down through the years. With kids, it's hard to get out of it. So canaries, parakeets, hamsters, guinea pigs(two of them mated and then we had three), chameleons (from Florida. One was pregnant and laid eggs. We tried to keep the babies alive by hatching fruitflies to feed them but eventually the babies died), Cockatiel, hedgehogs, 3 poodles, and several cats. And fish, how could I forget the fish, Koi, goldfish, and Wakins.

These are my current pets. Smokey is a silver miniature poodle, 5 1/2 years old. We got him from a breeder in Indiana.



Here they are sharing some salad. Mittens is a little younger than Smokey and we got him from the vet. I guess you'd call that a rescue. Actually, the two of them get along very well even though that first picture doesn't look like it.

very cool pets everyone