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Activists estimate that 200,000 puppies are bred and sold each year in Lancaster County. The public's fascination with new designer dogs like the puggle (a cross between a pug and beagle) as well as the ease of buying a dog on websites like nextdaypets.com has only increased demand. And with that has come a backlash, especially in states like Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Kansas and Missouri, where there is a high concentration of breeders. There, and even at the national level, a movement is under way to ensure that the U.S.'s most popular house pets, many of which...
...dealer took him to the zoo in Bengkulu to point out which animals were most profitable. "That was the first and last time that someone took me to a zoo," Jema'aah says with a grin. If he gets really lucky, Jema'ah will come across a tiger's pug marks, the report of which alone will earn him $5. Fanning the flames in front of the hole, he shakes his head in bemusement. "It beats me. Why would anyone want a tiger or a pangolin...
...begin with, it tells a true story, that of James J. Braddock, who may be the most unlikely heavyweight champion in history. When we meet Braddock (Russell Crowe), he's a promising pug, who is quickly reduced to has-been status by injuries and the Depression. Howard realizes the period with perfect authenticity: the biting chill, the hungry faces, the bleak desperation...
...concerning Paolino Uzcudun, whom I am personally acquainted with, I resent very much the statement made by Mr. Bleecker in which he calls the former a "pug." I do not doubt Mr. Bleecker's right to describe the Spanish pugilist as he sees fit but he certainly does not know Senor Uzcudun in using the epithet "pug." Mr. Paulino Uzcudun is a gentleman and a man of culture and refinement, as different in his manners from our common American fighters as night and day. The American public does not know the Spanish fighter. They are guided in their opinions...
...letter published in TIME, Nicholas Cuyler Bleecker said: "... I must ask why a person named Morris Sussman should excite himself as to whether this 'pug' [Paolino Uzcudun] was born north or south of the Pyrenees. ... I shall welcome 'one' Sussman's reply to my questions if TIME will publish this letter...