Where did Pugs come from?
Researches show that the development of the Pug as a breed probably begun in ancient China with a low-set, short-mouthed dog named Lo-Sze. Although it certainly didn’t look the same as the modern day Pugs! Dogs known as “short mouthed” dogs are described in writings that date to about 600 BC and were probably the forerunners of the modern breed that we call the Pug. Emperor Kang Hsi, about AD 950, commissioned a dictionary of all the Chinese characters, and in it there are two references which could describe the Pug: “dogs with short legs” and “a dog with a short head.” During the 1300s, there were three main types of dogs that are identifiable as founders of breeds of today: the Pekingese, the Japanese Spaniel, and THE PUG. Pugs are believed to have been introduced to the world by Dutch traders. In the Philippines, the first Pugs came from Australia in the early 1960s and then mainly from the United States of America in the late 1970s and to the present.
