One of the points I make in my book PugSpotting is that pug owners like to involve pugs in everything they do.
If you can put a pug in it, pug owners are there and have done it.
If you can put a pug in it, pug owners are there and have done it.
Random insertions of pugs in books and artwork? Check.
Pugs on utensils, inkwells, match holders, cigarette cases, and finials? Check.
Pug-shaped teapots, pounce pots, and salt-and-pepper shakers? Check.
If you can take your pug with you, pug owners have done that, too. And not just out for a walk or to a restaurant.
Pugs exploring the Old West? Check.
Pugs circumnavigating the globe? Check.
Pugs going to staff an embassy in Afghanistan. Check.
Yes, you read that correctly.
In 1879, Maj. Sir Pierre Louis Napoleon Cavagnari, K.C.B. C.I.E., Bengal Staff Corps, brought his pug with him to staff the Kabul Embassy.
Since this was during the 3rd Afghan War, you might perhaps think this was not the most secure place to take a pug. And you would be right. The Kabul Mission was massacred down to the last man - and there had been about 100 of them.
The sole survivor of the massacre was Cavagnari's pug.
The British would re-enter Kabul, of course, and the resourceful little pug was rescued and sent home to Lady Cavagnari. Amazing, right? True story.
This holiday season, I wish you all the luck of Cavagnari's pug. :)
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