Originally Posted By: Ellis
Please could you post a family tree of those puppies!


Of course you are right about the puppies being pugs. I had to go right back to page 93 to see if I had referred to them as such. Gives some idea of the quantity of posting in this thread.

Our daughter has three pugs; two boys of her own breeding (Dannika and Forty) and a bitch (Teasel) who barked herself out of her previous home some time ago. Teasel and Dannika are the parents of these pups, who arrived earlier than expected, while our daughter was away, which is how Donette came to be on midwife duty.

Initially there were six puppies, three of each sex, but one of the girls died before being named. The tiny one in the original picture was Gladys-Emanuelle (Cf. Ronny Barker’s “Open all Hours”). She struggled valiantly, but didn’t survive. The last
casualty was Gumble (Cf. Bottersnikes and Gumbles). You will have noticed that all the names begin with “G”, that’s because this is our daughter’s 7th litter.

Teasel developed very severe, non-responsive eclampsia with later complications and only just survived.

The remaining three puppies are Gertrude (Cf. Basil Brush’s Dirty Gertie from No 30), Gurgi (Cf. The Black Cauldron) and Grimson (don’t ask)

Bomber’s real name is Bombay Potato (apparently his previous person was very fond of them). He came to us last Sept. We were told he was five and amongst other things “good with other dogs”. We suspect that he is older than five and we know for certain that he would rather that no other dog inhabited the same planet. At least that was the case until be met the puppies.

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The one in front has Wil's look of resignation at face wash time.


That's Gertie.

There never was nothing.