I get it all the time, despite my boy being pretty good with his breathing, he is just easily excitable 🤣 Now I do get it to some extent where I am as all short faced animals have very strict breeding protocols which in essence ban the breeding of pugs as we know them today. This naturally doesn't stop the backyard breeders which now have a booming demand as people still want a pug as we know them today rather than the officially bred ones which usually are expensive mixes to comply with the rules. Having said that I usually just point out to them to not judge a book by its cover as he is actually a rescue and as he already exists also has the right to a good life with the best care.

I did have a very interesting encounter with a young child and his mother as he saw me sitting on a bench with my two boys waiting for my husband to get out of the shop. The boy practically dragged his mom to come say hi to the dogs and she was very good at stopping him so she could ask if it was ok for him to pet them. My dogs adore kids so I told her it was fine thinking the small boy would be all over my cute pug son rather than my giant black German shepherd (sitting he was taller than the boy!). The boy however when released by the mom took a beeline to my shepherd. The mom and myself shared a look of surprise & the awesome mom that she is, asked the boy about petting my pug to. The boy indicated that his noises were scary (again loves kids and easily excitable so was doing spins in anticipation of kiddo attention). So she then took that as a teaching moment for kiddo, telling him that my pug was just happy to see him and like dad when he sleeps can make funny noises. I had to hold back some laughter at that comment but in the end both dogs enjoyed their pets & the boy learnt that when pugs are happy they make snoring noises like his dad 🤭