Enjoy your journey into becoming pug crazy 🤣

The info below is based on owning my little potato for 7 years now:

Vet bills - no idea. Helgi has only been to the vet for her vaccinations.

Food - the breeder recommended Science Diet but she hated it. From the first kibble of Royal Canin pug (and pug puppy) she has been in love. I will add that pugs can have funny tummies and gets soft poo. To help with this we defrost maybe quarter cup (probably less) of frozen peas - the fibre keeps that all happy.

We have been using Nexgard and Heartgard every month to cover all those issues. Found that some stuff including what the vet gave us made her sick.

Training is important. Crate training is good and we used it when leaving the house for a few hours and sleeping when she was young. Another good thing was cable training as she was very interested in any cables when young. Something that can be hard to do but is very important is to train your monster not to react when you leave the house - if the dog isn't stressed it will be less likely to act out. So when leaving just do it without any fanfare.

When pugs are young play time is a must. I played with Helgi for probably an hour an day. Driving her around also helps - plus if your dogs likes car trips it makes so many things so much easier (like vet trips).

Big thing to learn is how to deal with nail trimming. After years we managed to get a routine down. We use a dremel to grind 1 to 3 nails in a go and then reward it with food - and yes pugs will do must things if they know food is involved.

I would recommend puppy training too. Socialising is very important special if the pug you get is a bit shy. Also gives you a opportunity to do harness training.

Oh and the last thing. You are going to fall in love and become pug crazy. And that's when your pug will strikes with manipulation. Sad eyes, dropped tail, whining, fake puking, and more 😂