GENERAL APPEARANCE

The Pug's appearance is characterized by their flat, wrinkled faces, compact muscular bodies, and curled tails. Pugs have four color variations: fawn with a black mask and ears, solid black, silver, or apricot. The silver or apricot-fawn colors should be decided so as to make the contrast complete between the color and the trace and the mask.

The pug size usually stands between 10 and 11 inches tall at the shoulders with an ideal weight range of 14 to 18 pounds. However, current AKC judges indicate slightly larger Pugs as higher quality. Many pet pugs are somewhat chunky and overweight from being overfed and may weigh as much as 25 to 30 lbs. "Fawn" is the most common Pug color, black is rare, and silver which is an almost white coat with no black guard hairs. Silver is often confused with "smutty" which is undesirable and is characterized by a dark head and sometimes chest and forelegs. Most fawn Pugs have black facial masks.

Pug - Dog Lover