What the f@#k is a "Puggle"?

When we walked past his kennel at the humane society, I was surprised that Jenny didn't stop. There was an adorable mixed breed dog with floppy ears and a curly tail and she breezed right by. She stopped at the end of the row and asked if i liked any of them. I pointed to the little brown dog and she walked back to his cage. She said, "He's cute. He's actually really cute... wow he's really mellow too..."

And that was that.

We asked to get him out to pet him and see what his personality was like. He was shy, but friendly. Most importantly, he wasn't barking and running in circles like a psycho (i.e. his neighbors in the kennel). We were informed that he had just come in and no one had put a hold on him yet. We were first on the list. The humane society couldn't release him for 72 more hours in case his owners came back for him. The likelihood of this was low as we were told his owners abandoned him at a train station because they couldn't bring him on the train. After 2 days of waiting, some of us (pointing at Jenny) started getting extremely anxious that they would come back from their trip and reclaim him. They didn't and we took him home on Friday night.

He's a 1 year old Pug / Beagle mix. We had mentioned his breed mix to a couple of people and they they immediately replied, “Oh, he's a Puggle.”. A what? “A Puggle.”. What the f**k is a Puggle?

Apparently, we were the only two people on the planet that didn't know that the “Puggle” is the most popular dog in the world right now. We've been told that you can't find one for less than $800. That's eight hundred dollars. When I learned this, I immediately thought two things,

1. Who pays $800 for a f@#king mutt?!?
2. Who leaves that same $800 mutt at the train station?!?

Here in lies the rub; we have a dog that everybody recognizes as an extremely expensive and rare breed. Whenever we take him out, at least 3 people scream, “OMG A PUGGLE!” and race over to pet him. The problem then is trying to shoehorn the fact that we rescued him from the humane society into the conversation. I guess it doesn't matter because anybody that recognizes a “puggle” usually wouldn't care how we got him.

So... we have a new puppy. And apparently, he's a puggle.