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Preserving the Pug Breed's
Future. Health. Heart. Heritage. 
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Located outside of Birmingham, Alabama, USA, Pickwick Pugs consists of husband and wife, Jeff and Amy, along with their grumble of champion pugs and rescue All-Americans.
As preservationist breeders, we are honored and humbled to be guardians of one of the oldest breeds in existence today. Our breeding program is designed to produce healthy, emotionally balanced, breed standard pugs through a selective breeding program.
We follow rigorous health testing protocols and select only the best dogs from champion, grand champion, and historically important bloodlines from the U.S. and abroad. 
Our latest champion, Cindy (CH Pickwick's Oh, the Places You'll Go), finishing out of the puppy class with Best of Opposite Sex wins to the #1 pug in the USA and Best of Breed Win over specials (champions).
 CH Pickwick's Show the World How to Smile (Lilibeth), Stars Litter
Pickwick Pugs is more than a breeding program — it is a lifelong commitment to preserving, protecting, and elevating the beloved Pug breed. Pickwick Pugs excel at agility, obedience, couch sitting, therapy work, trick dogs, and of course conformation. The future of the breed, in our philosophy, lies in a well-rounded pug who is beautiful inside and out. Every Pickwick puppy is raised with intention, science, and heart.
We take great pride in breeding beautiful pugs and believe that overall health, sound temperament, and sociability are just as important as outward looks when meeting the current Breed Standard.
We are members of The Pug Dog Club of America and support breed health research and rescue.
Health is at the core of everything we do. Each pug in our breeding program must complete all health tests recommended by the Pug Dog Club of America — and several additional evaluations. No matter how beautiful or titled a dog may be, we never breed any pug who does not pass these tests to our high standards. Superior health and sound temperament come first, always. We offer a health guarantee and complete important genetic health screening including:
Our puppies benefit from a rich, thoughtful upbringing that begins at birth. We follow Puppy Culture and Avidog methods, including Early Neurological Stimulation, early scent work, confidence-building exercises, and structured socialization.
Each puppy receives daily positive-reinforcement training, clicker lessons, life-skills practice, and even earns an AKC Novice Trick Dog title before going home!
To qualify for this title, puppies must demonstrate successful mastery of such skills as sit, down, spin, hand touch, shake, hi-5, tunnel, get in, get on, paws up, balance beam, jump through hoop, and hand touch. Each puppy even performs a unique trick such as play the piano, ride in a toy car, or run in a wheel. Temperament: At 7.5 weeks, puppies complete the Avid Dog Temperament Evaluations conducted by a guest professional. For the first decade of our program an exceptional trainer/behaviorist (who also bred Golden Retrievers to be service dogs, and friend/colleague of Victoria Stillwell), guided us and helped us improve the temperament in our Pickwick lines tremendously. "Gorgeous puppy, but aloof? Out of the breeding program." These evaluations are invaluable in helping us match each puppy to the perfect home.
Pickwick puppies are raised in our home and enjoy being exposed to family life, car rides, outings, gentle challenges, new environments, and a wide variety of people. They are litter-box trained early, begin outdoor potty training at the appropriate age, learn crate manners, and enjoy a full curriculum of fun games, puzzles, enrichment, and confidence-building adventures. They even paint their own “graduation canvas” as part of their training!
We train using positive reinforcement and clicker training techniques which we have learned over the years through our studies with such legends as Ian Dunbar, Karen Pryor, Victoria Stillwell and other amazing behaviorists, vets, and trainers. Both Jeff and Amy trained our AKC Achiever pug, Sebastian:
Pickwick Pug puppies are very often the "star students" of their Puppy Kindergarten classes. We strive for intelligent pugs with personality but who are also lovers and kind in spirit. Beautiful, healthy, loving, and smart are our goals.
 Moose from Stars Litter
Every puppy we breed is registered with The American Kennel Club and microchipped with AKC Reunite prior to go-home day, paid for by Pickwick Pugs. Every puppy is up-do-date with age-appropriate vaccinations and de-worming. Every puppy is fed high-quality food and never "pet store" quality. Amy is a petpro with PawTree with training in pet nutrition.
Our program combines carefully selected pedigrees and loving, hands-on care. We spare no expense selecting the best possible pugs for our program, even having imported pugs from Spain, Scotland, Serbia, and Ukraine to strengthen health, structure, and temperament for future generations. Our pedigrees include AKC Champions, Grand Champions, and historically important pugs such as Biggie, Rumble, Dermot, winners of Westminster, Crufts, and other top-winning lines from the U.S. and around the world. 
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Here are some of the pugs we have bred living active and enriched lives . . .
Kasey (Lulu) Coffee House Litter
Doris, Diamond Litter with her perfect double curl.
Most importantly, our dedication does not end at adoption. We provide lifelong support to every family and offer a forever-home safety net for any Pickwick Pug, at any age, for any reason. Our pugs are our family, our passion, and our purpose.
As responsible, ethical breeders, our contract requires that if an owner is ever unwilling or unable to keep a pug we have bred -- at any time during its life -- the pug will not be surrendered to a shelter or rescue group but returned to us. All companion pugs must be spayed or neutered at the appropriate age. |
One of our AKC Breeder medallions.
Champion Lilibeth won Best of Breed, Winners Bitch, Best of Winners, Best of Breed Owner Handler (basically everything you can win) out of the 6-9 Month Puppy Class at a major show in Atlanta against Specials under respected AKC judge Dr. Steven Keating.
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Coffee House Litter pups
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In keeping with our "Painting Pugcasso" fundraising, the puppies we breed even create a paw-painted masterpiece prior to "gotcha day", which is included in their go-home bags/basket and create a group litter painting which is sold to raise money for Animal Rescue.
Fergus (Shorty) from Flying Kilt Litter
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Luna, (out of the New Year's Eve Litter), visiting her vet in Colorado just after Gotcha Day and receiving a clean bill of health.
Luna, hiking in Colorado age 1.5
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The Poldark Litter
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Pickwick Pugs live all over, from San Francisco, Mexico, Oregon, to Colorado, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Missouri, South Carolina, New Jersey, Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and even England, and Spain. Charli from the Poldark Litter is currently traveling the world with her mother. Here is Charli in Portugal . . .
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Here is Lil Riccie, from The Christmas Star Litter, in Madrid Spain . . .
Lil Riccie (Christmas Star Litter)
and in Switzerland . . .
Moose, Bear, Doyle, and Ellie live in Manhattan . . .
Dottie (Stella) New Year's Eve Litter
Grand Champion Robert, (GCH Hill Country's I'll Bee Your Shining Star) winning Best of Breed over the #2 pug in the United States.
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Blessings to all our extended Pickwick family. You are always in our thoughts and prayers. Please feel free to contact us whenever you need us!
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We invite you to browse our pages and share in our passion for pugs!
Jeff and Amy
Alabama, USA
Jeff and Amy
Alabama, USA
Learn more about Pickwick Pugs.
Our first bred-by-champion, Macintosh.
Amy at a Pug Dog Club of America National Specialty
Here is our most recent champion, Cindy, (CH Pickwick's Oh, The Places You'll Go), at the Pug Dog Club of America Specialty in Kentucky, Fall, 2025:
Doyle, Bridgerton Litter age 1.5
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Doyle with mom, just born
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Doyle, 6 Weeks Old
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