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        • CH Pickwick's Too Generous to Trifle With
        • Zobear's American Idol
        • CH Pickwick's Show the World How to Smile
        • CH Peachtree's Kirkcudbright Kayleigh, CGC, RIN, RI, TKN
        • CH Pickwick's Child, That Hemline's Out of Sight TKN
        • Princess Buttercup's Forever is Now
        • Pickwick's Thrill on Blueberry Hill
        • Pickwick's While the Leaves Play the Music
        • Pickwick's Doris Diamond Breakfasts at Tiffany's
        • Pickwick's Follow the Star
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        • CH Pickwick's Mr. High Falutin'
        • CH Pickwick's Peachtree Hill Country Mighty Macintosh, TKN
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Emerald Litter

A beautiful singleton named
​Pickwick's As You Wish (Westley - new name: Gus)
​D.O.B. July 10, 2021

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Gus lives with an incredible family in South Carolina
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Westley/Gus' Puppy Blog d.o.b.-gotcha day

Parents:

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Dam (Princess Buttercup)
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Sire (Robert)
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Here are scenes from his graduation from Star Puppy Academy 10-2-21!
And Gus' owner keeps his mind active with lots of training. Look at him showing off ....
https://www.facebook.com/reel/205748409046012

What a TREMENDOUS helper he is with yard work! ahem.
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And Gus is tremendously considerate of his owner's personal space. HA
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1351090679012613
Gus is great at helping to choose names! He's very honest . . .

Gus has an instagram account!

10/23/2021

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Check out Gus' adventures throughout his life with his forever mama and daddy on his instagram account
Gus the Great (@gusthegreat_multuminparvo) • Instagram photos and videos
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gotcha day

10/4/2021

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When we made the tough (TOUGH) decision not to keep Westley (Gus) because we simply didn't have any girls to use him on right now, we knew this day was coming. We also knew that we had found the MOST AMAZING family for Gus to live with in South Carolina. However, it's never easy because we truly bond with our puppies and love them with our whole heart. When his new mama arrived, Gus immediately ran straight to her, without any reservations, and was overcome with joy and excitement! 
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After that moment, seeing Gus "light up" it was easier . . . much easier . . . . to say the final farewells. His new mama has devoted years of her life with rescue and foster, especially with senior pugs. She, too, had given her heart to so many blessed creatures who needed to live out their final years and months of their lives with love and caring. She said it broke her heart, though, and she just couldn't foster another senior. She DESERVED a puppy as special as Gus so we knew from that moment he was destined to become a part of her family. Her husband and Gus' new human dad had spent many years helping so many as a firefighter. Another true animal lover ... and another reason we knew Gus had found his perfect home.

Alas, we will miss seeing your sweet face each morning waiting for your goat milk and your morning playtime! ​
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We will miss your adorable smile and sweet, funny spirit. But we know you have been blessed to be a blessing. You truly are an exceptional pug, creature, living being, loving, gentle, and intuitive soul ... full of personality, brilliance, and God's blessings. We will always love you and thank you for blessing us for your first few months of life. Now go bless your new humans and spread that Gus the Great around this world!


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puppy k class at roverchase

10/4/2021

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Westley (Gus) got to enjoy 2 weeks of Puppy Kindergarten classes at Roverchase along with his half sister, Doris (Lady G). We love the trainers here because they are all about positive reinforcement and they have such skills. Jimmie was his teacher and she graduated from the Victoria Stillwell academy. She also taught us some amazing exercises and games to reinforce his new name even more successfully. Photos from class coming soon . . .
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gus graduates with highest honors!

10/4/2021

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Gus aced all of his skills for his "graduation". He was perhaps at 60-70% for "shake" but giving paw was coming along for him but EXCEPTIONAL at loose leash walking (even had automatic sits down pretty well!), drop, pushups, (sit, down, stand), sit with hand signal only, attention (watch me), paws up, spin, twist, bow, play piano, get on, get in, get out, wait, and so much more. Honestly, we should have gone ahead and gotten a tricks title for him before he left if there had been time and $. We will miss this little guy so much. He is exceptional inside and out. ;)
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September 26th, 2021

9/26/2021

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westley's new name is gus!

9/18/2021

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Pickwick's As You Wish is officially registered and his new call name is Gus. Most fitting for this spunky boy who is ALL boy and full of personality. Several health tests were ordered today for him (DNA tests for DM, PDE, PKdef etc.) and he has an appointment set next week at the vet for his 2nd round of vaccinations and microchip! Gus is growing up and so beautiful. He enjoyed a trip to the piano studio last week and continues to meet all sorts of people. Since his last store outing was to Dick's, today's outing will be to Home Depot!
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September 11th, 2021

9/11/2021

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whitehouse or westminster bound?

9/11/2021

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And the time for evaluations is finally here!  We are SO in love with Westley and this is going to be such a difficult decision. He has incredible bone (nice stocky legs), amazing front, head size, GORGEOUS face, ear set, amazing tail set and beautiful curl on tail, high on pasterns, great angulation in rear, and an incredibly soft and light coat. There's too much to great stuff to say about him conformation wise. Now, he has also aced his temperament test with FLYING COLORS. The only thing to work on (which is age appropriate, especially for a singleton who never had littermates to "check him") is he really liked flirting with the evaluator by testing his limits with his sharp puppy teeth. So, we will initiate Jaws Protocol Training Program for the next few weeks. lol. Seriously, both evaluators were amazed with this guy. After the temp eval we went to an outdoor restaurant where he was loved and held by at least another 10 strangers. Westley has never met a stranger. Needless to say, after such a full day of adventures, Westley was ready for bed! Here are some excerpts from the temp eval:
Based on his conformation evaluation it is obvious even at this young age that Westley would easily and quickly finish an AKC championship ... perhaps with just one show cluster ... He has a beauty that "stirs the senses" as the famous AKC judge, Dana Cline, described, and he's a charmer. This made our decision even more difficult, but we still feel this is the right decision .... to place Westley as a companion puppy. The reasons being a) we only have one girl (our Annie from Scotland) who we would be able to use him on (who is not closely related ... and we are avoiding tight line-breeding); b) we can't use Westley as a stud for any other breeders, due to restrictions in his sire's contract; c) we can't sell Westley to a show home, due to restrictions in his sire's contract. And, as my friends who helped with evaluation pointed out, the owners we are considering for Westley has earned the right, with all of their involvement with pug rescue over the years, and with their amazing home they provide for their pets, to have a pug as amazing as Westley. Perhaps we sound kennel blind, perhaps blinded because we're so in love since he's a singleton, but honestly everyone who meets Westley is love struck .... both with his personality and his beauty. I'm sure I'll have a few tears today and over the next few weeks. This is going to be a tough pup to part with!

Here are the amazing results of his temperament evaluation:
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And here are the results of his conformation evaluations:

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westley's new friend ;)

9/11/2021

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The life of a singleton ... having to make friends with a purse! Seriously, though, Westley has SO much personality. We are so completely in love with this little fellow and can't wait to see how he does on his temperament evaluations in a week.
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we might need to put westley on payroll for his amazing house cleaning services ;)

9/11/2021

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Owners - Jeff and Amy McLelland

Located outside of Birmingham, Alabama, USA


Author of The Pug Bible

Author of The Pug Puppy Primer

Petpro with PawTree (Natural foods, treats, supplements, and other pet products developed by Veterinarians and PhDs in Animal Science and Pet Nutrition)


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We feed exclusively PawTree and Nuvet Daily Vitamin
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Best of Breed, CH Pickwick's Peachtree Hill Country Mighty Macintosh, TKN - our first bred-by-champion.
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Pickwick's foundation bitch, KK, (CH Peachtree's Kirkcudbright Kayleigh, CGC, TKN, RN, RI)

What Our Clients Are Saying

Bumi was star student at his puppy class today and has been pretty much bomb-proof in the world so far. You definitely set him up for success!"

"You do such a good job training/preparing them. Rosalina is the best trained dog in this house...everyone at work is always blown away how incredible she is ... Socialization, confidence, obedience ... And, well, she’s really pretty." (Vet Tech, mom, loving pug owner)

"The vet was impressed that his nostrils were completely open."

"So many people at the festival were asking where did you get such a beautiful pug from and we said from an amazing breeder in Alabama, Pickwick Pugs"


"He [Louie, out of the Beatrix Potter litter] is by far the most athletic & strongest of any other pugs we’ve had. He’s 18.5 lbs of muscle! I’m sure there are genetics involved, but we also followed your advice with the diet, fish oil, supplements etc. If we had the time, I bet he’d be a champion at agility. We love everything about him!!"
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Multiple Bred by AKC Champions
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Lilibeth, (CH Pickwick's Show the World How to Smile), our 6th AKC Champion
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Amy at The Pug Dog Club of America National Specialty
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Pickwick puppies being socialized with their mama.

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Best of Breed out of the puppy class over special - Cindy (Pickwick's Oh, The Places You'll Go, currently in the ring).
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Lilly, a Pickwick Best in Show winner
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A Pickwick puppy graduating from Star Puppy Academy just before "gotcha day".
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      • CH Pickwick's Peachtree Hill Country Mighty Macintosh, TKN
      • CH Pickwick's Show the World How to Smile
      • CH Pickwick's Worship the Ground I Walk On
      • CH Pickwick's Casanova in Disguise
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      • CH Pickwick's Mr. High Falutin'
      • CH Pickwick's Too Generous to Trifle With
      • CH Pickwick's Oh, The Places You'll Go
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      • CH Pickwick's Worship The Ground I Walk On
      • Pickwick's Judge of Your Own Happiness
      • Pickwick's Where Heaven Kisses Earth
      • Pickwick's Watching the Stars Align
      • Pickwick's Never Too Wacky, Too Old, Too Wild (Lola)
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      • GCH Hill Country's I'll Bee Your Shining Star
      • CH Wright's Triumphant Tiger Eye at Pickwick
    • Retired Champions & Show Prospects >
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        • Zobear's American Idol
        • CH Pickwick's Show the World How to Smile
        • CH Peachtree's Kirkcudbright Kayleigh, CGC, RIN, RI, TKN
        • CH Pickwick's Child, That Hemline's Out of Sight TKN
        • Princess Buttercup's Forever is Now
        • Pickwick's Thrill on Blueberry Hill
        • Pickwick's While the Leaves Play the Music
        • Pickwick's Doris Diamond Breakfasts at Tiffany's
        • Pickwick's Follow the Star
      • Retired Boys >
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        • CH Pickwick's Mr. High Falutin'
        • CH Pickwick's Peachtree Hill Country Mighty Macintosh, TKN
    • Fosters, Rescues >
      • Sebastian, BGR, CGC, RN, RA, TKN
      • All-American Rescue Jerry (lab/chow/GS mix)
      • All-American Rescue Lexi
    • Gone but not forgotten . . . >
      • Pickwick's Cotton Candy in the Sky RN
      • Charlie Chaplin
      • Winston (Pickwick's Cosmic Constellation in the Stars)
    • Past Pickwick Pugs Litters >
      • Begin the Beguine Litter
      • Thrill Litter
      • Lemaître Litter
      • Stars Fell on Alabama
      • Diamond Litter
      • Emerald Litter
      • Christmas Star Litter
      • New Year's Eve Litter
      • Adirondack Litter
      • Flying Kilts Litter
      • Coffee House Litter
      • Poldark Litter
      • Southern Belle Litter
      • Jane Austen Litter
      • Bridgerton Litter
      • Beatrix Potter Litter
      • Dr Seuss Litter
      • Baskin Robbins Litter
  • Available
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      • Why buy from a responsible preservation Breeder?
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    • Application Procedure
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    • Puppy/Pug Purchase Questionnaire >
      • Delivery
    • Puppy Blog >
      • Scenes from Puppy Nursery
    • Prospective Litters >
      • Sockhop Litter
      • French Pastry Litter
      • The Shire Litter
    • Contracts >
      • New Puppy Owners Communication Form #1
      • New Puppy/Pug Owner Communication Form #2munication Form
  • Nutrition
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    • Food >
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    • Daily Vitamin
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    • Recipes
  • Shop
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    • Puppy/Pug Payments
    • Unique Gifts
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    • Zen Buddha Pug Soap (for humans)
    • Buddha Master Pug Soap (for humans)
    • Rosemary Lavender Shampoo Bar (for dogs)
    • Custom Soap Bar
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    • New Owner Checklists A >
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      • Puppy Daily Records
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      • Socialization Checklist
    • Helpful Info for Pug Owners
    • Flying Home with Your Puppy
    • Driving Home With Your Puppy
    • Training & Socialization >
      • Showing a Pug in Conformation
      • Canine Good Citizenship Test
      • Tricks Training
      • Conditioning Exercises
      • Rally Training Boot Camp
      • Canine Freestyle
      • Conformation Puppy Boot Camp
    • Prayers
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