A small coffee table book with some lovely anecdotes about Pugs. It contains a collection of color and black-and-white photographs that celebrates the eccentric world of pugs and their owners.

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Product Description

Pugs love people and they love to socialize; and the people who love them rarely leave them behind. Uninterested in herding, hunting, or howling, these small, odd-looking creatures have no higher purpose in life than to be entertaining and companionable. Pugs in Public is a unique tribute to a breed of dog that inspires near slavish devotion in its owners and perpetual amusement in all observers.

Meet Tuck, who roams his owner's prestigious art gallery all day-except during his three o'clock break for biscuits at the Four Seasons Hotel. Mickey reviews portfolios at one of New York City's hottest modeling agencies; Buddy is the quality control specialist at a bicycle shop; and Pee Wee is the de facto maitre d' at a chic caf.

Pug owners are a rare breed of their own, and this book also turns the spotlight on them: New Yorker cartoonist Victoria Roberts poses with Pogo, her best friend and artist's model. Even the Bishop of New York, the Right Reverend Richard F. Grein, appears in full ecclesiastical dress with his adored pug Bruno.

Pugs in Public, a special look at a special pet, makes a great gift for any animal lover.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #592382 in Books
• Published on: 1999-09-14
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 79 pages

From the Inside Flap
Pugs in Public is a unique tribute to a breed of dog that inspires near slavish devotion in its owners and perpetual amusement in all observers. Uninterested in herding, hunting, or howling, these small, odd-looking creatures have no higher purpose in life than to be entertaining and companionable. Pugs love people and they love to socialize; and the people who love them rarely leave them behind.

In "Pugs in Public" we meet Tuck, a fawn alpha male who roams his owner's prestigious art gallery all day, except during his three o'clock break for biscuits at the Four Seasons Hotel. Mikey reviews portfolios at one of New York City's hottest modeling agencies, while Juliette is the receptionist at a Midtown pharmacy, and Pee Wee is the de facto maitre d' at a chic caf.

Pug people are also depicted. "New Yorker" cartoonist Victoria Roberts poses with Pogo, her best friend and artist's model. Sportcaster Marv Albert is here, with his pugs Lulu and Ruby. Even the Bishop of New York, the Right Reverend Richard F. Grein, appears in full ecclesiastical dress with his adored pug Bruno.

"Pugs in Public" is a delicious collection of color and black-and-white photographs that celebrates the eccentric world of pugs and their owners. From pugs that go to work to pugs in costumes to pugs at tea, this book showcases this impish, comical, and enormously popular breed, which is never happier than when occupying center stage.

About the Author
KENDALL FARR, a New York based fashion stylist and pug companion of many years, has dressed many of the world's most glamorous women in assignments for magazines and television.

Photographer GEORGE BENNETT'S work has appeared in such magazines as Sports Illustrated, Esquire, Vanity Fair, and Time, and in such books as Fighters (text by Pete Hamill), and Inside Track: A Photo Documentary of NASCAR Stock Car Racing (text by Benny Parsons). He is married to Kendall Farr and her pug.

Excerpted from Pugs in Public by Kendall Farr, George Bennett. Copyright © 1999. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved
Years ago, walking home in Greenwich Village, I passed a woman pushing her elderly pug in a baby stroller. Two younger, peppier pugs trotted patiently alongside. The pug looked positively regal sitting in her floral stroller, like a dowager queen in her carriage out to review the estate. Daisy, as she was known, looked as if she had places to go and people to see. As it turned out, she did. She may have been an old lady with a bad hip, but her owner, Cecilia Geary, whom you will meet in this book, didn't want to deprive Daisy of her daily outing. "She likes to see the world," she told me, "she has a lot of friends who look for her." I had just become another of them. I couldn't get enough of Daisy's noble, endearing face.

Our meeting had ignited a dormant childhood pug obsession. At age six, on Christmas morning, I had unwrapped "Eloise at the Plaza," and immediately became infatuated with the story of the little girl who lives at the legendary hotel. As if her cosmopolitan lifestyle of room service and tormenting bellmen wasn't enviable enough, Eloise had Weenie, her pug. A best friend, and a partner in crime.

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Customer Reviews

For All Pug Lovers...
This is a book for all the pug lovers out there...I enjoyed all the pictures and stories about people just as obsessed with pugs as I am. Highly Recommended.

Perfect Puggies!!
This book contains pics of pugs. Pugs are perfect. Need I say more??

A truely great book for Pug lovers
Pugs are a unique breed and if you like Pugs or know someone who does they will LOVE this book! It is gorgeous with many great pictures of Pugs all over New York. It doesn't have much information on the breed but that is not the point of it, its a small coffee table book with some lovely anecdotes about Pugs. I am away from home at uni so when I miss my Pug I flip through this book!
I definitely recommend it!