About Us

Welcome to Anmar Pugs

We live on two acres in a rural setting in Estacada, Oregon. Here we live with a half-Pug, four show Pugs, two llamas, five goats, one duck, a parrot, and tropical fish. Oh, and
I can't forget my five cats. As of now, we are both retired from Owens Illinois Glass Plant in Portland. My husband is so bored, he decided he needed to have a job again, so
he will be starting a new job on March 31st. As you probably could figure, I'm not bored. I have enough to take care of. We are planning on relocating in about a year and a
half. When we make this move, it will be to the Long Beach, WA, area. We have property there but now we are comfortable where we are. I've lived in this home for 19 years
and I must admit it will be hard to make that move.
Our kennel is just at its new horizon. Our dogs are young but working to finish their championships. Hopefully, we'll be able to fulfil that wish. We can't go wrong with the
quality of dogs we've acquired, and the wonderful pedigrees these dogs have. Also, let's not forget the wonderful mentorship we've been given.

About Me

As a child of 12 months, I already showed the signs of being an animal lover. The first word I said was "Bearcha". My parents had a dog named Bear and that's how it all began.
In the next 40 years or so, I had raised all sorts of animals, including cats, dogs, horses, goats, parrots, geese, ducks, chickens, tropical fish, ferrets, and turtles.

In 1977, I acquired my first show prospect, a miniature schnauzer bitch, sent her with handler and got her championship finished in the USA and Canada. Then I bought two
more bitches and started my show and breeding program. Then in 1980, I added two Dachshunds to my list but tragedy struck and I had to spay my first Dachshund bitch, and
my second bitch ruptured a disc and eventually had to be euthanized. During this period of my life, I was working and trying to raise two boys, so I had professional handlers
show and finish my dogs. Also I had three litters during a five year span but the disappointment of having to spay one dachshund bitch and losing another put me into such a
state of depression that I just stopped showing and breeding altogether. Then, in 1993, a friend got me involved with a rare Brazilian Mastiff called the Fila Brazilliero, and I
did that for about six years, finished two dogs with a handler, and had two litters. These dogs were such a challenge, due to their size and temperament, that I was totally
overwhelmed with the care and cost of taking care of them. I was still working at this time, so I stopped breeding and placed my younger dogs with people looking for a good
companion dog that was also good for protection. There were three dogs placed and I kept my five older dogs until they passed away at the ages of 9-13 years. This was a
ripe old age for a large dog like the Mastiff - breeds of this size don't usually live longer than nine years, and some pass away at six-seven years.

Then in 2000, I started seeing a wonderful man named Dan Benson, that I had known for 23 years, and married him a year later. Just before we got married, I acquired a
half-Pug that I gave to Dan for his birthday some weeks before Thanksgiving. My brother and his wife got one of the littermates, as did their daughter. Dan's pup was named
Tilly, and that was 6.5 years ago. This is how I was introduced to the funny world of Pugs. For the next five years, I kept wishing I could find a show quality Pug. I finally
retired almost three years ago, and now had the time to make my wish come true. I started going to shows and talking to breeders there, and also looked at some puppies.
Then I finally found our first fawn bitch, who we named China. The breeder, Cleo Massey of Pugsinablanket, was so good to let us purchase her and that's how it all began.

Anmar Pugs, as of now, has a new plan of action. We have high hopes of producing top quality show prospects and companion dogs, What's first on the agenda is showing
and finishing our dogs. Next, we want to breed and establish our foundation stock. Our foundation dogs are a combination of Glory, Mianda, Dulittle, Kesander, Charlamar,
Neu, Webb, Rose, Warjoy, and Moonstruck lines. At this time, we are planning a breeding to produce our first homebred show prospects, this summer, with our first fawn
bitch (Pugsinablanket B&S's Get Her Dun). We showed her in 2007 and have also been showing her in 2008. After her maternity leave this summer, we will continue to show
her once she is back in condition. As of this moment, she needs to mature a lot, and hopefully, the time off will do it. At this moment, we are in the process of showing our
black male, Luna's Manchurian Canidate. He is pointed and hopefully will finish his championship this year. We are also showing our other fawn bitch, Luna's Fu Ling Yu of
Anmar (CH Raintree's Timeless Jonah X CH Luna's Latte Da). She is also pointed and we hope to finish her this year, as well. We acquired a fawn puppy dog on Feb.5, 2008 -
Luna's Blue Abyss of Anmar (BISS CH Moonstruck Blue Thistle X CH Robel's Pippin of Arvay) and have high hopes for his future show career. We will be showing him in the next
few months.

I have had some great mentorship from a bunch of good people. Cathy Moore and Kim Taylor of Luna Pugs, Warren and Joyce Hudson of Warjoy, and I can't forget Cleo Massey
of Pugsinablanket. These friends all have given me so much information and help in acquiring our first show Pugs, and helping us with sponsorship in the Puget Sound Pug
Dog Club. My husband and I are both current members, and we have learned so much from everyone involved. Our goal is to produce Pugs that not only have a head to be
proud of but are correct, typey and have movement to die for...

*This site last updated 11/2/08*