About Us
We, along with our 13 children, lavish each of our dogs and puppies with love, attention, and hands-on care from the very day they are born. You'll be hard pressed to find a puppy who experienced a greater showing of love or attention than ours! Take a look at our Gallery to see what everyday life looks like at our Kennel.
Our Pug(s), Beagles, and Puggles are strictly indoor-kept dogs who enjoy comfy surfaces, top medical care, the very best of food and free run inside of our large home. Our dogs are usually found napping on our laps during the day and sleeping in our beds whenever it is possible to do so!
We are not puppy mill, nor are we a large kennel. At any given time, we hold no more than 10 dogs down here in Illinois. We do not have high numbers of litters, as we firmly believe in quality over quantity. In fact, there are some years that we do not allow any of our dogs to procreate; we have enforced rest periods & retirements. Again, quality over quantity. As ladies of leisure, they worked on their training in-between sofa naps and playing with chew toys.
Our puppies receive top of the line wormer and first immunizations prior to going to their loving, new homes. They are socialized with noise, silence, other dogs of varying sizes/ages/stages, cats and kittens, and flurries of activity (like our dinner times), our children ranging in age from 6-27, electronic media, and are introduced to paper-training between weeks four (4) through eight (8) so as to teach the concept of acceptable areas to relieve themselves.
All of our puppies have been touched and held since the day they were born. We truly enjoy handling them daily with petting and holding by both our family and friends. We also introduce them to play and toys so that they can begin to learn how to entertain themselves and what is acceptable to chew on. In this way, we get to know their core personalities, which can help with making solid matches with interested families.
They are so accustomed to receiving love that they are already great cuddlers by the time they go home with their adoptive families. And, because we rank personality as highly as we do their present and future health, not to mention show conformation, our Puggle and Beagle puppies are bred to be wonderful companions and suited to lengthy indoor life with the humans that they readily bond with.
We do not breed any dog or bitch who fails to meet our very stringent standards. Quality in, quality out.
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Our Pug(s), Beagles, and Puggles are strictly indoor-kept dogs who enjoy comfy surfaces, top medical care, the very best of food and free run inside of our large home. Our dogs are usually found napping on our laps during the day and sleeping in our beds whenever it is possible to do so!
We are not puppy mill, nor are we a large kennel. At any given time, we hold no more than 10 dogs down here in Illinois. We do not have high numbers of litters, as we firmly believe in quality over quantity. In fact, there are some years that we do not allow any of our dogs to procreate; we have enforced rest periods & retirements. Again, quality over quantity. As ladies of leisure, they worked on their training in-between sofa naps and playing with chew toys.
Our puppies receive top of the line wormer and first immunizations prior to going to their loving, new homes. They are socialized with noise, silence, other dogs of varying sizes/ages/stages, cats and kittens, and flurries of activity (like our dinner times), our children ranging in age from 6-27, electronic media, and are introduced to paper-training between weeks four (4) through eight (8) so as to teach the concept of acceptable areas to relieve themselves.
All of our puppies have been touched and held since the day they were born. We truly enjoy handling them daily with petting and holding by both our family and friends. We also introduce them to play and toys so that they can begin to learn how to entertain themselves and what is acceptable to chew on. In this way, we get to know their core personalities, which can help with making solid matches with interested families.
They are so accustomed to receiving love that they are already great cuddlers by the time they go home with their adoptive families. And, because we rank personality as highly as we do their present and future health, not to mention show conformation, our Puggle and Beagle puppies are bred to be wonderful companions and suited to lengthy indoor life with the humans that they readily bond with.
We do not breed any dog or bitch who fails to meet our very stringent standards. Quality in, quality out.
Scroll down for information on our dogs.
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One of the many socializations that takes place with our puppies: getting to know the cats. We try to acclimate them to many things they could experience in the adoptive family's homes.
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog.
You are his life, his love, his leader.
He will be yours, faithful and true, to the very last beat of his heart.
You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
~ Author unknown
Our first A.K.C. Beagle, Wrigley, with our very first litter of Puggle puppies, 1990.
About Our Dogs
This was our very first Beagle who delivered a Pug's puppies, Wrigley, and she is nursing our very first litter of Puggles, even though the cross bore no name back in 1990. In fact, cross breeding was not yet desirable back at that time. Newspaper ads were for AKC registered puppies it seemed. Unfortunately, crosses were often given away for free simply because they had no notable pedigree or pureness.
We had and bred award-winning rabbit Beagles already but, those rabbiteers were not cut out for family life, as they were outdoor dogs when we got the originals in the mid-1980s. We wanted to find a Beagle who had great genetics, but was an indoor dog, as opposed to outdoor. There was no desire to obtain a puppy; our girl needed to be an adult. And, that was how we brought Wrigley into the kennel.
The tide of acceptance and popularity did not shift until several years later, when people began to see that some crosses were noteworthy in that their personalities, intelligence, loyalty, playfulness, health, and trainability were strong. And, when done with knowledge of both the dam and sire's background, a puppy could be bred to inherit the best traits from each parent, as it does with our Pugs, Beagles, and Puggles. These Puggles, like our Beagles, result from selective breeding.
When starting out, we intended just a single crossed litter from our two dogs that created them. We wanted to keep a few of the next generation who would, hopefully, live on after their parents were gone.
The reason we bred them was because our very first A.K.C. Pug was a field rescue with whom we fell madly in love. Martin was witnessed being kicked, punched, hit over the head with liquor bottles, starved, and thrown out a 2nd story widow into the snow below simply because he snored! He belonged to one of our in-laws' family members & was unwanted by the abuser. My in-law rushed Martin to our house and my husband and I got our first dog as a new family. Little did we know that he would be the patriarch of dogs born nearly 30 years later! This dog had an excellent pedigree!
Martin was a wonderful companion who was all too easy to love and a beauty to behold with his show-quality conformation. When he was about 10 years of age (he was three or four when we got him), thoughts of his mortality began to occur to us. As the years went by, we occasionally thought about getting a son or daughter from him, but we did not want to breed him to a Pug only because we couldn't imagine subjecting puppies to suffer from poor respiration, sleep apnea, the inability to comfortably handle hot and cold temperatures, nor have difficulty handling activity.
We began talking more seriously about the idea, but had no idea what breed to cross our Pug with. Then, we began talking about using one of our Beagles, but they were so very hunt-oriented that we weren't sure the puppies would be content as lap dogs, as Martin was. A Beagle could lend a nose length increase, thereby give the puppies an easier life, while maintaining the Pug's incredible disposition. We thought the improvements would likely to happen, so looked around for a high quality, purebred Beagle and were thrilled to have found Wrigley in the next city over on the very first day we looked!
And, just 1.5 years later, they had three boys and one girl.
We kept one male and one female puppy to see if the breathing, energy level, and tolerance of more extreme temperatures had improved in no less than 50% of the litter. Succeed they did and what a great combination these two breeds were seen to be! In fact, even when all 13 of our children were young enough to live at home, we noticed the stable dispositions, even in a house filled with noise and activity. The dogs were playful, intelligent, trainable, affectionate, loyal, loving, outgoing, friendly, and family-oriented dogs. We were as sold on them back then as we are now.
Through the years, we placed high importance on personality & health, breeding only those dogs who excelled in intelligence & whose dispositions were warm, yet stable. And, a neat aside: after all these years of improvements, we discovered that our dogs' own tendencies are tied to their colours & colour patterns! It means that when someone comes out to see a litter of puppies, we can predict which ones will be the most active, which ones will be more low key, etc. This has been helpful to many families so that they adopt a puppy who fits in their lifestyle the best. We strive for excellence with not just quality, but family matching, too.
By 5 years in, we began to see a real variety in our puppies' coat colours and began researching genetics of the Beagle, since our fawn Pugs were always fawn Pugs and would never change. By 10 years in, we saw every colour and colour pattern except blues and hare pieds at that point and, back then, births were likened to Christmas morning in that we were always excited to see what would come out!
Lemon Drops, Lilacs/Blues, and Chocolate bi or Tri became our absolute favourites and we made certain that each and every litter had at least one bi-colour probable in amongst the mixes. It was at this time that we bred our first Lemon Drop Puggle. We were in LOVE with the blonde and white coat on that first female of this kind, M.A.P. Olga. Later, Olga's half brother, M.A.P. Piotr, sired the very first Lilac/Blue Puggle ever recorded! Our Magnolia Acres Puggles were the originators of that coat colour, too, which is very rare in Beagles and, apart from our kennel, totally unheard of in Puggles.
For the record, after suddenly seeing many imposter Lilac/Blue Puggle puppies listed for sale on the Internet, the marks of a true Lilac/Blue Puggle are identical to Lilac/Blue Beagles and must possess:
1. A nose that is visibly bluish-purple
2. Light eyes that tend to be either blue or grey
3. A coat that can have a cool tone, as if bearing a silvery cast.
This was our very first Beagle who delivered a Pug's puppies, Wrigley, and she is nursing our very first litter of Puggles, even though the cross bore no name back in 1990. In fact, cross breeding was not yet desirable back at that time. Newspaper ads were for AKC registered puppies it seemed. Unfortunately, crosses were often given away for free simply because they had no notable pedigree or pureness.
We had and bred award-winning rabbit Beagles already but, those rabbiteers were not cut out for family life, as they were outdoor dogs when we got the originals in the mid-1980s. We wanted to find a Beagle who had great genetics, but was an indoor dog, as opposed to outdoor. There was no desire to obtain a puppy; our girl needed to be an adult. And, that was how we brought Wrigley into the kennel.
The tide of acceptance and popularity did not shift until several years later, when people began to see that some crosses were noteworthy in that their personalities, intelligence, loyalty, playfulness, health, and trainability were strong. And, when done with knowledge of both the dam and sire's background, a puppy could be bred to inherit the best traits from each parent, as it does with our Pugs, Beagles, and Puggles. These Puggles, like our Beagles, result from selective breeding.
When starting out, we intended just a single crossed litter from our two dogs that created them. We wanted to keep a few of the next generation who would, hopefully, live on after their parents were gone.
The reason we bred them was because our very first A.K.C. Pug was a field rescue with whom we fell madly in love. Martin was witnessed being kicked, punched, hit over the head with liquor bottles, starved, and thrown out a 2nd story widow into the snow below simply because he snored! He belonged to one of our in-laws' family members & was unwanted by the abuser. My in-law rushed Martin to our house and my husband and I got our first dog as a new family. Little did we know that he would be the patriarch of dogs born nearly 30 years later! This dog had an excellent pedigree!
Martin was a wonderful companion who was all too easy to love and a beauty to behold with his show-quality conformation. When he was about 10 years of age (he was three or four when we got him), thoughts of his mortality began to occur to us. As the years went by, we occasionally thought about getting a son or daughter from him, but we did not want to breed him to a Pug only because we couldn't imagine subjecting puppies to suffer from poor respiration, sleep apnea, the inability to comfortably handle hot and cold temperatures, nor have difficulty handling activity.
We began talking more seriously about the idea, but had no idea what breed to cross our Pug with. Then, we began talking about using one of our Beagles, but they were so very hunt-oriented that we weren't sure the puppies would be content as lap dogs, as Martin was. A Beagle could lend a nose length increase, thereby give the puppies an easier life, while maintaining the Pug's incredible disposition. We thought the improvements would likely to happen, so looked around for a high quality, purebred Beagle and were thrilled to have found Wrigley in the next city over on the very first day we looked!
And, just 1.5 years later, they had three boys and one girl.
We kept one male and one female puppy to see if the breathing, energy level, and tolerance of more extreme temperatures had improved in no less than 50% of the litter. Succeed they did and what a great combination these two breeds were seen to be! In fact, even when all 13 of our children were young enough to live at home, we noticed the stable dispositions, even in a house filled with noise and activity. The dogs were playful, intelligent, trainable, affectionate, loyal, loving, outgoing, friendly, and family-oriented dogs. We were as sold on them back then as we are now.
Through the years, we placed high importance on personality & health, breeding only those dogs who excelled in intelligence & whose dispositions were warm, yet stable. And, a neat aside: after all these years of improvements, we discovered that our dogs' own tendencies are tied to their colours & colour patterns! It means that when someone comes out to see a litter of puppies, we can predict which ones will be the most active, which ones will be more low key, etc. This has been helpful to many families so that they adopt a puppy who fits in their lifestyle the best. We strive for excellence with not just quality, but family matching, too.
By 5 years in, we began to see a real variety in our puppies' coat colours and began researching genetics of the Beagle, since our fawn Pugs were always fawn Pugs and would never change. By 10 years in, we saw every colour and colour pattern except blues and hare pieds at that point and, back then, births were likened to Christmas morning in that we were always excited to see what would come out!
Lemon Drops, Lilacs/Blues, and Chocolate bi or Tri became our absolute favourites and we made certain that each and every litter had at least one bi-colour probable in amongst the mixes. It was at this time that we bred our first Lemon Drop Puggle. We were in LOVE with the blonde and white coat on that first female of this kind, M.A.P. Olga. Later, Olga's half brother, M.A.P. Piotr, sired the very first Lilac/Blue Puggle ever recorded! Our Magnolia Acres Puggles were the originators of that coat colour, too, which is very rare in Beagles and, apart from our kennel, totally unheard of in Puggles.
For the record, after suddenly seeing many imposter Lilac/Blue Puggle puppies listed for sale on the Internet, the marks of a true Lilac/Blue Puggle are identical to Lilac/Blue Beagles and must possess:
1. A nose that is visibly bluish-purple
2. Light eyes that tend to be either blue or grey
3. A coat that can have a cool tone, as if bearing a silvery cast.
M.A.P. Olga
Our very first Lemon and white Puggle
Our very first Lemon and white Puggle
Two of our favoured coat colour patterns on our Beagles and Puggles are the more unique Lemon and White, which is a more traditional yellow, or blonde, and white bi-coloured coat, and the very light eyed and bluish-purple nosed Blues, or "Lilacs".
Olga made it possible to see these patterns appear in nearly every litter. The Puggle litter above are indicative of how much influence our sweet princess had on successive generations.
Olga made it possible to see these patterns appear in nearly every litter. The Puggle litter above are indicative of how much influence our sweet princess had on successive generations.
A modern day descendant of Olga, a honey-coloured lemon and white female Puggle, the former Camilla, born here in the summer of 2018.
(Photo courtesy of the Beavers family)
(Photo courtesy of the Beavers family)