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Home:Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Age: 9 Years Sex: Male Weight: 11-25 lbs

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Leave a bone for Napoleon

Nicknames:
Poley, Poley-Bear, Roley Poley Oley, Napoleon Von Snortface, the 1st and Last

Doggie Dynamics:

Energy

sleepy		energetic

Intelligence

silly		genius

Friendliness

aggressive		affectionate

Playfulness

not playful		very playful

Disposition

anxious		calm

Quick Bio:

-purebred

Birthday:
March 13th 2004

Likes:
Playing with his ball; chewing on chewies; eating fruit and veggies as his mama cuts them; sleeping in between his parents or on our pillows; going for r-i-d-e-s (have to spell it or he gets too excited).

Pet-Peeves:
when his parents have to leave him to go to work; fleas; snow (which he luckily doesn't see unless we travel outside of Florida)

Favorite Toy:
Colonel Crispy--a stuffed chicken that we got on our last vacation to New Orleans...that he has now decapitated and removed one of the legs off of...but he still loves it. [what's left of Col. Crispy is pictured below...a fuzzy little one legged ball]

Favorite Food:
clementine oranges and apples

Favorite Walk:
the doggie park in Ft. Lauderdale

Best Tricks:
"Bang Bang" (point your finger at him, go Bang! Bang! and he yelps and rolls over on his back); gives high five; speaks

Arrival Story:
When I was looking for an apartment in June of 2004, my main consideration when choosing was whether I could have a dog or not. So before I even found a place, I visited a local pet store and found Napoleon. I FELL IN LOVE instantly....But since I didn't have an apartment yet, I had to walk away from him. It broke my heart. After I got my apartment and started law school in August of 2004, it was time to get my doggie. I went BACK to the same pet store to see if they had any puggies for me...and to my surprise they STILL HAD NAPOLEON! Three months later...my little man was STILL at the pet store. By now he was 6 months old, and they were trying to get rid of him. I didn't give it a second thought and walked out of the store with him. It was meant to be. He was WAITING for me until I could have him.

Bio:
The reason why Napoleon was STILL at the pet store so many months later was because he had suffered a major injury soon after I saw him in June. Another puppy had punctured his cornea, causing him to undergo several surgeries and vet stays over the next couple months. The vet did save his eye (though everyone was unsure whether he could see out of it or not), and soon after he got returned to the pet store to find a family, we walked in to save him. A few months after we adopted Poley, he started having eye problems. I had to take him to a doggie eye specialist, and found that he had developed severe Secondary Glaucoma due to the trauma (the pressure developing in his eye was equivalent to a constant severe migraine). So...we, as a family, made the incredibly difficult decision to have his eye removed to relieve the pressure (we also discovered he couldn't see out of it anyway), and I had a second surgery on his good eye, closing it a bit so his little pug eye didn't protrude as much, in an attempt to prevent any future injuries to his "good" eye. Poley handled the surgery like a little trooper!! He never noticed a difference, except maybe that his headaches FINALLY went away. Most people don't even notice the "non eye" on first glance. And everyone agrees it just gives him that much more character. He's beautiful! :)

Forums Motto:
Whats mine is mine & whats yours is mine

The Groups I'm In:
Florida Pugs, Febreze® Pet Odor Eliminator™, The United Pug Foundation (U.P.F.), ~**I Lurve My Dog/Cat**~

I've Been On Dogster Since:

January 26th 2006