puppies

“Snips and snails

And puppy dogs’ tails,

That’s what little boys are made of.”

- Early Nursery Rhyme

There was Travis and Old Yeller. Joe and Lassie. The sharecropper’s son and Sounder. Billy and Old Dan and Little Ann. Ribsy and Henry Huggins. Boys and their dogs form the basis of countless good stories.

There is something inherently compatible between a little boy and a puppy – maybe it has to do with their mutual love of dirt, and chasing after things, and otherwise getting into trouble. Together they make up a powerful team of adventurers, for better or for worse. Surely every boy needs a dog, if only for the sake of notable childhood memories.

And while coonhounds and terriers (the two most troublemaking animals on earth) seem to go hand in paw with boys, pugs are up there too. I foresee many a good story in Puck and Clay’s future.

This is the stuff of great literature.

-Eleanor

Note From Scott: I’m not sure who I want to instagram more now: my pug, my baby, or both.  

*Illustration of boy and dog taken from The Graphics Fairy.