My uncle Paul was an actor and lived in LA, in fact you could see the HOLLYWOOD sign from their house. Anyway, he also breed and showed Pugs, mostly black ones. He named all his pugs after Shakespearean characters, the pug girl's mom was Cordelia, their grandpa was Malvolio...etc. When I decided to get my first pug girl from Paul I wanted to name her after some Shake's character and I searched through my Mom's books to find a name I liked. I settled on Margaret partly because it is my Mom's name and partly because I really liked the name Molly. My uncle had sent me pictures of the puppies, including the girl they were saving for me, and the name seemed to fit. After 10 weeks of waiting we finally went down to LA to pick up 'Molly'. My uncle had decided to keep the girl in the pictures, and gave me the other girl. The minute I held her I knew her name was Maggie. She had lots of nicknames including Maggie-Mae and Magster, but I almost always called her Spud, because she just was a Spud!
A couple years later I decided to get another girl from my uncle. He gave me Titania, a 10 month old pug he was going to keep but then decided to place, and the Pug Girls came to be. We shortened Titania to Tani (like Tawny) because yelling 'Titania NO' was too many syllables. Nicknames included Tani-Fae and Tonster. Sometimes I called them The Spuds.
After Maggie passed I wanted another pug to keep Tani company, and my uncle had passed away so I didn't feel obligated to get a pug from him. I didn't want a puppy, and I had started a relationship with the local pug rescue group so that's where I went. I adopted a 4 year old black boy named Diego. He had a really crappy start and I wanted a new name for his new life. My Mom decided that I had to name him Oberon, Obie for short. So the current pug pack is Oberon and Titania, the King and Queen of the Faries from A Midsummer's Night Dream.

Karen