Friends include the pugs of "Pug Hill" (off 5th Avenue at 77th Street) in Central Park. Here, Mr. Chubbs attends Mimi the Pug's birthday party on the Hill. Champagne and strawberries were served to all legal guardians in
attendance. Mimi ate a strawberry stem.
Likes: Tennis balls, stuffed toys, dirty socks, Swiss cheese, slow walks in the city with excessive sniffing of garbage, posing for pictures,wiping his nose on the floor...the walls....and his legal guardian.
Dislikes: Hot weather, when his legal guardian goes to work and leaves him alone, getting in trouble for nibbling on the door when he's been left alone, a golden retriever that lives in his apartment building.
Motto: The Peke Will Inherit The Earth.
Mr. Chubbs is a Pekingese who was rescued from a New York City animal shelter in May 1996. His age at the time was estimated to be about five or six. When asked, Chubbs himself has declined to give a more specific answer, snorting
"Age is nothing but a number."
Mr. Chubbs has appeared on CNNfn, WABC-TV (New York) and his picture has been used in a book. Mr. Chubbs died after a long illness on June 1, 2006.