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The Pug Club of Finland was established in 1964, quite soon after
the first pugs were imported into Finland. The club has nowadays
almost 800 members all over the country.
The PCF is a national breed association affiliated to The Finnish
Kennel Club. The task of the breed association is in all means
to promote the breeding of pugs, inform and counsel breeders and
pug owners, make pugs known, and keep contact to other dog associations.
The breeding committee of the PCF handles breeding questions and
problems, maintains records of registered pugs and stud dogs,
gives recommendations about proper breeding principles and breeding
combinations. The committee also participates in training and
qualification of judge candidates.
The PCF maintains a special puppy service,
which supplies information about pug puppies for sale. The PCF
organizes annually a dog show specially for pugs. This show has
become the biggest single review of pugs in Finland, there are
over 100 participants at its best. Invited judge comes often from
Great Britain, Central Europe or Scandinavia, naturally also Finnish
judges are invited.
The PCF organizes every summer a happy meeting for all pugowners.
It also publishes its own magazine, 'Mopsi', four times a year.
Mopsi-magazine contains all the dog show results with complete
written notices, lists of registered pugs and champions, plenty
of pictures about Finnish pugs, advertisements of breeders and
stud dog -owners, and of course writings about pugs and dogs in
general. The Chief-Editor of the Mopsi-magazine is mister Jan
Metsola.
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