Puggle: Noun is A. A pink, plush stuffed toy
B. A new dog breed which is a mix between a pug and a beagle
C. A baby platypus
D. All of the above
E. A word Shannon made up to mess with me

It’s a tough question, but don’t waste your time googling it, I’ll tell you the answer.

Believe it or not the answer is D.

I’m not lying, I have proof.
puggle 1
puggle 2
puggle 3

Well, that’s not really proof, but if you do google it, you will find these fine examples of puggles.

Puggle: An imaginary animal from the lost forest which eats slip peas and is apparently tasty in pies. Nearly extinct- lives in holes . . . and bags. For more information see:
Lost Forest

Puggle: a mixed breed of a Pug and a Beagle, gaining popularity- distained by real dog breeders. You never know what you’ll get with a puggle- maybe a mild mannered lap dog like a pug, maybe a hyper hunting dog like a beagle. Puggles like children (to play with, not to eat). Puggles make good apartment dogs, but you may also look into getting a “pocket puggle” if you have a very small apartment.

Puggle: a baby platypus.

Some unsolicited information on platypuses:

According to Aboriginal legend, the first platypus were born after a young female duck mated with a lonely and persuasive water-rat. The duck's offspring had their mother's bill and webbed feet and their father's four legs and handsome brown fur.

water rat
duck

Dr. George Shaw was pretty sure the platypus was an elaborate hoax (Played by . . . the duck and the water rat?) when he first encountered the animal in 1799. He named the strange animal platypus, unfortunately that name had already been used for some kind of bug, so the official name became “ornithorhynchus anatinus” meaning “bird-like snout whatchamacallit.”

You can have one platypus or two platypus or you can have two platypuses, but you cannot have a gaggle of platypi, that one is right out.

You can have a gaggle of geese, but there is no collective noun for a group of platypuses- they are loners and don’t want to talk about it further.

(The following is my favorite part.)

The term “puggle” is considered a colloquial term for a baby platypus, as there is no accepted term for platypus young. Puggle is considered unacceptable on account of it is a copyrighted word supposedly exclusively to be used for the above mentioned plush toy. If you insist on calling a baby platypus a puggle legal action just might be taken against you.

Let me repeat, calling a baby platypus a “puggle” is possibly (but I’m not for sure on this) illegal, but defiantly ill-informed.

Henceforth, when speaking to your friends and relations about baby platypuses, you should refer to them as “platy-pups.”

Other interesting things about platypuses:

Platypuses are monotremes, which means they find their food by means of electroperception. Which means they detect electrical fields generated by muscular contractions of their prey. “The platypuses electrorecption is the most sensitive of any monotreme.”
Wikipedia told me so.

Platypuses eat worms, insect larvae, freshwater shrimp and yabbies. (What the heck is a yabby?) A yabby is a crayfish, or crawfish, or crawdad, or as they say in Louisiana, a “mudbug.” I wonder if that is copyrighted.

When a female platypus is ready to lay eggs (the only mammal to lay eggs) she digs a burrow and makes bedding of fallen leaves which she picks up and brings in with her multipurpose tail.

The female platypus has two ovaries, but only the left one works. (Such personal information right here on the internet!)

The female platypus produces milk for her platy-pups, but she doesn’t have any teats.
Milk is released through pores in her skin. (So I’ve never been a boob fan, but given this alternative, I’ll stop complaining.)

Now you know.