BIS CH Broughcastl Bugatti, at one-year-old, under Breeder-Judge Wanda Spediacci
DOUGLAS HUFFMAN BROUGHCASTL PUGS BREEDER INTERVIEW BY ALLAN REZNIK
Where did you grow up? I was born in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Then we moved to North Carolina. When I was a freshman in high school we moved to St. Louis, Missouri. I have been here ever since. I come from a long line of farmers. My great-grandfather, Amiel Heuer, moved from Hanover, Germany in the mid-1800s to Cape Girardeau, where he bought two sections of timber- land to clear. He became the patriarch of a farming dynasty that continued through the years to 2020. The original farm produced vegetable crops, fruit trees and kept enough livestock that it was completely self-sufficient. Of course, the farm needed horses for transportation as well as to work the fields. Amiel Heuer and his wife had two sons who worked some of the farm and one of them was, of course, my grandfather, August Heuer. August was a hardworking German farmer who also ran a grist mill and a threshing ring for wheat. His brother took a different route to success by becoming a bootlegger during prohibition. As the Heuer family grew and multiplied, many support businesses sprang up in and around Cape Girardeau. I spent my summers from early childhood through age 13 living on the farm. Do you come from a doggy family? If not, how did the interest in breeding and showing purebred dogs begin? I didn’t come from a doggy family. Both sides of my family were farm- ers. They bred and raised farm animals. That was the basis of animal hus- bandry in my life. My godmother in Pugs, Mrs. Rolla Blaylock, started my interest in showing and breeding purebred dogs. Who were your mentors in the sport? Please elaborate on their influence. My first Pug came from Mabel Blaylock. She had bred the top-winning Pug of all time in the late 1950s, Ch. Blaylock’s Mar Ma Duke.
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