To paraphrase the great Tupac, “I didn’t choose the pug life… the pug life chose me.”

Below we’ve compiled 21 of our favorite photos of pugs being pugs on 500px. With their adorably squished and surprisingly expressive faces, pug portraits run the gamut from entertaining, to cute, to pensive, to forlorn and back again.

Really, why wouldn’t we put together a pug life collection? Nope, we couldn’t think of a reason either…

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I am 3 years old today by Zachary Voo on 500px.com

Flower Power Pug by Bildglanz on 500px.com

Bazyl by Iza ?yso? on 500px.com

Shuna by Yoad Shejtman on 500px.com

Percy the Pug by Ines Opifanti on 500px.com

Hollywood Unique by Neil Kremer on 500px.com

Pugs love colors by Bildglanz on 500px.com

Alien Dog by Gabriel Aszalos on 500px.com

to fall in love by Sabrina  on 500px.com

Pug Life by Adam Jackman-Moore on 500px.com

Please by Fabian Leitz on 500px.com

"they say i am ugly..." (me heartbroken) by Zachary Voo on 500px.com

Pug Face by Jamie Lawson on 500px.com

Sleeping Beauty by Bobby Acree on 500px.com

sand and paws by Izabela Mieliwodzki on 500px.com

Runny Puggy by Ben Robson on 500px.com

Peggy by Yannick D

Ballerina? by Iza ?yso? on 500px.com

Portrait of Oscar  by Nancy Andersen on 500px.com

Smug pug by Elke Vogelsang on 500px.com

To see more awesome pug portraits, click here and scroll away. And if you have your own photos of pugs pugging around somewhere in your archives, upload to 500px and share a link in the comments!