Desperate For Your Help

This is it guys. Now is the time. Now is the time to help. 

Summer is the time of year animal rescuers dread. Adoptions slow down, pugs are relinquished by their owners, pugs are left at shelters in high numbers, and foster homes become scarce as family vacations commence.

 

Dallas Fort Worth Pug Rescue has over 90 pugs in rescue including 14 pugs in clinics this week. Only 5 of the clinic pugs have foster homes waiting for them. Beyond that, we have 6 more pugs waiting to come into rescue. Many of the families who wish to give up these pugs to rescue are waiting patiently while we try desperately to recruit new foster homes for them. 
However, a few are in danger and must be brought into rescue immediately. 

We need fosters. We need funds. We need your help.

HOW CAN YOU HELP?

Adopt! 
Just look at these precious pugs waiting for their forever home!
And we have a special right now with Senior Pugs: 2 for 1!!!

Foster! 
Please consider becoming a foster for these sweet pugs.
Fill out a foster application here.
If you know someone who would like to foster or is even thinking about it, have them take the first step and fill out the application!

Donate! 
While we are always accepting online donations here,
we currently also have 3 auctions running that will benefit three very special, critical care pugs.
Auctions end Sunday, June 23rd at 7 pm.

Meet Beautiful

Beautiful was found in the home of her owner after he had passed away. Her eyes were in such bad shape, they both had to be removed. 
All of a sudden her life was turned dark and upside down - did she let this dampen her spirit? 
No!
Beautiful has found comfort in the new humans around her and she always has her tail wagging. 
Besides her emergency eye surgery, she will need additional care as she is continued to be evaluated.

Click here to see Beautiful's auction

Meet Veronica Pearl 

Veronica Pearl has had it rough from the beginning. Whether it was the hand she was dealt or early trauma, Veronica Pearl has now been diagnosed with a herniated disk. 

Because of how pug bodies are built, this not only affects the way she walks, sits, or moves in the slighetest, but also affects her bladder and urethra. 

She is on medication but it is recommended she have acupuncture and be reassessed for surgery. 

Click here for Veronica Pearl's auction

Meet Annie Bee
 
Annie Bee is only 8 months old and has been twice rescued: 
Once from craigslist and once by DFW Pug Rescue when her medical needs grew. 
It is suspected that Annie Bee had a troubled and dangerous birth resulting in trauma to her frontal lobe. 
She needs an MRI and further assessment for her seizures.

 Click here for Annie Bee's auction

We are also holding a garage sale!! 

You can donate to the garage sale on Saturday, June 22 between 8 am and 3 pm.

Then you can shop at the garage sale on Saturday, June 29 between 8 am until 4 pm.

The address for donations and for the garage sale is

629 Post Oak Drive

Hurst, Texas 76053

Please help us anyway you can.

Mike really wants you to.

"Help us now so Sarah McLachlan doesn't have to sing that song again."

 

LARGEST RESCUE UPDATE

As you know, we recently rescued 37 pugs, all at once. 

They are all still being assessed by our medical team, but most importantly, all have been named! 

For just a tease, we have a Mrs. Puff, M'Lady Pug, Jujube, Pixel, Mazda, Carlos, and Romper, to name a few!

Out of the 37, one needed emergency surgery. Tia, a 3-year-old fawn female had some of her intestines partially outside of her body.  She underwent a 2.5 hour emergency surgery Tuesday morning and so far.... 

SHE IS DOING WELL!

Tia before surgery

 

Tia being checked out post-surgery

Tia post-surgery, proving she's a fighter and/or tap dancer

And some more good news - the first small batch of pugs tested has been found to be heartworm negative!!!!

Rescue leaders thank Creekside Pet Care Center of Keller, Texas, hospital manager Kim Grisham, and Dr. Fisher for all they have done to help us bring these pugs to safety. Also a big thanks to Westcreek for helping us provide boarding for the largest influx of rescues we have ever experienced in such a short period.

 Wondering what you can do to help us now? Right now? Today?

To date, our veterinary and rescue transportation costs stand at $19,700. 

And this is just the beginning.

Please consider:

Purchasing a Texas Sluggo T-Shirt with Free Shipping 

Filling up your Shopping Cart with any of our Pugalicious Online Items 

Participating in our March Facebook Auction

Hanging out with us at Woofstock on March 9th

 RSVPing for our April 6th Bingo Benefit

or just Donating Directly to our Pug Emergency Donation Effort 

Stay tuned for more updates!!!

OUR LARGEST RESCUE YET

Major Pug Rescue Effort Under Way

Dallas Fort Worth Pug Rescue conducted its biggest rescue campaign in the history of the charity organization on Saturday, bringing in 37 pugs. Volunteers, techs, and doctors worked around the clock for three days to provide immediate care for these little ones, some with chronic health issues and one 3-year old named Tia, whose intestines are partially outside her body and who needs emergency lifesaving surgery.

"Sometimes opportunities present themselves and you have to take a leap of faith," said DFW Pug Rescue Director Sue Chapman. "A few days ago we were presented with the possibility of rescuing up to 75 pugs. The directors made a rapid decision - We would do this. Our Crisis Team traveled on short notice, and now we are waiting on heartworm tests. Then they will all be spayed and neutered."

Most of the pugs are young, under 5 years old, shy, and somewhat fearful, but curious about this new world that awaits them, she said. "We have over 31 pugs that need foster homes quickly. We need your help. We need donations. We believe every one of these lives is precious and worth saving," Sue said. "Thank you so much to Joanne Meriwether, Debra Hutchinson, and Jen Umbright who traveled day and night to bring these precious pugs to us safely."

Fifteen males and 22 females, some pregnant, are being boarded while we try to find foster homes. With spring break coming up, we have been asked to move most of these pugs out of the boarding facility and find foster homes as quickly as possible.

Our veterinary costs just to vaccinate, provide immediate critical care, and board these rescues is significant. Please open your hearts and help us to nurse these young pugs back to health, and give them the happy, healthy lives they have always deserved.

Our veterinary costs are 
over $12,000 
for their most immediate
medical needs, and for Tia
who needs lifesaving surgery

PUG EMERGENCY DONATION LINK

Here are 4 of the 37 rescued pugs:

 

Harry Potter

 

Pocahontas

 

Humphrey

 

Beverly 

 

To Be Named

 Stay tuned for more information, more pictures, and more pugs!

PLEASE DONATE HERE IF YOU CAN

HELP PUGS WIN $$$

IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN!

  We missed out on the last competition, but I know we can work together and win this time around!

LET'S HELP DFW PUG RESCUE WIN $$$

Our very own DFW Pug Rescue has entered The Animal Rescue Site Shelter Challenge of 2013! We could win any one of their multiple grant money prizes, we just have to get the votes!!! Sound impossible?? Well it ain't because we won the Spring Round in 2012!!

First just follow this link (you might have to copy/paste into your browser):

http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/shelterchallenge.faces?siteId=3

Halfway down the page is a search box.

Enter "DFW Pug Rescue" for the shelter and TX as the state.

Click SEARCH.

When our DFW Pug Rescue group comes up, click the "VOTE" button next to it.

When prompted, fill in the number and letter captcha and click "CONFIRM VOTE" (They just want to make sure you aren't a robot. You're not, right?)

THAT'S IT! YOU'RE HELPING US WIN MONEY FOR ALL THE PUGS!!

And that's not all.... you CAN vote TWICE a day from the same computer! The votes just have to be 12 hours apart.

Furthermore, you can vote multiple times by using different devices! Your work computer, home laptop, child's iPad, spouse's iPhone, co-workers' computers, neighbor's palm pilot, your hair stylist's kindle, local library's computers, Apple's unveiled iPhone 6 from the future, etc. You might want to ask permission first for some of those. :)

Please help spread the word! Twitter! Facebook! PTA! Sorority! Fraternity! Garden Club! Baby Zumba Class! Standup Comedy Improv Workshop! Hell's Angels Motorcycle Group! Anyone!

Voting ends April 28!!!

Please vote daily for the next 3 months and help us win up to $10,000!

And no DFW Pug Rescue post is complete without pug pictures! And these are special, because these are AVAILABLE ADOPTABLE PUGS!

 

Arbuckle - 11 years old

 Lady Roxy and Sir Hardy, 11 and 10 years old

 Lucky Star, 9 years old

Lucy Liu, 5 years old

 Oida, 9 years old

 Piggeldy, 4 years old

Tawny, 7 years old

And these are just a few of the dozens of pugs DFW Pug Rescue is currently helping.

HELP US HELP THEM!

VOTE!!