Happy Life Sweet Harper!!!

Fostering is so bittersweet.  Most people say they could not do it because they could not give up the animal.  Yes, it is hard, very hard (but some are easier than others . . . lol!).  Sweet little Harper was adopted yesterday.  The couple has had pugs in the past and recently had one get her pug wings.

Harper now has a fur sister, a 4 year old bulldog.  Look at that face!!!  Ethel (don't you just LOVE that name?) has deformed front legs and was rescued from south of Houston, Texas.  New dad drove all that way to pick her up.

I spent two hours with the couple and Harper only had eyes for me.  Poor baby is just starved for love and attention.  I am happy to report she is stuck like glue to new mom today.  So much for pug loyalty😏.  But seriously it made my heart glad to hear that!!!  I think she may have won the pug lottery with Cathy and Bob.  She will get all the loves she deserves.

A few favorite pictures.

The day I picked her up.

Always needing to be close . . . sigh.

Her Yoda impression giving me the stink eye the day of her spay 😁

Look at that sweet face 💕

And that great curl!

Happy life, sweet Harper.  You took a piece of my heart, but you have a furever family who will love and spoil you.

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Pug hugs 😊
Lauren

NEWS!!!

As many of you may recall, I adopted (Bad) Miss Molly from Ohio Pug rescue in November of 2019.  She was my first "foster fail", meaning I was fostering her and then adopted her.  Here she is shortly after I adopted her.  This picture always makes me smile.  She just looks like she's saying, "Mom, please get me out of here".  

She ended up having pug myelopathy and was losing the use of her hind legs and bodily functions.  She began having seizures and sadly got her pug wings in April of 2023.  Those grey faces just melt my heart.

Fast forward to yesterday.  I finally welcomed a new furkid in to my life.  Meet Harper.  She was such a good girl on the hour ride to my house (after having spent three hours in a car heading north from southern Ohio).

On our morning walk.

Chillin' in the kitchen.

Poor baby.  Last evening her tail was between her legs.  Today she is showing off her great curl.

Harper has been through a lot in the last few days.  She and her sister were surrendered by their owner Saturday morning.  The owner had health issues and couldn't take care of them properly.  She spent three days with another OPR volunteer who brought her north.  In only three days she became so attached to her.  She just wants love and attention.  She is very sweet but has come with some baggage as I understand.  She "marks" if you walk away to another room and leave her.  I haven't left her loose out of my site!!!  She currently is in a crate while I work on this post.  She is not too happy, but last night she was the bestest girl in the crate.  Not a peep and the crate was clean this morning.  She also occasionally chases her tail which I was told could be a sign that she was confined to a small area.  Thankfully she is easily redirected.

You will be hearing lots more about her in the coming weeks/months.  She has a vet appointment next week and at that time a spay will be scheduled.  I just hope she does not come in to heat which would delay the spay by about three weeks.

Thanks so much for stopping by.
Now I can truly say pug hugs 😊
Lauren

Happy Birthday to ~

~  ERNESTINE ~

I fostered a pug named Cheerilee thru Ohio Pug Rescue back in August of 2017.  Within the week, DSO adopted her.  She was 5 years old at the time and an owner surrender so her exact birthdate was known.  Here is the official "adoption" photo.  I think they both look pretty happy.

He changed her name to Ernestine.  Remember the Lily Tomlin character Ernestine on Laugh In?  How she snorted and chortled? 

Pugs do the same.  Hence her name.  

Here she is today at 12.  Look at that gray face (and a few pounds extra pounds 😁).  Those gray faces just melt my heart.

She has been an absolute joy.  Unconditional love.  I highly recommend pet ownership, and please remember . . . 

ADOPT ~ DON'T SHOP

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Pug hugs 😊

Lauren

Saturday ~

It just doesn't feel like a Saturday.  I know, being retired it is sometimes hard to know what day of the week it is, but with Christmas and New Year's Day being on a Friday, I am totally confused!

Remember Cindy Lou Who, the foster girl, a pug wannabe who I got in December of 2018?  The poor baby who came to me in diapers?  Being treated for a UTI.  TOTALLY misdiagnosed by the vet she saw.

Here she was being taken to another vet because the "UTI" was not improving with the meds she was on.  This picture just cracks me up.  She looks totally pathetic.

It was discovered she had a HUGE bladder stone, filling her entire bladder.

This poor girl must have suffered for years.

She won the pug lottery the day Ohio Pug Rescue came in to her life.  Today she is living the good life with her humans and puggle sister.  Here she is chilling out on her Christmas present.  How I love a happy ending 💖

Hooking and stitching have been extremely slow but I finally finished the cat's paw tree and even got it bound.  It measures 21" x 17 1/2". I am still not wild about it.

A few final Christmas pictures ~

A beautifully painted St. Nicholas by my mom.  One of my most treasured pieces.

USPS finally delivered all my packages, the last of them 2 weeks after they were mailed.  A Christmas card from my brother and DSO who live less than 25 miles from me took 20 days to arrive.  A card was delivered today that was mailed December 10 from Alabama.  I'm sorry, I try to give them the benefit of the doubt, but this is totally unacceptable 😠

And I'll end this post with a laugh ~

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Pug hugs 😊
Lauren

Gotcha ~

August 12, 2017, DSO and I picked up my new foster pug, Cheerilee.  (The month she came in to Ohio Pug Rescue was My Little Pony month. Hence her name.)

Five days later, DSO adopted her and changed her name to Ernestine.  Think Lily Tomlin from Laugh In.  Snort.  Snort.

Today is the 3 year anniversary of her “gotcha day”.  They are still happy campers.

Food for thought.

This is my second post from the iPad.  Still struggling a bit because after many years I am still iPad challenged and still using old blogger.  At least it’s a start!

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Pug hugs 😊
Lauren

Happy Birthday ~

Today is Ernestine's 8th birthday.  She was an owner surrender with Ohio Pug Rescue so her birth date is known. 

She was my foster, adopted by DSO in just a few short days.

I wish I could say that she and my Molly are the best of friends . . . sigh.  They get along 98% of the time, but that other 2% is not pretty :(

I hope everyone is "social distancing".  It is so important at this very scary time.  Be safe and stay healthy.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Pug hugs :)

Lauren

Remember Cindy Lou Who?

Do you remember Cindy Lou Who, the foster I picked up a year ago?  She was bought on Craig's List by a good Samaritan (who I consider her guardian angel).  Listed for sale as an unspayed female pug for only $20, this good Samaritan bought her afraid of who would buy her and for what purpose, even though knowing she could not keep her.  This is a picture I received before picking her up.  Her guardian angel even bought her jammies to wear.  (This "pug" was actually a puggle.)

She had taken her to the vet and the vet diagnosed her with a UTI and put her on meds.  When I picked her up, she was in doggie diapers, a first for me.

Not getting any better, I took her to another vet.  Here we are on our way.  Isn't that one of the most pathetic sights you've ever seen?   

The second vet diagnosed her with a bladder stone.  It was easily felt.  How could the first vet totally miss it?

Thank goodness she was now in the hands of Ohio Pug Rescue (with me as her foster mom).  Cindy obviously had many litters of puppies and this stone had to have been growing in her for a long, long time.  She was spayed and this is the stone that was removed.  No wonder she felt she had to urinate every few minutes.  The stone filled her bladder.  Poor baby had to have been absolutely miserable, but by her disposition and sweet demeanor, you never would have known.

Thankfully she recovered quickly from the surgery.

Early in March she went to her furever home, to her new mom, dad and puggle sister.

 Here she is a few days before Christmas ~

~ and on Christmas Day in her new bed.  Mom reports that everyone loves Cindy and Cindy loves everyone.  How I love a happy ending :)

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Pug hugs :)
Lauren