Perhaps you have decided to open your home and open your heart to an abandoned Pug. Pugs make great companions and have even temperaments. Adult Pugs from a Pug rescue centre will often be fully trained and already up to date on shots and vet care. You could try to find a Pug at your local all-pet animal shelter, but the workers and volunteers there are very overworked. Also, because of the rapid turnover, they do not get to know much about the animals they have for adoption.

Where can you find a good Pug rescue centre? You can ask your local animal shelter or even a Pug Meet-Up group, on line or in person. The quickest and most effective way is to look online. You might be leery of doing this because of some dog-related computer scams. If you use your common sense and look out for certain warning signs on a website, then you will safely avoid the scammers. A legitimate Pug rescue group will never do or offer any of the following. They won’t offer puppies year round. They usually never have puppies at all! They also will never offer to ship the dog anywhere. You usually have to provide all transportation yourself. And they will have you fill out a long application form and then set up an interview with you rather than having you fill out an order form to be filled. Most importantly, a good Pug rescue centre will never have you pay all of the adoption fees before you meet the Pug. You always should be able to visit the home or shelter where the Pug is being fostered before you agree to any adoption of any specific dog. In this way, you get to not only see what the Pug is like, but what conditions the Pug is being kept in. If you see any Pugs kept in extremely unsanitary conditions, made to live in backyard pens or in stacked crates, please get out of there and call the SPCA. A good Pug rescue centre will grill you over closely with a ton of questions, background checks, home checks and application forms. They have the final say over who gets what Pug ? you don’t. A good Pug rescue centre will also help you with any Pug information questions you have and can help you with training and advice long after you bring the dog home. Be patient with Pug rescue centre people. They are usually not paid employees of any organization. They are volunteers who have opened up their home to taking in one or more abandoned Pugs, rehabilitating them and then letting them go again. All Pug rescue centres charge adoption fees of a few hundred dollars, so expect that. Anyone giving away Pugs for free doesn’t care where the Pugs will wind up.