Email to enquire about adopting Dexter: info@pugrescue.org.au
Microchip number: 900012000930090 DOB: 25/06/2012
Male Desexed Pug

Pick me!
I have so much love to give, can't you see?
I'm such a special boy who loves life despite my epilepsy...

Check out Dexter playing wrestle mania in his Pug Rescue foster home here: www.facebook.com/PugRescueVic/videos/10155378558803338/

Donate directly to Pug Rescue to help care for Dexter here: www.pugrescue.org.au/donations

Dexter is such a great little puggy man...
Who aims to please in any way he can...
A tiny pocket rocket pug...
Full of so much love...

He is first on the scene to everything going on in his foster home...
And loves walks, pottering about the house and even takes himself out to the toilet all alone..

Don't let his grey whiskers fool you as they add class and charm to his little face..
He's turning 5 this year and thinks being alive is ace....

Drives in the car are fun....
He loves to sit in the passenger seat next to foster mum...

Dexter is a little pug that was advertised on a free to good home on a trading website....
As we all know there is no such thing as a free pug and although Dexter is a delight...
What the advertisement failed to mention was that Dexter has epilepsy, terrible breathing and a luxating patella so is a bit of a medical mess...
Lucky for Dexter that Pug Rescue took him into care and saved some unsuspecting member of the public much distress...

In Pug Rescues care we have been monitoring Dexters epilepsy which we found to not at all be controlled with the medication(Penomav)he was on from his former home which is sad....
Watching a little pug struggle and fit is bad...

After blood tests, emergency vet visits due to constant fitting and consulting several vets and other rescue colleagues...
We finally have Dexter on the right dosage and right meds yippy....
Now on both Penomav and Pexion twice a day....
Dexters epilepsy has been stable yay...

With airway surgery now done...
Dexter can breath amazingly well reports his Pug Rescue foster mum...
It's great to have help Dexter with something he should have had done many years ago which is to have surgery to get his airways fixed...
We know that hot days which put his breathing and body under stress and also being to crazy and active running and playing contributed to Dexter having fits....

He sits and waits for his dinner bowl to go down on the floor and the command to eat like a good pup....
And has been trained out of jumping up...

Dexter can't wait to be someone's best mate....
He wonders if you are the special furever family that will make his life great....

Dexter's seeking a home with a placid small desexed female pug/small breed dog. He may be suitable as a single pug. He will not be rehomed with a pug/dog much larger then himself, one that is extremely excitable or a male pug/dog. Please don't ask for him to be.

Dexter requires a home with airconditioning.
Dexter requires a warm indoor bed & access to inside his home 24/7.
Dexter is fine with dog friendly cats & has lived with cats in Pug Rescue foster care.
Dexter is not suitable for a home with children under 15.

Dexter's vet work has cost Pug Rescue $2,500+. He has undergone airway surgery, vet care for his epilepsy and is desexed, vaccinated, microchipped and is up to date with his intestinal worm, heart worm and flea prevention.

Please visit our website and read our 'is a pug for you' page before you consider applying to adopt. www.pugrescue.org.au

Please be patient, it may take a few days but we will get back to you. We have many pugs to care for and are staffed by only a very small group of unpaid dedicated volunteers.
*We are located in Victoria, Australia. **Our pugs are not available for interstate or overseas adoption. Please do not ask. ***We do not have a shelter or kennels, with all of our pugs fostered in private volunteers homes.