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 not offer to ship their dogs and almost never have puppies available. They often will not allow potential adopters to be more than a few hours’ drive from the foster home. A legitimate Pug rescue group will base their adoption process a lot like the process for adopting a human child. This is to not only discourage impulse adopting, but to make sure the Pug doesn’t get abandoned again.

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.
Remember ever to lay any money down for a Pug that you’ve never met. This way you can avoid scams and other potential heartbreaks. You will be expected to provide your own transportation both to and from the Pug rescue centre. You should also be able to visit the Pug rescue centre or foster home where you can not only see your potential Pug, but also see under what circumstances he or she is living in.

Most Pug rescue centres are a network of foster homes and not one central building. Get to know about Pugs in general before you visit. They often are a noisy breed and naturally chunky. If you not aware of how a healthy Pug behaves, looks or sounds, it will seem that all of the Pugs are quite ill when they are acting normally. 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.

Pug rescue dogs make great pets and usually have some training already. You can get quality Pug information from any reputable breeder.