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To enquire about adopting Benji please email with how your home and lifestyle matches his furever home wishes. (Please include your Name, Email Address, Suburb & Phone Number & photo of your existing pug): info@pugrescue.org.au
- ♦Please note that due to the large volume of daily adoption enquiries we receive, our volunteers are unable to respond to adoption enquiries that clearly do not match the clearly state furever home requirements of each available pug/dog.
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Male Black ANKC Pedigree Desexed Pug – 7.8kg
Microchip Number: #953010000412010
DOB: 31/12/2014
RE108835
Woo woo woo..
Benji here asking am I the one for you?
Can you make my furever home dreams come true?
I can do shake paw and sit and wait…
And I love toys and think cuddles are great..
I’m great with puggy friends and even cats…
And walkies are so much fun as I strut along being a handsome chap…
I arrived into Pug Rescue care quite a few months ago with a can of Pal as my only possession and extremely overweight…
And my mental health was also in quite a state…
I was suffering terribly from BOAS that really making horrible noises gasping for air..
And was covered in dead brown matted hair…
Severe anxiety made me scream and shout and howl very loudly…
Almost constantly…
And I also had rotten yucky teethy…
Foster care has turned my life around..
With lots of socialisation and learning new routines my anxiety has calmed right down…
Instead of howling and barking constantly it’s now just at food or play times that I make woo woo happy sounds…
I’ve had many baths and brushes and I’ve also lost 4.7kg of excess weight (was 12.5kg now 7.8kg) so it’s so much easier to strut around…
I’ve had my ear infections treated by Knox Vet and Dr Laura performed my major dental removing 16 rotting teeth and I also had a vaccination too…
It’s ok I can still eat and chew…
And best of all at nearly 9 years old I was gifted by Pug Rescue BOAS “Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome” surgery woo hoo..
Dr Ricky and the Geelong Animal Referral Services Team widened my nostrils thinned and shortened my soft palate and removed my tonsils which has improved my breathing quite dramatically now I have less restricted airways to breathe through…
So anyway…
If you have a female puggy that would like a companion and to play…
And I sound like the puggy chap for you…
Send an adoption enquiry through…
Benji xxx
Benji is toilet trained.
Benji sleeps on a doggy bed either by himself or with another pug. He is also happy to sleep in a crate with another pug.
Benji is fantastic walking on a lead and harness and does not pull and is not reactive.
Benji is great in a crate in the car.
Benji’s furever home wishes:
♥ ANOTHER PUG – YES! Benji has previously lived with another pug and lives with other pugs in his foster home. Wally is a lovely fit boy who loves to play and wrestle and is seeking a similar aged healthy female small desexed pug (between 7 to 10 years) who is well socalised as a companion. Benji will not be rehomed with other male pugs/dogs. Benji will not be rehomed as a single pug. Benji will not be rehomed with another breed of dog.
♥ HUMANS – Benji is seeking humans that can show him positive leadership. Benji can never be made by his humans to become overweight again!!!! Benji must have regular brushes and baths.
♥KIDS – Yes. Benji would be fine with older school aged children who are respectful to dogs.
♥FENCING – Benji as with all of our pugs requires secure brick, timber or colourbond fencing.
♥CATS – Benji is fine with cats and lives with two in his foster home.
♥EXERCISE – Benji requires at least a 15 to 20 minute walk a day plus play times.
♥WORKING HOURS – Not suitable for homes where he would be left without humans for 6+ hours a day on a regular basis.
♥Benji absolutely requires air-condition.
♥Access to the inside of his house 24/7 and an indoor bed.
♥HOUSE & YARD SIZE/TYPE – Benji may be fine in a house/townhouse with a smaller yard but he does like to woo woo woo with happiness so neighbours must not be too close.
Medical notes:
- Benji has undergone vaccination at Knox Vet.
- Benji has undergone a major dental at Knox Vet.
- Benji has undergone ear infection treatment at Knox Vet.
- Benji has undergone specialist airway surgery by Dr Ricky of Geelong Animal Referral Services (folded palatoplasty to trim and reduce the thickness of his soft palate, widening of his nares/nostrils and tonsillectomy)
- Benji has lost 4kg+ of excess weight.
- Wally is desexed, C5 vaccinated, is microchipped & up to date with his worming & flea prevention.