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[RuralPug]

I've just been asked for details of pug rescue in NSW. I advised them Denise at Paws and then Pugs SOS, and then was told it was really really urgent because the bitch just didn't get along with the male pug she had been fostered with.

Whoa!! I said, this needs to be sorted with the rescue that she was surrendered to.

Long story, they said, she needs a new rescue...

I don't know any further details as yet, but just in case it turns out to be a rescue that has folded I'm putting the word out ASAP for a foster carer - obviously one with the means to separate dogs or with no other dogs just to be on the safe side. At this stage I am waiting for information on vetwork status while an appropriate new rescue is sourced.

So this MIGHT be a very very temporary foster, then hand over to the new rescue's foster, or the temp foster could apply to foster her under the new rescue.

Of course, it also might be that the current foster carer doesn't get along with the current rescue who will supply their own alternative foster carer... I have heard of that happening too and I won't be assuming anything without making my best attempts to contact the rescue that was was surrendered to.

This 6yo was a private surrender and not through a pound, so probably won't need strict quarantine. "Very bossy" is the description, hasn't been behavior assessed yet as far as I know. Currently in the southwestern suburbs of Sydney.

I know that seeking emergency foster care BEFORE finding a rescue seems like putting the cart before the horse, but I am back up rescue if all else fails.

And please don't ask me for details of the rescue involved - remember it MIGHT be the foster carer that has the problem, not the rescue. I will update in general terms as I get more info but I don't believe in naming and shaming as a general rule.

Edited November 13, 2015 by RuralPug

[Her Majesty Dogmad]

It's late and I may have the wrong end of the stick but isn't the dog chipped to the rescue group?

Foster carers can't pass on dogs that don't belong to them.

[RuralPug]

Oh I agree with you DM in principle, which is why I said I what I did. And to date, I haven't heard a single thing more from the (known to me and quite sensible) third party who was screaming for emergency help on behalf of the foster carer. Which I hope means that the situation has now found some sort of solution. (Still waiting after following up).

It is not uncommon that a badly bred Pug (especially if ignorantly owned by surrenderers) will have multiple health problems that are very, very expensive to fix. And it has happened that non-breed wise rescues have excitedly accepted such a surrender of a popular breed and then been aghast to discover that they will need to find multiple thousands of dollars for health fixes before the dog is adoptable. Of course the sensible thing to do is to transfer the surrender to a specialist breed rescue who can and will meet those costs, but sometimes the sensible thing just doesn't happen.

I was told that this bitch needed "either a new rescue or a new carer". And that the current carer's dog was suffering badly from the foster bitch's attitude. Which made me suspect that the rescue is over its head in this case, needs time and doesn't have alternate foster carers available - that being the case, they may well be quite happy for a breed savvy rescue to step in or for a new foster carer to stick their hand up. All assumptions on my part - maybe they just don't have any spare carers, or maybe, worst case scenario) a moonlit flit has happened, in which case a common sense investigation followed by a stat dec should sort the chipping out.