Help us find pawfect homes for some pugs
AN ELLAND family have been thanked for their kind-heartedness after fostering 10 pugs over the last three years.
Maria, Marcus and Pip RulesHazzard decided they wanted to help the Pug Dog Rescue and Rehoming Association (PDWRA) charity almost three years ago and have already fostered 10 pugs.
The family recently fostered their tenth pug Eric, and he has stolen their hearts and they are now going to offer him his forever home.
Foster mum Maria said: “The hardest part of fostering a pug is when its time to let them go on to their forever home, there are always tears!
“As a foster family we don’t get to meet their previous family for confidentially reasons, but it’s really lovely to have feedback from their forever home as a bit of your heart goes with each pug.
“The most rewarding part is knowing that you have helped to find that dog their happy ending.”
Maria says their whole family get involved. Husband Marcus helps at the fundraising activities and daughter Pip has sold her soft toy collection to raise vital funds and even organised a sponsored 24-hour ‘live-ina-box’ event which raised over £100.
The PDWRA, which is run entirely by volunteers, has helped 645 pugs across the UK in the last two years. PDWRA stay in dual-ownership of all re-homed pugs and pay for the treatment of all pre-existing conditions for life, ensuring the pugs they help have the best possible care and support.
Lisa Butland, who is PDWRA Yorkshire re-homing co-Ordinator and chief executive of Age UK for Calderdale and Kirklees has re-homed more than 60 pugs, and said her family got their first pug called Bruce four years ago and adopted a four year old pug called Albert from the PDWRA in 2017.
She said: “We are a charity dedicated to the welfare and rehoming of pugs.
“We are run entirely by volunteers and so value all donations. We are so grateful to all our supporters and love the creativity of their ideas.
“We have been very lucky to have the support of lovely families likes the Rules’, we are very grateful for everyone who supports our work.”
We are run entirely by volunteers and so value all donations
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