My name is Bridgy and I was turned into the Humane Society because I had a huge mass on the side of my face.  My owner tried to pass me off as a stray he found but I was microchipped to him :(  Anyway,  the vet looked at me and said it looked like a mass cell tumor.  It was going to be costly to save me he said and offered to euthanize me humanely but a nice lady at the shelter said I was too sweet so she called another nice lady that takes pugs and fixes them up and finds them homes.  She took me to the local internal medicine veterinarian Dr. Dennis who worked with another wonderful vet Dr. Layton.  They cut my tumor out but to get clean margins they had to go deep and take my entire left ear but that is OK because I can hear just fine out of my right ear.  The good news is they think they got all of the tumor and sent tissue off for biopsy for a grade level.  They all are very optimistic that the tumor will not come back and I will have a wonderful life.  11/21/08 I got to come home today.  I look a little different but the other pugs don't care neither does my mom.  I ate my dinner, went outside then I laid down by my moms feet while she works on the computer.  I don't let her out of my sight and she lets me follow her everywhere. My pug brothers....all 7 of them are jealous as they have to stay in the kitchen all the time because they mark things and I don't.   I feel very fortunate that Christmas came early for me this year and the angels were looking over me.  My surgery was very expensive so if you think I was worth saving and would like to be one of my holiday angels and help sponsor me I promise I will live a long life of love and will forever be grateful.

Let me introduce another Holiday special girl.....MISTY

.....she came to us from a breeder in KS with a prolapsed uterus. We got her in time as were able to save her with emergency surgery.  She is now resting comfortably in a wonderful foster home getting nursed back to health with love.

MISTI NOW LIVES IN OMAHA

Norton was found on a country road in Missouri very skinny and unable to walk.  Some wonderful people picked him up took him to the vet and looked for a rescue for him.  No one else would help him so the nice family offered to foster him for us and we took him back to our vet for evaluation.  Norton was apparently hit be a car.  Both his hips are broken and need to be surgically repaired.  He also has injured his bladder and will need exploratory surgery in the abdomen to repair the bladder and any other injuries.  Our vet has quoted us $1,000 to repair both hips which is a kindly generous.  The estimate for the exploratory surgery is $500-1,000 depending on what they find.   Norton will need both surgeries to help ease his pain and make his life fairly normal.  The exploratory surgery needs to be done soon so he does not get infection in his body and become septic from the bladder injury.  NORTON NOW LIVES IN CHICAGO

Charlie now lives in Chicago

Lil Girl now lives in St. Louis

Chloe now lives in Missouri

zoey now lives in Chicago

Sammy now lives in Kansas

Charlie now lives in Kansas City

Rocky now lives in Minneapolis