Archie, was surrendered to PDWRA with his brother Benny, who we wrote about a few weeks ago. One of our volunteers Hannah, who also has pugs, fell in love with him from the moment she saw him at her local park with his foster Sue. She had seen them both through dentals, as well as Archie having to have a dreaded graft procedure from an ulcer. Sue already had an adopted PDWRA pug, Alfie, and as we often find, was considering adopting but couldn’t manage both of them. Archie was 11 years old and had ongoing and progressive healthcare needs that Hannah was willing to manage, so she jumped at the opportunity to discuss with us, giving him his forever home.
Hannah updates us:”I’m so happy to say our golden oldie Archie is settling in well. It was all a bit strange for him at first having two new brothers and one new sister in our home and for the first few weeks at night, he needed either me or hubby Joe, to lay with him whilst he settled, but we didn’t mind as we got extra snuggles with him!
His eye is healing now ulcer-free, however, unfortunately it was soon followed by an ulcer in his other eye! Thankfully, I spotted it straight away, knowing the signs, having been through it a few times with my other pugs, so got him to vets quickly. It was treated in the usual way with endless drops and was gone in one week ..thank goodness 😅
He’s getting on well with his new siblings and puts them in their place by doing what we call the death stare 😳 should he feel they need it, and especially if they’re in the spot where he wants to relax. Stevie our other PDWRA rescue took a bit more time learning to love Archie – simply because he loves and craves all the attention and didn’t want to share his mum and dad with anyone else, let alone someone new! But he’s more than happy to let Archie lick his ears and get in bed with him now.
Like most pugs Archie absolutely loves his food and feels no shame about barking at 5:45am every morning to let us know he’s ready for his breakfast! There’s often a little gift waiting for us in the morning also, as he hasn’t got much awareness of his bowel functions, especially if he’s excited or when I pick him up.
It’s also so lovely that his brother Benny only lives a ten-minute walk from our house, which means they still get to see each other. We really did consider taking them both, but it would have been too much. And with our resident Stevie, I know how jealous he gets and how much attention the others need – it wouldn’t be fair to take that much attention away from each of them. All in all, we feel both Archie and Benny have landed on their paws and we adore our little snuggle monster!”.
