Buddha the Chug

I had spent 4 months looking the "the one" and it turns out all I had to do was sit on the floor at PetCo in Issaquah during a PUP adoption event.

I saw him come in the store in his foster Dad's arms and knew that he was going to pick me to be his new forever Mom. That was over a year ago.

Buddha is the best dog! He has just enough of the Chihuahua to be my fierce protector and just enough Pug to keep me laughing with his goofy ways.

Thank You PUP for giving me the opportunity to have such a WONDERFUL best friend :)

Buddha the Chug

I had spent 4 months looking the "the one" and it turns out all I had to do was sit on the floor at PetCo in Issaquah during a PUP adoption event.

I saw him come in the store in his foster Dad's arms and knew that he was going to pick me to be his new forever Mom. That was over a year ago.

Buddha is the best dog! He has just enough of the Chihuahua to be my fierce protector and just enough Pug to keep me laughing with his goofy ways.

Thank You PUP for giving me the opportunity to have such a WONDERFUL best friend :)

Mayzie girl

I saw Mayzie (formerly Mattie) on Petfinders. Her picture was the cutest thing! After submitting our application we couldn't believe she was still available. We met her and her foster Mom at Petco on a Saturday morning. I've always had medium size dogs so I was a little worried because she was so little at 5 lbs. But she was so adorable we brought her home... by noon she had won our hearts. At four and a half months she is tiny, but mighty and keeps us constantly entertained. She has a wonderful, happy, totally terrier personality. We are very grateful to her foster Mom for taking sure wonderful care of her... she is crate trained, in perfect health and has no bad habits. We are PUP fans for life. Thank you.

Pink

Pink

We adopted Pink over half a year ago and couldn't imagine life without her! :-)
She wanted us to share some of her pictures with her brother and best friend.

Pink

We adopted Pink over half a year ago and couldn't imagine life without her! :-)
She wanted us to share some of her pictures

Miss Margaret

Though my husband and I considered ourselves "cat people" and both had not had a dog since childhood, we decided to take the plunge into the dog world the second I saw Margaret's little face on the internet early last Spring. She was a rescue dog whose eyes pleaded "please - could someone just love me?"..... and we answered back, "ABSOLUTELY, we can!" and we haven't looked back since!! We could not love her more if we had given birth to her, I swear! And she loves us back with such a thankful enthusiasm for which words cannot do justice.

My main reason for writing this is to not only brag about finding the cutest dog in the world - but to encourage people who may be afraid to take on the responsibility of a dog - a 'rescue' dog at that - to do it anyway!! It is soooo worth it! You truly will not know until you just jump in with two feet. While there is a transitional time where you feel a bit (okay a lot) overwhelmed, that time is short compared to all of the remaining time you will have with your dog. People United for Pets was such an incredible support as we made our transition - and would be for you as well! They 'held our hands' over the phone and gave us answers we desperately needed, which enabled us to transition to 'dog people' as smoothly as possible.

There is not a day that goes by that I don't look at our sweet Margaret's face and give thanks that we took that scary step to dog ownership. She has made our life so much happier - and we can happily say that we know we've done the same for her. She now gets to live as the little princess she was no doubt born to be.