Foster Failures

I want to take a moment to tell you about what the rescue community calls "Foster Failures."

It's meant as a humorous term! A Foster Failure is someone who was fostering an adoptable dog for a rescue, but they fell madly in love (head over heels!) for their foster dog and, well, decided they just couldn't let them go so they decided to adopt the dog themselves!

We had 3 foster failures in this month alone! Our foster adoptions take priority over outside adoptions since a foster has already opened their home to a homeless pup and gave them so much love when they needed it the most. Fostering is one of the hardest things I've ever had to do, because it hurts so much to let them go. I hope our adoption applicants understand.

We have so much love and respect for our fosters. They selflessly open their homes to dogs who may be sick, or not housebroken, or injured; and they do it without hesitation. We couldn't do any of this without them.

On that note, we'd like to congratulate Milton, Daphne and Sora for finding their forever homes (even if they found it months ago!). We love these pups and their amazing fosters (I mean owners!), and we will them all the happiness in the world!

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Milton

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Daphne

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Sora

Howl-O-Ween

We had a very successful event today! Ms. Bea and Daphne received a lot of adoption applications. We want to thank the City of El Paso Animal Services and Petco for inviting us and making us part of this very special event.

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Fundraiser for Brindle Strays Medical Expenses

We started a new fundraiser for our brindle strays!

Please donate here: www.gofundme.com/eppr-medical-fund

We received 2 brindle strays on October 7, 2015, and we did our best to find their original owners, but no one has come forward. It has been 3 weeks that we have searched for them, so now we need to add these two pups into our rescue which means they will need to be spayed/neutered, vaccinated, heartworm tested, placed on Heartgard, and microchipped.

We have affectionately named them Brad and Ms. Bea.

Ms. Bea appears to be a Boston Terrier / Pug Mix, about 4 years old, and a recent mommy. She is a very loving little girl.

Brad appears to be a Boston Terrier / Pug Mix, also about a year old, and he is just as affectionate as Ms. Bea. We believe she may be his mom.

Please help if you can by donating and sharing our fundraiser.

If you'd prefer to make a donation directly to our veterinary clinic, please contact East El Paso Animal Hospital at (915) 593-1712, and mention that you'd like to make a donation for the El Paso Pug Rescue.

Thank you!

Brindle Strays

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Two brindle strays have come our way! They're a beautiful pair who were found on the east side 3 days ago (Sunday, October 4, 2015) on a busy street. We will continue looking for their family for a while. Please contact us to identify them, if they belong to you.