Back in June of 2008, we adopted a little pug from Atlanta Pet Rescue. While at your facility he was known as Nube; however, we renamed him Jake when we got home. Our Jake has a history much like Betty’s, so when I read her story my heart immediately went out to her. Jake came to you also with heartworms but survived and we are grateful to have him as a member of our family today. He has been on his heartworm preventative ever since he arrived home with us and gives us more love today that back then. He definitely has his spot in our family. Back then we had 2 other pugs and were quite familiar with the breed; that’s why taking Jake into our home was “a no brainer” for us. Just something that we felt we needed and wanted to do. But if Atlanta Pet Rescue had not been there and had not treated Jake we wouldn’t know the joy of having him as we do today. So you see it does my heart good to help Betty because I hope that she too will survive her heartworm treatment and will also find a wonderful home with a family that will love and care for her as we do our Jake. Since we adopted Jake, one of our pre Jake pugs (Buster), passed away with a collapsed trachea. He was 14 years old (soon to be 15), and we still miss him terribly today.
Good luck and thank you for all that you folks do at Atlanta Pet Rescue. We’ll be thinking about Betty and will keep her in our prayers! ~ Richard K.