Amanda's Story

As a young kid, I had always wanted a pug. The dog with the wrinkled, pushed-in face, big beady eyes and curly tail. You could say I was obsessed with them. Every couple of days my mom would check a Facebook page for the Pug Rescue of New England. There was a little 2 year old pug up for adoption named Lily, and she just caught my eye. My family looked into getting a pug. There were a couple problems. We already have a 90 pound yellow Labrador, we aren’t always home to take care of the dogs (we’re at school and work), and we didn’t know if this one dog would fit our family and our lifestyle. We had a man come do a house inspection to see if we would be the right home for this dog. We also had the owner of Lily, bring the dog to our house to see if she would fit in with Baxter (our other dog). They seemed to get along pretty well. But here’s the backstory about Lily- she was a rescue dog who was abandoned for at least a year after her previous owner passed away. She became lonely, hungry, and overall pretty sad. The relatives of this older lady who passed, would come feed her only a few times a week. The Pug Rescue of New England took her in to put her up for adoption. Soon enough, Lily was ours. I came home from school one day to see a little pug on my kitchen floor. The first thing I asked was, “Is she mine?”, and to my luck she was. And she was one of the best things that ever happened to me because she continues to make me smile every day. Lily has been with our family for around 2-3 years and has come to love us and our other dog Baxter. Lily has become so important to me because I advocated to first get her when my parents and brother were unsure about it. We have grown a bond because we love each other so much.