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What is Pug Partners? Pug Partners is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to rescuing and re-homing purebred pugs

Mission
Pug Partners of Nebraska is a 501c3, non-profit organization comprised of dedicated volunteers who are committed to rescuing and re-homing pugs in need. We believe that all pugs deserve a chance to be loved and to love a human companion. A majority of our rescue pugs come from what is called a puppy mill (a mass breeding facility), we are very dedicated to these special dogs and providing them with the life they deserve. Our main purpose is to provide all of our rescue pugs with a loving foster home, quality dog food, medical care, and any other need that they may have while in our care. Our ultimate goal is to place each pug into a forever family that will continue to show the pug love, attention, and provide the care that they each deserve. We strive to educate our adopters and the public about our wonderful pug breed. Although pugs are quite different from most breeds, we want to show people how amazing these small dogs can be, and how they are great companions. Vision Statement

Pug Partners of Nebraska provides a service to the community for pugs in need, by rescuing purebred pugs that are in shelters, puppy mills, whose owners can no longer care for them, and for those who have become lost/abandoned and to place them in a loving and safe permanent home where they will be loved and cared for as companion pets. Goals of Pug Partners of Nebraska

To accomplish our mission, Pug Partners of Nebraska strives to:

Rescue adoptable pugs from a variety of situations and place them into loving foster homes until their permanent home can be found
Treat all pugs like our own, by giving them behavioral and medical attention that they need
Act as advocates by protecting and advancing the pug breed by encouraging responsible pug ownership and by rescuing pugs from unsafe or abusive situations
Carefully screen all volunteers to ensure that the most knowledgeable pug experts in the community are on board with pug Partners’ mission
Help reduce the pet over-population crisis by ensuring that all pugs adopted through our rescue are spayed or neutered
Have useful information available to those interested in adding a pug to their family
Provide the community with superior knowledge of the pug breed cooperate and network with other animal rescue organizations in the community and world-wide
Incorporate programs to help the rescue succeed and involved more volunteers.

11/12/2026

This week, we welcomed six pugs released from a life of breeding, and now they're starting their new lives. At vet visits, we learned our girls need more than we first knew. We're asking for your help to ensure we can cover surgeries to help with their breathing.

At least three of them, possibly four, will need surgery to help them breathe.

Think about that. For years, they’ve been working for every breath. Panting through warm days. Struggling when walking, trying to run, or even when sleeping. Snoring and snorting not because it’s cute, but because their airways are too narrow to let enough air through. They’ve never known any other way to live.

These surgeries can change that. They can mean easier walks, deeper sleep, and the simple, everyday relief of breathing without effort. They’re also expensive, and with three or four girls needing them, the cost adds up fast. On top of that, all six still need to be spayed.

Imagine breathing easily for the first time in your life.

That’s what your gift can give them.

We created Donny's Pack in memory of our forever foster Donny, who crossed the rainbow bridge last week. The promise we make to each pug in rescue is that they will receive the care and love they deserve. When you join Donny’s Pack today, you'll help ensure we can keep those promises: https://www.facebook.com/share/19nX99cGQp/

Every dollar goes straight to the surgeries, spays, and care these girls need to feel better and get ready for families of their own.

Donny taught us what it means to never face the hard parts alone. These girls have a lot of hard parts ahead. With you, they’ll face every one with a pack beside them.

Never alone. Not one of them.

11/12/2026

Just a few days ago, six girls came to Pug Partners who had never lived in a home. Tonight, our foster families have some stories to tell.

Appetites are coming back, slowly but surely. A few girls were too nervous or unwell to eat much at first. Jana even needed an extra vet visit for anti-nausea medicine. Now she’s eating, giving her foster mom kisses, and running laps around the yard with her foster sister.

Stairs that looked like mountains on Sunday are now no big deal. Mindy tackled a full flight for the first time this morning, and by dinnertime she was going up and down like she’d done it all her life. Abby has decided she’d rather take the ramp, thank you very much.

Their personalities are starting to shine through. Some are sweet and stubborn. Some are total velcro pugs. Tilly is doing so well, snuggling with the kids all night and wrestling with the resident dogs, that her foster mom is joking she can’t possibly be a breeder release. And at least one girl has a resident pup trying to take her out at the ankles, so they’re learning about siblings too.

There’s still work ahead. A few girls are in diapers while they learn housetraining and recover from their UTIs. They’re still timid at times. Spays and surgeries are still to come. But every day, they trust a little more, eat a little more, and climb a little higher.

That’s what your support is doing. It’s medicine, vet visits, and surgeries. It’s also kisses, zoomies, and a full night’s sleep.

We're nearing the end of our campaign tribute to our forever foster, Donny, who passed away last week. Join Donny’s Pack to help us ensure any pug in need gets the care they deserve. We’re still more than $500 away from our $2,500 goal. Help us get there today so these girls can continue to heal.

Join Donny’s Pack: https://www.facebook.com/share/1ACiJhtcxW/

Never alone. Not one of them.

11/11/2026

Some goodbyes come with no warning. Others come slowly, and with them, the hardest questions a person can face.

Who will take care of my dog when I’m gone?

Patrick and Bella each came to Pug Partners because their people were entering hospice. Two different homes. Two different families. The same heartbreaking moment.

We can only imagine what it’s like to reach the end of your life and have to let go of the little one who has been by your side through all of it. The one who slept at your feet. Who heard every secret. Who was there on the hard days, without ever being asked.

And we can only imagine what it’s like for the families, holding so much grief at once, caring for someone they love while knowing they can’t take in the dog that person loved most. That isn’t a failure. It’s what happens when life asks more of people than any one person can give.

That’s where we come in.

When Bella’s surrender form came in, one of our volunteers jumped into action and picked her up the very next day. Because when someone is saying goodbye and a family is navigating so much, the least we can do is make sure their pug is safe and in a loving home.

Patrick and Bella don’t understand where their people went. They don’t know why their homes are gone, or why everything smells different now. They only know that someone they loved is missing.

So we’re doing what their people would have wanted. We’re loving them.

Between them, they need a spay, treatment for a UTI and an ear infection, care for an eye ulcer, and a dental. Each one of those is something their families would have wanted handled, and something we’re honored to handle for them.

To every family who has had to make this choice: there’s no shame in asking for help. Your pug matters to us, because your pug mattered to you.

Thanks to you, we’re two-thirds of the way to our $2,500 goal. If Patrick and Bella’s story touched your heart, please don’t wait. Give what you can tonight. It matters more than you know.

Join Donny’s Pack: https://www.facebook.com/share/1QfDSbikhy/

Patrick and Bella have lost so much. Let them gain a pack.

Never alone. Not one of them.

11/10/2026

Five of our new girls saw the vet today. We were hoping for simple answers.

Instead, we learned that every one of them has a urinary tract infection.

Every one.

UTIs are painful. They burn. They make a dog feel like she always needs to go. And these girls couldn’t tell anyone. They just carried on, the way they always have.

For Mindy, the infection was so bad that there was blood in her urine. We thought she was in heat. She wasn’t. She was hurting, and she’d been quietly carrying it.

Tonight, all five are on medication. For the first time in a while, relief is on the way.

But today’s visits showed us more.

Jana needs surgery to help her breathe. She has been working for every breath, and soon she won’t have to. Tilly has a hernia that will be repaired when she’s spayed. And all of them will be spayed in the coming weeks.

Through it all, they’re curled up in foster homes tonight, with clean coats and a soft place to snuggle for scritches. They aren’t hurting alone anymore.

That’s what Donny’s Pack means. When a pug is in pain, someone notices. Someone acts. Someone stays.

We’re over halfway to our $2,500 goal, with just a few days left. Your gift covers their medications, their spays, the hernia repair, and the surgery that will help one sweet girl finally breathe easy.

Join Donny’s Pack: https://www.facebook.com/share/1FYQwPsLg5/

They’ve spent so long caring for everyone else. Let’s take care of them.

Never alone. Not one of them.

11/08/2026

Today, six pugs came to Pug Partners.

They’re 6 to 8 years old. For most of their lives, they’ve been mothers. They carried litter after litter. They nursed and cleaned and kept watch over puppies who grew up and went home to families of their own.

And every time, the puppies left. And they stayed behind.

Tonight, for the first time in their lives, it’s their turn to go home.

All six are settling into foster homes right now. Their first stop was the bathtub. Warm water. Gentle hands. A soft towel wrapped around a trembling little body. Someone kneeling beside them, saying their name, telling them they’re doing so good. For a dog who has always been the one taking care of everyone else, it may be the first time anyone has fussed over her just because she’s here.

They don’t know what comes next. They don’t know about couches yet, or laps, or someone who’ll wait for them at the door. They aren’t house-trained, because they’ve never lived in a home. Their fosters will start teaching them this week, one patient day at a time.

And some of what’s ahead will be hard.

All six need to be spayed. At least one needs surgery just to help her breathe. Imagine spending years working so hard for every breath, while caring for puppy after puppy. She deserves to rest. She deserves to breathe easy. With your help, she will.

This is why we built Donny’s Pack. Donny taught us that no pug should face the hard parts alone. These girls gave everything to everyone else. Now it’s our turn to give back to them.

We’re 21% of the way to our $2,500 goal. Every gift goes straight to their spays, surgery, and care, and gets them one step closer to families of their own.

Join Donny’s Pack: https://www.facebook.com/share/19vUQHkjvC/

They spent their lives watching their babies go home.

Let’s bring them home too.

Never alone. Not one of them.

11/07/2026

Donny crossed the Rainbow Bridge on Thursday.

If you never met him, let us tell you about him.

Before Pug Partners, Donny lived outside, his seizures going untreated. His condition was severe and complicated, more than any one person could manage alone. When he came through our doors, he was carrying so much. Uncontrolled seizures. A dislocated kneecap. A mouth that needed dental work. A little body that had been through more than any dog should.

His seizures came and went, and Donny fought through them all. He used to be alone, but now, through every single one, someone was there.

There were good days and hard ones. This fall, the ground shifted for the last time. More seizures. Restless nights. A hunger he couldn’t escape. No matter how gently his foster family held Donny, he couldn’t find peace anymore. The people who loved him most made the hardest, kindest choice they could.

On Thursday, Donny left this world in their arms.

Donny spent so much of his life without a pack.

In the end, he had all of us.

That’s why we’re launching Donny’s Pack.

Every gift you gave Donny, every share and every kind word, became his pack. It paid for his exams and medications. It gave him more good days. It meant he never faced a single seizure alone.

Now we want to be that pack for every pug who comes through our doors next. The ones who are sick. The ones who are scared. The ones whose families can’t care for them anymore. Pugs who need someone to say yes, and to stay.

In Donny’s memory, help us raise $2,500 to ensure more pugs receive the care they need. To ensure that we are the pack that has their backs.

Join Donny’s Pack: https://www.facebook.com/share/1NXX1bRSwF/

If you can’t give right now, please share his story. Donny spent so long unseen. Let him be seen now, and let his story reach the next pug who needs a pack.

Run free, sweet boy. We’ll take it from here.

11/06/2026

Yesterday, we told you it was time to say goodbye to Donny.

Within minutes, the comments started. They haven’t stopped since.

Your messages came, one after another, until we couldn’t keep up. Messages telling Donny he was a good boy, or actually the best boy! Messages telling him he mattered. Messages wrapping the Hansens, Kim, and his whole care team in more love than we knew how to hold.

And then you started telling us about your own dogs.

The pugs who slept on your feet for fourteen years. The old souls who greyed around the muzzle in your arms. The ones you had to let go of too, on a day you still remember. You shared their names. You told us they’d be waiting for him.

We keep picturing it.

Donny, who spent so many nights outside with no one beside him, crossing the rainbow bridge to find a crowd of your dogs waiting. Tails wagging. Snorting hello. Making room for the new boy.

He spent so much of his life without a pack.

He’ll never be without one again.

Thank you for loving a little dog many of you never met in person. Thank you for holding the people who held him. And thank you for trusting us with the memories of dogs you’ve lost, so that Donny wouldn’t have to go alone.

We miss him so much already.

Run free, sweet boy. They’re waiting for you.

Address

PO Box 752
Fort Calhoun, NE
68023

Telephone

+18885091940

Website

http://www.pugpartners.com/

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