Vintage Pug Senior Sanctuary

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Vintage Pug Senior Sanctuary

Vintage Pug Senior Sanctuary Registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to rescue, retirement, and hospice care

02/14/2025

Can you believe this sweet, beautiful girl still hasn’t received a single adoption application? Who’s going to be the one to tell her? Because we don’t want to 😔

Dot is around 6 - 8 years old, mostly housebroken, and the perfect, loving companion who doesn’t let her vision impairment slow her down. She’s diabetic and requires insulin (just $20/month!), but managing dog diabetes is super simple.
We get frequent pleas to take in new dogs, but we can’t do that if our current pups don’t get adopted. Resources are limited—space, time, and money. We’re just two people doing this because we love dogs. We stepped up for Dot and the 80+ dogs we’ve saved over the years—now it’s time for someone to step up for her.

Apply to adopt Dot through the link in our bio. Until then, she’s waiting, her heart bursting with love for the forever family she knows is out there ❤️

Ps. Thank you to () for fostering her and to () for taking beautiful photos of her.

02/02/2025

Our incredible little fighter Dot has come so far: her bloodwork is amazing considering the level of keto acidosis she arrived in. Her diabetes is well under control. She’s gained weight. Her injured eye has healed. She is becoming happy, confident, silly and adventurous. So now it’s time for the next stage of her life, a chapter where she knows a loving family instead of abuse and illness. To help everyone understand how easy and rewarding it can be to love a diabetic dog (even a blind one like our little Dottie) we’ve teamed up with the incredible !! Their mission is to teach everyone to Live Like Piggie by showing the joy and fulfillment of adopting a rescue - especially the less perfect pups we encounter. We’ll be sharing updates here about little miss Spotty Dottie, but please give them a follow and join in the fun while they embark on their next foster adventure. Diabetes isn’t hard. Neither is a blind dog. But you don’t have to take our word for it (we know. We’re battle hardened by every extreme medical case we’ve cared for) let show you ❤️❤️

01/20/2025

Today we are focused on the fact that hope can be an act of rebellion. That kindness isn’t weakness. That even when things seem overwhelming, desperate, frightening and depressing - there are so many people choosing to be selfless and work to make things better ❤️❤️❤️

01/19/2025

Little Oatie made his way to our vet ASAP as soon as we pulled him from the shelter. While being warm, clean, medicated, and well fed has done wonders in turning him into a bright and happy (and way less stinky!!) little guy in a matter of hours…the blood work is less encouraging. He’s very anemic, his liver and kidney values are crap. There are many signs his GI tract isn’t able to function as it should. We aren’t giving up hope and we will be following up with a lot of tests to get to the bottom of this. Even if this is the worst case scenario and the big C is at play and metastatic - Oatmeal will continue to be safe, happy and loved the way he deserves ❤️

01/17/2025

Welcome A205138 - now Oatmeal! Who no longer has to be a number, languishing in a shelter. He’s been kenneled a month waiting for a savior, completely emaciated. His skin is infected, his fur matted and falling out in clumps while open sores ooze and crust. Honestly we’re surprised he can stand up. The last time we saw a dog in this bad of shape was Pearl the poodle, and we are just as heartbroken this time to see any living being in this kind of condition. This senior Shih tzu is overwhelming us with love while we bath his painful skin, clip out the mats, treat his painful eyes and stinky ears, clip back the nails growing into his toe beans and try to help him be comfortable. We can never be sure what the future holds for a dog in this poor of condition, but tonight he is clean, warm, fed, and resting in a lap being told just how beautiful he is and how much he matters. A simple thing that all dogs deserve but not all encounter. Thank you for supporting us while we try to improve the lives of senior pups in need ❤️

01/10/2025

Our hearts ache for our beautiful state and all the people and animals affected by the devastating fires in Southern California. One of our moms is from Paradise, the site of the 2018 Camp Fire, and her heartbreak is deepened knowing our friends down south are now facing a similar tragedy.

If you’re evacuating north and need supplies for your dogs—or even just need someone to talk to—please don’t hesitate to reach out. Send us a message, and we’ll gladly share whatever we have to support you during this difficult time.

We’re here for you, and we love you all. Stay safe ❤️

01/09/2025

Happy 2025 from everyone in Vintage Land!! Thank you for bearing with us while we took a holiday rest. 2024 was a lot of ups and downs - both with rescue and our lives - and we decided to treat ourselves to a social media break to focus on the dogs, our families and regrouping for the new year. We’re here, we’re still saving pups and our restful holiday break was only mildly restful 😂 Our resolution for 2025 is to get back to our core mission: hospice. While we have treasured every rescue, every adventure, and have made some new partnerships to keep saving all the dogs who need help - Vintage Land is here to be a final step in the journey for dogs who need end of life care. We’ll bring you updates on everyone and cannot express how much we appreciate all of your support as we help these precious souls in need ❤️

12/15/2024

Taylor, the sweet senior Shih Tzu, has found a loving home with Michelle and her incredible family. After saying goodbye to their two beloved dogs earlier this year, they took some time to heal and have now opened their hearts to a new family member—just in time for the holidays. There’s something truly special about those who choose to give senior dogs a second chance at love💛

12/13/2024

In an effort to convince everyone that they should p*e outside even if it’s raining we invoked Santa Paws…he only brings toys and cookies to pups who don’t p*e on rugs and beds. They’re deliberating. Cookies are awesome. Damp paws are not. Maybe it’s worth a little coal in the stockings to stay dry? Moms are not looking forward to a whole winter of p**p in their shoes 🙄

11/27/2024

Every single puggy, pal, and person in Vintage Land wants to send the biggest Happy Birthday to the beautiful Wu-Puggy 🥳❤️🎂 She decided to use her birthday celebration to pay it forward and help raise funds for Vintage Pugs and the awesome We could not be more thankful for the generosity of Wu and her people. It’s a huge amount of time and energy and effort to arrange a raffle and it’s extra meaningful of the birthday girl to share the spotlight on her special day. Thank you to everyone who entered the raffle and helped out, we’re so very thankful for you all too ❤️❤️❤️

11/26/2024

We’re having extra extra extra thankful days leading into Thanksgiving 😍😍😍 Several Vintage Pugs are heading to their forever families this week and we are over the moon. Especially for our little Eggnog. He and his sweet mother Hazelnut came to us in pretty sad shape. But Eggnog is one of the sweetest, kindest pugs we have ever met and deserves the best home. previously adopted our lovely Henry (known as Boba in Vintage Land). Since Henry’s passing they have been healing and finally felt ready to open their hearts again. With Eggnog - now Peter - it was love at first sight. And we are beyond grateful this match came together because we know this incredible old pug is now in the best possible hands and we love when pugs we love are matched with people we love 💗

11/24/2024

We are super thankful for the community we have around us to help in our mission to save precious seniors. This week stepped in to help us get our beloved Taylor all fluffed and groomed for his meet and greet with potential adopters. We’re fairly confident you can’t help fall in love with Taylor no matter what, but this fresh haircut, bath, toothbrush and sassy bow tie really helped seal the deal and it was love at first sight for Taylor and his new family. After the chaos of the Thanksgiving holiday is over, Taylor will be heading to his forever home. Thank you for your wonderful staff and exceptional care of dogs ❤️

11/22/2024

We’re really enjoying our season of thanks here in Vintage Land. We are so thankful for all of our followers, supporters, donors, friends, volunteers, fellow rescues, shelter partners. And we are so thankful that abandoned, ill treated, unloved dogs like our CEO Lemon can come here to experience the support and love of a huge community of animal lovers who will erase the bad times and let them live out their golden days as the adored angels they deserve to be. We are extra thankful that even when Vintage Pugs cross the rainbow bridge, they’re never forgotten 🌈 ❤️

11/21/2024

Eggnog went in today for a neuter and a dental so he’ll be nice and ready for his forever family 🖤 If you’re able to donate, please use the link in our bio for your preferred method since our dang fundraising button feature is still down. OR you can donate to our vet directly!

Blue Raine Animal Hospital in Folsom, CA 916-984-0990

Ps. We have some really exciting news about Eggnog coming next week!

11/20/2024

Friends! is having a very special birthday next week, Wu’s 17th! We love that little lady so much. Not only is she one of the cutest things we’ve ever seen, she’s so philanthropic on her own birthday 🎉

Wu and family are going to pug-it-forward by facilitating a raffle for us and 💛 All of the details are in the photos, please scroll to check it out. And if you’re able to buy some tickets for a chance to get some awesome prize bundles we would be so grateful.

Thank you Wu and 😍❤️

11/19/2024

We have some difficult news to share, but it’s important to honor the life Hazelnut lived. Despite our best efforts, her cancer had advanced too far, and the complications from the metastasized disease made it impossible for her to live comfortably. With heavy hearts, we made the decision to let her go, peacefully and surrounded by love. She was in our arms, with her son, Eggnog, right by her side.

Though we are heartbroken by her loss, we are deeply grateful to our shelter and veterinary team for recognizing the worth and dignity of an abused and neglected senior dog. Hazelnut passed away knowing love and comfort, surrounded by caring people and furry companions. She has finally found peace.

We can’t save them all—it’s an impossible task—but for those who do cross our path, we promise to give them the dignity and love they deserve, no matter how brief their time with us may be.

Rest in peace, sweet Hazelnut 🌈🖤

11/13/2024

Is Hazel giving anyone else strong Alvey vibes??? 😭😭😭 Hazelnut and Eggnog are proving to be 2 of the sweetest, gentlest pugs we’ve ever come across. We’re so excited to get them feeling clean, warm, comfortable and healthy - they truly deserve the best 🥰

11/12/2024

We’re thankful that we have these two angels safe in hand!!! We’re a little less thankful that Meta (aka Facebook and Instagram) cannot figure out why fundraising has been disabled for our nonprofit accounts. If anyone has advice on dealing with their endless circles of non-answers, DM us! In the meantime, Eggnog and Hazelnut will be getting the royal spa experience tonight and seeing our amazing vets on Friday. Hazel has some significant mammary masses, both have damaged and atrophied eyes that look infected, and we’re pretty concerned about Egg’s head tilt and circling. We were looking forward to kicking off a big holiday fundraiser for Vintage Land but are a little stuck at the moment. If you’d like to help with Eggnog and Hazelnut (and Dot and Kiwi. And Lady Bug and Marmy and Tofu…you get the idea!) please see our linktree in our bio for our Venmo, PayPal, Cash App and Amazon and Chewy Wishlists ❤️❤️❤️

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1500 W El Camino #232
Sacramento, CA
95833

Website

http://www.vintagepugs.com/, https://linktr.ee/Vintage_Pug

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We had to take a minute for ourselves recently. We apologize for being quiet. But Fig was quiet. Don’t get us wrong, you always knew where he was. For a small guy with a smooshy head that slept 23 1/2 hours a day, Vintage Land was his kingdom. For over 2 years he was constantly underfoot. Claiming the best napping spots, claiming our bath towels when we showered, claiming the warmest sunbeams. He was Lemon’s first love and he bore a shocking resemblance to an angler fish (said with love - you should see mom Laurel’s memorial tattoo). He had big paws, a big head, and a giant heart. You were never going to hear him make a peep unless it was one of his patented, world-weary sighs when his 4th meal of the day ran behind. Those gorgeous deep wrinkles required intense cleaning and he put on a wonderful act twice a day that he hated it - but his strut around after being polished and the smile he wore when rooting in a bed to mess up our hard work told the truth. Fig was funny. Fig was opinionated. Fig was loving. He was our Benjamin Button and we truly never thought about a day where we’d say goodbye until it was upon us and we were suddenly overcome with grief we hadn’t expected. Thank you for bearing with us when we are quiet. Thank you for the love and support that let us give Fig almost 19 years in our world. Thank you for the donations that helped us provide him incredible care and a peaceful transition over the rainbow bridge. Thank you for loving to these dogs like we do. We miss Fig - thank you for sharing the burden of his loss with us ❤️❤️❤️

Please enjoy the progression of Dot’s face as we explained/translated what her dogtor said about glucose monitors and insulin injections. 😂😂😂 Jk all she heard was high protein food and more treats for tolerating her shots (which she’s already a pro at in less than 24 hours). Now mom Melissa’s face while trying to get a glucose monitor on a 9lb skeleton is another matter….

Now that she sprung from the shelter - she’s looking for Vintage Land!! Thank you for everyone who has donated to our fundraiser already. This precious gal is making her way to us. Our vets are ready for her, her decompression area is set up to help her relax after the big changes that come with a shelter and transport. And we’ve updated our Amazon and Chewy wishlists to reflect a lot of the supplies we have been low on lately (including our various foods for everyone’s special needs and challenges) and flea and tick meds for all these crusty shelter dogs that bring us hitchhiking critters 🤮

We have to spam you with another Raisin update: look at this glorious angel and her family. Her forever family!!! Never again to be abandoned, unwanted, alone, on the streets, in a shelter, uncertain about her next meal. Instead she’s the princess - protected by her brothers, adored by her parents. A life of literal sunshine, kisses, snuggles and safety. This is why we rescue. It can be exhausting, stressful, expensive, and overwhelming - but we wake up every single day ready for more as long as innocent babies like Raisin need help finding their forever ❤️

We’re pretty sure Norman has at least caught on to the happy vibe in Vintage Land knowing he might meet his forever family this weekend 🥰

Norman was dumped in a high-kill LA shelter in bad shape. We’ve spent the last few months taking care of his medical needs and getting him healthy. He’s a perfect older gentleman who didn’t deserve to be abandoned. Now in our rescue he’s had two adopters back out (at no fault of his own). He is now healthy, full of love and hope, and just waiting for someone to give him a chance like we did. If you’re in driving distance of Sacramento, CA and want to meet your new best friend PLEASE fill out an application at vintagepugs.com or via the link in our bio. Let’s get Norman a home of his own! 📍Sacramento, CA ⭐️ 8 year old male 🩹 fully vetted and ready to go 🐾 very sweet temperament 💛 lots of love to give

Our adorable Norman is on his way to the vet - today’s his big day!!! He’ll get neutered but also have a thorough exam of his ears, radiographs to tell us how to best help him with his mobility, and an evaluation of his special eye. Keep your paws crossed for a successful day for sweet Normie, this precious guy is just about ready for his forever home ❤️❤️❤️

Norman got another fluff n fold after his most recent vet visit (to prep him for surgery on Thursday). This little man is doing amazing 🥳🥳🥳

Sound up to play a guessing game: what is Raisin expressing her feelings about? A) no breakfast!! 😱 B) heading to the vet for surgery ❤️‍🩹 C) no applications to adopt her yet 😭 Wish this amazing Senior well - and if you are looking for a sweet 13 year old who can see, hear, walk on leash and complain about things that displease her (I mean…no one likes a missed breakfast) apply on our website ❤️❤️❤️