Gladys

ADOPTED

I've been Adopted!

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Gladys is an exceptionally sweet senior pug. Her true age is anyone’s guess, whenever we ask, she just smiles. She has quite a bit of energy and strength. Her eyes and ears don’t work great, but that doesn’t really matter to her.

She gets along fantastic without perfect acuity in both. She can see enough to function like a seeing dog and can hear enough to know what you mean when you’re talking to her, but not enough for you to wake her from a nap when you come home.

These two qualities make her the quintessential pug in that she mostly ignores anything going on around her that might annoy her. She spends a great deal of her time sitting by her person or napping. She’s got plenty of energy, eats great and has a fantastic ability to sense when you need her.

Her sense of smell has only improved with age, thus an uncanny ability to know when it’s time for pugsupper.

Gladys gets along with everybody. She lives with other dogs, a cat, a toddler, a preschooler and two busy parents. She loves whomever sits by her. She doesn’t, however, care for anybody to sit ON her. This is not a problem with the humans (even the little ones – she has lightening fast reflexes!), but occasionally her foster young active Boston Terrier brother tries to play with her and she looks at him like he’s crazy and repositions herself and goes back to taking care of the couch/Mom’s chair.

She does fine when left alone for long work hours as she’s been trained to use a potty pad down the hallway, but still goes to her person or the door to ask to be let out before she finds her pad. She doesn’t mind being in the crate, but there’s never really a reason for her to need to go there.

She came from Maricopa County last year right after Gladys Knight had appeared on American Idol (see link) and at the time had been taught to go to the door and sing to be let out… also she sang for her food … and she was quite a singer – thus the name Gladys.

She was moved to a foster home where she was alone most of the day, which she really didn’t mind too much where she learned to use the potty pad during the day.

Gladys is a beautiful spirit and a loving girl. She does a funky head tilt scratchy wiggle thing when you pet her behind the ear and the puppy in her comes out when you scratch her chest.

She’s got plenty of energy and strength left in her. She jumps up on the couch when given permission by her person reaching down to touch her harness. She sleeps under the covers right next to her foster mom and stays there as long as you let her.

She is an adorable girl and would love to have a couch to call her own, a mom/dad to snuggle with at night and the assurance that she’ll be loved and cared for for the rest of her life.