Name: Birdie
Age: 8 years old
Sex: F
Weight: 15 pounds
Altered: Yes
Previous Life: Breeder Release
Good with dogs/cats/kids: Yes, another dog is required/Unknown/Yes, but she does take a while to warm up to new people of any age.
Likes: She is starting to play with toys and chew on bones!
Dislikes: Change
House-trained: Yes
Crate trained: Yes
Fenced yard required: Not required, but is preferred. Adoption coordinator will evaluate potential adopters and decide accordingly.
Special needs: Birdie thrives in a calm, predictable environment and does best with gentle handling and routine. She has some manageable digestive sensitivities that are currently well controlled with a thoughtfully chosen diet, a consistent feeding schedule, and a calm mealtime routine. With this structure in place, she feels good and does well day to day. Birdie prefers low-key households and benefits from patient humans who allow her to approach on her own terms. Her foster family will happily review her routine and care plan with adopters to ensure a smooth transition and continued success.
About Birdie: Don’t let her calm demeanor fool you. Birdie has a whole personality, and once she feels at home, she is not shy about expressing it. Come home after being gone a while and she will greet you with a full dramatic screaming-talking routine — a pug opera of pure joy. Sleep in too long and she’ll station herself beside the bed, making her little pug noises until you get up and officially start the day with her. It’s impossible not to laugh.
Once the excitement settles, Birdie is one of the most easygoing dogs you’ll ever meet. She likes knowing where her people are, but she’s not a velcro pug. Her favorite spot is the end of the couch — close enough to keep an eye on everyone, far enough to have her own space. She’ll come find you when she wants scratches and pets, and she very much wants them. She just prefers being beside you rather than on top of you. She’s good company in the quietest, best way.
On nice days, Birdie loves following her people around the yard and finding a warm patch of sun to settle into. She’s really come into her own outdoors now that she feels safe and comfortable. In new places or around strangers, she tends to stay close to her person’s feet — she just likes knowing her anchor is nearby while she takes things in at her own pace.
With other dogs, Birdie is calm and polite. She doesn’t feel the need to go investigate every dog she meets, but she’s perfectly pleasant when they come to her. Since her foster family got a puppy, she has taken on a wonderfully patient, almost motherly role with him — tolerating a lot, watching over him quietly, and only occasionally telling him to knock it off when he pushes his luck. (Her foster family cheered when she did. She earned it.) Another calm dog in the home isn’t just tolerated — it’s genuinely good for her.
Birdie isn’t big into toys yet, but she loves a good bone or antler to chew on. Her one known crime: she has developed a taste for chewing on random plastic objects. The office chair lever that raises and lowers the seat has been her most recent victim. Keep an eye on your furniture adjustments.
Birdie’s ideal home: A calm, predictable household where she can exist quietly near her people and enjoy life at her own pace. She has some manageable digestive sensitivities that are well controlled with the right diet and a consistent routine — her foster family will walk any adopter through everything so she can keep thriving. She does best with at least one other easygoing dog for company.
Birdie doesn’t need a loud life. She needs a soft place to land, a reliable routine, and people who think her dramatic morning announcements are the best part of the day. In return, she offers gentle companionship, genuinely funny pug noises, and a bond that gets sweeter the longer you know her.
Are you interested in adopting Birdie? Review our adoption procedures and learn the next steps here.
Birdie’s minimum adoption donation is $275.