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2001 PDWRA All rights Reserved
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Registered Charity No. 276067
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The Story of Theodore
Cooper
Theodore started life as Kyle,
in another life became Timmy, and now with us is Theodore
- an unfair imposition on a pug to have so many changes of
name but Theodore will be his last and after only a couple
of weeks he seemed quite happy with Theo. When
we first made contact with the PDWA the chance of a pug needing
to be rehomed with us seemed a lovely idea but unlikely to
happen. And then one evening came the call about Theo - who
sounded a fairly unlikely candidate and Mrs S was very firm
that we should think carefully before agreeing to take him
on. A 6 yr old fawn male who'd had two homes and various spells
with the RSPCA in between, in an attack by other dogs he'd
lost one eye not to mention various bits of skin and ears,
he'd been badly starved and his latest carer was discarding
him because he was aggressive. In spite of all that we were
excited and prepared to give him a go, and drove to Sussex
the next day to collect him
We've had him nearly two months
now and would no more give him up than a mother would give
up a baby! Though in many ways he's more of a challenge than
any baby! His 'aggression' is obviously triggered by events
from his past and bit by bit we're learning to deal with that.
Part of his fear is obviously associated with cars and we've
both at fairly hair-raising moments been attacked in the car;
quite difficult if you're just entering the M25! And he's
VERY cautious about being picked up or sitting on knees but
he's gradually overcoming this and realising that, whatever
happened in the past, it won't be repeated with us.How anyone
could have mistreated this creature is a mystery.
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He is a delight, and right
from the beginning rushed into our house with a great pugish
grin saying 'I think I'm going to like it here, and can I
stay, please'. Either his past starvation or natural greed
has given him an obsession with food - open the fridge or
a cupboard or a box and he's in, grinning and wagging and
saying 'can I have some please' ... after three weeks with
us he'd gained 3 kgs in weight! - and just from normal balanced
feeding, not from overfeeding and spoiling. He's become an
avid and really quite expert golfer, with huge enjoyment he
trots round 18 holes of golf with Paul, very well behaved
and only puzzled that he's not allowed to fish the ball out
of the holes once it's gone in.
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Golfing nearly led to his
downfall within the first two weeks of his moving in with
us - Paul went out with his clubs, left Theo behind. Theo
was having none of this, raced through the house and out the
catflap - thought: 'the car's gone that way and I'll follow'
and we - and he - were SO lucky that he was picked up wandering
along the middle of the road a mile or two from us and taken
to the nearest vet, who rang his local colleagues to see who
had a one-eyed pug on their books! He now has a tag on his
collar, and less easy access to the catflap!
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