Woman Flies All The Way To Iran To Save A Sick Pug She’s Never Met

Before Chance got his name, the tiny pug didn’t seem to have a chance in the world. Not only was he injured and disabled, but he was also living in a place where he couldn’t get the help he needed.

But in the most amazing chain of events, Chance got a second shot at life — and he has two women to thank.

The Pug Queen

Izabella St. James first learned about Chance when an Iranian woman, Katy Kargosha, who lives in New Orleans, sent her a private message on Instagram.

“She sent me a video of a pug who was crippled, and when I saw his little face, I was crying,” St. James, a pug rescuer and the woman behind The Pug Queen, told The Dodo. “He was lying still with this horrendous neck brace on him, and he was just crying and barking, and he couldn’t move.”

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“She asked me if doctors could do anything for this pug,” St. James added. “And I said, ‘Yes. Send him to me. I’ll pay for his flight.’”

But Chance wasn’t in the United States — he was in Iran. So getting him medical help was going to be difficult.

St. James and Kargosha continued their correspondence, and St. James tried to get as much backstory as she could about Chance. From what she’d been told, Chance had been abused by his original family in Tehran, which caused a life-threatening injury to his neck. However, his family didn’t seek help, according to St. James.

One of the original Instagram posts about Chance on Iranian social media | Katy Kargosha

“They didn’t take him to the vet,” St. James said. “They just let him be disabled and injured as he was, so things healed in a bad way.”

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