Wienergal
06-25-2000, 08:44 AM
Well, things are heating up for Dachshund Rescue in the Chicago area. I have three new home visits to do; happily, I've spoken on the phone with two of the three and both WANT a dog who is five to seven years old! As many of you know, it's sometimes hard to find a home for a dog older than one or two, so this is a real boon!
One of the potential adopters just lost her old dachshund, and she has a younger one that she rescued on her own. Get this: A few years back, her neighbors got a smooth red female as a pup, and the poor thing spent virtually all her time chained in the back yard. This is in Chicago, mind you; it's cold here in the winter. When the dog was allowed in the house, she was crated. Cathy, my potential adopter, was always "babysitting" the dog for her neighbors and trying to convince them of the error of their ways, but gently. Since the neighbors were always too happy to have her babysit the dog, she didn't want to jeopardize that arrangement. All her good information fell on deaf ears. The neighbors insisted that, when the dog was loose, she created too much trouble, so it was the crate or the yard.
Then one day, the neighbor knocked on Cathy's door. She told Cathy that they were selling their house and moving, and she asked Cathy if she wanted their dog. Otherwise, she told Cathy, they were going to leave the dog on a roadside somewhere.
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Needless to say, Cathy took the little girl, who now has a very happy home. With luck, before too long, she'll have a little brother or sister.
The other woman I talked to used to work in a grooming salon. She had a yorkie and a dachshund, who just died at age 17, and she had her yorkie with her at the salon one day when a woman came in with her two children. The woman who came in really liked the yorkie and after a while, she said she liked the yorkie better than the dog they had, so if Amy could tell her where to get a yorkie, she was going to take her dog to the pound and get a yorkie instead.
Amazing, isn't it?
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One of the potential adopters just lost her old dachshund, and she has a younger one that she rescued on her own. Get this: A few years back, her neighbors got a smooth red female as a pup, and the poor thing spent virtually all her time chained in the back yard. This is in Chicago, mind you; it's cold here in the winter. When the dog was allowed in the house, she was crated. Cathy, my potential adopter, was always "babysitting" the dog for her neighbors and trying to convince them of the error of their ways, but gently. Since the neighbors were always too happy to have her babysit the dog, she didn't want to jeopardize that arrangement. All her good information fell on deaf ears. The neighbors insisted that, when the dog was loose, she created too much trouble, so it was the crate or the yard.
Then one day, the neighbor knocked on Cathy's door. She told Cathy that they were selling their house and moving, and she asked Cathy if she wanted their dog. Otherwise, she told Cathy, they were going to leave the dog on a roadside somewhere.
http://dachsie.org/ubb/smilies/angry.gif http://dachsie.org/ubb/smilies/angryfire.gif
Needless to say, Cathy took the little girl, who now has a very happy home. With luck, before too long, she'll have a little brother or sister.
The other woman I talked to used to work in a grooming salon. She had a yorkie and a dachshund, who just died at age 17, and she had her yorkie with her at the salon one day when a woman came in with her two children. The woman who came in really liked the yorkie and after a while, she said she liked the yorkie better than the dog they had, so if Amy could tell her where to get a yorkie, she was going to take her dog to the pound and get a yorkie instead.
Amazing, isn't it?
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