For all who have lost a dachsie

[Wienergal]

I don't know whether most of you are aware of this wonderful website, the Dachshund Memorial Garden. I stumbled across it just a few days ago. You can place a memorial to your dog on this site -- I did a memorial for Peaches and have found it very comforting. The site is beautiful and beautifully run, and although it is sad to look into the faces of all the departed dachsies and to read the heartfelt statements of loss by their humans, it's a peaceful place to go.

This is the link to Peaches's memorial. You can access the entire website from there.

http://cygnus.uwa.edu.au/~opalowl/may2002.html#peachesm

[Mark]

Hi Pamela,

Yes, this is a wonderful site! Meredith is a very close personal friend of ours and a member of this board (albeit she does not have a lot of time to visit or post). In fact, Jean had a hand in the sites design and layout. :)

[Wienergal]

I should have discerned the elegant hand of our Jean in that design! ;) It really is a great site!

Pamela

[Opalowl]

Hi Pamela,

Thanks for your kind message. Jean has, indeed, done masses of work on the website - as you can imagine, the really hard stuff. She set up the *fantastic* index, which was one heck of a job, and she also did a lot of boring stuff when I redesigned the page a few years ago. I could never do it without her. She also scans pictures for people in the States who don't have access to scanners, and basically does stuff that, for whatever reason, I can't do. Fr'instance, sometimes, just because we're so widely separated, she can get stuff through to her computer that, for some reason, won't get through to mine.

Jean is probably my best friend in the world - and I love her and Mark dearly.

[gunther's mom]

:luvlove:

[gunther's mom]

Hi Weinnergal-
I just took a look at Peaches. What a beauty and a joy it must have been for you to have her. Yes it is a lovely site,certainly a bit sad...but our furry friends live on in our heart forever. I hope we all do meet again.

[dachsie_girl]

I totally agree its a wonderful site which i came across a few months ago. It is superbly run although a sad place is comforting to see so many well loved dacshunds remembered together. :angel: My boy Toby (Jones) can be found in memory of 1999 in July.

Amy :dog:

[crock]

I agree, the site is just wonderful. Although it makes me cry, it is also uplifting to know how many wonderful little dachsies were loved so much. I have three listed there. Sometimes I go to the site to reread their memorial and have a little cry. I loved them so much.
Char

[assisivk]

I went to the site for the first time this weekend. I found myself going back over and over again. It's truly a beautiful memorial to the little ones that have been so loved. Wonderful work from those who created it.

I found that I was crying at some of it.... and laughing at some of the little anecdotes that were part of the memorials. The antics that make us love them so should be and are part of these memorials.

A wonderful site.

[Opalowl]

This will make you smile.

I first put up the memorial site in 1995 when our precious Bridget went to the Bridge long before her time. My daughter and I were beside ourselves and I *had* to do something. (Some of you may remember Bridget from the riva.com days.)

Obviously, my daughter, Panda, could have read any of the site any time from the computer at home.

For reasons best known to herself, she chose, instead, to go to the library, on her first day at university in 1998, and test out her new student Internet connection by going to the site and reading through it from start to finish. She came home with her eyes nearly swollen shut to tell me she's cried so hard she almost threw up.

I didn't ask...

[dutchman]

Hi Meredith,

We have exchanged a few e-mails from time to time and with your assistance put up a memorial to a couple of abused dachshunds. Some day I will figure out a way to condense my little mill girl Aggie's story to a size that can be posted on your site. It's difficult to believe it's been over two years since I lost her. It was about that time that I first located your site. It's a great rescource and I have mentioned it to many others. I think you know at least one of my Colorado rescue friends who recently posted one of her personal dogs at the site.

Tom and the boys (Frank, Tanner and Dexter)