Wiener Dog Rescue Blog

Welcome to your retirement, Bella and Chloe. Don’t be scared. CDR will take good care of you. You’ll love beds, blankets, outside, good food, and vet care. You will never have to have puppies again.

Sorry – all the calls about Dachshunds needing help are giving me a headache. I’m busy arranging foster homes and transports for four or five new dogs.  I did mention that the busy season starts now, right?

We’ve got at least two spays and dentals to do on some girls that are finally free from a puppy mill, and a few neuters to do as well. I hope our walk-a-thon is successful!

Man, do I ever hate those mills. I’ll tell you guys all about the newcomers when they are in our care.

Giving people a second chance

Meet Shanie. He’s a minpin or chihuahua mix. He’s only 10 months old and I give him permission to bite anyone he wants, though he doesn’t want to bite anyone. His people couldn’t housetrain him so … get this… they were going to shoot him. With a gun. Fortunately a good person intervened and he was surrendered to a shelter and passed to CDR.

Shanie will be neutered this week and will go to a home on our waiting list when he is ready. So far he hasn’t even had any accidents. He’s understandably a little nervous but I think with some loving he’ll be fine.

What is with humans?

It took a while to get Daddy to say it but I knew I could win him over with my cute face and zany moves, I’m OFFICIALLY adopted!!

My new (and forever) name is:

Buzz “Billy Goat” Lightyear-MacMillan

From running around lost, homeless and hungry in Quebec, then time at a scary shelter, to my Milton home where I have a cat, April, a baby and a Mommy & Daddy – I am luckiest Buzz ever!

Thank you CDR and all the wonderful people who helped get me here I promise to go to events, picnics and walks and give wet kisses to all my CDR friends and spread the good word on wiener rescue.

Random wiener family

We are all such lucky little wieners to have humans to feed us and love us and occasionally clean up an accident or two (sorry Mommy!)  we want to celebrate our extended wiener family with Family Photo Day!

One picture with ALL family members (even the cats)  to blog@wienerdogrescue.com

Ohhh.. I’m groggy and a little sore.  Foster Mommy took me to the dog doctor for a “procedure” – that’s a BIG word!  After being on the run with Deke/Buzz I don’t want to make babies, there are so many of us already!

The upside is that without my marbles I am one step closer to finding my forever home!  I can’t wait to have a family to love me and I will be “their Doogle” *sigh* that makes me feel so happy.  Back to sleezzzzz….

Hey Dachshunds and rescue fans. Did you know that I can see how many people visit my our blog every day? We get around 80 visitors a day now and we’re getting tweeted by people in Texas and Mexico! I hope that my our fame will continue to grow so more people learn about rescue and the complexity and sophistication of the Dachshund personality. Consider this your personal invitation to join in the fun.

K and I don’t collect your email address. We don’t contact you. We do moderate the comments but only because we want to filter out the spam and respond when questions are asked.

Whether you’re a Lab, a Poodle, a rescue, or a wire, why not say hello. Cats… I chase those guys but my mind has been changed about kids recently so maybe this old dog can learn new tricks. I’m not promising to always be polite or sensitive, though. It’s not who I am.

I can’t wait until the humans add smells to the Internet and I can post pictures of my more important end. How can you really get to know someone without a good sniff?

Helloooo… where did everyone go? Am I too serious for you? Did you go for a walk? Me, I don’t much like walks but this is one we all need to support. Hairy, wiry, smooth, big, small, or in-between. Even the ‘honorary dachshunds’ and dachshunds outside of the GTA.

K9 Rescue Me Walk-a-thon on June 13th at Woofstock!

Be a walker, sponsor a walker, support Canadian Dachshund Rescue so we can keep saving the Dekes and Doogles and Baxters and Kramers and all the other Dachshunds who need help. Last year we raised over $3000 with this walk and this year we want to raise more.

Go here to register online. Remember to select Canadian Dachshund Rescue as the group to support. We’ll soon have our giving page set up so if you’re not able to walk, you can sponsor someone who is. Donations above $25 are tax-deductible and if made on-line you get your receipt right away. Don’t worry, I’ll remind you.

I hope that my blog helps you understand what we do with the money that we raise. Vet bills. Lots of them. Oh, and some people have gift-matching programs at work. If your people do, let me know and we can arrange to have dogs who can’t walk sponsor those who can.

Sometimes dogs come into the rescue and we later find that they are very sick. We have some amazing adopters and have found homes for dogs as old as 15, but when a dog is diagnosed with a terminal illness, I figure that even though it costs the rescue money and a foster home, the dog needs to stay until he is in pain and not enjoying life.

I want to make it clear that we don’t take in sick, crippled, or old dogs just to give them a place to stay. We don’t have enough foster homes or money to BE a sanctuary, but sometimes even the heartiest Dachshund gets sick in our care.  If anyone would like us to be a sanctuary, I’ll send you my account number and we can discuss plans for building a home-like facility and hiring full-time staff. 500,000 bones should do nicely to start and the building can have your name on it! Or mine. “The Franklin Furter Home for Decrepit Dachshunds” has a nice ring to it, don’t you think?

CDR has had a lot of sanctuary dogs over the years. We have one now. His name is Kramer and he is a 12 year old standard boy who spent his life with one family but when the kids grew up, no one had time for him anymore.

Kramer was originally up for adoption but in foster care we found that he had many fast-growing lumps and bumps. We didn’t have a biopsy done even though we had to have a large lump removed (money doesn’t grow on those leafy pee-posts out there) but the vet thinks that the lumps are cancerous and based on that suspicion, we decided that at his age his chances of adoption were slim and he should stay put and enjoy the time he has left. Don’t think we don’t know when we’re foster dogs and when we’re ‘home’. We’re smarter than you give us credit for.

Thanks to Kramer’s foster mom for letting this guy spend his retirement in paradise and thanks to all of our supporters for allowing us to keep Kramer comfortable as long as possible.