Snow Tunnel

This is what dachshunds do best!

Snow Tunnel, posted with vodpod

Adoptable Dachshunds

Look who’s ready for adoption.

Adoptable Dachshunds, posted with vodpod

Egypt

Another rescue story from our Rescue Director Barbara Yumart  over Coffeeat Espresso Culture & Cuisine

Egypt was a female that I brought in from two UNLV students.
They should have never really had a dog.

They crated her ALL the time on the balcony outside their apartment.  Even in the heat she was kept out there and she didn’t have any access to water.  The crate bowls are so tiny, so once that water was gone it was gone!!
She also had a really really mean attitude, she was not socialized at all.  I remember sitting on the steps of the apartment, and she nipped at me a couple of times, and I thought I didn’t really want to bring her in but the young woman that had her already had animal complaints against her tsaying the dog was in a crate and it was howling all day long.

So I brought her in to rescue, and this was also in the early days when we didn’t have foster homes for the dogs. So she came to my house.
She was a normal weight and healthy which was fine, but she just had such a mean attitude, so much so that I was afraid to put her in the crate in the back of the car when I collected her, I had to get the owner to do it because a couple of times she tried to grab at my pant leg or my shoe.

I took her home and unfortunately she was not a good match with my dogs because of her attitude but I had to just deal with her.
She would do things like chase my other dogs around, bite their ears, bite their butts, and pin them in the corner.  She just had a mean spirit.  So, when I put her on the website and an application came in I was so excited I called Leilani and told her straight away. We have to be honest with applicants about any problems with any of the dogs, so we told the lady that she had a attitude (she only got 1 application) and that she could be a bit mean.

I did the home visit and saw that they had 2 big labs and I thought, ‘this is perfect, they will keep her in line – they are not going to take any monkey business from her’.
The lady ended up adopting her and she just loved her.

Usually when I do an adoption, I give the new families about a week and call them back to make sure everything is going ok.
I like everyone to know that when they adopt a dog from us, when I let the dog go, I am really not gone.  I am always there, so is Leilani, to support them if they need help with anything.
I thought that I might get a call from this lady, asking me to take the dog back and I was constantly looking at my cell phone all week worrying that I may have missed her call, but the call never came.

So I called her at the 1 week point to check everything was ok and she said ‘We just love Egypt, we changed her name to Eva Longoria and took her shopping and bought her collars and dresses and stuff ‘.
I just couldn’t believe it and wondered if I had just heard right and if this was really happening??!!

This was a real light-bulb moment for me as far as rescue is concerned, because it made me realise that there really is a person for every dog.
I genuinely thought that Egypt was going to be in rescue until the day I died, but her new family just loved her.
I think her attitude change was because she had a lot more interaction with her new owners and the other dogs, although she still doesn’t like me.  I saw her at our petapalooza event recently and she saw me and just growled.  I like to think that she just associates me with the bad time in her life and that is why she growled at me, but I don’t care, its just great that her new family love her to pieces and she is happy and settled in her new home.

Micky and Minnie

2 Fat Black & Tans!  Another rescue story from Barabar Yumart – Rescue Director

Leilani and I  went on this one together.  It was an old lady that wanted to surrender them….the dogs were around 8 or 9 years old and her reason for surrender was that she was moving, like so many other people we come across.

When we got there we asked her where the dogs were.  She said they were out in the back yard.

Now it wasn’t summer, but it was still quite warm out, we went out into this tiny little back yard, there was no shade, no grass, just blocks.
Leilani and bent down to feel them, looking like we were going to pet them. They were really really fat.
We asked where their water was and the lady said ‘Oh I guess its Empty!’.
We commented on the fact that there was no shade and she said ‘They can go under that chaise lounge if they need shade!!’
So then we asked her where they slept and she said ‘Oh they are out here all day and sometimes all night too’ !!!!!!  She said that at night when she was in, she would let them in to sleep in a crate and to demon she opened the sliding glass doors to the house and stated ‘GO TO BED’ and they both raced into the house and into this one crate.
Now most pet owners know that you really shouldn’t crate dogs together, because anything can happen. If there is a disagreement or one needs to get away from the other, there is no-where for them to go, which can start fights. Dogs can have disagreements just like humans.

The only time that she said she brought the dogs in was when she was going to bed – it was just horrible. Leilani and I couldn’t take them in that day but we thought ‘Oh My God we have to take these dogs’.  I said that I would go home and check with my husband to see if we could take them in and foster them and try to find them a home. Leilani went home to talk to the club members to see if there was anyone that might be able to take them.

As it turned out our friends Dee and Mac from Boulder took in Minnie and said they would drive in and pick her up and Micky went out to one of our foster mommies.

What was funny was, when I dropped Micky off  she was  home with the kids and her husband hadn’t come home yet.
By the time I got home there was an email from Mickys foster mom, I was suddenly really worried that there was a problem, however, she had sent me a picture of her husband…….he was laid asleep on the sofa with Micky asleep on his chest  and holding him like a baby.  Awwwwwww

I grabbed my son and said – ‘do you want to see an adoption in progress?’ and showed him the picture.
He said ‘How do you know mom?’
I said because anyone that holds a dog like that – how many hours has that dog been there? – they are going to adopt him.
A few days later, I picked him up to go to an adoption event and she seemed really unhappy about it. She asked when we were coming back so I said that we would be back around 3.30 but as I drove away, I realised that she thought that we weren’t coming back at all.

When we did get back from the event she told me that they wanted to adopt Micky. That was Amazing, but………

no sooner did I get back home then Dee and Mac called and said that they fell in love with Minnie and they wanted to adopt her.

I was stunned and said ‘This is the second dog that you have adopted from us know, you have 3 doxies now!’ , but for them it was doxie heaven and even though Micky and Minnie had to be separated, it worked out amazingly well for both of them.

ATTENTION – ALL VOLUNTEERS

Attention! Volunteer Meeting!

On Saturday, July 17, 2010
(10:00 AM)
Leilani, Barbara, & Stacy will
host a meeting at

Expresso Culture & Cuisine

located at

9555 S. Eastern Avenue

(702) 255-1008

All Members & Volunteers Are Invited To Attend!

Agenda includes: Club News, Rescue Information, & HalloWiener 2010.

Doxies Are Not Allowed To Attend This Meeting -

We Want The Events To Be A Surprise For Them!

Calling all VOLUNTEERS!

For this years Hallowiener we are going to provide volunteer t-shirts!

To ensure we have enough shirts for everyone volunteering,

we need to have all of our volunteers signed up early

so we have time to order the shirts in the correct sizes for everyone.

We will have a HW volunteer sign up sheet at the

meeting with Leilani, Barbara and Stacy on July 17th.

If you can’t make the meeting

you can e-mail Stacy at Stacy@lvhddcr.com

with your t-shirts size and state that you will volunteer at HW2010.

Please RSVP

Leilani – 702-373-3309
Barbara - 702-327-5015
Stacy – 702-979-8380

3rd Annual Portrait Fundraiser!

Donate $75 to your favorite Las Vegas Animal Rescue Group or Shelter and
receive a complimentary Pet & Family Portrait Session from Pet’ographique!

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