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Gotcha Day for Jack & Mimi
August 22, 2020
Gotcha Day is the day on which a new member joins a family in the adoption process. Jack & Mimi got to celebrate their Gotcha Day recently.
It's a Good Thing: Your Foster Dog is Getting Adopted!
by guest blogger Sabine Wilson (one of our awesome foster moms)
August 13, 2020
When friends and acquaintances meet my newest foster, they always cheer us on and thank us for stepping up to help a homeless dachshund. “I wish I could do that,” they say, “but I could never let them go.”
Happy New Year!
by Andrew Clarke
January 1, 2019
We made it! 2018 is in the rear-view mirror and 2019 is stretched out ahead like a long country road. This is the time of year when we all reflect on what we accomplished in the last year and what we have planned to make the next year even better.
A TRIBUTE TO THE LIFE OF K KID KARLY DAWN WELDER
by Krista Welder
December 22, 2018
I flew to Indianapolis in a snowstorm in early December 2010 to adopt Karly. This is the first picture of the two of us in the airport. She was a show dog surrendered to rescue by a breeder after her prime breeding years were done. She was five. She was gorgeous beyond belief and looked like she was wearing black mascara…oh those eyes…
K KIDS HEARTS FULL OF GRATITUDE THIS THANKSGIVING
by Krista Welder
November 21, 2018
On behalf of K Kids Dachshund Rescue, there are simply no words to express how grateful I am for the outpouring of love, enthusiasm, and commitment from a large number of folks who have given to K Kids during our first year in operation -- and they have given BIG.
Fostering: The Hardest Job You'll Ever Love
by K. G.
October 16, 2018
Animal rescue has a lot of different moving parts and pieces to help just one animal make it to their forever home. There are the people who work at the shelters - providing interim and emergency care to animals who have lost their families. There are the people who network the dogs in need of help to try and find them a rescue or adoptive family. There are the people who donate to vet care and buy much needed supplies for rescues to operate with. There are the application processors, the transporters, the home checkers, the adoption event volunteers, the fundraisers… And then there are fosters. While each role is absolutely critical in ensuring a pup has his or her 2nd chance at happily ever after, the fosters have a job that is different than all the rest. They take in a dog in their stressed, sick, and sad state and make them happy. They teach them about love, about rules, about how to live in a house. They spend hours nursing sick dogs back to health. Days boosting up a dog who is scared and lacking confidence. Weeks showing a dog that the world is ok and that people are nice. Months loving a dog as if it were their own. And then they send the dog to someone else. To their forever home.
K Kids Beach Trip
by Krista Welder
September 18, 2018
What do you do when you live in the mountains, travel to places where you cannot take your dachshunds, but want to enjoy an annual family vacation complete with K Kids? Well of course you pack ‘em up and head to the Outer Banks of North Carolina on Labor Day Monday when everyone else is going the other way!
The Saga of Pearlie - Part 1
by Tara Courtland
September 11, 2018
Note: CH Feliz Perla de Las Antillas RA lived with us from March 2017 until she crossed the Rainbow Bridge in June 2018 at the age of 15.
To be honest, I’m not a dog person. I’m not really a cat person either. I’m really just more of an ice cream person.
I like dogs just fine. I just expect them to be low-maintenance. Dogs come from the SPCA. Their breed is “mutt.” They eat kibble and the last bite of my PB&J. They sleep on dog beds and they get to the back yard through a dog door. When they need bathing, I pull them into the shower with me for a dog-shampooing.
What Happened To Ozzie?
by Linda Allard
September 4, 2018
Being the person to foster the first dog rescued by K Kids, I knew right away what I would write my blog about. I was doing all the daydreaming of sunshine and rainbows that we do when we have a puppy. Unfortunately, two weeks later everything changed. My dachshund, Ozzie, went down and, if you’ve been around the breed, you know that means his back went out. Essentially he was no longer able to use his back legs. He was paralyzed.
Overcome the Fear of "Failure"
by AMANDA R. URBAN & GEORGE M. URBAN
August 28, 2018
What is holding you back? Why not take the leap? Many people miss out on an experience for a common reason. Although the fear is real, even rational, it is not endorsed by the experience of those who do take the leap. Some resist air travel due to fear of a statistically improbable chance of crashing. Some miss out on bungee jumping due to a fear of heights. And far too many miss a highly rewarding opportunity to change lives of dogs in need for fear of becoming a “foster failure.”
Must Love Dogs
by Andrew Clarke
August 21, 2018
I fell in love with a dog person. That's actually an understatement … I fell in love with a serious dog person. Her world revolves around dogs. She wants to save every dog that she can. She lives to foster. I love her passion.
Blindness Is Not A Disability
by Jenny Kanieski
August 14, 2018
I've had the privilege of having two dogs in my lifetime so far, and they've had three things in common: both have been male, both have been rescue dachshunds, and both have been blind. That's where their similarities end.
Friends often express shock that I would want a blind dog – they think they're too much work, they're disabled, etc. Honestly, it's all I know ... and from what I've experienced, they adapt to their blindness much better than the humans around them tend to.
Welcome!
by Krista Welder
August 7, 2018
Welcome to the K Kids blog, dachshund lovers! It is a terrific coincidence that the launch of our blog coincides with our first two rescues!
Recently, Linda and Andrew picked up a double dapple puppy from the Chesterfield VA shelter -- a blind pup with no name. After a two week quarantine for kennel cough courtesy of her foster parents, she visited a doggie ophthalmologist to check out any possibilites of regaining some of her eyesight. Although that is not to be because of the double dapple factor, she did get some drops which may help things a little and she does see light, dark and some shadows -- and that makes our hearts sing. She is a happy girl always bouncing around...check out her videos on our Facebook page!
