| Wienerfest Spokane Picnic & Potluck BBQ Fundraiser |
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| Edgar, left, and Britches, right, in Wiener Wading Pool |
| WE ARE A HOME-BASED, COUCH HOGGING DOG RESCUE. |
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| Photo courtesy of www.dragoonstudios.net 2007 |
Welcome to Dachshund Rescue NW (DRNW)
& Dachshund Club of Spokane's (DCS) new web site. We update this web site often, usually weekly, so be sure to check
back often.
DCS
is a doggy social club rather than a formal dog club, but we do have a lot of fun at BBQs, parades, Wiener Walks in the Park, holiday
events, adoption events for rescues and more. Join the fun and need not have a dog to come play with us as we loan out
our rescues so they can have a fun day too and get socialized.
TO PLACE a dog with us please click this link and read this FAQ page
TO ADOPT a dog from us please click this link and read this FAQ page
Need to find another rescue and/or shelter in the Pacific Northwest, USA? Click this link to go to our Links page on this
site.
To find photos of our current events please click here to go to that web site.
Click this link to see our Wish List. We are always looking for new or used items like dog toys, balls of all sizes and used
bed linens. Click here to read more. Thanks!
Our rescue is now reopened after our house, garage and two outbuildings fire from October 12, 2009. Click this link for photos
and details.
| Some of our 2009 rescues before they moved |
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| From left: Dave (Behind), Jasmine, Rock, Stella Rae, Anna and Cedar |
| August 2006 |
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Dachshund Rescue NW equals "Happy wiener dogs to great, forever families!" 1. To educate the public about controlling the pet over
population through responsible spaying and neutering of their pets and to let the public know how many purebreds end up in
shelters plus how many are being destroyed each year here from being unwanted and overbred. 2. To let the public know about
the history of the Dachshund breed about how they are hunting dogs and all that entails. The education also includes that
this breed is not always suitable for every home especially those with very young children or those without secure, fenced
yards and how noisy and active a hunting breed can be and all the training needed to be owned by this breed. 3. To let
everone know that we usually have a dog club event once a month for the Dachshund Club of Spokane members like the Wiener
Dog Races, potluck picnics, attendance in four area parades and holiday parties for the dogs, Dachshund Training Days,
etc., and use those events to get our homeless wieners out in public so they can be adopted to forever families.
2010: DRNW
has already adopted out 34 happy
dogs as of August 27. Thanks to everyone for saving a life by adopting their new family member instead of just buying a puppy! 2009 was a new record for our rescue: We adopted 71
happy dogs from our home even with the house fire in October in addition to the four dogs that we had to place from
the area shelter when the house burned down. And we placed two rescued horses that we retrained in 2009 as well.
2008: DRNW
adopted 59 happy dogs, a new record for us! 2007: DRNW adopted out 38 happy dogs
this year. 2006: DRNW adopted out 30 happy dogs, one horse and six cats also this year. (We
helped less critters this year due to the Director's major car wreck, but up to full speed again for us!) 2005: DRNW
adopted 47 happy dogs, a new record for us! 2004:
DRNW adopted out 42 dogs, a new record for us! 2003: DRNW
adopted out 35 dogs and four horses and one cat, a new record for us! 2002:
DRNW adopted out 33 dogs, a new record for us! (We did not keep really keep good
records of how many needy wieners we have helped over the years before 2001, but we are guessing that we have help to place
well over 600+ rescues. And only 11 dogs have ever been returned, many because of family situations or the ecomomy, and
all of those were successfully placed in their forever homes the second time around because we do screen our adopters.)
Did you know we turn away over 300+ Dachshunds each year
because we can only help between 50 to 60 dogsa year on average? Please think twice about breeding yet another unwanted
litter of pups. Plus that is just in this area as this breed that is being horribly overbred and that count
does not include other breeds. In Spokane County alone they kill over 6,000 dogs each yeaer in area shelters and
that count does not include dogs being destroyed by area vets. Even purebred pups eventually grow up and become puppy
terrorists without people spending time or training with them. Why? When people do not do their dog breed
research before buying a pup so many end up being killed if rescuers like us did not take them in for more training, evaluation and
placement. Please consider adopting a homeless dog instead of breeding yet another litter of pups
that we might have to rescue later on. Thank you!
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