Dachshund Rescue NW & Dachshund Club of Spokane

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UPCOMING EVENT DETAILS HERE: Director's Letter, Past Event Write Ups & Contact Info
OUR RESCUE IS CLOSED FOR A BIT: a House Fire and How Folks Can Help Our Rescue, October 2009
Clean-up after the house fire, 2009, with photos
Slate's Bar and Grill doing a benefit for us on October 25th too!
Hours of Operation
Dachshund Club of Spokane 2009 - club shirts & club membership form
New! "Definition of a Puppy Mill Breeder" Article
Breed Resources, Household Meds Guide and Adoption FAQs
TO ADOPT OUR DOGS: Read FAQs & Fill in Waiting List Form Here
TO PLACE YOUR DOG: in a New Home or With Us FAQ
References for Our Rescue
Fun Wiener Event Videos, Resident Wiener Videos and Funny Dog Commercials Here
Adopters Beware - fake rescuers are now appearing in our area. Read this!
Low cost spaying or neutering plus shots in Spokane, Pet Savers
Sad DRNW Facts
NEW! Newspaper article from March 2008 about DRNW
NEW! "Devil Dogs" = breed info/humor
Why we recycle dogs instead of breeding pups
UK Article on "Sausage Dog Aggression Study" 5/08
Why Chose a Rescue to Adopt?
Breed Information & Humorous Articles
RIP Dog Club Member Steve Gaddum
RIP - Some Dogs We Knew and Loved
"Feed a Wiener" Donations
2008 Wiener Dog Races to Benefit Dachshund Rescue NW
Our Adoption Contract Sample
Roscoe - Downed Wiener Photos/Journal & Back Injury Resources
2008 Downed Wiener Journal, Burrito, and details on his recovery/meds
Witnessed Animal Abuse? Here's How to Help!
NEW! Our Wish List
Volunteer At Our Dog Rescue
About Us & Rescue's History
Our First Two Rescues - RIP Boys. Cute photos.
First 2 Dogs Rescued, DRNW - Written Tribute
Photos: Our Events & Our Residents
Web Site Awards and Links to Cool Doggie Sites
Links to Other Dog Rescues and Resources
Contact Us

WE ARE A HOME-BASED, COUCH HOGGING DOG RESCUE.

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OCTOBER 13, 2009: OUR RESCUE IS CLOSED FOR A BIT SO WE CAN'T TAKE IN AS MANY OUTSIDE DOGS FROM THE PUBLIC WHILE WE DEAL WITH A HOUSE FIRE AND THE REBUILDING. ALTHOUGH WE DO HAVE A FEW DOGS AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION WE HAVE GOTTEN FROM AREA SHELTERS. FOR MORE DETAILS AND PHOTOS PLEASE CLICK THIS LINK. REST ASSURED THAT WE WILL BE OPEN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND BE ABLE TO TAKE IN MORE THEN A FEW AT A TIME TO OUR FOSTER HOMES. PLEASE SEE LINK BELOW FOR THE DOGS THAT STILL DO NEED HOMES. THANKS.

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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.
 
For information on our upcoming, monthly wiener events please read page two of this site for more details along with contact information and event write-ups of our most recent events.
 
DRNW always has several rescued wiener doggies needing new homes at all times so see below for that info too and help us adopt out homeless dogs instead of buying pups.  Thanks.

Some of our 2009 rescues before they moved
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From left: Dave (Behind), Jasmine, Rock, Stella Rae, Anna and Cedar

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!

August 2006
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Dachshund Rescue NW equals "Happy wiener dogs to great, forever families!"

DRNW Mission Statement:

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 3 happy dog as of January 31.
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 plus 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 then, but we are guessing we have help to place well almost 500 dogs, some horses and cats since 1991.   We have only had ten dogs returned since we started rescuing as we choose forever homes for our rescues and those nine were successfully placed in their forever homes the second time around because we screen our adopters.)

Did you know we turn away over 200+ Dachshunds each year because we can only help between 50 to 60 dogsa year on average?  In 2009 we are on pace to turn away 300+ dogs so 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 6000 dogs each yeaer in area shelters and that count does not include dogs being destroyed at area vets.  Even purebred pups eventually grow up and become hellions 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! 

Our rescue's current mascot is Bad Baby Bogart, below.  He is also a rescue that we decided to keep as our rottenly spoiled dog buddy.  Click Bad Baby's photo below to see his large web site with his funny stories and dog photos of his wiener adventures since we were blessed with him in our lives to represent all homeless wieners at our dog events.
 
Below is our first two rescues and rescue's previous mascots, Hunter and Oscar who have gone on to Doggy Heaven.

"Just take a little off the top please."
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Click here to see many funny photos in the fun life of a rescued wiener, Bogart.

Hunter, back, and Oscar, our first two rescues
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Photo in 2003 at age 12 - click here for their page.

Dec. 2008. 
 
I have updated this home page so it is not so cluttered.  For upcoming event details please see page two of this web site plus event write ups from our most recent events. 
 
Thanks,
Margo, Director. 
 
PS The wiener videos now have their own page too.  Thanks in advance for peeking as I will be adding a few news ones soon.

Click this photo to see our fundraising products!
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All products sold will benefit Dachshund Rescue NW

  

We  Support Pet Adoption

Click this is a link for a web site for a local puppy mill Dachshund breeder with graphic photos of her dead and dying animals on their junk yard of a farm when they were also a fake horse rescue, Sleepy Hollow Horse Rescue. Now they are called Pine Hollow Dachshunds formerly Sleepy Hollow Dachshunds and they sell their unhealthy pups via a broker in the Spokane Valley. We have already rescued six of their mentally ill and unhealthy dogs and I am sure we will rescue more as time goes on. Plus they are now selling show rabbits now called the Rabbit Schak after they were kicked out of birds in this town and later horses for their fake horse rescue. Law enforcement closed them down in 2005 when their director was convicted if animal cruely. Please do not let people meet you in town or in parking lots to sell you Dachshund pups, but please ALWAYS do insist that you see where the pups are raised and their relatives or you might just be buying a mentally ill and unhealthy pup from a puppy mill breeder like this one. Thanks for clicking.

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NEED TO CONTACT US AT DRNW? CLICK THIS LINK AFTER YOU HAVE READ ALL THE DETAILS ON THIS SITE ABOUT ADOPTING OR PLACING A DOG WITH US. THANKS.

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