


Well I am going to spend a few days letting everyone get to know my kids.
Taz is my 15 year old Black and Tan Dachshund. She came to me last year when a family had some very interesting times happen in their life. Lets just say "Jerry Springer Show" and leave it at that. Well Taz had not been to a vet in 3 years and was living with her 7 year old Daughter Cocoa outside in a open front shed. They were among piles and piles of trash bags that was making a half circle in front of the shed, the people gave them a light bulb hanging from a drop cord as a sorce of heat/light. I looked every where to find the food bowls or even a water bowl. Nothing could be found. Well I grabbed them up and got them in my truck, got my paperwork signed saying they were mine and jumped in my truck, now this was in the middle of November and a very cold eve. Too cold for the little long dogs to have been outside. Well needless to say I was not ready for the smell when I got back in my truck, I swear I didn't smell it when I grabbed them and tossed them inside my truck...... Well home we went with the windows down and the COLD wind blowing for a 30 min ride. Well needless to say, we had bath time when we got home. Well they met the other kids and all got along. So off to the vet the next day, we needed shots and to make sure nothing major was wrong with them........... Can we say not....... Both the girls were heart worm postive and a high postive at that. Well time to make the choice. SO I got premission from the rescue to have them treated for heart worms, thank god my vet is rescue friendly and didn't stick it to us on treatment. So we had to wait the one week time to get the approval and back into the vet. What a long week that was, had to teach them to eat dog food again and not trash bags. That was alot of cleaning to do that week. GROSS!!!!!!!!! is all I will say. Well we got the treatment and spent 10 days in quite time. Well the girls got all better and Cocoa was adopted soon after. But Taz, she was a special case to me. Being a senior meant she was over looked by all who wanted to adopt, and as time went on she grew on me more and more. I was WHOPPED.........by a 25 lb Doxie......LOL So as time came and I was leaving the rescue group at the time, I either had to send her to another foster home or adopt. Well I couldn't see my life or home without this girl as I had just feel doggy in love with her. Knowing full well she was already 14 years old, and knew time with her would be whatever it was going to be. I just couldn't give her up. So I adopted her and she lives a very full and happy life here, SHE owns us all........LOL. Well as time has went on, she wants more time and more closeness to her daddy, so in order for her to sleep in the big bed, it now sits on the box springs on the floor and with pillows all around it, just in case she tries to jump off or falls off she wont get hurt. But most of the times she comes up and wakes me to let her off or back on the bed. Can we say some nights are shorter on sleep........ But really, I don't mind, even when its one of those nights where she wants to wander and gets on and off the bed about 50 times and then wants outside to wander around. Up and out we go with flash light in hand "have to make sure she can see" and I don't fall over something.
Taz may not seem like something major to anyone on the outside looking in, but this girl has been through and seen so much in her life. She really makes life seem so little when you look at the life a poor girl like her, had to go through.
The other day she was outside walking as she does quite often, and the little boy across from us, looked at her and looked at his daddy and said " Look Daddy, a pot bellied pig" I couldn't stop laughing, it was just so funny as she stopped and looked over at him as if to say " Shut up you, or I will come over there and bite you", then she just turned and walked on like "little brat, do I look like a pig to you?" I swear it was just too funny. The little boy's dad and I couldn't stop laughing.
Well, we will close for now. Look for other kids to appear as we have more to talk about and to share with you.
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