Lucy...AR

It has truly been amazing just how fast Lucy has adjusted to forever home. It feels like she has been a part of the family all along. She is the sweetest most loving dog I have ever been around. She meets me at the door when I come home from work with her tail wagging, and sits on my chair with me and loves giving lots of kisses. She has become a great companion not only for my wife and I but also our older dachshund Cocoa. I have sent a few pictures of them together. They love to snuggle up together in the blanket when they sleep at night, and have been getting along great. We couldn't have asked for a better addition to our family, we are truly blessed to have adopted Lucy. Oh and she absolutely loves her walks. She demands to go on at least two walks a day. So my wife takes her on a walk in the morning, and I take her on her afternoon walk. She now has her own personal pink walking harness just for her walks. I have attached a couple of pictures of her in her new home and I hope you can use them. I just wanted to thank everyone at AADR for rescuing our princess Lucy and for all the work that went into our adoption of her. AADR is a great organization and once again I just wanted to say thank you. Let me know if you would like any more pictures or updates. Thank you, John Carney

LULU BELLE....FL

I wanted to give you an update an Lu Lu Belle… first of all, her name is now Macy. I hope you like her new name. She seems to be happy with it.She is a perfect angel! The drive back to Atlanta was great… she didn't cry at all. Then the flight home was great too. She's so friendly with strangers. It's taken Bailey a couple days to get used to a new puppy in the house, but now she seems ok with it. I think they are going to be best friends in no time!I brought Macy to our vets office yesterday, just to introduce her to them & to drop off her records. I've scheduled her appt for her next set of shots next week.I'll keep in touch with you. Thank you again… we're madly in love with Macy!! Melissa

LACEY...CT

Hi Diane You probably don't remember us, but we adopted Maggie and Macie (aka: Cagney and Lacy) back in 2005 around Christmas time. We have been so busy since then, but I wanted to give you an update. Last year in June of 2006, we moved to Arizona. I took a job transfer to our division in Chandler which is a suburb of Phoenix. We love it out here. The company moved all our furniture and personal belongings, and Dan and I packed up all our "important" stuff in a van and travelled across the country - with 4 dogs! It was quite an experience, but little Maggie and Macie LOVE to travel. The van had a console between the two front seats that was perfect to have a thick blanket on making the height even with our laps. For four days, they moved from lap to lap and basically slept and snuggled the whole route. Since then we have also travelled to visit family in Nebraska. We boarded our big dachshund, Tucker, as well as our Sheltie (Sassy). Neither of them travel well at all unfortunately. But we took Maggie and Macie and again they were just perfect for the ride. They love all people and had a great time with my daughter's dogs in Nebraska. One of her dogs is a great Dane, and it looked so funny to see them sniff noses. Because they are dachshunds, the size of the great Dane didn't faze them one bit! We love them very much. We don't know what we would do without them. I am sending pictures of them as an attachment. As you can see, they have quite a lot of fur now and they weigh 10 lbs each. We are now watching their weight; we don't want them to get too heavy. We are having a few health issues with Macie. She started to have an occasional seizure (very mild) not too long after we got her. The vet said to just keep an eye on her. Over time, they became more frequent, and the vet out here has put her on medication for epilepsy. This has been working pretty well, but she still has seizures occasionally. I am taking her to the vet this Friday to talk about further testing for liver function, etc. They have a nice fenced in yard to play in out here. The weather is too hot to be outside for long, though, so they really just go out to potty right now. Being away from the cold weather up north seems to be helping my Sheltie's arthritis also. She is more like a puppy out here than she has been in years. During the time that we are at work, they are crated together. My husband and I are on different schedules, however, so they are never crated for long periods of time. My big dachshund, Tucker, has his own crate which is very large. Initially, I thought I would crate them all together in the big crate because they like to sleep all together in a heap when they're out of their crates. But Tucker loves them too much. He likes to hold them down and clean their faces and ears, and I was afraid they would get stuck under him. He is a big boy - 27 lbs (Standard). I hope you enjoy the picture. Thanks, Nancy and Dan

Lilly...FL

Here is a pic of Lilly & my other dachshund ( bogey ) she is adjusting great she still has some skittish moments but they are getting fewer & fewer I think bogey is in love w/ Lilly they got along from the beginning whenever someone comes over he sits in front of her to protect her it's the cutest thing . She is becoming a part of our family. When I give her treats she will get on her hind legs & start to dance. Thank u for letting us adopt her.

Lil Bear

Bear has adapted very well, it's like we've always had him. We are in love with him and I think that the feelings are mutual! He and Mariah, our 7 1/2 year old long haired female doxie, have bonded as well. We lost our little rescue guy, Stetson, in September after 5 years and when we ready Lil Bear's story it sounded almost identical to Stetson's when we adopted him. Stetson was a beautiful long haired red dachshund that had been used as a breeder at a puppy mill for about 4 years when we rescued him....or rather he rescued us! We cautioned ourselves that we couldn't expect Bear to "be" Stetson but he has not disappointed us in any way. He has filled the hole in all three of our hearts that was left when we lost Stetson. Mariah grieved as much as Ray and I did when her brother died. Bear has come along well with learning to walk on the leash and is quite happy when I mention going for a walk. We have put him on "somewhat" of a diet....the same one that Mariah and Stetson have always been on. He gets 1/3 cup of Science Diet WD twice a day. At 5:00 he sits on the carpet and waits for his bowl to be filled. If we are "late" filling it he pushes it onto the tile floor to get our attention and if we still don't respond he begins to push it across the floor. But believe me he is not starving! He is thriving and do very well. Potty training is still an ongoing project but the fact that we don't have a fenced in yard and access for him all the time is a problem I'm sure....but he is getting us trained. He did great with all the company of the holidays....he loves everybody and every dog he meets. He loves all of our grand dogs....a black Lab, a yellow Lab, a Pugle, a 13 year old Doxie, a Ridgeback, and a Jack Russell/Bischon mix....and that doesn't include the two pekinese and long haired dachshund of friends that were here over the holidays! As you can see we are all dog lovers. He just wags his tail and tries to kiss them all! Such a sweet boy! When I take him to the dog park he is the official greeter.....whenever anyone comes to the gate he bounces over there with his tail wagging! He is very well adjusted and doesn't have a lot of the "issues" of many rescues; we think that is because of the love and wonderful care that he received from his AADR foster mother.I have volunteered to help with AADR. Not as a foster parent, because we are on the move way too much, but for transport, home visit, special events, etc. That way we can help in Florida or in North Carolina. No one could figure out why Bear was in foster care for 6 months without being adopted. We truly believe that he was waiting for us. We will always be grateful to AADR for helping to make our family whole again.