Zoe..TN

An awesome picture of Zoe, an AADR Alum!! Her foster mom wrote: Just wanted to show the group that :Zoey is great even with my 3 y/o grandson! She's doing great!"

Zelda..NY

To all my friends who know me, and love me anyway!!! I'm a new momma. . .please welcome Zelda, my spirited warrior princess! Rick and Matt wanted to give me a mini-dachshund puppy for my birthday. . .no one was more surprised by that than me. Anyway, I have nothing against puppies, but you know I would rather adopt an older dog. Everyone loves a puppy and they have no problem being adopted. I contacted a couple of places, but each of the dogs I inquired about were already adopted, which I now realize was a good thing. Zelda is 2 years old. She was rescued from a puppy mill in Missouri by the All American Dachshund Rescue, and was blessed to be placed in a foster home with two great parents, and dachshund brother (Fred) and sister (Emma). They all taught her so much, and helped Zelda find her true puppy self. We brought Zelda home on Saturday and she fit right in! Her foster parents gave us her bed, her towel, toys and a crate. I had put out two other beds for her, but Zelda discovered Diddy's bed and made it her own! Saturday morning Diddy was sitting on the floor next to my side of the bed, Zelda came up and plopped herself down right next to him!! Last night was hysterical. . .Diddy was in his bed, curled up under his blanket, so you couldn't see him. Zelda didn't want to stay in her bed, so she hopped up on Diddy's bed and and started to climb on top of him. HE STUCK HIS NOSE OUT OF HIS BLANKET SO FAST TO SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON. . .WE WERE CRACKING UP. BUT THAT DIDN'T STOP ZELDA! She found a spot behind him, curled up, I put a blanket on her and she fell right to sleep! Today Matt called to say that Diddy was in his bed, Zelda came along and nudged him out so she could lie down. Guess she doesn’t want to share anymore. . .LOL! She's got lots of spirit!!! OK, I'll stop bragging about my little girl. Just love her so much! Now I want to thank some people. . I know this isn't the Academy Awards, so I will keep it brief!! LOL Thanks to the AADR for the work they do, thanks to David & Kathy, for fostering little girls like Zelda, thanks to the girls that were my references, and to Wilma who I met this past Thursday night, and does great work running "Wilma's Orphans". Isabel Matt