Florida animal refuge trying to find homes for 47 wiener dogs – IOTW Report

Florida animal refuge trying to find homes for 47 wiener dogs

FREEPORT, Fla. (WJHG)  Florida’s Alaqua Animal Refuge and the Save Underdogs team are searching for homes for 47 dachshunds originally rescued in Arkansas.

The dogs were with an owner who couldn’t care for them anymore because he became sick and disabled.  

“They were going to be taken to a local shelter that wasn’t a no-kill shelter so, within a day, the reason it was so urgent for us to get them within this 24-48 hour time period was because they were going to be euthanized,” Alaqua Animal Refuge Communications Director Mary Chris Murry said.

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h/t Cakes.

24 Comments on Florida animal refuge trying to find homes for 47 wiener dogs

  1. Yeah Brad, but he only had an eight pack of buns………………….easy now, that was a joke…..my very first dog was a dachshund and I’m thinking of another….

  2. Not my speed Willy. I’d never own a dog like that, but God Bless them for what they’re doing. In general, I love dogs. Except for German Sheppard’s, which I’ve explained previously.

  3. Brad…have you ever been around a full sized Dachshund?….They are still smallish but were raised to hunt badgers…..the little german bastards will work your head….Great Dogs!….Fritz was with me from my first memories until I was about 16….

  4. Willy, Duck Hunter. Spent many of slow days in a blind with just me and Chesapeak looking for ducks on a blue bird sky. The dog looking over my shoulder, me looking over his. When his ears went straight up I knew he had ducks. I clearly prejudiced. Dang I miss those days.

  5. Funniest one I ran across, that comes to mind, was a customers Wiener that started snapping at your shoes if you walked too fast

    Darnedest thing. Like Jekyll and Hyde. Little Mr. calm until you moved too quickly.

  6. When I was a kid we had one of them weiner dogs, named her Schotzie. Psycho dog, tore the place apart. My uncle picked her up and she pissed all over him. Actually now that I think of it, she may have had a little beagle in her. No, no, not in the biblical sense.

  7. I had 2 of them, lost the older one at the beginning of the year, super sad. We have a hold on a chocolate long hair, we can pick him up the end of April. Then it’s puppy time again!

    In all seriousness, doxies are tough little packages. Quick to learn, they hate furry things in their yard, it doesn’t take long to find all the trails and they want to check them all the time. Doxie noses are on 111% Very alert, they actually scare people occasionally who visit. My little guy knows the difference between kid 1 & 2 and when they come home from school. He’s super routine oriented, it’s like he has a watch on!

  8. Dachshunds Uber Alles!

    I’ve had several Dachshunds
    Ralph – standard size black & tan smooth hair, bit everybody except Dad and Grandma
    Coco – substandard size chocolate & tan smooth hair, loved everybody, liked snorkeling minnows out of my baitbucket while I was fishing
    Cujo – standard size black & tan smooth hair, loved everybody, got run over whilst chasing a cat
    Maxine – substandard size, red longhair, loved everybody, hated all other dogs, loved going jetskiing.

    Once we get a bigger place we are going to get a pair of them. Dachshunds – it’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

  9. MJA: you misspelled weiner — it is not wiener.

    The definition of wiener is: (US & Canadian) a kind of smoked beef or pork sausage, similar to a frankfurter.

    Oooooohhh I see what you did there! You are clever, you are!

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