Question about a new dog update

Has she considered the fact that this next dog could be the same way?  Then what?  Is she going to get a new dog every month?
 
As for Deedee, I am sure she will fall in love with you as well, and you'll fall in love with her and want to keep her.  It is hard to not fall in love with a dachshund .  If you need extra dachsie advice, PM me and I will give you a board I go on for all dachsie owners.  They will give advice for housebreaking, and also many of them are involved with fostering and dachshund rescue groups should you choose to go that route.
 
Thanks for caring so much about Deedee!

Poor, poor DeeDee!  Expecting a dog that lived outside all its life (going wherever was convenient) to adjust to indoor life in less than 2 weeks (with no outdoor exposure.)  What the heck?!?  How unfair to that dog. 
 
How the heck is she supposed to know where to go when there's paper on the floor inside the house?  What's the difference between paper and the carpet?  I'm sure nobody explained that to poor DeeDee.  It's unfair to expect that dog to understand in a week with what sounds like a lack of clear guidance.  It's a lot easier to understand inside/outside versus paper/carpet.
 
I'm sending a warm hug to poor little DeeDee.  May she be bathed in good luck and good fortune very soon!

I am still trying to get her as soon as possible. So far I have not been able to convince her to give the dog to me NOW. Will let everyone one know how it goes. We already called her four times today.
I am very upset about the whole thing. She just should not have another dog. I felt sorry for her, because she has no children of her own, has been widowed twice and lives alone. Her other dog was her life and she done everything for him. He had to be put to sleep two weeks before she got DeeDee. I had to do some talking for her to put the other dog down because she was not ready to let him go. He was suffering thou and it was just time for him to go.( He was overweight, had heartfailure, struggling for every breath and was filled with fluids). He was 12 years and 4 months old.
I wonder if she resents me for that. Maybe she does. She asked me to please find her another doxie and to make sure it would be an older dog. I done exactly that and now I regret it.
I already feel sorry for the next dog. I wish I knew where she was getting it from so I could talk to whoever is giving it to her.
I already love DeeDee anyway. Ever since I first saw her.
I really hope everything works out and DeeDee gets the love and life she deserves. I would feel better if she was already here.
 

I just got DeeDee. I had my daughter call our greataunt so I could get her during my lunchbreak and her neighbor told me that she had just left with a little black dog( her new one). So we called the vet and she was there and I told her that I was at her house. She got all upset saying that my daughter had not called her etc. She was very ugly. I asked her if I could still get DeeDee today and she told me yes. I sat at her house for an hour, missed some of my work and decided to go back to work. She called my daughter a little while later, asked her if I was going to come and get DeeDee and chewed her out about having said that she had told her that I would come by. Not the first time we had this happen. I know my daughter had called. No doubt. I tried to call her and could not get a hold of her and I got nervous but I finally did right before I got off and I picked up DeeDee. Have not told my husband yet..so I need for you all to pray he will have a somewhat good reaction. Right now I have 6 doxies running around the house. DeeDee seems to like the other dogs but is just staring at them for right now. They are all so happy to see her and want to play with her. It will take time thou. I have two people already interested in adopting her, but I don't want to give her to just anyone. Because of her being so skittish I don't want anyone with children to have her and no one that will get impatient with her not being housebroken. I wish I could just keep her so she won't have to go to yet another home, but I need to do what's best for her.
I also need some advice in what to do about her new dog. He seems to be a purebreed black and tan male dachshund. Her homehealthcareworker had this dog walk up to her and he seems to be housebroken because he goes to the door when he needs to go outside. I could imagine someone missing him somewhere and I would like to have someone check if he has a microchip but don't know how to go about doing that. I can't just go to her house and asked to have the dog for an hour. I could do it thou if she would let me watch him if she needs to go to the hospital. I had no plans on helping her with that because I am so ticked at her right now...I did not say anything ugly thou and kept my thoughts to myself today. Sorry this is so long. Got a lot on my mind. Any ideas on working with DeeDee about her shyness and about finding out who that other dog belonged to will be very much apprecitated.

Well, hopefully the other doggies will help with the training of DeeDee.  If she sees them potty outside, she may too!  When I got Zoe I was told she was 80% housebroken and crate trained.  In reality, she often peed in her crate, but with no consistency.  I took her for a walk every few hours so she never had a chance to pee inside.  She eventually realized she should go to the door to let me know she needs to go out.  As for the crate peeing, it pretty much stopped.  It happens rarely now and usually something triggers it.  For example... last time was because my bf came home mid day to get something and didn't let her out and she wanted out to play with him. 

Anyway, I think she can be trained with some practice and I think socialization will come with being around your other dogs and on walks and maybe visit some pet stores with her and places like Lowe's etc. where dogs are allowed.
 
Good job helping her and good luck with your mom's dog.  You could try calling local shelters to see if someone reported missing a black and tan since you can't get her scanned right away.  Then, if so, anonymously tip off Animal control or the dog's owners that your great aunt has the dog.

I had separated DeeDee from the other dogs and put her in my daughter's room for a little while so she can sniff and not be bombared by my ever so nosy dachshunds.lol. Well, it did not take long and she wanted to be in the livingroom. She is walking around. At first she had her tail tugged in, now it's just hanging there. She is watching my daughter iron and when she saw me she even wagged her tail a bit. She has only seen me a few times in the past 3 weeks and would hardly let me pet her during that time... I am so happy right now to see her doing so well after only about 3 hrs here. Wonder if she likes having the other dogs around since she had other dogs around her in the kennel at the breeder's house.

So, my question is how are you going to tell DH that you have fallen in love with another doggy.  Maybe he wont notice, I mean you already have a few, or you could have your daughter just sneak her in her room and keep her there....LOL! I know it is horrible, but I don't want DeeDee to go anywhere either.
 
The other side of this coin is your great aunt.  You said she is getting angry and a little strange with you? Is this common? Do you think she might need to get to the doctor? If it is not usual for her to act like this something maybe going on with her health.  Just my thoughts.
 
Julie

Stacy that ball in your avatar is so cute!!!!!  Valentines day present?[] 
 
I just got my HUGE box of goodies I ordered from dog.com.... Ill hafta take a picture of it all!  Too many stuffies!  What to do what to do!

in reply to momtomany: she is 80 years old and I know some of it may be her age but I have had other problems with her even years ago when she was still in her sixties. She can be very stubborn and sometimes very rude. For example: she had several accidents in the past few years and it's never ever her fault according to her. Everyone is just mean to her and out there to get her.
She isn't like that all the time, but at times I have to bite my tongue.
She sees a doctor regularly and so far he has not said anything about her having dementia or anything like that. I wonder thou because I remember a few months ago I called her and she had no clue who she was talking to. At the time I figured it was just because she had just gotten up from a nap and probably was still sleepy.
When I used to watch her dog PeeWee she would expect the dog at her door the minute she would come back from the hospital with her husband. There was one time I had to keep him for several days and it was saturday and we had went to a nearby town to go to Petsmart and do some other shopping and we were gone for a few hours. She left 12 messages on my phone wanting her dog. She was so mad at me when I called her back wanting to know where I had been etc. I did not know her husband was going to be released that day and that she was coming home. How was I suppose to know?
I was speechless. But that has been years ago and she isn't always like that.

I found out that the vet thinks that her new dog is around 6-7 years old and he is heartworm positive.

Dackelfan,  I know you said her doctor doesn't think she has dimentia or anything but I wanted to let you know that its not always the doctors that see it first.  With my grandma we knew long before the doctors knew.  She was really really bad before the doctors picked up any signs.  She would do things like hide snacks in her room, wear the same cloths for a week if my mom would let her saying that she had just washed them the day before when in reality she had never even been down to the laundry room in that house.   She would ask what was for supper 5 minutes after the supper dishes were cleared away and then get mad because we were starving her.  She told everyone that would listen that she paid all the bills in the house, did all the grocery shopping, and on top of that had to pay 1000 in rent everymonth.  In reality she paid a very low amount of rent(something like 300 I think) and did not contribute to bills or groceries at all.  It was close to a year and a half before we convinced the police to take away her license.  When one of us drove with her she would just let her eyes drift around at all the sights and not pay attention to the road at all.  But when she went for roadtests she would concentrate and do everything right.  It took the police following her around for a day to figure out the problem.  One day her younger brother Art came to visit her at the house, and after he left she got mad at us because we didn't even bother to introduce him to her.  She went down for her BIL funeral (also named Art) and immediately upon entering the house asked her sister, "Where's Arty?"  And it was still months after that that the doctors started to see things wrong with her.  She just always managed to get her act together when she went there.  I hope your aunt is ok but I just wanted to point out that often the family knows long before any doctors.  And if she is getting mean it could be a sign of frustration.  Dimentia and Alzeimers are very terrible diseases.  They are frustrating for the patient as well as thier friends and family.   I hope all goes well.

Just took DeeDee for a 30 min. walk around the property. She was fine on the leash. Had her tail tugged in for a  few minutes and than it was just hanging there. She did not try to pull back or out of the collar..nothing like that. She just walked along with me and she used the bathroom outside.
She is a great dog. She slept with the other dogs last night. Chase wants to play with her and is a little sad because he can not get her to play...

What did DH say? Can you keep her?
Sitting on the edge of my seat here.
JUlie

He still does not know yet since he won't be home until tomorrow.
Hope he falls in love with her as fast as I did or at least says it's okay for me to keep her until I find her a permanent home. The two leads I have had I don't like too much. One of them just lost a dachshund, supposely got stolen..but I suddenly remembered a conversation from a few years back where I heard that the husband was abusive to the dogs they had at the time...
The other lead also has a doxie already, it's a retired couple that travels in a RV, but have been living next to a friend of mine in the RV for weeks now because they need to get some paperwork straigtenend out. Don't see DeeDee living in a RV.
If I can't keep her something will come along soon or later. Have not talked to my vet yet or have put up any sign or ads. Surely someone out there beside myself would appreciate her and love her.