Saturday, July 18, 2015

Dog Rescue - Transporting Trooper!

Trooper smirking at the camera during a break from the road
On Saturday, July 12 we helped transport another Dachshund northward to a foster home. Trooper was a dog that was found and picked up by a shelter in Alabama. He was in a "death row" shelter, and was found by DASH rescue, who coordinated a transport north to a foster home through Katie Wehner. Katie lives in central Virginia and she coordinates all the trips up and down the East Coast to get Dachshunds out of kill shelters and into foster homes, once a rescue contacts her with the location.It's a lot of work, but she manages to get drivers to do a 60 mile leg each- and going up the east coast requires quite a number of drivers!

close up!

Trooper is a long, skinny dog!
 TROOPER'S TRIP -   Last Saturday, Rob met Irene in Alexandria where he picked up "Trooper" a brown, dapple Dachshund who couldn't have weighed more than 8 pounds. Rob drove Trooper around the Capital Beltway and up toward Baltimore for a handoff to Trudy- who took him to Delaware for another handoff! Trooper's ultimate destination was a foster home in central New Jersey. 
A short video I made of Trooper

TO ADOPT TROOPER- Go to DASH Rescue's Website: http://www.dashrescue.net/

Trudy loading Trooper in his crate in the back seat
PLEASE BE A FOSTER DOG PARENT -   It's a wonderful feeling to save another sweet dog's life and put them into a home, although a foster home.   PLEASE consider fostering dogs for rescues. - Open your home- the rescues PAY all medical expenses. You just buy food and give shelter, exercise and love.
 

Who I am

I'm a simple guy who enjoys the simple things in life, especially our dogs. I volunteer for dog rescues, enjoy exercising, blogging, politics, helping friends and neighbors, participating in ghost investigations, coffee, weather, superheroes, comic books, mystery novels, traveling, 70s and 80s music, classic country music,writing books on ghosts and spirits, cooking simply and keeping in shape. You'll find tidbits of all of these things on this blog and more. EMAIL me at Rgutro@gmail.com - Rob

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