Today's blog is a tribute to our friend Cindy's dog, Milo, whom passed last week. We got to know Milo personally and were working with the dachshund rescue that coordinated Milo's and Max's adoptions in 2015. We fostered Max, and our friend April fostered Milo when they came into the rescue. Back on Nov.7, 2015, Max and Milo, two bonded Dachshunds were adopted by Cindy in Pennsylvania. We immediately befriended Cindy, who as big-hearted as she is, had no problem adopting a bonded pair of dogs into her home. On June 19, 2015, Max, the long haired, black and tan Dachshund passed suddenly from congestive heart failure.
15 SECOND VIDEO OF MILO when he came into the Coast to Coast Dachshund Rescue in 2015: https://youtu.be/V7eKVJwls6k
Tom, Rob, Milo, Max and Cindy on adoption day Nov 2015
Milo experienced a number of health issues as he aged, and Cindy was always on top of them. Throughout the years, she's told me how she's slept on the floor with Milo and Max (before Max passed in 2018) to keep them calm, and help during Milo's seizures. Milo's seizures increased in length and intensity over the last 2 years (since Max passed), and he struggled to get up, and seemed to be very uncomfortable despite medications. Cindy and I talked the day before she let Milo go to the "rainbow bridge." Our Franklin (who passed on May 8 of this year) experienced many of the same conditions that Milo had. The quality of life just wasn't there anymore and life in pain and total discomfort was hard to bear for Milo and his family. As I told Cindy the day after Milo's passing: Milo is reunited with Max and free of pain, and thankful for how you rescued him and his brother on Nov. 1, 2015. He wants you to remember the total joy that YOU brought him when you enabled him to reunite with Max that day, and you adopted them both -bringing them back together to live the rest of their lives in the BEST home ever. Milo and Max want you to re-read it, and know how much they love you and how they are so, so, so grateful for you.
This past weekend our friend Scott visited us. He is the creator and host of an on-line LGBT video blog that features all kinds of things from the paranormal (he's also a ghost investigator) to dog rescue. Since the latest Coast to Coast Dachshund rescue dogs, Max and Milo were adopted, he wanted to do a recap and happy ending video, so I (Rob) guested.
Scott was actually the first transporter on the interstate run to get them from Indiana to Maryland. They were both adopted together on Nov. 1 from a wonderful mom named Cindy. Here's the video (and some background on how to be a foster dog parent and save dogs from euthanization). Bear with me: Milo and Max: A Tail Of Two Dachshunds
VIDEO https://youtu.be/Q752ANL7D10
On November 1, 2015 a Dachshund Rescue Miracle happened for two senior rescue dogs. Max and Milo came to the rescue 3 months before, were placed in separate foster homes (because of limited space) and were adopted together. THEIR STORY: Max and Milo are both 11 years old and long-haired Dachshunds. Max is black and tan and active, and Milo is red and overweight (he ate Max's food apparently). They grew up together but were turned into
Coast to Coast Dachshund Rescue (C2CDR.org) by a woman who experienced a
divorce and couldn't care for them in their senior years. So, the
rescue agreed to take them in.
Milo picked up for adoption day!
Max wondering what was happening
TRANSPORTING THEM FROM INDIANA TO MARYLAND: Since the only foster homes available were in Maryland at the times these brothers of a different mom) came into the rescue, they had to be driven from Indiana to Maryland- and it's all through a series of volunteers. Donna of CCDR coordinated with Katie, who arranges dog transports around the Eastern U.S. They had to go from Indiana on a transport
through Ohio, West Virginia and finally to Maryland.
Milo in his crate
FIRST TRANSPORTER: Scott Elliott had never done a dog transport before, but was asked to help out since he lived in Ohio and there were several transport legs that were unfilled. Scott said " I was approached by my two friends, Rob and Tom,
to help transport two very cute dogs along their journey to Maryland. Here's his Video blog about his experience:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVZKqmCP7ro
Tom did the driving
ARRIVAL IN MARYLAND: Several volunteers provided travel to get Milo and Max east. One volunteer in Pennsylvania also put them both up overnight. Finally, on August 2nd, Rob and Tom were at the end of the transport in Maryland. They brought Milo to April for fostering and they fostered Max.
HOW DID THE DOUBLE ADOPTION
HAPPEN?
Max waiting to go
Less than a month before,
Cindy came to the Dachshund "Dachtoberfest" in central Pennsylvania and met Rob and Max. Cindy's precious dachshund Reeces passed in April, and she wanted to help other Dachshunds get a loving home. Cindy immediately fell in
love with Max and when Rob told her about his brother Milo, she was interested
in adopting them both and reuniting them for life to live out their senior
years together.
Cindy Sees Max first!
NOV. 1- TRANSPORTING THEM TO CINDY! Cindy (the adopting mom) and her son Michael live in eastern Pennsylvania, and Max and Milo were being fostered in south-central Maryland. So, early on Sunday, Nov. 1, Rob and Tom picked up Milo at foster mom, April's home in southern Maryland. They put Milo in a crate to hide him from Max, to ensure the reunion was a total surprise to both.
They returned home with Milo and loaded their 2 Dachshunds and 1 Weimaraner in the back with Milo (in his crate). Tom drove to Delaware while Rob held Max in the passenger seat (buckled in together). It was about a 90 minute drive and Max kept wanting to go in the backseat (where Milo was in the crate).
Cindy, Michael, Milo and Max
THE BIG MEETING ON VIDEO! - They met near the Christiana mall in Delaware and brought Max out to meet Cindy (again). Then, Milo's crate was put down as Cindy let Max go over and sniff. Rob opened Milo's crate and both Milo and Max couldn't stop wagging their tails like crazy and sniffing each other. It was really emotional.
HAPPY ENDING - After 3 months of being separated and in foster care, they were
adopted together by a wonderful mom named Cindy who brought them back
together. BELOW is a video of their reunion after 3 months when they went to
their new forever home together!
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
