Leslie a Dog without Borders

My partner and I finally moved into a house. Things in our lives were settling and it was time for us to get a dog. We had been talking about adopting a dog for a long time. Now the time had come for us to find our dog. Pet shops were out due to the fear of puppy millsand breeders didn't seem the right fit either. We needed to find a dog that needed us. We knew we wanted a smaller dog as we live in a house not an estate. A dachshund was decided upon. Small and scrappy dachshunds are a lot of fun.
The internet had lots of sites with dachshunds but most were breeders. We did find a dachshund rescue group and thought "ah here we go!" They had a form to fill out so we down loaded it. The form it turned out was no mere form but more of a dossier. The kind J. Edgar Hoover would have admired.
Back to the internet. There we discovered another site. It was for "Dogs without Borders". Their website has photos and and bios of dogs that have been saved from a myriad of municipal shelters. We scoured their website looking at their heart warming and breaking pictures of dogs in need of a permanent home. Dog without Borders take the dogs from the shelters and bring them to foster homes.
We came across a photo of a small black female dachshund mix temporarily named "Lady". She had been found on a street in South LA with a litter of new born puppies. "Lady and her puppies were being fostered by a girl named Meaghan. We contacted Dogs without Borders, filled out their easy form and met with them. A representative came by to check us and our home out. We passed muster. We were then invited by Meaghan to her home to meet her and "Lady". Skinny and scared surrounded by her nursing puppies "Lady" cowered in a dog bed in the corner. A vet had determined she was just under a year old and had become pregant during her first heat. "Lady was an unwed teen mother. We decide then and there that as soon as her puppies were weaned she would come and live with us.
Sadly none of the puppies survived despite all the care that they'd been given. "Lady was re-named Leslie, a name she took to right away. Leslie's sad story does have a happy ending. She is now plump and playfull. He life is now the cliche live of luxury. She has her own bed a cat to battle with and a yard to protect. Leslie has become one of Dogs without Borders' success stories!