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Sep 2008 - Hi, My name is Tag. I know it is a strange one, but that is what my owners told the shelter it was when they left me there to be put to sleep after living with them faithfully for 11 years. I was very sad and scared because I didn't know what I did. I thought I was a very good boy. Quiet in my crate and snuggly in a lap. I am very housetrained too! My foster mom took one look at me and just shook her head. She said not to worry anymore, I am safe now and all my problems would be taken care of. I am off to a good start. After getting my shots and my nails trimmed I am on a diet to lose 7 pounds. I am well on my way because I have already lost 2 pounds! I had to have TWO hernias repaired and several big warts removed. But now all my surgery is over, my stitches are ALL out and I feel so good. I can fit thru the doggy door now and I love to use it to go sit in the sun with the wind blowing my ears. A much nicer place to be then a shelter and a much happier ending than being put to sleep.

Update Dec 28, 2008 - I have now lost a total of 4.5 pounds!! I weigned 20 and now I weigh 15.5! Mom is VERY proud of me. I feel so GOOD! But I must confess I am getting tired of diet food. BLACH!!! I yearn for yummy people food! Mom is saying NO WAY!!! I still have about 2.5 to go.

Update July 01, 2009 - I am still on my diet. Yuck! My foster mom gives me lots of rawhides to crunch on. I am VERY fond of those....and she says they don't count for my diet....YEA! My fur has grown back in nicely from all my surgery. I just love napping on soft doggie pillows and sneaking up the ramp onto mom's bed when she isn't looking. Sometimes I can hear her calling all over for me and I just hide further under her pillows. She is catching on though, but never makes me get down. She says I deserve to snuggle under a pillow if I want to. I am very content. I really don't demand too much....soft pillows all around, a lap to snuggle in, gentle hands to pet and scratch me, rawhides to munch on, and a leash to go on jaunty walks. And of course someone who will let me go up the ramp and hide under the pillows on the big bed......

Update Nov 30, 2009 - I am one happy old fellow!! I now only weigh @ 14 lbs!!! I am no longer on a strict diet!!! Oh I still eat my green beans and I have to eat diet food some of the time to keep myself trim (I could still lose a pound)...but the rest of the time, I get to have whatever the other dogs are having...sometimes fish, sometimes venison, sometiems duck or lamb....YUM!!!! I and I always make sure mom knows when it is time for my after dinner Senior Crunchy! One does have to keeps ones teeth brushed after all doesn't one! I am content to stay here with my foster mom and allow her the privilage of rubbing my tummy and snuggling me at night with my foster siblings. I have taught her to be a pretty good snuggler. As long as I have a soft pillows all about I am a happy camper!

Update June 25, 2010 - Uh oh!!! I have lost TOO much weight! I have not been eating diet food for a while but I continued to lose weight. I am now just under 12 pounds! Mom is so concerned about it and the fact that I gobble my food until I choke that she is giving me puppy food...WET puppy food. I am in HEAVEN!!! They say I need to get back to 12 or 13 pounds. An old guy like me needs a few more calories in my senior condition. My how the story has changed from 2 years ago!! My delicious new situation makes me one joyful little old fellow.....so much that I sing when it is supper time to tell mom how glad I was they rescued me....and how I admire her cooking skills with a can opener!!! I still have my issues she says....I can't swallow well and it gives me syncope and I faint briefly (but not very often anymore and the wet food will help), I now have a moderate heart murmer so they are always listening for coughing (kind of funny when every time I clear my throat mom comes running in), and I am taking arthritis medicine now but it has put a little spring back in my step. In all, life is good on the Doxie Rescue Railroad....greeting new fosters as they come thru and teaching them not to steal my delicious food and helping them learn they are safe now and will soon have their very own family to love.

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