We have dachshunds of all ages, from puppies to seniors. We will work with you to find the right dog for your family! Click here to see our available dogs! We have many opportunities to help our dachshund friends. Click here to find out how to become a foster parent, volunteer in another capacity or to donate goods and services!Support DDRTX by purchasing merchandise via AmazonSmile and show your love of dachshunds. Can I stay at your house for a while? Do you have room in your heart and home for a homeless Dachshund? We need more foster homes to provide a loving, stable environment for dachshunds in need. DDRTX takes care of the vet bills and the foster provides room, food, and a family home for the needy dog until the dog is adopted to a carefully screened adoptive home. Foster homes pass the same requirements as our adopters, so fill out a Foster application today.  Sign up for the DDRTX Newsletter! Please fill out your email addressto receive our DDRTX newsletter!

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We strive to find the right home for each dog's individual personality and needs so that the placement is permanent and both the dogs and the families who adopt them are equally happy. Donate to DDRTX as a Gift to Someone! You can donate to Diamond Dachshund Rescue of Texas in honor of someone else! It could be for a birthday, anniversary, memorial or any occasion.  We will send a customized gift card to your special someone. Your donation will help take care of our beloved doxies! Visit Rainbow's page to read the full update. The short version is that Rainbow had multiple bone fractures, suffered from severe vitamin and calcium deficiency, and was in a great deal of pain. With rest, better nutrition, vitamin and mineral supplements, pain treatment, and physical therapy, she has improved. Thanks to your donations, she has been able to recover.He'd rather be rescuing animals full time. But Jay Pennington is a practical guy."Programming data bases pay the bills for now," he says from his home in Boerne, Tex., located about an hour northwest of San Antonio.

He has, however, managed to combine two of his pursuits – software and animals – with a free program that helps reunite lost pets and their owners. The non-profit project is called Pet Search and Rescue, and it's free for shelters, rescues and the public. If you lose a dog or find a cat, upload the photo. If a stray is picked up on the highway and brought in, the city or county pound can post a photo. It centralizes the search process.But there are plenty of cities and states that need something like Pennington's idea. It came to him about 12 years ago when his young indoor cat got out because the air conditioner guy opened the door."We were frantic," Pennington says. "We looked up and down the neighborhood, put out fliers. We were out there all day. Then we started thinking, maybe he was picked up and taken to the pound. This was in San Antonio, and back then they didn't even have a website. So we had to go down to the pound. Then San Antonio was known to put down pets every two days, so you had to go down there every day."

He also found a half-dozen adoption agencies that might have his cat. Some had websites, some didn't, some were out of date."I figured there was a need for a central location, a portal that ties all these groups together to see if your animal was at the pound, at some agency or at some vet.He saw the breakdown as a database application problem, and began working on a solution.He pitched it to officials in San Antonio, but nothing happened until a news story came out saying San Antonio killed more pets than any other city. The city manager called him, now interested in his idea."I decided (to work) on a community level rather than a national level, the pounds, shelters, adoption agencies, vets of that community."Now he has seven Texas cities on board, and he's looking for other shelters, rescues, pounds or humane societies to help, whether there is a centralized system in their state or not."I don't take away from other organizations," he says. "This brings them together. In fact, more people see them.""

Jay has a sincere love for animals and in particular a driving compassion for pets in need," says Nancy Parker-Simons, director of Utopia Animal Rescue Ranch and a member of Pennington's board. "Jay's programming smarts have allowed him to write tools from his home in the Texas Hill Country not just to help a few pets but hundreds maybe thousands of pets in need in many cities."To make the system work, the organizations have to be willing to upload pictures every time they get a stray, then remove animals once they are reunited with their owners or adopted. A pet owner should check back daily to see if their lost pet has been found. And if you forget to come back every day, Pennington has a program that does an automatic search. Perhaps you lost a German shepherd. The program takes the breed and searches the dogs at, say, the San Antonio pound to see if any German shepherds had been picked up or dropped off as strays that day, then sends the dog owner an email."It's kind of a search engine that works automatically for you every night."

In addition, Pennington randomly chooses a shelter and a cat and a dog from it to highlight as his pet of the day.His program also helps generate fliers for pet owners to distribute, and protects people's privacy. He also monitors the sites to make sure everything is working."I get a domain name going, the organization is registered with me, then they have to make sure they keep it current," he says. "A lot of this runs by itself. Once the general public uploads a picture I check it, make sure nobody uploads porn, then when they say they found it I check it, make sure there's no profanity in the message."He won't ever meet most of the pets he has helped or their owners," Parker-Simons says, "but the pet owners see Jay as a superhero. Jay has mentioned often of getting phone calls from pet owners crying from joy as their family member is now back home."As for his acting career, his latest project is "Nudged," an independent film that premiered May 14, "about a number of folks who needed to be nudged to get out of their ruts.""