The Rescued Rescuers: Dachshunds and Friends of the Emerald Coast

10/09/2025

Hey Rescuers....put this date on your calendar! It's a super fun event and we guarantee that you will never have seen this many wieners in one place...it's awesome!🐾

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10/09/2025

Home safe!!!!!!

10/09/2025

These are the kind of updates we love to share!
Remember Millie? She was the breeder dog that came to us in very poor condition earlier this year. She had mammary tumors and was heartworm positive. She had been bred all her life and hadn't known the love of a real family to call her own. She won a legion of followers, and so many kindly donated to her care.
Her foster family ultimately loved her too much to let her go and they officially adopted her and committed to continuing her rehabilitation. One of Millie's other health concerns was that thanks to a poor diet and lack of exercise, she was horribly over-weight. Millie's mom shared the picture on the right of her progress today. She weighed in at a very svelte 10 pounds and can now run and play with the other pups and of course...chase squirrels! Although she is still undergoing her heartworm treatment, we are sure that you will agree.....she is STUNNING and just the perfect size for a healthy dachshund!
What a huge success story. Congratulations to Millie and mom for a tremendous weight loss (we all know it's hard!!!) and for loving her back to health. Give her a ❤️ to show that there are always people who will care and do the right thing by their animals....thankfully the good outweighs the bad.

10/08/2025

Got a Brown Betty Update for y'all!!
So Betty had a vet appt yesterday and... guess what the appt. was for? It was for her to get her HEALTH CERTIFICATE to be able to take a transport ride (car not plane) to her new momma in Davenport IOWA!!
YES! This sweet girl is being adopted by a 7 TIME ADOPTER, Jayne Haffarnan! We are so excited for Betty to live a wonderful life with Jayne and lots of fur siblings. Now, we did request that Betty go to a home with no other dogs, but Jayne is very experienced with spicy doxies and how to properly introduce them into the home. She also has separate areas to keep them until everyone gets along.
Jayne also has talked to her local vet and has a plan to handle Betty’s long term heartworm treatment and continuous weight loss journey. For those of you that don’t remember, Betty found herself at the local shelter and with no one to claim her, she was brought into our Rescue. She had several huge golf ball size mammary tumors, wasn’t spayed, was 20lbs overweight, needed a dental and was heartworm positive. Adopting a dog with just one of those issues is a lot. Plus her separation anxiety and resource guarding issues, we had no interest in her.
We are so thankful for everyone that has donated to her medical care, and all the foster homes that contributed to getting her well, along with everyone that shared her posts. We can’t wait to get updates on this beautiful creature and are so happy that we “found a lid to her pot”.
Rescue is hard, we can’t do it without YOUR donations, support, shares, foster homes and medical team! If you want to learn how to foster, please let us know! It literally SAVES LIVES!!


Last 3 pics are of the day she was sprung from the shelter!
She is down to 28.3lbs from 33.8!

10/05/2025

Attention Crestview Rescuers: Charlie is still missing. We have horrible weather passing thru, please keep a look out for him. If you are in the vicinity of Cabana Way, please check your garages and sheds etc.

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10/04/2025

Well what a lovely surprise this afternoon in our Inbox! Gouda's mom sent some pics so that his followers could see his progress. What a happy little guy he is now and all memory of his horrific abuse appears to be long gone.
Gouda was adopted by the veterinary nurse that cared for him on his many visits as we worked to heal his wounds physical and emotional. We know that he has a legion of followers; you can keep up with Gouda's new life by visiting his Instagram page and even DM him a message to wish him well. 💕
We will always be 💪
https://www.instagram.com/gouda.the.rescue.pup/

10/04/2025

Ella says: "Happy Fall, Y’all!" She’s at the vet and ready to get her sutures out. Wish her luck...she's been thru so very much and still has a way to go.......

10/03/2025

Luna has found her forever home with Mama Nel, 2 human sisters and a sweet canine brother! We’re so happy for them and excited to follow their new adventures!

Luna came to RR at a time when our foster network was completely FULL. Fortunately for us, one of our followers (could this be you next time?) reached out and told us she could foster once or twice but was moving in a few months so she didn’t know if it made sense, since there is some training involved in fostering. RR was THRILLED to have her, even just for one or two fosters (that’s one or two more lives we can save!). We paired her with an experienced foster mentor who didn’t have room to take another dog at the moment but who had time to do the admin work involved with fostering and, voilà - 3.5 weeks later, Luna has had her spay, her teeth cleaned, her vaccines current, and has found her forever home! It was a good experience for Luna, for her foster and for the experienced foster.

Could this be you?? You don’t have to make a major commitment to join our foster team. All we ask is for you to commit to the placement of one dog. If you want to do it again, great! If not, we’re so happy you joined us for the one!

No need to complete the full foster application if you’re interested. Just message us here on Facebook with your email or cell and one of us will reach out. Thanks for considering our plea!

10/03/2025

Ahh, these two......magnificent little guys (well Timmy's not quite so little 😁) both were not loved enough to give them their monthly heartworm preventative. 🥲 They are both in a great foster home now and receiving the care they need to get healthy enough to accept applications. Both Shorty and Timmy will need to endure painful and expensive heartworm treatment to rid them of these deadly, nasty parasites.
Give us a thumbs up if you gave your pup their heartworm prevention already this month 👍.

10/01/2025

Good morning Rescuers! We start the month by thanking the wonderful Voss family for their donation in memory of their beloved Lucy.
100% of all donations go directly towards the medical needs of the pups in our care. We currently have three dogs undergoing treatment for mammary tumors and big boy Timmy running up our vet bills too. This kindness is especially appreciated at this time and will help make a difference to the future of these precious souls. Thank you. 🙏

09/30/2025

***New Gal Alert***

Name: Amelia (Millie)
Age: 11 Month
Weight: 12 lbs
S*x: female/spayed
Coat: medium/long
Color: fawn
Energy Level: medium/high (puppy)
Adoption Fee: $400
Contact: Tina at [email protected]
Millie’s location: Navarre

Hi, my name is Amelia but everyone calls me Millie! I’m a ‘friend’ at the rescue because I’m a 11-month-old Cairn Terrier puppy, and I’m looking for my very own forever family. My first family loved me a lot, but they had to move into an assisted living place, so now it’s my turn to find a new home.
I’m a happy girl who loves to learn new things (I’m really smart, promise!). I’ve still got that puppy energy, so I’ll keep you laughing and on your toes. After playtime though, I’m a snuggle bug and love to curl up close. I get along well with other dogs, and I haven’t met any cats yet—so I’m not sure what I think about them.
Since I’m still young, I’ll adapt and grow right alongside my new family. I can’t wait to meet you, give you kisses, and start our adventures together!
Love,
Millie 🐾
https://therescuedrescuers.org/adoption-application

09/30/2025

👬Name: Charlie Brown and Danny Blue
Age: 11 (but a young 11) and 3
Weight: 19 lbs and 15 lbs
S*x: Male, neutered
Coat: Smooth
Color: Red and Blue
Energy level: Medium
Adoption fee: $500 (together)
Foster location: Baker, FL (If out-of-area: please understand that you’ll need to arrange pick up)
Contact info: [email protected]

Our names are CHARLIE BROWN and DANNY BLUE and we’re looking for a forever home where we can be brothers! 👬
We are absolutely GORGEOUS likely purebred dachshunds who found our way to the shelter in Alabama where this nice rescue came and got us and brought us together to a lovely foster home. We’ve done everything we can to weasel our way into foster mom and dad’s hearts and we HAVE – but they’re TRYING to let us go to another forever home so they can keep fostering and saving other dogs that have fallen on hard times, just like how we were a few short weeks ago! Here’s what they need to find in order to let us go:
(1) We need to stay together. Though we didn’t come from our last homes together, we formed a strong bond in the shelter and I (Charlie Brown) am the big brother that Danny never had. Danny would be lost without me and none of us want him to go through that. For example, he’s happy to go walking on a leash and see all the people IF I’m right there by him, but if I’m not, he shakes and has to be carried by foster dad. Danny will eat his dinner if I’m there to remind him how it’s done, but if I’m in the other room, foster mom has to hand feed him and give him lots of praise to get him started. So, we need to be brothers in our forever home. We’ve just been through enough without being separated.💕
(2) We are perfect and lovely boys with very good manners that improve every day, but we need someone who will be patient with us as we learn our new home. We need to go out on a fixed schedule and we need someone who is home a LOT, especially at first. Our ideal home would not have small children (but we’d love kids 8+) and would be a quieter place. Maybe some nice retirees or someone who works from home might be a good fit? We’d like to be the princes of the castle and Danny cannot be crated - he gets so anxious! We do love people and dogs of all sizes.
Though we’d be thrilled if you’d fill out an application for us, what would be even better is if you’d email our foster mom at [email protected] and introduce yourself and tell her why you want to be our forever mom or dad. She’s going to try really hard to let us have a forever home that isn’t where we already are, but it’s got to be a really good fit or else she might not going to be able to let us go. So best to go on and talk to her before applying. But doesn’t that tell you how special we are?? She says that for that lucky home that is the right fit, we’re worth the effort a thousand times over!
Hope to meet you soon! Charlie and Danny😘