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is with sincere gratitude and appreciation that I introduce you to the
wonderful volunteers and necessary support system for rescued dachshunds
in the San Antonio area. I could not do what I do without each and every
one of them! Come join us! It's rewarding, eye opening, enjoyable and
heartwarming. |
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is Christine McEntyre, owner and operator of Diamond Dachshund Rescue.
Her dedication and tireless efforts have enabled hundreds of
dachshunds to be rescued, rehabilitated and re-homed to permanent and
loving families. Christine is
a bit of a different sort of rescuer in that she pays special and close
attention to what each individual dog wants in a home.
The body language and personality of each dog is carefully noted to
ensure that the placement of the dog in a specific home, will be a
permanent and happy one. Christine
relies heavily on the dedicated and compassionate group of volunteers
involved with DDR to help with fostering, home visits, transports, shelter
pulls and placements of the dachshunds in need, educational events and
fundraising. Christine has been fostering and rescuing since 1998 and
averages between 90 and 120 adoptions each year, with a less than 2%
return rate due to the care taken in placements, keeping in touch with adopters, education and the foster program. |
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What would I do without Letty Gonzales?!
She's been beyond helpful and supportive! Letty does just about
everything for DDRTX at some point or another! She heads our Reunion,
works on the rummage sales, fundraisers, events, fosters the difficult
furkids with personality issues, transports, shelter pulls, she's our
reference checker, and all around amazingly dedicated volunteer!
Wondering if we can sign her up to be cloned?!
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| James and Kat Jones are our
representatives in the Corpus Christi area! They are owned by several
dachshunds who have mom and dad wrapped around their tails. They help with
shelter pulls, fostering, transports and fundraising - sure could use some
more help in the Corpus area! |
| Mylissa and Erika have been
fabulous assets in the SA area. Mylissa fosters and transports as well as
helps with fundraising, Erika has been great with support, transports and
helping at events. Both ladies are with the San Antonio Low riders - a group
of dachshund lovers who meet monthly for get togethers! |
| Joni Falconi - What a
compassionate and helpful volunteer Joni's turned out to be! She's adopted
two dachshunds from us and fosters sweeties who are waiting for homes,
giving them care and manners training as well as enjoys their antics and
introduces them to children! Thank you for all your help, Joni! |
| Sandy
Overmire is my rock, my confidante and my friend. Sandy fosters, does shelter pulls, transports and home
visits, and is a huge help to me when I have to drive distances!
Sandy helps with the annual yard sales and the Adopter's Reunion,
fundraising, she also does a myriad of other necessary things for me in
rescue, too many to mention - and she is always there to support me in
times of need. I could not do
this without her being by my side. She
has a love for the breed and a willingness to help in so many ways. |
 Ellen
Lockwood and Cathy Valdez are a valuable and dedicated foster home, who
also assist with so many other aspects of rescue such as meetings, the adopter's
reunion, the annual yard sales, transports, shelter break outs
and home visits. Ellen and Cathy have always been available whenever
needed and are genuinely appreciated for their support, efforts and care
that they offer to the wee ones in their home.
Ellen has been amazing with her support, her knowledge, her
assistance and her strength. Both
ladies have always there for me by lending moral support, offering their
advice, and keeping me grounded. Ellen
allows me to lean on her and gain strength from her. I am forever grateful
and indebted to both of you ladies! |
 Ted
Manganello is the talent behind designing this
wonderful web site. He is a
wonderful doggie parent and assists me greatly with home visits,
transports, the annual yard sale events, adopter's reunion, support,
fundraising, plus so many other things that has ever been asked of him.
Truly a very much appreciated and dedicated individual that I'm indebted to
forever and honored to know. His caring and willingness to help me help
the dogs, through thick and thin, has been dramatic and has made a very
special place for him in my heart. Every
time I think of the Manganello family, it makes me feel truly blessed that
they are a part of my life. I
would like to adopt the entire Manganello family! |
| Glen
and Kim Manganello are also previous adopters who have been amazing.
Glen is the talented designer of the DDRTX logo, and Kim helps out
with the Annual Adopter's Reunion, yard sales, transports and shelter
pulls. They have assisted
with fostering and volunteer in many other ways with our fundraising
efforts and spreading the rescue word. Both have enormous hearts and adore
their little dachshund fur kids, their kindness and assistance has been
wonderful! |
 Mike
and Barb Conley are absolutely awesome. They have been invaluable with
their sincere caring and experience in rehabilitating dogs with severe
health care needs. They are
the parents to Angel, the amazing little doggie in the wheelie cart who
needs them and adores them so much. They
have fostered for us, do a lot of transports, shelter pulls, home visits,
and driving - Barb also is a quilter and doggie bed maker.
Her talent and experience at sewing and as a pediatric neurological
nurse are absolutely invaluable when it comes to fundraising and caring
for special needs dogs. Mike
and Barb truly love this breed and their genuine caring shows in their
choice to make dachshund rescue the main charity that they want to be
involved in. |
 Cheryl
Egmon is our 'absent foster mom' right now, having moved to Bermuda for a
two year stint with her job. Cheryl
has been an absolutely wonderful friend.
She has fostered, done shelter pulls, transports, home visits and
has always made herself available to help in many ways. Cheryl's assistance and guidance in applying for our 501c3,
accounting and budgeting is such a phenomenal and wonderful way to assist
us from the far away Bermuda islands.
Cheryl has also helped with annual adopter's reunion, fundraising,
and general emotional support. Her heartfelt concern and genuine love for
dachshunds is obviously apparent and so greatly appreciated. |
| Maya
Drinkall has been a real joy with her assistance in transporting,
fundraising, shelter pulls, help in placements, home visits, the annual adopter's
reunion and the yard sales.
Even though she's moved to Austin, she will continue to assist with
home visit coordination and transports to that area. Her sense of humor
and willingness to jump in and work hard has endeared her to us all.
Her love of the breed is shown in her willingness to help us out
with whatever needs doing. |
 Jennie
Burdett has been a lifesaver - literally! She arranged for little Princess PJ to
get to me for emergency vet care after picking her up in
critical condition from the pound, now that's a special person!
Jennie is working hard with the others to get our annual adopter's reunion set up and she helps with home visits, shelter pulls, fundraising
and transports. Jennie has
also enabled us to have some great flyers printed up. |
 Cayce
Kovacs has become an absolutely necessary and integral person to me and
the dogs. She came to us with a willingness to help and share her shelter
and rescue experience. I am
very grateful for her calm and down to earth knowledge, guidance and
assistance. Cayce fosters,
does home visits, fundraising and shelter pulls, in addition to creating
our rescue database and many other necessary things that she helps us
with! She and her husband have assisted with all sorts of things from
building the database, helping with the yard sale and fundraising, not to
mention her emotional support and dedication to the betterment of the
lives of all dachshunds in need. |
 Leon
& Nancy Alexander adopted a big fella from me a couple years back and
been avid supporters ever since. They
help with shelter pulls, transports, occasional short term fostering,
fundraising events, yard sale and are always there to make us laugh and
smile while happily helping out the dogs in need. My sincere and heartfelt
thanks to you both. |
 Barrett
Brunner Houlihan has been an amazing supporter, friend and an absolute
avid dachshund lover. Barrett
helps out with anything she can, including transports, phone calls,
reference checks, meetings, and fundraising.
When it's my time to pass to the rainbow bridge, I would like to
come back as a dachshund and live in her home!
Her wonderful sense of humor and bubbly personality has helped me
laugh many times when I have wanted to cry. |
| Susie
Seidensticker is someone whom I have learned a lot from in the past couple
of years that I've known her. Susie
fosters some of our rescued wee ones, helps with transports and is a
wealth of dachshund information. Susie
breeds dachshunds for show, conformation, health and socialization for the
betterment of the breed. She is amazingly responsible in her care, love
and dedication to this breed. Her fostering assistance has been nothing
short of life saving for me and the dogs, not to mention sanity saving!
She's always been there for me to lean on and is always so chipper,
happy and ready to help, truly a Godsend for DDR. To Susie and her family, words escape me on how truly
thankful I am for you guys and your willingness to offer a place to stay
for the dogs. |
| Robert
& Sarah Sanchez have been fabulous and helpful volunteers!
Sarah is helping to work with the annual adopter's reunion, has
helped with the yard sale, fundraising, short term fostering,
transporting, shelter pulls and a host of other things.
She has offered to take care of our signage for the yard sales and
raffles for the reunion. She sells Tupperware and has been instrumental in fundraising
efforts through her work as a sales representative for them.
Robert and Sarah have adopted two dachshunds from me in the past
several years and their love for the breed is evident in their caring
about other dogs' futures, health and happiness. |
 Carol
Yount has recently moved to Boerne. I'm
sure it's so she can be closer to me in Kerrville so that she can help the
rescued dachshunds with transporting, home visits, fostering and so many
other things that have and will be, asked of her!
Many thanks to Carol for the foster care and understanding guidance
she's shared with several of our little homeless kids. |
 Debi
Silva is a relatively newcomer to DDRTX, but has so far been an absolute
joy to have joining us in our rescue work.
Debi is assisting others with setting up and planning the annual adopter's
reunion, will help us with fundraising, yard sale events, home
visits and transports in addition to many other things that she has
offered to help with. Her
assistance, eagerness and willingness to work hard for the best interest
and happiness of the rescued dogs will be so very much appreciated in the
months and years to come. |
| Joyce and Steven Gengler are two of our
"Angel Wheels" of our group. They do pick ups, deliveries and
transportation of many of our wee souls all over the state, from the
Dallas
area to the tip of
Texas
!
From
Houston
to
El Paso
!
They are always cheerful, happy to help and truly seem to enjoy each
moment spent volunteering and handling so many of our special homeless fur
kids. Just having recently relocated from
California
, we
are thrilled to pieces that they have chosen DDRTX to spend their time,
energy and compassion with! Their support, dedication and assistance
has been, and will continue to be, invaluable to us all! |
| Diana
Perez Balboa has been a fabulous asset to our fostering program. She has
worked well with puppies and older dogs in getting them socialized to
other dogs, children and humans, as well as working with them on their
housetraining needs and manners. Diana is a wonderful lady with a bubbly
and happy personality that exudes warmth and compassion for these homeless
fur kids. We feel privileged that she's chosen us as her personal favorite
group to share her talents and time with, she's helped with the fundraiser
yard sales and has done independent fundraisers to help us care for these
dogs' health care needs. |
 Jeri
Evans, and her little Yorkie friend, have joined forces to foster and help
out dachshunds in need! Jeri has been amazingly helpful in fostering
and we hope she will enjoy the experience and stay with us a long, long
time!!! Always need the experience of a vet technician and definitely
have a huge need for foster homes! Thank you Jeri! |
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Judy Sybert
and
husband Bob are new to our group, but have already made themselves at home
and are so very valuable as a foster home for our especially shy, timid
and special emotional issue dogs. Judy and Bob both help with the rummage
sale, the reunion and other events and happenings with our rescue mission!
Judy's care and attentiveness to our special kids has been amazing and we
are all grateful to have this family join our family! |
| Marilyn and Lou
Paliani are bright, cheerful new faces to our happy, wonderful,
compassionate group of volunteers! We are thrilled that they have
chosen us to be the recipients of their attentiveness, caring and ability
to foster some of these precious fur kids. Marilyn and Lou are involved
with other interests and events, but find the time to foster and help
out in any way they can. We appreciate every minute of their time! |
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