Kentucky Dachshund Rescue saves Dachshunds and other small breeds from euthanasia by providing food, medical care, love and time for them to find a forever home.  Animal welfare is under attack in Kentucky and the surrounding areas. Shelters are underfunded, or non-existent. Puppy mills continue to supply animals for top dollar prices, but provide minimal to downright deadly conditions for their animals. Families deal with life events needing to surrender their beloved family pet, or a local good samaratan finds a stray in the neighborhood, but cannot keep the animal long term. Whatever the case, KDR is here to help.    With our foster-based approach, dogs under KDR’s care get individualized care and love. They get socialized with their foster, other dogs, and become familiar with a home environment. They get to sleep in a warm bed, burrowed under blankets, instead of a cement floor in a shelter. Dogs in KDR all undergo vetting to ensure they are up to date on vaccinations, have immediate medical concerns addressed, and begin to heal.      Once a KDR dog is through with vetting and on the road to recovery, they are ready for placement in a home. When a suitable match is found and the applicant has successfully gone through our process, prospective adopters and dogs of interest get to have meet and greets to get to know one another. The foster then determines which home would be the most suitable for their forever home. After adoption KDR follows up to ensure successful adjustment.   Those who support KDR are breaking the cycle of disease, abandonment, and preventing unwanted dogs to suffer.  Donations to this rescue is seeking to improve the quality of life for many animals while supporting the human a way to provide for their pet a new home .  Dogs are never euthanized.  Only end of life stages will KDR agree to let a dog or animal cross the bridge.  We believe every day is a new beginning and we work tirelessly to persist in that effort to make it a better day going forward.    Thank you for your consideration....Kathy McIntosh, pres. KDR