As seen from the road, this is the main house and puppy barn with pens. We've cleared the old fence line out and made it more accessible and open. In the spring and summer it'll be lovely.

Our orignial old barn is now completely fenced in. We use moveable panels to separate the exterior runs. At this time there are 8 interior stalls, opening into the 8 large exercise runs. This setup allows us to use one side for rescues and retirees, and the other for boarders, if necessary, just by adding fence panels to increase/decrease the number of available runs.

We've gotten the fences up around all the buildings now and the pen dividers mostly up. At the puppy building, we have 6 puppy/breeding pens (with capacity for up to 2 additional pens if needed). A grassy area also encloses the back door of the house so that any dogs inside the house for whelping or medical care can be allowed exercise without causing problems with their housetraining.

At the new Kennel building, we have 12 runs set up now on each side for our registered dogs. We also insulated the interior of the building, so adding doggie doors to inside kennels and a loft (for storage) along with getting permanent power up there is left for Summer 2011. We'd hoped to have it done before Winter, 2010, but <sigh> the best laid plans aft ga'en astray!

Inside the rescue barn there are 8 stalls which are roomy and cleaned daily. Each of our dogs is "buddied" with another dog, usually a sibling or similar age if available. Noone wants to be alone, and dogs are meant to have friends. Our volunteers and family members spend as much time with these precious babies as possible. 

Even on a dreary fall day, the front yard of the old house is lovely and wide open. We are so lucky in our little slice of heaven.

Our long driveway goes between the two houses straight back to the  new kennel building. The rescue barn is off to the left. We have an amazing piece of property here. This picture was taken Oct. 30, 2010,a full year after we began the extensive construction!

We hope DoxieWoods will be the greatest HAVEN for Dachshunds in the South, if not the World!

This is what we started with when we first opened up as just a small kennel with 2 dachshunds that rescued dogs of all kinds. We've sure made a lot of changes since then.  It was raw stuff. I didn't expect to be a big operation when I started.

In November, 2009, we cleared over 2 acres of our property and poured cement around the rescue barn, the puppy building, and pourd a pad for a new kennel building. We got the new kennel building up as well just before the weather turned wicked cold but then we had to stop work for two reasons:

1) we had a full week of single digit weather and 6 (count them 6) inches of snow & ice  and 2) I had to have the first of two major back surgeries.

It's a work in progress. Slowly but surely we'll get it DONE!