Focus on Life Week # 10

It's the weekend and once again I am looking through photos that I have taken to see what to post for Sally Russick's Photo Challenge, Focus on Life.

Her prompt this week was: all wrapped up. At first I was totally stumped. All I could think of was Christmas but as I considered other things more and more ideas began to appear.

This is our Miniature Dachshund, Mollie. We rescued her from Countryside Rescue in Santa Rosa, California in October, 2005 and she is a survivor of Hurricane Katrina. Mollie was five when we got her but turned six on December 26 of that year. I found her online and we went to the rescue with the intention of taking her home no matter what the cost.



Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans in 2005

Her previous owners had to give her up after their devastating losses from the hurricane. They signed papers and provided her medical records so that is why I knew her age.


Rescuers from Pasados Safe Haven
photographed by Karen Ducey








 by Karen Ducey

Poor little Mollie (or Millie as her name was then) was born and raised in the Louisiana sun and was very unhappy with our weather, living in a cage at the rescue and not having a home when we met her. She was used to being a princess and couldn't understand her new situation.

We bought her a new fluffy dog bed and as soon as we got her home and put her in the bed, our training began. She got out of the bed and jumped up on the couch then looked around at us like, "Well, what are you going to do about it?"






If you have ever had a Dachshund, you know that they have an unique attitude. They are very much like cats. Things are done on their schedule and to their liking. Fortunately, I had a Dachshund when I was in my teens that looked just like Mollie and I love cats so I fell in love with her immediately.




Mollie will be fourteen this year and she has brought us all, including the other dogs, so much joy. We are all wrapped up in her little paws and we love it. I think she has done a grand job of training us.

photo by juliacumesphoto.com

 We are all God's creatures. Thank you Lord, for the people who care.


Julie Panusis