I stepped out the back door of our house the other day and saw this scene at the edge of the steps. That’s Oliver and Twist, the two Dachshunds, sharing a dog cot with blind Austin. I think there might still be room to squeeze a miniature Dachshund into that upper left-hand corner of the bed, but Daisy wasn’t interested in trying.
Oliver and Twist had come to us from an animal hoarder/backyard breeding situation several months ago. Oliver, the wire-haired one, has orthopedic problems — including front feet that turn in-ward when he stands — that make him hop instead of walk. Twist’s left rear leg juts out sideways (except when he’s lying down like this!) from a birth defect. The leg doesn’t hamper his mobility … he just lifts it up and out of the way, then zooms off.
Austin is kind of like the kid who is everybody’s favorite little brother; all the dogs enjoy playing with him and just having him hang around with them. These three were enjoying a summer afternoon snooze in the shade of the back porch.
Here’s a different configuration from the other side of the house, in a photo I took last week. That’s Austin and Twist with blind Kenai, our elderly black Lab. This was a summer morning snooze under the front porch, and since the temperature was still fairly cool, I think they were using Kenai as a heating pad:
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