HOTDOGHILL SANCTUARY

Causes: Animal Protection & Welfare, Animals

Mission: Hotdoghill Sanctuary is not a foster home or rescue group. We are a forever home for senior dogs, special needs dogs and hospice dogs located in Virginia. Sanctuary residents are dogs who have lost their families and homes through no fault of their own. Due to their advanced age and various medical conditions, they have little chance of being adopted. But because of the wonderful work we try and do, senior and special needs pets are given a loving and caring home where they will be allowed to live out their lives in a secure, nurturing environment. When you make donations those donations go directly to caring for the residents, for food, medical care and items that directly benefit the HDHS residents and not for Administrative or Operational expenses. The full-time residents of the sanctuary are provided with a comfortable, bright, and clean home environment and the medical care they need. We mainly specialize in very old dachshunds pulled from shelters, puppy mill dachshunds, and severely disabled dachshunds that require ongoing medical care, We have blind and deaf, and 7 with IVDD and countless that have come here for hospice care. The sanctuary is run out of our home. The dogs have free run of our home. We have adopted out 41 some dogs and helped another 47 to the bridge in the last 10 years. We have tried to provide the best last chapter for these dogs so that when it is time to go to the bridge they have known love, they have been owned, they had a name, they have known the feel of a warm bed (mostly my bed). Each of our departed dogs were held in my arms as they passed and each one broke our hearts but we saw them through all the way to the end. This is the hardest part of rescue or any pet ownership and we are proud of all of our work. The dogs that we bring into our program are those who are nearly un-adoptable due to disability and/or age but who are still able to enjoy the remainder of their years with a good quality of life. This amount of time may range from weeks to months to years, and we aim to provide the best quality of life possible for the dogs in our care during that time through a loving home, high quality vetting and medication and good food. Through sponsorship's, donations and grants we will provide medical care and preventatives to the dogs living in our care. Our place is not a 'shelter' where animals are caged/penned. Our place is cage free and our dogs live together in a large group. We have a very strict routine and the dogs thrive with it and are happy.We are small, we barely make a dent in fulfilling needs of the animals in need of rescue. We do our best to provide the best care for the pups dogs that make it to us for care. All of our dogs are special to us, they needed a place to go to commit to their care for the rest of their lives.