Sunday, day 4

Tiny 1/4 inch steps of progress.
She goes out with Emmett on a very long leash and there they sit in the middle of the backyard. Schatzi sits for a while, good 15 minutes, listens to the birds and smells the breeze and then slowly walks to a spot to do her business. She actually walked back to him without yanking on the leash.
If something unforeseen happens, like a plane screaming overhead or a roof is being torn off and a big chunk falls to the ground, then it is all over.

We thought to introduce her to the car with a 5 minute ride to get the Sunday paper. Not good yet, she climbed frantically over my shoulder and trembled for a long time afterwards in her basket. Her bed is her safety place.

A book about adopting a rescue dog, wants you to have a crate for her. As afraid as she is, there would be no way to coax her out of the kennel without scaring her. Probably shades of the puppy mill, where they yanked the dogs out of their cages on what ever they can grab hold of. Ears, scruff, legs, tail....We want her to be a free doggie and not stuffed into a cage again...... no crate for her for crying out loud !!
Yesterday Emmett cut down the edge of her wicker baskets to make the entrance and especially exiting it a lot easier.
Faustimaus , our # 5 Dachsie, worked tireless on reducing the basket rims to make it more dachshund friendly. One basket, almost an antique, was not usable after she declared the work done. After all this remodeling what Fausti really wanted was a soft sided bed. The other two baskets got layers of duct tape over the chewed areas and are still very nice.
After the improvements Fausti made on the baskets I read, that you should never get a dachsie a wicker basket !

Schatzi still seemed to have difficulties with climbing out, she wobbles and is uncoordinated.
I happen to read the very sparse notes from the vet at the kennel and there it said, she has grade 3-4 luxating ( ? ) patella, B- lateral.
Bad knees. She might have this because she is a toy breed, or because of trauma.
She still has not made a sound, I think, they cut her vocal cords.