INTRODUCING: HAZEL!

After a year of happy companionship with Helmut, Grizelda began to notice how sad Helmut looked whenever HerrMan came over.

Yule was approaching, so Grizelda decided to give Helmut a special gift! Grizelda returned to the animal shelter where Helmut had come from to look for a companion for him. She had every confidence that the perfect little female dachshund would be waiting for her there!

As the fates had masterminded, a breeder had dropped an entire litter of dachshund puppies off the day before. It seems they all lacked something to meet show dog standards, so the breeder brought them in to find families since they couldn't sell them.

Sure enough, five wriggling healthy female pups, varying shades of the same cinnamon color occupied pen number 3. The obvious reigning queen of the bunch was one with a black tip on her tail, a bit aloof and indignant at being in such a place.

She seemed to have that same "glow" that Grizelda had seen around Helmut when she choose him. Grizelda decided that this little beauty would be just the mate for Helmut.

She called out to the group, and the half-grown pup tilted her head to the left, looked, and regally stepped across her sisters to go nuzzle Grizelda's hand.

Grizelda named her Hazel, paid to have her shots, and asked them to board her for a few days. She would come back to pick her up and take her to her new home to start her new life on Yule.