🚨 Dachshund Army, Mocha needs your help! 🚨 Only 3 1/2 years old, her life was forever changed when she was recently hind end paralyzed due to the dreaded doxie IVDD. Sadly disc issues are the price the breed pays for those adorable short stubby legs and long backs. She was on medication but did not regain function, and we weren’t contacted to take her in until a week after her injury, too late for surgery to give her a high chance of regaining normal hind end function. She’s seen a neurologist and is on strict crate rest right now- there is still some chance she may improve over time since it was a very small disc with minimal compression on her spinal cord, but we have to have to move forward with the expectation the damage is permanent. She’s no longer in any pain and can still live a long happy quality life as a wheelchair dog with the right person and a lot of extra care. She’s a gentle sweet small standard dapple longhair, 16lbs, loves her squeaky toys, likes other small gentle dogs and is coping her with crate rest and lifestyle change as well as can be expected. She is incontinent but has been cooperative having her bladder expressed and being cleaned, and hasn’t been leaking between expressions as long as done regularly. We are urgently seeking a longer term foster or adopter able to stay on top of her care to make sure she doesn’t get sores or urinary tract infections. Mocha is a lifestyle choice not to be entered into lightly, but promises to reward you with years of loyalty and trademark doxie kisses and long-nosed nuzzles. Thanks to our partnership with Ramapo-Bergen Animal Refuge she was able to get an immediate neurology visit and MRI to explore all avenues for how best to help her. Please email njwoof@cs.com if you can open your home to this special girl, either as a foster or on a permanent basis Since COVID-19, we are no longer holding our Sunday adoption events until further notice, but we are scheduling meet and greet appointments with a specific dog or dogs at our meeting spots in Northern NJ. To streamline adoptions, all communication before, during, and after the adoption process is done through email only: we have limited volunteers able to return phone calls. Submit an application from our website www.secondchance.petfinder.com to speed up the adoption process and email any questions to us at njwoof@cs.com. Please check your email regularly for next steps. All our dogs reside in foster care in Northern NJ until adoption and we do not have a central shelter location. We are a small all-volunteer organization focused on rescuing local dogs from area shelters, as well as accepting some surrenders and puppy mill rescues.