Meet Gus. Gus is a 6 year old long haired dachshund. He has a great family and is “in the center of our family life”, says Shelby Petersen, who shares her life with Gus, her husband and daughter, and Oliver and Oscar, two other long haired dachshunds. Unfortunately, Gus also has IVDD (Introduction to Intervertebral Disk Disease). For the first 4 years of Gus’ life he had no problems and could jump around, run up and down the ramp to the sofa, and run and tussle with his other