This series of six video shows how to groom and strip the wire-haired Dachshund. Here’s the first installment on grooming the face.
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November 2009
This video comes from the fantastic selection of dogs welcoming soldiers home at Mental Floss.
The description reads: “After nearly eight months away from home on deployment with the U.S. Navy to Kuwait, my two dachshunds were very happy to see me again. Franklin is the black and tan male and Sally is the red/brown female. Both are two years old and both were rescue dogs. For more information contact Southern States Dachshund Rescue at ssdr.org and Dachshund Rescue of North America at drna.org for more dachshunds in need of a good home. They are the best dogs ever.”
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The Graham Leader in Texas has the story of Jackie-O, a mother Dachshund who who has been nursing four stray kittens along with two puppies of her own for the past month. Growing up in a blended interspecies family has the kittens thinking they’re dogs and the puppies using the litter box, but everybody gets a long just fine, according to the article.
Here’s some of the background:
The kittens were found in a warehouse at Swan right after a severe storm. (Kim Baxter of the Young County Humane Society Shelter) said the storm likely scared the mother cat away. “They were in fairly good condition,” she said. “You could tell they had been nursing.”
Since the kittens were too young to live on their own, Baxter could either set up around-the-clock feedings, giving them milk every two hours, or she could find a new mother to adopt them.
There was only one problem. The only new mother in the shelter was a dachshund. Baxter said she has heard reports of dogs taking in kittens and feeding them, so she decided to give it a try.
She put one cat in the cage with the mother dog and her two 4-day-old puppies and was surprised to see the dog immediately take to the kitten. She slowly put in the other three.
“She took them right away and started cleaning them,” Baxter said.
Given their background, Baxter wants the kittens to go to homes with dogs. Way to go, Jackie-O. The Daily Doxie wishes we knew a little more about you.
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Read on of the most popular stories we’vve ever featured, the tale of Tink the mother Dachshund who adopted little Pink the piglet.
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The boy’s mother, Cadara Ballard told deputies she took her son to Spring Hill to trick or treat in a relative’s neighborhood. He was wearing a costume, that wasn’t identified in the police report. However, the report does say the three-year-old was not wearing underwear.Ballard said, in the report, “as they opened the door one of the small dogs nipped her son on the (privates)… She stated her son was not wearing underwear at that time because he does not like to wear them.”
The mother is threatening a civil suit.
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Despite the ordeal of being stuck in a badger hole for nearly a week, Lucy, the English sausage dog, is now fine. The local paper has all the details on her dramatic rescue:
Animal rescue specialist Anton Phillips used listening equipment and a snake eye camera to examine the network of tunnels but could find no sign of Lucy.On the fifth day of their daily visits to the sett Mr West, 58, detected a faint whimper using a listening probe made with a plastic funnel and pipe.
“At first I though I was imaging it, but then I realised it was for real,” he said.
Here’s another photo of Lucy looking completely exhausted.
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