Famous Dachshund Myths and Urban Legends

Famous Dachshund Owners? Look closer. Everyone knows that the part of 'Toto' in The Wizard of Oz was supposed to be a Dachshund. Brando owned a doxie named 'Maria.'

But it's the same photo-shopped doxie in both photos.  Fake, fake fake.

And that's not Margaret Hamilton who played the wicked witch, who owned the Dachshund that was supposed to be Toto, that's a woman from a vintage doxie 'how-to' pamphlet, posted just a few posts below demonstrating how to give your doxie his medicine.

This website seems to be the source of such legends and conundrums: http://home.pacbell.net/jcreitz/Andouille_Dachshund_Page4.html

UPDATE July, 2010:  Years later we learned that Brando's Grandmother was a Dachshund Lover.  See the beautiful real photos.   

Dachshunds in Pop Culture: Brando

Hopefully this will be a weekly featured photo that will have a permanent location in the column on the right. And we might as well start with Brando!

This is Marlon Brando with his mini red long-hair "Maria."

Update 5/31/2007, this photo is a fake: see Famous Dachshund Myths and Urban Legends

Update 7/21/2010:  Finally, real photos of Brando with Dachshund:  Dachshunds in Pop Culture:  Marlon Brando