Retro Dachshund Fun

Everyone looked forward to The Shirey's Christmas Card each year.  Have you got yours all ready to go?


Original Dachshund Christmas Card by The Shireys, probably America, circa 1960. 

Viral Dachshund Photos

 

We've no idea of the original source of this fine photo making the rounds on the interweb at the moment.  Is it yours?

Dachtober Fun

Via the Chicago Sun Times:  Fall leaf pile in Naperville, Illinois: There is nothing like making a leaf pile. Now that my girls are too old for this, my dachshund, Rosie, keeps looking forward to the leaf pile, her rite of fall.

Vintage Dachshund "Fun"

Welcome Dachtober!  Stand strong little Dachshunds, it'll all be over soon enough.


Mid-century photo source unknown.

Dachtober Is Upon Us

How many more days until our favorite month?  Thanks to an Anonymous Dachshundist for sending in this photo via The Daily Mail where, they document some pretty amazing photos of  the Oktoberfest kickoff in Munich, the Motherland.  Don't miss them.

PROST!

Vintage Dachshund Fun

LOOK AWAY

Mid-century photo source unknown.

Awkward Family Dachshund Photos

Credit: Magdalena Niziol

Thanks to an Anonymous Dachshundist for sending this in via the Huffington Post:

Engagement photos are known for being posed and -- if we're being completely honest here -- kind of awkward.
But one Connecticut couple, Magdalena Niziol and Peter DeLong, decided to embrace that fact in their pre-wedding portrait -- complete with ugly sweaters, 80s-style scrunchies and some apathetic-looking pets.

Seeing Red

A Sea of Red?

Viral Dachshund photo, original source unknown.

Retro Dachshund Fun

We hope you had a great holiday weekend.  Now finish that coffee and get back to work.


Mid-century photo source unknown.

24 Things Your Dachshund Can Do For You

Captain Your Ship

 

What has your Dachshund done for you lately?  Quite a lot apparently.  BuzzFeed put together a group of 24 photos with Things Your Dachshund Can Do For You, so check them out.  We're busy little tykes, huh?  Have a great Friday!

 

 

Spice up your front lawn

 

 

Read you poetry before bed

Vintage Dachshund Pride

Well, aren't you proud of your Dachshund?


Mid-century photo source unknown.

Retro Dachshund Fun

It's like visiting Grandma's house in the mid 1950's. 


Photo source unknown.

Vintage Dachshund Lovers

Well aren't you proud of your little 6-pack?


Mid-century photo source unknown.

NOT BAD, KONRAD

Up Pretty Boy

 

Mighty proud of Konrad the pup are Jack and Peggy Aldrich.  When Mrs. A. gave teletypist Jack the Dachshund for his birthday June 3, neither knew they would soon have a celebrity in the family.

Last week Konrad so impressed judges at the Clearwater Kennel Club's puppy show (an American Kennel Club sanctioned event) that he came home with a second place ribbon in his class.  This despite the only training he had was a few brief lessons in walking on a lead. 

Jack figures the dog would have taken first place if it had been schooled in show presentation.

 

News Release, source unknown, circa 1953. 

Dachshunds Around Town for the Holidays

We're Everywhere!

As seen at the local Party City in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Thanks to an Anonymous Dachshundist for sending this in!

Got A Light?

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, 6/22/66, SPRINGFIELD, ILL:  Should a gentleman offer a cigar to a lady?  This eight-month-old Dachshund named "Gretel" seems to think so as she waits patiently for a light.       UPI TELEPHOTO

Related:  Got A Light?

Retro Dachshund Holiday Greetings

From year to year we have sent to you

Pictures of the things we like to do.

 

A few interests in which we all participate

Scott's reptiles, you see, skiing and tennis -- all great!

 

Heidi, our "doxie" has been such a pet
She's long wanted to get in this act - you can bet!

 

Now that the holiday season is once again here

Our thoughts go to the family and friends we hold dear.

 

...the Merriest of Christmases!

...the Happiest of New Years!

 

The Grensteds

Arlyle, Lois, Dale, Scott, and Diane

Mid-Century Christmas Greeting Card Source Unknown.

Dachshund News Hounds

This is a special thank-you to all the Dachshunds who send us news tips.  We can't always write back via email, and many times stories don't make it to the site - there just aren't enough hours in the day it seems.  But we couldn't put out a quality Dachshund news site if it weren't for our Roving Reporters all over the world who send us the latest news as they see it.  Thank you.  Here's a sampling of these wiener dogs in-the-know.  Above, Tucker sniffs out news whenever he can.  He's seen here with the Dachshund Cupcake in his likeness from the book Hello, Cupcake!

These guys, 'Piggy' and 'Louie,' are never ones to bark up a wrong tree, sending us a link yesterday to the BBC story about the nose cell transplant helping an IVDD dog.  But Piggy has had such troubles of his own, writes his mom:  The story is ffascinating for us as our first dachshund Stanley died after developing myelomalacia following surgery on ruptured discs. Then last year our second dachshund Piggy had to have the same surgery following ruptured discs. Despite being super-back-aware, we had to up our game after Piggy's surgery with upholstered ramps to the couch and chairs and another little ramp at the back door in the hope Louie our youngest will not suffer the same. Luckily Piggy made a good recovery :0)

Finally, 'Rosco P. Dog' recently threw us a bone with some news and had this to say about the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday:  I hope everything is going well this holiday season. I am getting pretty excited about Thanksgiving, or Dachshund Day as I call it. I call it Dachshund Day because 15 people come visit me, pet me, and then feed me the most wonderful food.

Ha!  You're right Rosco, Turkey Day is so last Millennium.  Dachshund Day it is!

Dachshund Dearest

"No. WIREHAIRED. DACHSHUNDS!!!"  ~Joan Crawford


(She never actually said that, but that's the best we could do for today's Wirehair Wednesday)

Photo source unknown. 

Meanwhile, in Mexico

A red smooth Dachshund named 'Coffe' walks with his owner along Reforma Avenue in Mexico City, Nov. 11, 2012. Thousands of cyclists, skaters, pedestrians and pets take over Mexico City's avenues during "bicycle Sundays." (Marco Ugarte/AP Photo) Via Today in Pictures, ABC News.