Tippy Wins Big in Indiana

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We're guessing that 'Tippy' is a black and tan smooth piebald. Tippy and his human Drew Juliot, 4, took 1st place in the costume contest at the Harvest Homecoming Kids’ Dog Show on Monday evening in New Albany, Indiana. Way to go Tippy and Drew! Looks like Tippy isn't too thrilled about being dressed up as a dalmation, he's got too much dachshund pride. Read all about it at The News and Tribune.

Longfellow Wins Savannah Wiener Dawg Races!

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The Long Shot. The Underdog. LONGFELLOW. Can we get a pawtograph? After a car accident just last year which resulted in the amputation of his left hind leg, 'Longfellow' defied all odds last Saturday and beat out 178 dachshunds to win the 13th annual Wiener Dawg Races organized by the Savannah Dachshund Club. We're so proud of you Longfellow! Excerpt from Savannah Now: Although the weather looked questionable early Saturday morning, wiener dogs and their owners turned out in droves on River Street to participate in the 13th annual Wiener Dawg Races organized by the Savannah Dachshund Club.
The question on nearly everyone's mind: How's the three-legged pooch going to do?
An estimated 178 dachshunds participated in a total of 18 heats, based on their ages and sizes, including a special heat for dogs with armed forces owners. So, the competition is growing - nearly 150 dogs participated in the races last year. To keep the qualifying heats from taking too much time, this year's race chute was expanded to 10 slots.
The final heat involved the 10 fastest dogs, with Longfellow - the three-legged wiener dog - beating the odds and winning first place overall.
"This is the top dog of the East Coast," said Scott West, co-coordinator of the race, as he announced Longfellow as the winner.
The dog's owner, Sheila Phillips, said this was Longfellow's second race, but it was his first with only three legs. Last year, Longfellow was involved in a car accident, resulting in the amputation of a back leg. Read the rest, and see a great video and tons of pics at Savannah Now.

Related: Longfellow The 3-Legged Dachshund To Race Again in Savannah

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Please Stand By

Your hosts, Joey and Maggie, are going on holiday! We'll be back at the end of the week. Keep the Dachshund Faith.

Dachshunds in Pop Culture: P.G. Wodehouse

"It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up."-P.G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881 - 1975) was an enormously popular and prolific writer who produced about 100 books over 70 years. In Jeeves, the ever resourceful 'gentleman's personal gentleman', and the good-hearted young blunderer Bertie Wooster, he created two of the best known and best loved characters in twentieth century literature. Wodehouse was part-author and writer of some fifteen plays and 250 lyrics for some 30 musical comedies. The Times hailed him as a 'comic genius recognized in his lifetime as a classic and an old master of farce'. He was created a Knight of the British Empire in the 1975 New Year's Honours List.

According to 'P.G. Wodehouse: A Portrait of a Master,' his dachshund's name was 'Jed.' He seemed to be quite the animal lover and was often photographed with his pets. Read more about P.G. Wodehouse at wikipedia.

Longfellow The 3-legged Dachshund To Race Again In Savannah

First off, what a great name. Second, what a handsome boy. Third, what an inspiring tale.....GO GO GO 'LONGFELLOW!' Owner Sheila Phillips says Longfellow the dachshund plans to run in this year's Wiener Dawg Races, despite losing his back left leg in an accident. Longfellow poses here with a chew toy and his third-place trophy from the 2005 Wiener Dog Races. Longfellow, who is also a therapy dog, will race Saturday during Savannah's Oktoberfest. Excerpt from the Savannah Morning News: Longfellow is a wiener dog unlike many others.
He's a pet rescue, meaning his adoption by a loving family spared him from potential euthanasia. Later, he survived a Tybee Island car accident. But had to have his left rear leg amputated.
On Saturday, the tiny purebred is defying odds again and running in the Savannah Wiener Dawg Races during Oktoberfest on River Street.
Longfellow's owner, Shiela Phillips, says the pooch is as fast as he was in 2005 when he took third place in that year's race.
"I never thought he would ever get around very well again after the surgery," Phillips said. "You should see him run. He's like the wind."
Phillips said her pet will be among a few hundred dogs competing for top honors in Saturday's races.
She says she really doesn't care if he wins or finishes last. She thinks Longfellow has a larger message to deliver.
"I just want him to have fun and have people see him and realize that dogs are resilient, and that they have a big heart, and they can overcome a lot," Phillips said. Read the rest.

Mid Atlantic Dachshund Phest Tomorrow

Melody of Krafft Pet Portraits created this image for this year's t-shirts for the 2007 Mid Atlantic Dachshund Phest, which is Saturday in Manassas, Virginia. Have a great time! So much to do... you will ask "why only one day?" For more info, check out DRNA's website.

Look What the Dachshund Dug Up

Meet 'Daisy.' Daisy is a wild boar wirehaired dachshund. And Daisy found a Mammoth Bone estimated to be up to 2 million years old according to The Daily Mail. Way to go Daisy! Too bad you can't chew it. Excerpt from The United Kingdom's Daily Mail: When Daisy the dachshund bounds along the shoreline, she often picks up a stick or a dead fish to gnaw on.
But going walkies the other day, she briefly found herself in doggie heaven ... when she was confronted by a bone as big as herself.
However, this was no meaty treat - just a prehistoric prize. For Daisy had discovered a fossilised mammoth bone up to two million years old.

Unable to dig it up, she waited for owner Dennis Smith to arrive - and he was stunned to see the 13in, 8lb thigh section sticking out of the sand.
The bone on the beach at Dunwich, near Southwold, Suffolk, is believed to be from a Southern Elephant, a type of mammoth once common in East Anglia.
And it was a good job Daisy, a miniature wire-haired dachshund, wasn't around when the creature was alive - they grew up to 14ft high and weighed 16 tons.
"We were walking along the beach when Daisy spotted this object halfway between the high tide and low water mark," said Mr Smith, a 69-year-old retired turf salesman from Witham, Essex. Read the rest.

It's not very short. Or long. It's just BIG.

Dennis Smith with his dog and the Mammoth bone

Also check out the East Anglian Daily Times and the Telegraph.

Dachshund Lovers Teach the ABCs

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Dachshund Lover Dita Von Teese is teaming up with PETA for their new 'ABC' campaign, Animal Birth Control. It's an effort to bring to light companion animal over-population and a reminder to have your pets spayed or neutered. Go Dita! We've heard there is a little tiff over the wearing of vintage fur, but no one is perfect, huh? Read lots more at PETA's helpinganimals.com.

Related: Dachshunds in Pop Culture: Dita Von Teese

Enjoy this behind-the-scenes footage from Dita's photo shoot and her exclusive interview with PETA. We wish she would've mentioned her doxies:



"It's time to bone up on your ABCs - Animal Birth Control, that is. FACT: Nearly 4 million cats and dogs are put to death in the US every year because there are not enough good homes. You can help prevent this - always spay or neuter your animals, and if you're considering adding a dog or cat to your family, please adopt from yourlocal animal shelter."

Learn More at PETA.org

Desperately Seeking Dachshund

Meet 'Guy' and animal communicator Renny Mayer. Guy and his sister, 'Sophie,' wandered off September 17th while chasing turkeys in the Milwaukee area while Mom was helping the 3rd doxie in her crew down the steps. Guy returned injured but Sophie is still missing. We're hoping that Sophie makes it home soon; Mom has been through a lot this year. Excerpt from Greater Milwaukee Today: On Sept. 17 Rhonda Larson got ready for a morning routine - taking the dogs out for their morning run.
The senior dog of the trio, 13-year-old Wilbur, was still recovering from having a tumor removed and Rhonda helped him down a few steps in the garage.
The 7-year-old brother and sister, Guy and Sophie, got away from her and the temptation to chase turkeys grazing nearby proved too much for their self-control.
They gave chase, and before Larson could catch up with them, they were gone.
"I couldn’t find them all day," said Larson, who searched the neighborhood using a megaphone, calling for the dogs.
Guy showed up the next day, injured, but there was no sign of Sophie.
"Why did I open the big door," said Larson, who has spent most of her days since then searching for the black and tan affectionately called "Queen Sophie."
Rhonda's husband Howard passed away in March of this year, and her doxies helped absorb the sorrow of losing her husband. Contact info at Greater Milwaukee Today.

Dachshunds Striking a Pose in the News

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Congratulations to 'Sydneah' and her humans for winning the Grand Prize in The Wichita Eagle's photo contest! Sydneah, dressed as 'Harley Hog Dog' competed with more than 500 other contestants to win the 'most pampered' category and take the Grand Prize. Excerpt from The Eagle: If living the good life for a dog is going places and doing things with your family, Sydneah the dachshund must be the most pampered pooch of all. Deb Breitigan's photo of Sydneah dressed as "Harley Hog Dog" and posing on a motorcycle won the grand prize in The Eagle's Woofstock photo contest.
Sydneah not only loves to ride on the Harley-Davidson with Breitigan and her husband, Tim, she also enjoys riding on the family's Jet Ski and four-wheeler and has been fishing, kayaking and snowmobiling in Colorado and beachcombing in California.
"There's nothing so far she hasn't liked to do," Breitigan said. Read the rest.

Dachshunds in Pop Culture: Walt Disney's 'The Ugly Dachshund'

Based off of a 1938 novel by G.B. Stern, this classic 1966 Walt Disney movie was directed by Norman Tokar and starred Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette. While it didn't win any awards, and lacks the punch of Disney's other classic dog-related movies such as the heart-wrenching drama 'Old Yeller,' this light-hearted timeless comedy continues to entertain kids of all ages. It does a great job of documenting 1960's suburban glamour; the house they live in is amazing. All in all, it's great fun, and if you don't have the movie in your collection, you should! Watch it again today, and enjoy some simple laughs and crazy dachshund hyjinx. It's probably the biggest production of a dachshund-related movie we'll ever see. Read a complete review at Ultimate Disney.

Enjoy this fun trailer:

Suzanne Pleshette

Dachtoberfest

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It's a favorite time of year for dachshunds and dachshund lovers: Octoberfest time! Surely there's one near you, and we're betting there's dachshund races to boot! Make sure your doxies are a part of their motherland celebration. 'Gus' is gussied up for the upcoming Oktoberfest in Huntington Beach, California at Old World Village. Dachshunds can march in the parade and run in the dachshund races. Woof! If you're interested in the Old World Village Oktoberfest, read more at the OC Register.

Dachshund Lovers Kicked Out of School!

It seems like the school board needs to get either a sense of humor or a sense of compassion, or that dachshund lovers of the world need to unite and support this guy. Excerpt from The Southern Illinoisan: BY BLACKWELL THOMAS
SESSER -- A Sesser High School student was sent home from class Wednesday morning for wearing what school officials deemed an obscene t-shirt. David Clark Jr. was wearing a shirt that read, “I ♥ my wiener.” Below the text was a silhouette of a dachshund, a breed sometimes referred to as a wiener dog.
Clark said the shirt was a reference to his pet dacshund (sic), which recently died. Clark said he was asked to turn the shirt inside out, change shirts or leave school. Clark chose to leave class. Clark’s parents, Cathy and David Sr. said they intend to pursue legal action against the school.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale law professor, William Schroder said the family might have a case. “I do think that this guy has a reasonable chance of success, “ he said. “He’s not promoting drug use, he’s not promoting violence, promoting disorder or compromising the educational mission of the school.”
Listen to Clark and his father at The Southern Illinoisan.
Wear your heart on your sleeve. Buy the t-shirt.

Couple Fights to Keep Five Dachshunds

Meet Allen and Shari Prosser and their five dachshunds: Angel (father), Lady (mother) and their three pups Blacky, Droopy, and Babygirl. A neighbor complained to authorities about the dogs, which exceed the city limit of three dogs. Other neighbors don't seem to mind. Excerpt from The Indy Channel, Muncie, Indiana: They might look too small to be much of a problem, but five pooches represent a pack of trouble for a Muncie family because they have two too many.
Shari Prosser and her husband, Allen, might have to decide which of their mini dachshunds to keep and which ones to let go.
The dogs, with their short legs, long bodies and feisty attitudes, were bred for their ability to chase badgers from their burrows.
That's why the wiener dog is also known as the badger dog. Badgered is exactly how the Prossers feel.
"They're my kids. They're my family. I don't want to lose them," Shari Prosser said.
The longtime Muncie residents have grown children and said the dogs keep them company. Two years ago, they lost their grandson, Trenton, to a fire in their home.
"They filled the hole when I lost my 2-year-old grandson. I lost animals in the fire and they fill the hole," Prosser said.
The Prossers hope to get a zoning variance that would allow them to keep all of the dogs.
"I'm going all the way. If I don't win, I'm moving out of state -- sell the house, move south where my daughter lives," Allen Prosser said. "I'm not going to get rid of them."
Read more and see a video at The Indie Channel.
Image source and additional info: The Star Press

Update September 29th, 2007: Board rules Muncie couple can keep their 5 dogs

An emotional Shari Prosser rests her head on her son Donnie’s shoulder after the Delaware-Muncie Metropolitan Board of Zoning Appeals granted a variance allowing Prosser and her husband, Allen, to keep the family of five miniature Dachshunds at their home.

Life With Dachshunds

This dachshund tale was recently written in The Star Press out of Indiana by John Carlson. Funny stuff!
An interesting thing happened to me last weekend.
My wife was leaving for an overnight trip to Illinois, so I decided to walk her out to her car.
Anyway, we're on the way out there, her walking directly behind me, when she suddenly says, "Aren't you feeling a little breezy?"
And I say, "Breezy? No. Why should I feel breezy?"
Then she says, "Because the rear end is totally ripped out of those Bermuda shorts you are wearing."
So I turn around and look at her like she is nuts, but she says, "Seriously."
So then I reach for my backside and start feeling around for some cloth, but the only thing my hand is coming in contact with is, like, air.
Well, naturally, I'm like, "Geez! How'd the rear end get totally ripped out of my Bermudas?"
Just then, my eyes land on Layla, our miniature, clothes-hating dachshund, a dog that, take it from me, has dismantled hundreds of assorted shoes, socks, shirts and pants around our place over the last four years.
"Layla!!!" I holler, all huffy like, staring hard at her. "Did you rip the rear end out of these Bermuda shorts I'm wearing?"
Well, she doesn't reply, but she won't return my eye contact, either, so right then I am thinking dang, she really did it. But then, all of a sudden, I'm thinking something even worse: Uh, didn't I wear these shorts to mow the lawn the day before?
Then I'm thinking, yeah, I definitely did wear these shorts to mow the lawn the day before.
Oops.
So, with a look of absolute horror on my face and the rear end of my Bermudas totally ripped out, I mention that sad fact to my wife who, to express her profound sympathy at this disturbing revelation, immediately begins laughing her head off.
"Hey," I protest, "it ain't that funny. If I was mowing the lawn with the rear end totally ripped out of my Bermudas, it's only by the grace of God that somebody didn't call the cops!"
But what I'm asking myself while my wife is laughing so hard that she is now wheezing from hyperventilation is, what would I have done then?
Well, I guess I would have told the cops the truth: "I'm sorry, officer, I didn't realize that my miniature dachshund ripped the rear end out of my Bermudas."
Of course, then I think, yeah, like they'd buy that.
Probably every pervert who gets arrested for exposing himself says something like, "I'm sorry, officer, I didn't realize that my miniature dachshund ripped the rear end out of my Bermudas."
So anyway, it was a very lucky thing that none of my neighbors called the cops on me.
By the way, if any of them did see me mowing the lawn like that, I want to apologize for both Layla and myself and assure them that, in the future, I intend to check my Bermudas far more carefully before leaving the house.
John Carlson is a features writer for The Star Press.

Unfortunately, there were no photos of 'Layla' with the story. But check out more pics of coverdoxie 'Clementine' by 'nancyhedy' right here on flickr! She has some great pics. Like this one of little Clementine and Scarlet:

Hot Dog! We have a Wiener!

Lots of Wiener Races over the weekend! This great photo is from Thursday's "Running of the Wieners" at Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, as part of a kick-off event for the Oktoberfest-Zinzinnati. See more photos at Fox News.

Bella Vista, Arkansas, held their first Annual Wiener Races on Saturday to benefit the Bella Vista Animal Shelter. “ We had wiener dogs all over the place, ” said Tiffany Sparks, a staff member at the Bella Vista Animal Shelter. Read more at The Benton County Daily Record.

Over in Toledo, Ohio, nearly 100 dachshunds showed up for the Fourth Annual Wiener Dog Nationals presented by Stautzenberger College and its Vet Tech program. "Wiener dog people are an interesting breed. They are really into their dogs," said Scott Hammer of Stautzenberger College and race commentator. Read more at The Toledo Blade.

Toby Vick of Toledo tries to get his dachshund, Charlie, running in the right direction.

Dachshunds in Pop Culture: Joan Blondell

Who? Joan Blondell (1906 - 1979) was an Oscar-nominated American actress who appeared in more than 100 movie and television productions. This photo is from a session of actors and their pets. In her fifty year career, Joan Blondell juggled a dual career while acting, dancing and singing; she had a very successful stage career with many appearance on Broadway. Her early acting demeanor was "brassy, wisecracking and happy go lucky," but after leaving Warner Brothers and becoming an independent actress, her roles changed to straight comedy and dramatic. She was born Rose Joan in New York City to Vaudeville players, Eddie and Kathryn Blondell. In early infancy, she slept in a trunk as her parents known as "Blondell and Company" travelled around the world performing in the US, Europe, and the far East. She is the older sister of actress Gloria Blondell, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures.
Unfortunately we don't know the names of Joan's smooth black and tan Dachshunds, but if anyone has any more information, by all means leave a comment or send it in!  Find out more about Joan Blondell at wikipedia.





Joan Blondell, Dachshund Lover.
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Dachshunds Getting Married in the News

You can't make this stuff up. Meet beautiful 'Lu Lu' Damitz, a 5-year-old black and tan smooth dachshund and her dashing groom 'Homer' Plants, a 12-year-old toy poodle. The pair decided to finally tie the knot on Saturday after a 5-year courtship. Congratulations to the happy couple! May you have many more years of love and happiness. Excerpt from the Lake County News-Sun: You can't blame Homer for being a little excited Saturday afternoon.
He had been waiting for this day for nearly five years. He had to wait just a little longer, until he got the signal to go to the altar and greet his bride-to-be.
When word came, Homer wasted little time getting down the aisle, pumping all four of his little legs up the ramp to the altar. Moments later arrived his beautiful bride, Lu Lu. The love of his life. The only dog he'd ever kissed.
"They love each other. Lu Lu is his first love," said Carol Plants, Homer's owner.
And what better way to honor that love than some doggy nuptials. So on Saturday that's just what they did. Homer, a 12-year-old toy poodle and Lu Lu, a 5-year-old Dachshund, were married, five years after the pair met as neighbors at Saddlebrook Farms.
For the wedding Homer wore a black bow-tie. Lu Lu sported a white veil and her nails were painted metallic purple.
The union was love at first sight, said Sherry Emerson, a mutual friend of the dogs who performed the wedding ceremony in front of 30 close friends, including other canines.
Lu Lu, the daughter of Ronald and Sharon Damitz, and Homer, the son of Dale and Carol Plants, are next door neighbors at Saddlebrook Farms.
The two met while on a walk one day, and they immediately hit it off.
"They just had a bond since the day they met. They see each other and they kiss and kiss, so we figured this has to be love," Emerson said.
The pair was engaged almost on the spot, and has waited five years to get married.
In the meantime, they have played together, and still kiss whenever they see each other. The two even jumped the gun a bit and kissed upon meeting each other at the altar Saturday. And they of course kissed again once they were officially pronounced a couple.
When they aren't together, they can be heard barking across Steeplechase Way, where they supposedly communicate while inside different homes.
Lu Lu is nearly seven years younger than Homer but is already an expert on marital property. She likes to steal Homer's toys and take them home, said Sharon Damitz.
The pair did overcome one obstacle. Lu Lu isn't particularly fond of white dogs, but Homer is the only one she doesn't bark at, Emerson said.
Even though they are officially a couple, the two won't be living together. Both are a little too territorial to share their beds, said their owners.
There were rumors of allowing them to spend their wedding night together, but that may be too risky, Carol Plants said. Homer is too old to have puppies. The pair will have to settle for adoption.
All those other details can be worked out at another time, for Saturday was a day of celebrating. And as the two rode away in the basket of an electric scooter, adorned with a large "just married" sign, they were clearly the center of attention.
But will the puppy love last?
"It better. We don't do divorces," Sharon Damitz said.

Proud papa Ronald Damitz holds his little Lu Lu

The ceremony took place at Saddlebrook Farms subdivision on Saturday with many guests on hand. A hot dog cookout was held afterwards.

A centerpiece depicting Lu Lu and Homer topped the wedding cake.

See more pics at the the Lake County News-Sun.

The Futuristic Dachshund

Dachshunds really are everywhere. You've probably seen pens with dachshunds on them, how about a futuristic pen that looks like a dachshund? Sleek, stylish, and aerodynamic like a real dachshund, this pen by designer Jean Pierre Lepine is called 'The Free Ride' and will cost you from $150 - $200. As Lepine puts it, "I create tomorrow's writing instruments for today’s men and women." Jean Pierre Lepine, Paris.

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Turn it around. Still looks like a dachshund.

Dachshunds Attending Pupperware Parties in the News

A what? A Pupperware Party! Amy Shafer of east Sacramento gets kisses from her red long-hair dachshund 'Buddy' during a pet party at Citrus Heights, California. People have long sold cookware and cosmetics in their home, why not leashes, squeaky toys, and doggie breath mints? If you're interested in Pupperware parties, read the rest at The Sacramento Bee.