History, coats, colours, temperament, health and culture of the badger hound — one long, low, stubborn encyclopedia.
Everything about the long dog.
A single-breed encyclopedia — history, the three coats, the sizes, colours and patterns, temperament, health and culture of the dachshund.
Before it was a sofa fixture, the dachshund was a working tool — a dog engineered to squeeze down a badger sett and fight what it found there.
Intervertebral disc disease affects around one in four dachshunds in their lifetime. Knowing the early signs and acting fast changes outcomes.
Both routes can be the right one. Both have a version that goes wrong. Here is how to tell a good source from a bad one.
Independent enough to hunt alone underground, attached enough to follow you to the bathroom — the dachshund contradiction, explained.
The original coat: a dense, glossy, low-maintenance jacket that shows the breed's lines most clearly — and sheds more than its length suggests.
From the first modern Olympic mascot to Picasso's studio companion, the dachshund has spent a century as shorthand for wit, warmth and mild absurdity.
The dachshund comes in a big version, a small version, and — in FCI countries — a smaller-still version defined not by weight but by the burrow it can enter.
The dachshund will convince you it is starving. Believing it is how you end up with a back problem.
You cannot change your dog's disc genetics. You can change almost everything about the mechanical load those discs carry every day.
Underneath every pattern sits a base colour, and there are only a handful: two pigments, a dilution switch, and the tan-point arrangement do most of the work.
Dachshunds have a reputation for being hard to toilet-train. It is really a reputation for punishing inconsistency.
Four centuries of selective breeding turned a rough German earth hound into a companion animal — while quietly keeping every one of its working instincts.
They can be — with the right introductions and firm rules about handling. The bigger risk in a busy house is to the dog's back, not from its temper.