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DACHSHUND INFO
DACHSHUND PET
These are very loving animals. They love to be with you at all times whether your in the bathroom, kitchen, or relaxing. These dogs are companionship dogs, and live for love and attention. They are hounds that have great hearing, and will bark at noises they hear whether it's thunder, the mail man, or a bird outside. These dogs will alert you if they hear something, and do bark. They can be stubborn at times, so practicing kind patience is a must when potty training, or training in general. It's important to get training outside of the home, if you need more help with training. As puppies going to a new home is scary to them, they will cry, nervous/boredom scratch, whine at bed time, they will need time and lots of caring love to get over this hump to feel at home in their new home. The puppies will be having teeth come in on its first year and will have a big need to chew, it's important to have doggy chew toys, and bones to help this need and protect your household items from being chewed on. Dachshunds are known for potential back problems. It is important to supervise your pet on furniture making sure they don't hop down. Stairs and ramps are good to have to prevent your dogs getting hurt, if you allow the dog to be on furniture. These dogs like to dig, they are known for hunting and digging for small prey, so it's important to be watchful and kind training not to dig, digging is in their DNA. Important to know in a lot of toy breeds, dachshund being one of them, sometimes yet not always the colors of blue and isabella can have the possibility of hair loss (cda), they are perfectly healthy, yet have loss of hair in areas body (there is no testing that can be done to predict this). It's important you dog has proper vaccinations to prevent sickness. It's important not to take your puppy to unknown areas or dog parks to potty or roam until the doggy is fully vaccinated. As a doggie parent it's important your puppy will have healthy food, fresh clean water bowels, and some form of exercise everyday. These Dachshunds are WONDERFUL pets, good with kids, great watch dogs, love other animals, love to cuddle, play, go outdoors, and are loyal and loving fur family members.
QUICK SIZE REFERENCE FOR DACHSHUNDS
Dachshunds were originally bred as hunting dogs. Their long, wiry bodies made them very good at going down into the burrows of badgers and other prey and flushing them out. The Miniature Dachshund and Kaninchen were bred to specialize in hunting small prey like rabbits. In fact, the name "Kaninchen" is literally the German word for rabbit, and the breed is often referred to in English as the "Rabbit Dachshund."
DIFFERENCES
The World Canine Federation differentiates between the Miniature Dachshund and Kaninchen based on two measurements taken when the dogs are 15 months old: chest width and weight.
MEASUREMENTS
According to the World Canine Federation standard, Miniature Dachshunds can weigh 8.8-12 lbs and have a chest measurement of between 30 and 35 cm (11.8 and 13.8 inches). A Larger sized Miniature aka Tweenie can weigh 13-15 pounds. Standards are 16 -32 pounds.The male Kaninchen can weigh up to 7.7-8 Kaninchens must have a chest measurement of 30 cm (11.8 inches) or less.
These Guidelines are made up for show dogs, and set up by AKC standards for showing in certain breed and size classes.
Some of the show dogs have been through heavy training to have the weight sizes that they have to participate in AKC shows. So the average dachshund PET will not weigh exactly to federation class sizes according for show dogs.
*All weights and sizes can be different depending on stockiness of the hounds, and feeding regimens.
Something to know, Dachshunds are all derived from the Standard Dachshund size, so weight and size measurements can never be guaranteed.
AMERICA AND THE U.K.
While the 83 countries of the World Canine Federation separate dachshunds into three classes (Standard, Miniature and Kaninchen), the Kaninchen is not recognized by the American Kennel Club or clubs in the United Kingdom. Clubs in these countries only recognize the larger Standard Dachshund, which it defines as dogs weighing between 16 and 32 lbs, and the Miniature Dachshund, which it defines as a Dachshund weighing less than 16 lbs.
We specialize in Miniature Dachshunds and Kaninchen sizes. Some people have referred to these Dachshunds as “Micro Minis.”
DACHSHUND HISTORY
Since the 16th Century, the Dachshund has been bred as a hunting dog. In Europe, during both World Wars, it was recognized as the national dog of the Teutonic Empire. Due to its German ancestry, it was mistreated and even stoned in the streets. Today, the Dachshund is a popular breed known for being an excellent family pet.
The name Dachshund (dachs= Badger; hund= dog) at once reveals and conceals the origin of the breed. Medieval European books on hunting, mention dogs that possessed the tracking ability of hounds and the proportions and temperament of Terriers. Since these dogs were used to follow badgers to earth, they were often called Badger-dogs or Dachs-hund. In certain parts of America, dogs bred to hunt rabbits are called rabbit dogs, suggesting a parallel.
Illustrations dating from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries show badgers hunted by dogs with elongated bodies, short legs, and hound-type ears some with the bent front leg of a basset, some with the head of terriers, and some with indications of smooth and long coats. These illustrations were made before the days of photography, and artists
capable of depicting dogs with anatomical fidelity have always been rare. Thus, these woodcuts do not lend themselves to fine reproductions of coat distinctions. At best, the pictures and descriptive words can be interpreted with certainty only as defining the functions of the dogs used on badgers.
The preponderance of available evidence indicates that smooth and longhaired coats were separated by selective breeding, prior to recorded registrations. The wirehaired coat was produced for protection against briar and thorn by crossing in harsh, wiry terrier coats and then breeding out incompatible characteristics of conformation. Early in the seventeenth century, the name Dachshund became the designation of a breed type with smooth and longhaired coat varieties, and since 1890 wirehairs have been registered as the third variety.
The badger was a formidable twenty-five to forty-five-pound adversary. Strength and stamina, as well as keenness and courage above and below ground, were required of badger dogs. Weight of thirty to thirty-five pounds was not uncommon.
Dachshunds in packs also were serviceable against wild boar. Soon, the breed was adapted to hunt other game. A smaller sixteen to twenty-two pound Dachshund proved effective against foxes and trail-wounded deer. Still smaller twelve pound Dachshunds were used for stoat and hare. In the first quarter of the twentieth century, miniatures with adult weights under five pounds and chest girths under twelve inches, were produced to chase bolting cottontail rabbits.
Before the German Dachshund or Deutscher Teckelklub was founded in 1888, racial characteristics, or a standard for the breed had been set in 1879. German registration of Dachshunds was included (not always with complete generation data or systematic coat notations) in a general all-breed stud book, the Deutscher Hunde-Stammbuch, first produced in 1840, recorded fifty-four Dachshunds and the names of several subsequently prominent breeders. The publication of this guide continued until officially terminated in 1935.
Importation of Dachshunds into this country antedates the earliest American dog shows or studbooks, and eleven were included in AKC Stud Book, Volume 11 in 1885. American dogs have found little employment in organized hunting, as we lack in the badger and wild boar and do not hunt deer with dogs, nor foxes with pick and shovel. The true character and conformation of the breed have been encouraged by frequent importation of German hunting strains. To encourage hunting capacity and exemplary conformation and temperament, field trials under AKC rules were instituted in 1935.