We got three dachshunds in the household now. The third one is a wirehaired puppy, super cool little guy. No pictures of him yet but attached is a pic I took of Oskar when we first got him, i think it was 1.5 years ago. Put him on the hood of my car.

They are super smart dogs, eerily smart sometimes. For example, Oskar is basically the pushover and we have a female dachshund that is maybe chewing on a bone that he wants. He'll go bark at the door to the backyard and get her all riled up. Ill open the door and she'll rush out barking her head off and he'll dash off and grab her bone.

I sometimes have to force them to go outside to do their business if its cold and rainy. They don't like going outside in those conditions and will easily say screw it, i'll go in the house where it's warm and dry.

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Not all are really smart though. I had two for about 7 months. I got Josey's little sister from the same breeder in July. She was also a runt, and shared the same parents. Her name is Laci. I got her when she was six weeks old. She just simply refused to train, no matter what. I even tried her with my paerents, who have seven Italian GreyHounds. They just couldn't get her to train. Too bad, I ended up giving her away around Thanksgiving 2006 toa friend, who later gave her away about two weeks ago, for the same reason. The stupid dog would go outside in the yard, all day, and go to the bathroom in the house, as soon as she was let back in. I totally made everyone dislike her. She is a short haired, Black and tan. She's really cute, but she refused to train for the truck, or the house, and I was actually happy to give her away.

You'd never know the two of them have the same parents. They're so different from each other. Laci was actually brazen enough to piss on your lap, if you weren't careful enough with her. I wish she had just gotten the message, and trained. I would have the two on the truck with me here. They were good friends at first. Laci even made Josey, and my parents Italian Greyhounds, not want to be around her, because of her smell. She would be let outside, run around, while the others went potty, and come in the house, and piss in her crate, and sleep in it. She did this in my truck, so the whole truck smelled like dog piss which is almost as bad as human piss, in the mens room. Still not as bad as cat piss though. I don't like cats very much at all for a number of reasons, but we won't go there.

She just insisted on being a dirty dog, no matter who tried what. The girl I gave her to kept her a few months, and just couldn't train her. This girl is a dog trainer for a living, and The dog just didn't want to do it right. There's the stubbornness, at it's boldest. With Josey though, you can't even tell I have a dog in the truck at all. She barely drops hair, doesn't smell, and doesn't bark much.

Pee Wee's the same way. She knows to go on the grass, but doesn't like to get her feet wet. She'll go right on the concrete bordering the grass.

If it's cold and raining, she won't go out by herself. I have to literally pick her up and put her on the grass to force her to go.

She has decided to go in the house only a few times and only when I'm gone and she's with my wife.

Pee Wee knows better than to do it in front of me.

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2001 E430, Bourdeaux Red, Oyster interior.
79,200 miles.

1973 280SE 4.5, 170,000 miles. 568 Signal Red, Black MB Tex. "The Red Baron".

Just like Pee Wee. She's a very clean animal. No dog smell, never had a flea to tick, hardly drops any hair, and barks only ocassionally.

I have a dog book that explains every breed to help you choose a dog that best fits your needs, and dachshunds are in the "odorless" category.

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Paul S.

2001 E430, Bourdeaux Red, Oyster interior.
79,200 miles.

1973 280SE 4.5, 170,000 miles. 568 Signal Red, Black MB Tex. "The Red Baron".

Lazy day...Sunday afternoon. Heck! This is EVERYDAY for these mutts!!!

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I love mutts, too though. Often times, theyinherit the good traits, from each of the parents breeds. You end up with a smart dog, that will live a longer,healthier life than either one of it's pure bred parents...Kinda neat, the way that happens.

Here is my poodle "Reno"

100% purebred, apricot colour, had a broken right front leg so now he gimps around and the leg did not set right

Cy & Hawkeye

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nice ones guage

We are currently thinking about getting a doberman pincher. We probably will

Yeah, that cripple poodle will make a nice lunch for a Doberman!

Natural selection?

He's not crippled.. He's just handicapped

Oh, in that case, I'm sure that the Dober will know the difference and act accordingly.

Poor baby,
My parents have seven Italian Greyounds. They have very delicate legs. One of them, "Chloe" broke her two front legs at tehsame time about four years ago. What a nightmare. $10,000.oo later her legs were sugically fixed, but never the same. One of them is kinda bent in an un-natural position towards the bottom. The poor thing still has various problens with her front legs. They don't heal the way big dogs, or other animals do. My parents put a lot of money into saving her. At $5,000.oo per leg for the surgery. They're built more like a bird, than a dog, because the legs/bones are very thin, hollow, and brittle like a chicken so they shatter, instead of snap.

Very smart, loving as in wanting affection. But what I'm surprised about is they tend to shed for a short haired dog. Be warned most people
are scared to death by them!