Chances are, if a dachshund is the love of your life, these facts are your everyday reality.
For everyone else, a wiener dog is just a short little pupper with a hard-to-spell name and a shocking number of inappropriate puns.
For those of you in the second camp, stop snickering and prepare to learn a few things about one of America’s favorite dog breeds.
1. They like to be tall
2. Dachshunds are fearsome hunters originally bred to hunt badgers in their underground lairs
3. Dachshunds love to burrow
Can’t find your doxie? Check your bed, the laundry basket, or even a cozy sleeve!
4. With 15 colors, 6 marking types, 3 coat types, and 3 sizes, doxies have a lot of variety
Barbara Woodward
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Yep
Sara Stearnart
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They are Smart and Sneaky! I love it though!
Sara Stearnart
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I can’t find clothes/ sweaters that Daisy can’t escape from! She’s always cold so I was trying to keep her warm!
Sara Stearnart
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7pds with Lots of MoJo! She’s My Lil Sunshine!
Cora Ortega
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Haha. Good for you! So how do you go down now without being caught? You might get hurt if you jump.
Ashley Lopez
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Victor Lopez
Mary Mac
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All true!
Sharon Lang Stewart
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Bill Stewart sound familiar?
Mary C. Jackson
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right on doxies are bright and very clever
Julie Lowe
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Andrew Lowe so true!
Kieran Taggart
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Rachele Crozier
Mariana Morales
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Los amo!!! Son una belleza!!!
Alexandra Archibald
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Kate Novac
Rachel Clarke
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Jake Burns
Bárbara Marques
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Kleber Nascimento
Kelly Marie
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Jessica Raby Cody Austin
Betty Ham
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Whitney J VG
Whitney J VG
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Beau!
David Prokupets
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Beckyy Zwaigoft
Justin Schneider
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Bree Rose
BA Gregor
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Sara Stearnart my Princeton loves to be dressed up! One day I put a sweater on my little Chihuahua who was cold. He kept following me around. I grabbed his t-shirt, he jumped onto the couch, sat and lifted his front paw!
Mike Watters
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Megan Monaghan
Kimberly Lee Black
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Alysha Hogsett
Tracey Findley Hazlett
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Sherri Findley Smith Jeanne Findley
Margarita FieЯo Díaz
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Jhoana!!!! Tooooobiiiiiiiaaaaaassssss
Vickie Murry
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Been there done that
Jim Badans
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Joy
Cassandra Siegert
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Ethan Ward
Ethan Ward
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Accurate af
Lindsay Elise
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My dachshund does this all the time!
Jen Watson Forbes
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Ha ha truth!
Kelly Nord
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Candice Bellmore
Nydawi Jai
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I give you, adorable exhibit A. “I get stuck on momma’s desk and cry for help…” ♡♡♡♡♡♡
Sarah McMullan
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Arlene Bartle Harris
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Interestingly, my mini doxies were far more likely to climb than my standards. I’ve had 3 minis and 4 standards, all long-hairs.
Becky Camp
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Yep
Juliette Shaw
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Ryan, these are true
Skye Clarke
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Latoya Clarke
Kerry Clarke
Must watch the watermelon one!
Leanne Kershaw
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Daniel Lewis Davies
Kylie Swaine
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Cameron Swaine
Kaitlyn Thompson
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Justin Crouch
Lesly Ann Yulo
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Noli Kat Jeanne # 8, 12
Noli Yulo
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#13 . . . .
Bails Kimbrell
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Spencer Taylor Kimbrell
Kimberly Willis
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My mini dachshund just likes to climb on to my bed to sleep!
Gail P. Taylor
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I went to answer the front door. Came back to find my baked potato gone. No dachshund on the table tho…mine are not afraid to hop back onto the chair. I don’t leave chairs pulled out near the table anymore…
Samantha Wood
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Stephen Wood
Cynthia Ryan
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I also find “up” easier than “down”
Thomas Natoli
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Colby what did you teach that dog
Wendy Bentley
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So this is a Dachshund thing