Daily Dachshund and Dog News

Some history of the Krakow Dachshund parade

AnnB — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:56:23 +0000

At the 2010 Krakow Dachshund Parade

Sky News reports:

Dogs or Dachshunds come from all corners of the country to participate in the parade which first took place in 1973.

The annual parade was then not taken well by Communist authorities as it thought to be anti-communist and anti-establishment, yet organiser Agnieszka Kuczynska explained how the authorities came to misunderstand the parade’s meaning.

‘The first march was very unusual. The Sausage Dogs arrived at the parade in carriages and waiters served sausages on silver trays. It’s true that the editor in chief of Przekroj Magazine, Mieczyslaw Czuma, who initiated the event, could have faced serious consequences. He was held accountable for provoking the authorities and ridiculing the May 1st parade. Of course this was not his intention but in those days the authorities were not ready for this kind of event, so it was banned. In 1994 it was brought back again,’ she said.

After the fall of Communism in Poland, Cracow’s local radio station decided to bring the parade back and give the tradition a second lease of life.

Now, can anyone tell us what this dog is dressed as?

Unidentifiable costume at Krakow 2010 Dachshund parade

Photos from jgraczynski at Flickr.

Confessed Dachshund killer sentenced to jail

AnnB — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:50:03 +0000

The Grand Rapids Press reports:

While other kids his age are attending proms and learning to drive, confessed dog killer Jonathan Castelan will be spending his high school years in prison.

For the first time in the three months since Castelan, 15, used a hammer to fatally bludgeon an 8-pound dachshund named Pinto, the dog’s owners heard an apology from the teenage killer, sentenced to spend three to 20 years in prison.

How a mini-Dachshund almost ruined a marriage

AnnB — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:42:28 +0000

According to the author:

Six months into dog ownership, Harriet had ruined a couch, a chair, a throw rug and my marriage with her poop-eat-it-and-vomit-it-back-up routine. The house smelled of poop and my husband refused to let her out of the kennel if it was just the two of them at home. Harriet bit him again and Dave insisted that she be sent to a shelter. “Will you do that if we have a child who has problems?” I shouted. “Will you just send them away?” Wisely, Dave didn’t respond, but that night we slept in separate beds.

And there was no happy ending.

Dentist pre-empts Daily Dachshund

AnnB — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:23:59 +0000

We’ll be back tomorrow after the dog media magnate behind the Daily Doxie recovers from three hours in the dental chair earlier today. Related posts:Apologies for the lack of Daily Dachshund News Two dachshunds leave the voting booth Daily Dachshund is being transferred Related posts:

Monday morning Dachshund wake-up photo

AnnB — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:14:08 +0000

Kuby - My Long-Haired Dachshund

By Doug Klembara:Get the photo shoot details at Flickr.

Runaway Dachshund saved by good samaritans

AnnB — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:53:59 +0000

For Mary and Willy Cromie of Kinnelon, it all began last Friday when their wiener dog Bailey was frightened by a big dog outside a West Milford kennel and set off running along Route 23 Friday morning. Luckily, there was a happy ending.

What Dachshund paradise would look like

AnnB — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:39:10 +0000

Wish the Daily Doxie could be there too

Read about how this composite shot was created by hoejaa

The NY Times reports on dogs and gardening

AnnB — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:31:28 +0000

So much for the myth that it’s only female dogs’ urine that is a problem:

“Bud is a dachshund-Yorkie mix,” Ms. Kocher said. “We call him a dorkie.”

It is Bud that has taken up the steady task of murdering the boxwoods. Ms. Kocher planted a few of the evergreen shrubs last year, with the notion that their foliage would brighten the yard in winter.

Yet, under a steady stream of Bud’s attention (to use a polite term), the leaves have browned and wilted.

“They’re doing what dogs like to do,” Ms. Kocher said. “You can’t get angry with them. You just have to kind of work around them.”

The nitrogen in dog urine would seem to be a helpful fertilizer. In fact, the concentration of ammonium is often toxic to plants. “If you get one of these trees that every dog has to pee on, they can actually burn the bark,” said Nina Bassuk, program leader of the Urban Horticulture Institute at Cornell University.

In Alabama, a reward is offered for a vicious crime against a Dachshund

AnnB — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 03:18:03 +0000

The Troy Messenger reports that veterinarians suspect Jim Berdeaux’ pet Bella was deliberately burned:

“We all loved her,” Berdeaux said. “It just breaks my heart to think that she might have been lying there burned liked that for four, six or eight hours. Bella was one of those dogs that went running, wagging her tail when somebody spoke to her. Why anybody would want to set a sweet dog like Bella on fire – barbecue her – defies humanity.”

In an effort to find out what happened to Bella, if she were intentionally set on fire or something else tragic happened to her, the Berdeaux family is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the alleged act.

The Humane Society of Pike County has committed another $500 toward the reward.

Anyone with any information about the incident is asked to contact the Pike County Sheriff’s Department at 566-4347.

Sammy Davis: an inspirational wiener dog

AnnB — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:37:30 +0000

While the Daily Dachhsund was not so daily, this story of Sammy Davis the Dachshund cropped up. We think it’s still well worth reading as it tells how a Doxie helped rekindle the will to live in a young man sick with kidney disease.

Sammy Davis the Dachshund shows off his frisbee-catching form