I think Dachshunds are not so generally kept as pets as they were some years since, but my experience of them is favourable, having found them amiable and docile in disposition, cleanly in habits, and bright and lively in temperament.
Packs of Dachshunds may sometimes be engaged on wild boar, and, as they are web-footed and excellent swimmers, there is no doubt that their terrier qualities would make them useful assistants to the Otterhound.
To the reader who contemplates possessing one or more Dachshunds a word of advice may be offered.
The badger is also hunted by Dachshunds above ground, usually in the mountainous parts of Germany, and in the growing crops of maize, on the lower slopes, where the vermin work terrible havoc in the evening.
During the past five-and-twenty years the names of two particular Dachshunds stand out head and shoulders above those of their competitors: Champions Jackdaw and Pterodactyl.
Dachshunds are frequently used for deer driving, in which operation they are especially valuable, as they work slowly, and do not frighten or overrun their quarry, and can penetrate the densest undergrowth.
At the same time the Germans themselves do not regard the dapple Dachshunds as yet so fixed in type as the original coloured dogs, and this exception must also apply to the long and the rough haired varieties.
Dachshunds hunt well in a pack, and, though it is not their recognised vocation, they can be successfully used on hare, on fox, and any form of vermin that wears a furry coat.
In England Dachshunds are but rarely used for sporting purposes, but in Germany they are largely employed for hunting the fox in his home.
A few sportsmen have made use of Dachshunds for driving rabbits out of cover, but they have no particular qualification in this respect, and are decidedly inferior to the Beagle, or a pack of Beagles for this purpose.
That might account for our dachshunds missing the scent.
But it was the Count who saw her safely within her carriage, stowed the sleepy dachshunds in their warm corner under the seat, and raised his hat as Lucille drove away.
The pigeons must have gone the way of all flesh by this time, and perhaps the dachshunds had too--in the form of German sausages!
The dachshunds took one horrified look; then with the precision of a drilled man[oe]uvre they unanimously turned tail and plunged into the tall grass.
The dachshunds sat on their haunches, looking up, and probably wondering why their friend, Tommy, insisted on roosting up a tree.
When the dachshundsshould pounce on their natural prey, the medium-size game, poor Tommy would be at the bottom of the heap.
The hen could run just a trifle faster than the dachshunds; and the dachshunds just a trifle faster than the Captain.
Five typical "sickening thuds" were heard; five dachshunds literally sailed through the air to fall in quivering heaps.
Next the dachshunds were lifted up one by one and given a chance to smell at the game.
At any rate, the hen finally blundered, the dachshunds fell upon her--and the Captain swung his polo mallet.
For some reason unknown two of the dachshunds have been elevated from the ranks, and have house privileges.
B) Dachshunds in general are not supposed to run wild all over the place, but to remain in their perfectly good, sufficiently large, entirely comfortable corral, Pete and Pup excepted.
The dachshunds were a marvel, a nuisance, a bone of contention, an anomaly, an accident, and a farce.
Posadownk raises his voice, the dachshunds yelp more loudly, and Majesty, pretending to call them off, makes the hullabaloo worse still.
Just the same the Count is crazy to finish, and the dachshundsgo on inspecting his legs.
But the dachshunds are as good as the fire-spitting mountain we saw in Italy--or was it Switzerland?
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