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A hot dog that hunts badgers, built like furniture, brave like an idiot.
means A small dog breed with a long body and very short legs, originally bred in Germany to hunt burrowing animals.
from German, and refreshingly literal: Dachs means 'badger' and Hund means 'dog' — so it's plainly a 'badger dog,' named for the job it was built to do, squirming down into setts to confront an angry badger underground. Amusingly, modern German tends to call the breed Dackel or Teckel; it's chiefly English speakers who kept the longer, more honest name.
- name meaning
- German for badger dog, literally
- job description
- Bred to dive into burrows and fight
- spine warning
- Long backs make jumping genuinely risky
- oldest fossil
- Skeletons resembling them found in ancient Egypt
- loud factor
- Big-dog bark crammed into small body
wiener dog racing — annual event at wisconsin state fair where dachshunds compete in races, drawing thousands of spectators since the 1970s
crusoe the celebrity dachshund — instagram dog with 3m+ followers known for costumes and adventures, featured in books and media since 2010