I received an article from the Today’s  website on America’s Most Popular Dogs and guess what -  the dachshund was #3.

We happen to have two miniature daschunds   in our house.  One a red smooth coat and the other a wire-haired dapple.

The article says that the doxie “fell out of  favor” during World War I, (go figure) but then became more and more popular and now it’s #3.

Dachshund means “badger dog” in German.  But the miniature was to breed to hunt smaller game.  Doxies first appeared in the early 1600s as hunters for badgers. They would dig and dig and not give up until the badger was out of his home.

Doxies are playful, strong, energetic personalities make them excellent pets (or for those of us without children they are babies – and I mean babies) We have to shovel in the winter (even 1″ of snow is too deep for them)  put up with them taking over a king size bed (they like to lay the opposite way of what we do.  So much more to say about the doxie, but if you’re not a doxie owner check out the top 10 dogs of all time at the Today website.