Here’s a special treat: reader Tara O. shares this cute dachshund with an equally cute backstory.
This is Ella, a wire-haired Dachshund. I visited my mother’s cousin and this is her dog. She is a hunting dog fail — great with loud bangs, but little rustling in the undergrowth creeped her out.
I grew up with two of these wonderful dogs but I forgot how they have their own mind. When I said “come here!” she looked at me the same way my cats do — “Do I really want to?”
That FACE! Aww.
I’m surprised there wasn’t side-eye. Also adorbs.
I wouldn’t want to be a hunter, either.
Such a dapper cutie pie!
Hunting what, I wonder? Dachshunds were bred to dig out badgers, but I doubt anyone’s hunting badgers anymore. I thought that most hunting dogs nowadays are various kinds of bird dogs (pointers, setters, retrievers). What I found said dachshunds are excellent at tracking wounded game, so … this is for deer hunting in case you don’t get a kill? A compact model of bloodhound? They could dig out rabbits, gophers, and other burrowing animals instead of badgers, but that wouldn’t involve firearms (the dog does all the work). So … tracking wounded game, with those stubby little legs?
Oh sweet Ella made the Cutetropolis. Thanks NTMTOM!
She really is the sweetest girl. Quite suited to being a family dog.