Dachshunds are playful, but can be stubborn, and are known for their propensity for chasing small animals, birds, and tennis balls with great determination and ferocity.

Dachshunds are known for their devotion and loyalty to their owners, though they can be standoffish towards strangers.

Dachshunds are burrowers by nature and are likely to burrow in blankets and other items around the house, when bored or tired.

However, many Dachshunds are very tolerant and loyal to children within their family, but these children should be mindful of the vulnerability of the breed's back and not carry them around roughly.

Dachshunds are also 2. 5 times more likely than other breeds of dogs to develop patent ductus arteriosus, a congenital heart defect.

Dachshunds are bred specifically to fit inside tunnels underground to kill badgers.

Regional qualifiers are held in the Southwestern United States ( California, Texas, Arizona, Nevada ), with the final 8 Dachshunds racing for the national title every December in San Diego as part of the Holiday Bowl.

Dachshunds were rated the most aggressive, with 20 % having bitten strangers, as well as high rates of attacks on other dogs and their owners.

Dachshunds may not be the best pets for small children.

The only disqualifying fault in Dachshunds is knuckling over.

Dachshunds can have a blue and a brown eye.

Dachshunds can be difficult to housebreak, and patience and consistency is often needed in this endeavor.

Well trained Dachshunds and well behaved children usually get along fine.

About 20-25 % of Dachshunds will develop IVDD.

Dachshunds have been kept by royal courts all over Europe, including that of Queen Victoria, who was particularly enamored of the breed.

According to William Loeffler, from The American Book of the Dog ( 1891 ), in the chapter on Dachshunds: " The origin of the Dachshund is in doubt, our best authorities disagreeing as to the beginning of the breed.

One theory is that smooth Dachshunds would occasionally produce puppies which had slightly longer hair than their parents.

Dachshunds have traditionally been viewed as a symbol of Germany.

* In Zelenogorsk, Russia, is a Dachshund monument near which passes a parade of Dachshunds on City Day, July 25.

* Every June, Ellensburg hosts Dachshunds on Parade, an event that draws Dachshund dog owners from all over the Northwest.

Critics predicted that the breed would develop back, hip and leg problems similar to those that plague some Dachshunds. Amidst much controversy, TICA accepted the Munchkin into its New Breed development program in September 1994.

Osteonecrosis of the femoral head of young, small breed dogs ( LCP disease ) was first described in veterinary literature by Tutt in 1935: he described the disease, as did Waldenstromin ( 1909 ) in humans, Toy and small breeds, particularly Toy Poodles, Yorkshire Terriers, Pugs, Jack Russell Terriers, and Dachshunds can be affected.

German canine breeds were taken from their owners and slaughtered, including German Shepherds and Dachshunds.

And, as a matter of fact, Nicolas had slept in the park only part of one night, when he discovered that Munich's early mornings even in summer are laden with dew.

But in our case -- and neither my wife nor I have extreme views on integration, nor are we given to emotional outbursts -- the situation has ruined one or two valued friendships and come close to wrecking several more.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

Accidental war is so sensitive a subject that most of the people who could become directly involved in one are told just enough so they can perform their portions of incredibly complex tasks.

Only one rule prevailed in my conversations with these men: The more highly placed they are -- that is, the more they know -- the more concerned they have become.

( There are two receivers in case one should be dropped and damaged.

Now we must become vague, for we are approaching one of the nation's most guarded secrets.

They are mere fragments, just one portion of preprepared messages.

The one apparent connection between the two is a score of buildings which somehow or other have survived and which naturally enough are called `` historical monuments ''.

Often it is recognized that all the details of the pattern may not be essential to the outcome but, because the pattern was empirically determined and not developed through theoretical understanding, one is never quite certain which behavior elements are effective, and the whole pattern becomes ritualized.

Two thieves are crucified with Christ, one saved and the other damned.

Again, the sufferings and disasters produced by any transgression against the commandment not to love are almost invariably associated in one way or another with childhood, with the figure of a child.

In a certain perfectly definite way, the method and the theme of his stories are one and the same.

He is a widower, his three children are dead, he has no one left on earth ; ;

Whatever pole of this contrast one emphasizes and whatever the tension between these two approaches to understanding the artistic imagination, it will be readily seen that they are not mutually exclusive, that they belong together.

they are fields of force exerting a unique influence on the sensibilities and a unique relatedness to one another.

In its place is a passionate consciousness grasped and molded to feelings of positive or negative values even as the actions of one's life are determined by constellations of process in which one is caught.

The party is usually in a room small enough so that all guests are within sight and hearing of one another.

For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.

The networks for military communications are one of the best examples of networks which not only must be changed with the changes in objectives but also must be changed with the addition of new machines of war.

These assumptions lead to an organization with one man at the top, six directly under him, six under each of these, and so on until there are six levels of personnel.

What I want to point out here is that all of them are ex-liberals, or modified liberals, with perhaps one exception.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

They tell us, sir, that we are free, because we have in one hand a ballot, and in the other a stock certificate.

The continuities, contrasts, and similarities discernible when past and present are surveyed together are inexhaustible and the one is often understood through the other.