He was the runt of the litter and his parents, Howard and Heather, were valuable long-haired Dachshunds ( whom Chester secretly suspected of being werewolves ).

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

Dachshunds are one of the most popular pets in the United States, ranking seventh in the 2008 AKC registration statistics.

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.

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.

About 20-25 % of Dachshunds will develop IVDD.

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

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

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.

* 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Dachshunds may not be the best pets for small children.

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

Dachshunds have traditionally been viewed as a symbol of Germany.

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.

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

As Athlon XP-M CPUs were already rated running lower voltages than their desktop siblings, it was a better starting point for lowering voltage even further.

Mike Brown, the team's de facto general manager, was rated as among the worst team owners in American professional sports Compounding matters were off-field problems of several players, notably receiver Chris Henry, who was suspended several times during his short professional career and was actually released by the Bengals at one point, but was then re-signed for the season.

Ken Uston reviewed 32 games in his book Ken Uston's Guide to Buying and Beating the Home Video Games in 1982, and rated some of the Channel F's titles highly ; of these, Alien Invasion and Video Whizball were considered by Uston to be " the finest adult cartridges currently available for the Fairchild Channel F System.

" The games on the whole, however, rated last on his survey of over 200 games for the Atari, Intellivision, Astrocade and Odyssey consoles, and contemporary games were rated " Average " with future Channel F games rated " below average ".

Enrollees were eligible for " rated " positions to help with camp administration: senior leader, mess steward, store keeper and two cooks ; assistant leader, company clerk, assistant educational advisor and three second cooks.

The Italians ' own destroyers were almost as swift, most Italian designs of the 1930s being rated at over, while carrying torpedoes and either four or six 120 mm guns.

Coleman was reported for retaliation after twice being struck by his Carlton opponent, Harry Caspar, and without him the Dons were rated a 4 goals poorer team.

In the definition adopted by the British Admiralty, they were rated ships of at least 28 guns, carrying their principal armament upon a single continuous deck — the upper deck, while ships-of-the-line possessed two or more continuous decks bearing batteries of guns.

Technically, rated ships with fewer than 28 guns could not be classed as frigates but as " post ships "; however, in common parlance most post ships were often described as " frigates ", the same casual misuse of the term being extended to smaller two-decked ships that were too small to stand in the line of battle.

His films The Big Sleep, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Red River, Scarface, Sergeant York, The Thing from Another World and Twentieth Century were rated " culturally significant " by the United States Library of Congress and inducted into the National Film Registry.

Although the unrated section had many of the weaker players in the Open, it also had players of expert strength, who were foreign to the United States and had not been rated yet.

There were also variants such as the 68A09 ( E ) and 68B09 ( E ); the internal letter indicates the processor's rated clock speed.

In the late 1970s, minicomputer performance was compared using VAX MIPS, where computers were measured on a task and their performance rated against the VAX 11 / 780 that was marketed as a 1 MIPS machine.

As these were independents, the quality of accommodation varied widely from one lodge to another ; while a minority of these properties were inspected or rated by automobile associations ( AAA and CAA, in addition to providing maps to member motorists, have published tour books or directories of restaurants and rooms since 1917 ), no consistent standard stood behind the " sanitized for your protection " banner.

While a majority of students passed easily, parents were upset that so few were rated as being best.

Skills were rated from 1 – 6 and usually consisted of a set of subskills that gave a chance for accomplishing a particular action as a base percentage plus a 10 % bonus for each skill level the character had in the skill.

Many of the technological skills were penalized by the complexity of the robot, security system, or computer the character was attempting to manipulate ( also rated from 1 to 6 ).

Rowland Bowen wrote that " many of Grace's achievements would be rated extremely good by our standards " but " by the standards of his day they were phenomenal: nothing like them had ever been done before ".

New routes on the peaks were explored as safety equipment and skills improved and eventually climbs rated at above 5. 9 on the Yosemite Decimal System difficulty scale were established on Grand Teton.