New dog

[Wompet]

It's those damn weiner-dogs that you gotta look out for! Dachshunds! Nothing uglier than a weiner-dog attack...torn socks, ravaged ankles! They ought to all be put down! They just go berserk and tear your shoelaces to shreds! Bastards...

Our first dog was a full-sized dachshund who would go out and bring back woodchucks as big as himself. And when I say "go out and bring back," I mean go out in the woods, down in the burrows, get the woodchuck, and haul its carcass the 100-300 yards back to the house. He took on a lab and a setter at the same time once and won. He was a DOG. And when he bit that neighbor kid who provoked him, that kid had a 100 yard head start and still got nailed. And Hansel didn't go for his ankles. Hansel could jump. If you wanted to sit easy, you didn't mess with the dachshund. He's been goine 21 years now, but he's remembered.

Our second dog was a not-quite mini-/not-quite fullsize dachshund. Mom picked him out - my brothers and I wanted a "real" dog. Arnold may not have been "real-sized," but he had the attitude and he had the drive. He wasn't an ankle-biter either. He waited until you bent over, and the softer targets (hands, arms, face) were within jumping range. It's been six years since the cancer took him.