These are pictures of dachshunds from before my time. My late grandmother, Liesl, and a family dachshund, Waldi, taken in the 1920's, and the second picture is of my grandmother in the late 1940's with her two dachshunds, Suzanne, and Suzanne's daughter Pupchen. There's an umlaut on the U in Pupchen.
When Suzanne died, Grampy buried her in a handmade coffin in the rock garden. A few years later, Port Washington got hit with torrential rains, and as the water poured down the slope and formed a stream past the house, my grandparents looked out to see Suzanne's casket floating past the house, down the block to the ocean and out to Long Island Sound. Next stop - the Atlantic!
Karen :heart:
Awww - gotta love it any time the dachsie love is in the genes... and don't worry, if you are the first in a family to love a dachsie, now you have that love your children can inherit, too! Great pictures, Karen!
What great pics! My family had a dachsie when I was growing up. My family can't figure out why I love dachsies so much since Greta was a foul-tempered beast who would growl at me every time I came near her. (I still loved her though.) Grettie had a cousin named Gretchen (my uncle and aunt's dachsie) who would go up on the diving board of their built in swimming pool and just soar off it with the greatest of ease. She was a rascal.
Great pics !!! And Julia's too - fun to have history documented !!!
What wonderful pictures!
I am a 3rd generation doxie lover. :)
Here is Jeff's family with their dachshund Wendy and their now over 50 daughter.
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1329/923390437_856c3e113c.jpg)
They have had them for many years now and now we are carrying it on.
Merion & the ZZ's
What's interesting is that most of the dachshunds pictured are standards. With the popularity of the minis, you don't see as many of the "full-sized" standards anymore.
The picture of your grandmother from the 1920s is great. Dachshunds were still kind of a rarity in this country at that point. It makes you wonder how many dachshunds out there today can trace their ancestry to your grandmother's dachsie.
Quote from: David C. on July 28, 2007, 07:27:03 AM
What's interesting is that most of the dachshunds pictured are standards. With the popularity of the minis, you don't see as many of the "full-sized" standards anymore.
The picture of your grandmother from the 1920s is great. Dachshunds were still kind of a rarity in this country at that point. It makes you wonder how many dachshunds out there today can trace their ancestry to your grandmother's dachsie.
My mom, who is 79, says the picture was taken in the 30's in Flushing, New York, but I think my grandmother looks 15 or 16 in the photo, which means it would have been take in the 1920's in Germany. That makes Waldi a Teckel! Someone on the post said they like standards in the 30lb range. Guinness weighs 6.6 pounds. YIKES!
I was suprised to see that Suzanne and Pupchen were long hairs. I didn't realize that long hair doxies were around so long ago.
Suzanne (I think I told this story before) had a tiny little Civil Defense helmet and she used to patrol the north shore of Long Island in Port Washington during World War II with my grandfather, rest in peace. She sniffed out a U-boat and barked up a storm one night, and the next day the submarine sighting was confirmed in the papers. Grampy was very proud of Suzanne's nose for Nazis!
Karen :heart:
I remember at the 1999 Bow Wow, which also coincided with the DCA show at Frederick, MD, seeing these monstrous sized standards...four of them, b/ts, all between 35 - 39 pounds, without an ounce of fat. They were spectacular. One of the litter-mates was a clear red tweenie at 15 - 16 pounds, guess who the runt was! Of course, all 12 pounds of Max charged their X-pen as if he was going to boss them around.
I also remember coming across another b/t standard named Herman on the C&O Canal. Both Rudy & Max seemed impressed by Herman's large size. He was twice as long and half-again as wide as either of them. I recall Rudy just standing back looking at him from head-to-tail with that "Geez you're big" look on his face.
It seems like the true standards are on the decline as most people prefer the more "manageable" sized minis and tweenies.