Dachshund guides

Coming home

Coming home · 6 min readFirst walks, after the vaccinesThe world is not won in an afternoon. It is won one pavement at a time, when the vet has said yes.Read the article

Coming home · 6 min readDachshunds and children: clear rules, no panicIt can be a wonderful dog in a family with children. On one condition: the adults lead, and nobody treats it as a low toy.Read the article

Coming home · 5 min readMicrochip, booklet and papers: day oneNot paperwork for its own sake. It is the dog’s name, its vet, and the proof that it left from here.Read the article

Coming home · 7 min readWhat to prepare before the puppy arrivesYou do not need a whole pet shop. You need four things in the right place, and a house that is not treating the puppy as a weekend guest.Read the article

Coming home · 5 min readThe crate as a den, not a cageIf it meets the crate on travel day, it will hate it. If it is already its corner in the sitting room, the car is only a den that moves.Read the article

Coming home · 6 min readThe first forty-eight hours at homeArrival day is not celebration day. It is the day a puppy loses every point of reference at once — worth preparing for, on both sides.Read the article

Feeding

Feeding · 6 min readThe right weight for a dachshundIt is not an aesthetic point. It is the first thing you can do, every day, for its back. A lean dachshund walks better and ages better.Read the article

Feeding · 5 min readTreats and table scrapsA scrap of cheese, for a miniature, is not a term of endearment. It is part of dinner. You count it, or the back will.Read the article

Feeding · 5 min readFeeding a dachshund puppyA few rules applied consistently are worth more than any debate about which kibble is best.Read the article

Training

Training · 6 min readLeaving a dachshund home aloneIt bonds hard. This is not the right breed for a house empty all day. You can teach absence: you do it from puppyhood, in small doses.Read the article

Training · 5 min readThe name and the voice: how you call a dachshundTwo syllables, always the same, spoken as if it were good news. The rest is noise, and this dog files it at once.Read the article

Training · 6 min readWhy the dachshund comments on everythingIt is not a broken alarm. It is an earth dog that still has a job: to warn. You educate the volume; you do not delete the breed.Read the article

Training · 6 min readWalking a dachshund on the leadThe nose goes to the ground, the body is low, and the walk is not a parade. That is fine. You teach rhythm; you do not switch the dog off.Read the article

Training · 7 min readHouse training: a dachshund learns with a clockIt is not stubborn. It is a puppy with a small bladder and a nose that finds the carpet interesting too. You need a clock, not a lecture.Read the article

Training · 5 min readWhat a puppy can chewThe dachshund has a decided mouth and a nose that finds everything. You give it something allowed, or you find the skirting board.Read the article

Training · 6 min readTraining a dachshund: consistency above allNot a difficult dog. A dog that evaluates requests rather than executing them, and that notices every single exception you allow.Read the article

Care

Care · 5 min readEars, nails, and the five minutes that countYou do not need a salon. You need the puppy to learn, early, that a hand on the ears is not bad news.Read the article

Care · 5 min readHow to pick up a dachshundIt is not a detail. It is the gesture you make twenty times a day, for years, on a back built like this.Read the article

Care · 5 min readRain, mud, and the dachshund that will not go outNot drawing-room fuss. The chest is low and the nose is on the ground: a puddle is work for this dog, not a stroll.Read the article

Care · 7 min readTeeth, ears, nails: everyday careYou do not need a salon. You need three short gestures, done often, from puppyhood. A dachshund handled calmly when small will let you do it when grown.Read the article

Care · 6 min readSmooth, long, wire: what changes at homeSize decides the body. Coat decides your weeks: how much you brush, how much dirt you bring in, and sometimes the temperament too.Read the article

Care · 5 min readSummer and winter with a dachshundThe belly is low, the muzzle is close to the tarmac, and the coat is not a mountain jacket. They adapt, if you adapt the clock.Read the article

Care · 6 min readThe first year at the vetIt is not a race to buy products. It is a calendar: vaccines, checks, and a doctor who sees the dog while it is small, so later it already has a history.Read the article

Care · 6 min readThe dachshund’s back: prevention without alarmNot an announced illness, but not a detail either. What actually helps, every day, to protect the spine of a dog built this way.Read the article

Life with a dachshund

Life with a dachshund · 5 min readSofa and bed: you decide at onceNot a question of affection. A question of the back, and of a rule you will not undo at three years old.Read the article

Life with a dachshund · 6 min readA second dachshund in the houseTwo keep each other company, it is true. They also keep each other company in bad habits. You bring the second when the first is already a dog, not a lost puppy.Read the article

Life with a dachshund · 5 min readLiving with a dachshund in a flatSpace is not the real problem. Boredom, stairwell noise and four flights of stairs four times a day are.Read the article

Life with a dachshund · 6 min readTravelling with a dachshundIt travels willingly if the crate is a den, not a surprise. Car, train, plane: you decide beforehand, with the papers in your pocket.Read the article

Life with a dachshund · 5 min readWhen guests arriveThe puppy is not the entertainment. It is a dog still learning who belongs to the house, and who does not.Read the article

Life with a dachshund · 6 min readWhen the dachshund grows oldIt does not become another dog. It becomes slower, more selective, more attached. You adapt the house; you do not ask for the puppy of ten years ago.Read the article

Life with a dachshund · 6 min readCats, other dogs, the home that is already thereThe dachshund arrives with an earth-dog nose and an opinion. You introduce it on the ground, with time, not in an afternoon of trials.Read the article

The three sizes

The three sizes · 7 min readKaninchen, miniature or standard: choosing properlySize is not an aesthetic preference. It determines how fragile the dog is as a puppy, how much exercise it demands as an adult, and how much margin you have.Read the article

These pages are born from daily life with our dogs. For their health, your veterinarian remains the dearest and truest voice.