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Date and Time Year: 2009 Month: 5
When you get the Webkinz Dachshund not only do you get the stuffed animal, you also get membership to an online community. Here you can say whether your dachshund is a boy or a girl and give it a name. You’re given points so you can buy your dachshund things for its house and keep [...]
Jill Ciment – Heroic Measures
Matt
Saturday, May 30th 2009 1:48pm
Jill Ciment has written a new novel called Heroic Measures. A dachshund is one of the three main characters, the other two main characters being its owners. You can tell from this excerpt printed in The Wall Street Journal that the novel really incorporates the dog. Even the dog’s thoughts and feelings are written. Description [...]
The Queen of England has decided to stop breeding dogs, because she's getting to that age where they might outlive her. The Queen's dogs really are The Queen's. They are very much a part of her everyday life, and even sleep on her bed at times. Apparently scones are served at tea every day, but The Queen never eats them, the dogs get them. The staff merely tolerates them and she won't give any to her family because they don't want them. I think, for a queen, it's very responsible.
May 2009 Dachshund Desktop Wallpaper
Matt
Monday, May 25th 2009 1:34pm
It’s been a while since I’ve put up a wallpaper so I thought it was time for another. Kody and I went out on a mission to take photos that would be good for desktop wallpaper, which are those that have a lot of blurred area on them. The out of focus grass and fur [...]
Kody really turned my life upside down, for the better. Lately I’ve been working a lot, and while we do probably more walks than most people and today we even went outside to play fetch and have some fun, he spends more time left to his own devices than ever. And he seems OK with [...]
Vole Hunting Dachshund
Matt
Friday, May 22nd 2009 8:39am
photo: Dave Biesse I found this story from the Bonner County Daily Bee very charming and entertaining. Here’s a teaser. I screamed “Peewee, Keiki” and two mud-covered heads popped up, tongues hanging out of their mouths. It almost looked like they were smiling at me. They crawled out of their prospective holes and sat there [...]