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The Mama is sending out photo Christmas cards this year, and who better to represent the family than me? She took a bunch of pictures of me in my new Santa Claus dress, but she can’t decide which one to put on the card. She’s got it narrowed down to […]

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Tags:No tagsGretel here.
Well, the Mama has it in her head that I should socialize with other dogs. Generally this tends to happen in the back room at some dog day care or other, and I manipulate her into sitting on the floor instead of on one of those metal folding chairs so I can […]

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Tags:No tagsHOW TO EAT A BONE: AN ILLUSTRATED TUTORIALby Gretel the Dachshund
STEP ONE:Approach the bone. Position it between your front paws, within easy gnawing distance.
STEP TWO:Warm up slowly — you don’t want to pull a jaw muscle! You might nibble some sinew.
Or lick it, to show your affection.
STEP THREE:Once you’re limber, it’s […]

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Tags:No tagsDog in sun.
Dog after run.
Reluctant to pose.
Would rather doze.
One stretch, one lap–
Now, back to nap.
THE END

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Tags:No tagsI don’t know if the rest of you have this issue, but it has been very difficult to teach Gretel the concept of ‘down’, I think because she’s so low to the ground anyway. We got ’sit’ right away, we got ’stay’ without a problem, she does ’spin’ and ‘fetch’ and ‘meerkat’ and […]

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Tags:No tagsAn excellent example of the Dachshund Look. In this case, the subtext is, “Tell me again why you won’t share your carrot cake?”

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Tags:No tagsGretel here.
Vacation is all very well, but this is how I feel about being home again:

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I’m sure I’m not the only doxie on this board who has to contend with a Cat in the house. And it goes without saying that in order to preserve peace, one must make some compromises in one’s behavior.

I mean, all I’m saying is that the Cat isn’t all *that* bad. […]

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Tags:No tagsGretel here, again.
Two posts in one day is a lot for this doxie, but I have to vent *somewhere*.
First, there was this:

Then this:

And finally … this:

And honestly, I don’t know why she bothers. See how pretty I am naked?

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Tags:No tagsGretel here.
I have a new toy, which I love and adore. Here I am just getting used to it; at the beginning the Mama had to put a piece of kibble in the bottom so I would play with it. Now I pull the squirrels out without any added inducement and carry […]

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