#wire-haired dachshund

[dachshundaday]

Stretches & sausage rolls at the park

[piperwillis]

[oli-verwelke]

that is. too cute

peace huggers incoming

[leatherbookmark]

the joy of seeing a little doggie on your walk

[dogwisdoms]

Dog Wisdoms

[drawingsphopho]

Daemon Age: Inquisition

Blackwall & Leojeanne AKA Thom Rainier & Marta

Wire-haired Dachshund (C. l. familiaris)

When Thom Rainier settled, his father did not say anything of note, and his sister could not, for she was dead. The first comments on Marta’s form were made by the dog-hangers, and they said, “Fitting that your daemon would be a little bitch, Rainier!” Thom and Marta both wanted to beat the living daylights out of them. They chose not to. They chose to do nothing.

Blackwall, the real Blackwall, had a black bird. Small, and unnoticed most of the time. The imposter Blackwall could lie and say, “No, no, I have a black dog, not a black bird.” No one did anything. How could someone have the audacity to imitate another man and his daemon?

Blackwall is often covered in bites of unknown origin. Well, he knows. They come from Marta, who delivers the punishments she believes are deserved. She bites and growls and hisses insults at him. Nobody loves you. They all hate you. Thom believes her.

[33max]

A Guide to The Verstappen Dachshunds 🐶

The Verstappen’s have owned dachshunds for over 30 years (according to Jos!) and as a dachshund lover myself I thought I would put together everything I know so far about the Verstappen sausages.

Spyke

Spyke is the most well known Verstappen dachshund as he was Max’s best friend for 11 years. Spyke lived with Jos and Max, until Max moved out, and then Spyke stayed with Jos.

Spyke died at the very end of 2020 and Max bid an emotional farewell to him on Instagram.

Zigi

Zigi is often confused for Spyke (as let’s be real they look the same) but Zigi is actually Sophie’s dog.

He is currently 14 years old and doing well! I think he had a sister called Zaza but I have not managed to find out very much about Zaza.

@tyrannosaurus-maxy also made me this gifset of Zigi (and Zaza?) from Max Verstappen: Whatever It Takes as Max fusses Zigi and Zaza in the video and they’re often spotted in the background.

Like here, where Zigi is watching Max play fifa.

Holly

Holly is a new addition! She lives with Sophie and Zigi. There is not currently any photos of Max with Holly and when there are you will know about it as I will likely combust.

Holly is an Isabella (this is a diluted colouring and makes me sad 😭) miniature smooth haired dachshund, which actually makes her different as up until now it appears the Verstappen’s have only owned miniature wire haired dachshunds.

Others

Jos does currently have a miniature wire haired dachshund but I am not sure of the name, however… here it is!

I believe this is Zaza? (Sophie’s dog and Zigi’s sister)

And then here are some more photos of Holly and Zigi!

(you can find all of these images on max, victoria, sophie, and jos’ instagram account and some are insta stories that I’ve saved because I’m obsessed with verstappen sausage dog lore)

THANK YOU FOR READING AND FEEL FREE TO SEND ME ANY VERSTAPPEN SAUSAGE INFO 🫡

[haveyouseenherlately]

here are some facts about messages matty & reader

💌 part of the posmatty au

masterlist here

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✅ he likes to write cheesy-but-cute notes on your mail.

✅ you're both obsessed with your wire haired dachshund, sweet kevin.

✅ he can be a nosy bastard.

and this is how it starts. that last bit is tbc in the first blurb of the postmatty au… ;)

[wyrddogs]

Do you know if there is a personality difference between long haired, wire, and smooth dachshunds?

I know in some breeds there is but others it is strictly a cosmetic difference.

There is! There are traits that are set across the breed-- stubbornness, a desire to follow smells, bravery to the point of stupidity, high prey drive, and a penchant for mischief, but there are some differences between coat types.

Wirehairs are the most terrier-like. Terriers were crossed in to get the wire coat. It's also the newest coat type in the breed, originating in the late 19th century.

Longhairs are supposed to be the most biddable, as spaniels were supposedly brought in to get their coat. I say "supposedly" because there is disagreement on what exact crosses were used to achieve the long, silky coat.

Smooths are the most hound-like, and were the original coat type in the breed. There is also disagreement on how smooth dachshunds were originally produced, but they may be descended from bassets and brackes.

Each coat type and size has its own admirers. As we all know, I personally believe in mini long superiority. ;)

Thank you for asking!

[justcallmecel]

Today's dog: Wire-haired dachshund! Arguably the least popular dachshund variant (long-haired, smooth, wire-haired). A very gorgeous face that reminds me of many of the terriers, the breed actually most likely originated from the crossbreeding of a Dandie Dinmont Terrier and a German Pointer in the 1800s. Like all of its scenthound cousins, WHDs are low to the ground and fairly long. A lovely breed that makes a wonderful family dog :)

Today's Monkee: Valleri! Released in 1968 on The Birds, The Bees, and The Monkees, it peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 as a single. Much like Someday Man, Valleri is sung by Davy! The backstory behind this song is also very interesting: Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart lied, telling Kirshner they had a song for Davy; he wanted to hear it immediately. They panicked and wrote the chorus about Hart's teenage love interest - they presented it and Kirshner gave the go-ahead, thus creating Valleri!

[mothmiso]

Croatia's Dalmatian Islands (2) (3) (4) by badnewf

Via Flickr:

(1) Postira is a village and a municipality in Croatia in the Split-Dalmatia County on the island of Brač. (2) Molly, a wire-haired dachshund, welcomes visitors daily from her perch overlooking the bay. (3) The tiny hamlet of Nerežišća was once capital of the island. Its claim to fame today is the bonsai-like tree (more than 100 years old) growing from the roof of the tiny chapel in the center of town. (4) From a picturesque cemetery near Ložišća, Brač.     

[dachshundaday]

No, I shall not be leaving the park just yet. I will plant myself firmly here and take not one step further from my new-claimed home.

[madphantom]

New Susan's Hell Sprint snippet droppedddd

Diary of Paul Killarney, November 17th, 1994

Rory was a curious man.

Not just because of the way he looked - tall, gaunt, like he hadn't slept or eaten in weeks, perhaps formerly handsome but now merely a ghost of himself, walking with a noticeable limp and smoking outside the church with his red hair hanging into his sharp face and the trinkets on his belt clinking in the cold November breeze, like some sort of ageless washed up rockstar. It was the entire way he was.

He had a profound melancholy to him that seemed to transcend time and reason, like a character from a fairytale that had inexplicably found itself in the dullness of everyday life in reality. His beringed fingers clicked and his teeth shimmered in the pale sunlight. They were oddly long, the canines pronounced; I noticed this when he approached me before the funeral, held out his hand and politely smiled at me. The smile reminded me of a snarling fox.

“You were her husband, isn't that so? My condolences,” he said, and his voice chased a shiver down my spine. It sounded like long forgotten childhood memories. “Susan was a wonderful person. The name's Rory. I'm an old friend of hers.”

I shook his hand. I would've imagined it to be cold, but to my surprise, it wasn't. “Hi. Paul. Uh, I am. She…mentioned you a couple times. Said you met in this village back in ‘73.”

Rory tilted his head while I withdrew my hand and put it in my pocket. “Yes, indeed. She was here after her aunt, whom I knew quite well, passed away. We were the closest thing to neighbours we could get back then.” He chuckled melancholically. “The house was out in the woods, an hour or so away, and I live over there.” He pointed between the fading orange trees. “The house there on the edge of the forest. If you squint you can kind of see it.”

I squinted and saw a cozy looking house against the fir trees, the overgrown wire fence before it mostly broken down. An old green car was parked in the driveway. “Oh yes.”

Just then, we heard a bark, and I groaned internally. The Dog had probably freed himself from my sister again. Ever since Susan passed the beast has been unmanageable. I didn't realize what a problem it could become one day that he only listened to her.

The Dog came running around the corner and I prepared for a lot of wrestling and trying to get a hold of his leash, but to my surprise he very calmly pranced up to Rory, and once he had knelt down to pet him, put his heavy head on the man's bony knee.

“Hello there, good boy,” Rory whispered. “Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy? You are!”

“Wow, he doesn't usually act like this,” I commented and Rory glanced up, a big smile on his face. “We've met before.”

How old is this dog?, I wondered, but didn't ask. Honestly, for now I was just glad to have found someone the beast didn't scare half to death.

During the service, the Dog was as if swapped out. Calmly he lay under the bench Rory was sitting on, only whining a bit every now and then. But something else struck me as peculiar, something I had not expected. My sister's dog was going crazy.

It started when we entered the church and she uttered a low, menacing whine as soon as the doors closed behind us. The whining soon developed into a quiet, but steadily louder growl, which, after a few minutes, began to be interspersed by barking. It was at this point that my sister hurriedly left the church to get the dog away from the service.

I was at a loss. Peanut was a kind-eyed, well-behaved dachshund that had never been noticeably disruptive and an angel at family gatherings. Our dog - or, rather, Susan's dog, since he had always made abundantly clear he only accepted one master - was a man-sized shaggy three-legged German shepherd that looked like he ate babies for fun and acted like a werewolf on cocaine. And this, frankly, scary beast was now sweet as a lamb, as if the brain behind those too-intelligent dark eyes understood who or what the funeral was for.

Can you tell I'm afraid of this thing? I don't want to be alone with it.

Throughout the service I kept glancing at Rory. I wondered what he thought, but that face was impossible to read. I wondered whether he regretted something, but all he did was sit there, beringed fingers occasionally clicking onto the wood of the bench in front of him.

The truth is, I had known about him. Susan had kept a photo of him in her wallet, all scratched up and faded, but she had never ever left the house without it, except on the day she had left for good. It was her talisman, her lucky charm. And she had told me, way back when I'd met her, that she would never love me like she had loved a boy in the fall of ‘73. And I had accepted that, because at least I got to have her in parts, if not whole. I loved her. That was all that mattered to me. The other man seemed like nothing but a distant fairytale.

But now here he was. Like a forlorn prince. And I felt sorry for him.

[kangals]

schnauzer or wire haired dachshund?

bruh 😩 i guess schnauzer with my usual furnished dog caveats (mandatory all-over clean), assuming we're talking about mini or standard. if you mean giant schnauzer then no way and i'm taking my chance with the dachshund vet bills haha

[merinsedai]

Fun fact of the day: Christmas Common is a hamlet located in South Oxfordshire which appears each year in the month of December only.

Lucky visitors to Christmas Common may purchase a fine Christmas Tree and wreath from the dedicated tree barn before going on to enjoy a mug of mulled wine at the Fox and Hounds public house, whereupon they will be greeted with dignified affection by a stately wire haired dachshund named Hector.

Try visiting this place in July and you’ll be fresh outta luck.

[putyouinabettermood]

This is Anton. He’s a wire-haired dachshund. He’s a gentle, playful and goofy spirit. via https://ift.tt/e5pAcdu putyouinabettermood.com