Quotes About Dachshund

Besides, it was a high bed. The dogs could never have gotten into it without help. Maybe one could have stood with its front paws on the bed frame while the other scaled its back in some unlikely dachshund Cirque de Soleil, but even then there would be only one dog in her bed, not two.

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

I watch the dogs, one tiny dachshund so skinny he looks like a single stroke of calligraphy.

An obese man came, who walked with a cane and was accompanied by a limping, rotund dachshund, to ask when the veterinarian was coming to do the free clinic; then he and Billy stooped over the dachshund, which shut its eyes gratefully while they inspected its teeth.

Abandon a dachshund and upon your return, you may well be confronted with a small token of her displeasure. This, for the dachshund, is an undignified but necessary form of training. Eventually, you will learn your lesson, which is to take you with her everywhere. When you have finally accepted this, you will be generously rewarded for your good behavior by a jaunty, joyful companion.

Nothing will turn a man's home into a castle more quickly and effectively than a dachshund.

But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.

I had a dog named Basil, and he's the hero of the book 'Animal Firm.' Oddly enough he's a dachshund, which is not really my kind of dog.

He couldn't have moved quicker if he had been the dachshund Poppet, who at this juncture was running round in circles, trying, if I read his thoughts aright, to work off the rather heavy lunch he had had earlier in the afternoon.

The dachshund, so strongly associated with Germany, became a 'liberty pup' during the First World War, and after it the increasingly popular German Shepherds were renamed Alsatians in light of persisting anti-German feeling. During the same period frankfurters and sauerkraut were relabelled as 'hot dogs' and 'liberty cabbage'.

I swear, Nell said, walking faster, you're looking at a life of hamburger and no yelling. She held the dachshund closer, and it sighed this time and put its head on her arm, and she stopped to look down into its eyes. Hello, she said, and SugarPie stared back, pathetic and wide-eyed in the glow from the streetlight, her eyelashes fluttering like a Southern belle confronted by a Yankee.

Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully.

Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.

The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any superfluous leg.

It's a sausage. A special sausage. A Dachshund sausage. A special little frankfurter. It's heaven in a bun. It's what all of civilisation has been heading towards...If I'd have known, growing up in Flanders, that one day I would get to taste a hot dog . Well!

The sales clerk stood up, and I saw she was wearing a T-shirt with a picture of a dachshund on it and the words "I Know a little German" on the back. Her name tag read "Paula.