Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-12-20
A DOG INVENTED By GERMANS.

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mans, and he looks it all over All the
science and patience of the German char
acter is made manifest in him. Given
the badger, required a hound to hunt
him, and the proposition is worked out
in his person like a problem of EnClid.
Badger hunting is not a sport much fol-
lowed in England, and the consequence
is the poor, harmless badger is every
where ruthlessly destroyed, IN accord
ance with the Wretched custom to call
everything Vermin which is not game,
and exterminate it. But the habits of
the badger have preserved him in some
favored parts of the country, where he is
still by no means a rare beast. He Is a
great digger, and he makes himself a
very large, deep earth, Gin which he resides
by day, betaklng himself to the outer
world by night. Badger-hunting, there
fore, should be carried on by moonlight.
The badger is found roaming abroad, Is
run to his earth, aud is then taken
out" which, perhaps, may account for
the paStlme not being favored by
the English gentlemen who live at home
at ease. The dachshund is we'll designed
for this work, and he has his points by
which he Is to be judged, ike his great
neighbOr, the fOxhOund. There are two
sorts of daChshunds, distinguished
chiefly by their color. The one is black
and tan, and should be strictly black
and tan and nothing else. The other Is
a light-cOlOred red, and should be also
nothing else; his nose should be red,
and his eyes should be a light hazel
matching the red. The red dachshund
is smaller, as a rule, than the black and
tan hound, but in other respects he is
much the same, color excepted. his
nose should be long; his head long, his
back long, and his stern long all on very
short legs, so that he has altogether a
very lengthy appearance. He should
measure about eleven inches IN height,
he should be very muscular and power
full, with very strong back limbs. His
breast-DOne and arm have a very pecu-
liar formation, designed for digging in
pursuit Of the badger IN his earth. His
arm should have a peculiar curve, giving
the fore foot a turn outward, which,
from the fOXhOund point Of view, is any
thing but straight" as he should be-
But the dachshund's foot is a most i'm
pOrtant point, as it is to every animal &C
cOrding to the old maXims-nO foot no
horse, no foot no hound, no foot
on sheep. The dachshund's fore
foot is a large foot, well Webbed
as he is a good swimmer, and turned out
in correspondence with the curve Of his
arm, that he may throw the earth away
from him In digging. AS this is a very
inconVenient foot for anything but dig
cling, it is all the more important that it
should be a very good, strong one, to re-
sist wear and tear. The fore foot of the
dachshund, therefore, which would be
condemned by the ordinary sportsman
as a very ugly thing, is a point Of great
importance, and should be well looked
to. 1t should be large, round, strong
and compact, on a properly curved arm,
an accurate idea of which the study Of
the animal alone can give. The dach-
shund should have very good nose,
and he should run his game Ikea hound,
not like a dog, using his tongue freely on
the line of scent, and running up well to
cry. His tongue is not musical, like that
of the fOxhOund or old beagle, not
Slow In pursuit but matched in mouth like bells,
Each under each. A cry more unable
Was never holla'd TO, nor cheered with horn,
which IS rather surprising, considering
what a genius for music the Germans
have. Perhaps, as he found he could not
tune a pack of hounds to perfect har-
mOny of tongue before going out with
them, as he would a fiddle, the German
gave it up as a bad Job.
The English are very systematic and
very successful in breeding animals care
fully for certain merits and points, keep
ing stud-bOoks, and publicly Judging the
specimens produced at exhibitions with
improvement. They have thus brought
the dachshund to great perfection in
England, and ne has become a general
faVOrite on account Of his engaging man
ners. He is a very agreeable companion
and from an early age shows a decided
taste for good society, meaning, of
course, that Of man, attaching himself to
his human friends more than is usual
even with the dog species. He shows
his superiority of intellect by being ex-
cessively fond of amusement-as sure test
ofintelligenCe-and although he is very
playful with dogs, he rather despises
them in comparison to man, whom he
recognizes as a superior person, far more
capable of affOrding him lasting enter
tainment, which is neither frivolous nor
VeXrtiOus, than a mere dog.
The dachshund is so affeCtiOnate, so
constant, 50 clever, so fond of amuse-
ment, so amiable, and so fattering to
man by preferring him to other beasts,
even to dogs, that no wonder he is such
q special faVOrite, Notwithstanding his
unOrthOdOX shape as a hound. In the
matter of dogs there is no accounting for
shape; they are positively astounding.
To the general observer, walking through
London, no form whatever in the person
of a dog, however complicated and out
landish, as long as it occupies spaces of
three dimensions, ought to astOnish him.
The expression of the emotions in a
dachshund, the sweet, loving look from
his eyes, the response of his stern to
every feeting joy, and the wisdom mani
tested in his head, would reconcile the
most aesthetic man or woman to any
shape he might assume.
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