The Weiner Dog Roll

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Piper Basenji woke me up this morning with her usual “Okay, serf, time for you to get out of bed and let me out.” So I get up.

Piper Dachshund, also on the bed, immediately wakes up in the “we’re going somewhere, right? we’re going? where we going? let’s go!” frenzy.

I always lift Piper Dachshund off the bed, because it’s bad for his back to jump down. He, being a tough little dachshund who can look after himself, always growls a bit at this point, since I’m depriving him of the dachshund joy of flinging himself, zeppelin-like, into the air. It just makes him all the more anxious to get going, cause we’re going somewhere, right now!

I open the bedroom door, and Piper Dogs rush out to the top of the stairs. Elegant Piper Basenji trips lightly down the stairs, getting the lead on Piper Dachshund, since her elegant long legs allow her to cover the ground a bit more quickly than his… uhh … height-challenged legs.

So he gets to the top of the landing, in full “we’re going somewhere!” mode, and a bit irritated with my namby-pamby pampering of him, a tough little dachshund, and also upset that he’s losing the race to Piper Basenji. Normally he’s pretty solid on his paws, but I can only assume that all of these factors distracted his dachsie mind from the fact that he was about to go downstairs.

Result: he trips. Now, for most dogs, tripping going downstairs would just be a momentary little physical blip, but because of the unusual morphology of the dachshund, once you start rolling, you, well, keep rolling. So there’s a little black dacshund suddenly rolling downstairs, uttering puzzled little yelps.

Fortunately, our stairs only go down for a few steps then turn in the corner, so he stopped on the little landing. I of course hurry down, thinking of dislocated little dachshund legs and what have you, and try to pick him up.

Ferocious growl. “I’m a tough little dachsie! We’re going somewhere! Piper Basenji is getting ahead of me!”

I put him down and he takes off down the rest of the stairs, ignoring my laughter as beneath his dachsie dignity, because “we’re going somewhere!” Fortunately, this time he’s got all four paws working in unison.

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Do they roll on flat surfaces, too? I need to know because my neighbor’s doxie hates us for no apparent reason and I feel it’s only fair to give her a reason. :smiley:

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Your neighbor has a doxie? I’m envisioning piratey wenches, here.

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I’m glad he wasn’t hurt!! Poor critter - their backs are injury prone for sure.

Of course, once you figured he was OK, I hope you got a good laugh at him (poor puppers).

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So where did you go?

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I was able to perfectly visualize that. Thank you very much for the laugh. I’m glad he’s ok because otherwise I’d feel guilty about just how much that made me laugh.

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Forgive me thinking this was going to be about breakfast fare.

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Thanks for resurrecting this, Gato!

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I have a dachshund too! Nathan(cause he’s such a good hotdog!)

I have come to love the breed, I’ve only seen one that wasn’t friendly.

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Purely by accident, I assure you!

But seeing as this Zombie walks again, I’ll add that our badgerhound is pretty cool, and I’m quite fond of him, despite his wicked reek.

Smart, loyal and a stone-cold killer of mice and packrats. Even got himself a rabbit once.

Good boy!

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How do you get a hold of him to take him off the bed? My dachshund will already be on the floor if he’s at all excited. IN fact, he may jump back up, and back down. Then again, he is a miniature.

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Really thought there would be a certain Congressman in this story.

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Dachsunds are cool. When I was little, we got one from somewhere, already grown. My father said she had been abused. Who would abuse a dachsund? We finally had to give it away ourselves after a year or two, because my mother said it was always snapping, I guess due to its past, but the dog was good with me. I must have been about 8 or 9. Her name may have been Gretchen. Poor little dog.

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So no one else had commented in Piper’s thread a few years ago? I guess cats really are more popular here.

By the way, Piper, they make small stairs or ramps for little dogs to get on and off beds and such. The hard part is getting them to use them.

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This board is totally species-ist.