Lunedi Lunacy

The one thing you will never see either on here or on my FaceBook profile is either of the HFH dressed up for any reason or season.  Only once have I ever done that and I regret it to this day.  I put a pair of reindeer antlers on our Reesie only because some friends had brought them all the way from Australia. As everyone laughed poor Reese looked so ashamed and hid himself in my lap. I still have the picture and vowed at that point that never again would it happen. 

So we have no HFH Christmasy photos - in fact these two won't even go near the tree - doesn't interest them at all.   But that doesn't meant we can't have some seasonal fun where dachzies are concerned. 

I'm sure all my friends who are owned by dachshunds can identify with this and many other tasks:  

And from any of those morning when the landscape is white with new fallen drifts of snow,  here's a little song to sing as you struggle to put on boots, coats and outdoor paraphernalia.

December 22 - 1894: The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.

Makes Perfect Sense To Me

Many years ago a friend - well a former friend, and I'm sure you'll understand why -  gave me a book called Weiner Dog Art.  This friend former friend seemed to find the idea of the noble Dachshund as art a great source of amusement.  Now granted some of Gary Lawson's drawings and cartoons featuring "weiner dogs" did rather poke fun at the mighty Badger Hound but he was allowed as he owned several and understood fully the refinement and intelligence of the Bassotto and that they could take a joke as well as the next breed.

Now it appears that the Tekkel has been elevated to the level of performance art in an installation by Australian artist Bennett Miller.  His Dachshund U.N. first appeared at the Melbourne Next Wave Festival back in 2010 where 47 splendid specimens of Jamniki engaged in vigorous debate as they enacted the roles of representatives to the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. The Commission has since reconvened in Sydney, Birmingham and are heading to Toronto for the 2013 World Stage Festival at Harbourfront.

It was mentioned in many quarters that los Perros salchichas were better behaved - the odd accident apart - and frankly made more sense than many of their human counterparts.  I have no trouble believing that for a minute!