91. Dachshund Racing involves wandering aimlessly!

Here’s Frankie. Ain’t he cute?

He’s a runner up competitor, although, not that competitive. But that’s OK, because neither were any of the other contenders! His owners have at least tried to teach him to run in the right direction though, but most of the rest were sat at the starting line for a while before deciding to move. Others rolling in the grass, and looking around, instead of sprinting forward.

Frankie was running back-and-forth across the other lanes before finally running toward the finish line.

But does it really matter? As long as the dogs enjoy themselves, that’s what’s important.

I bet it was funny to watch though!

Read more here:
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2007/apr/22/dogs-have-their-day-spring-round-/

86. Dachshund Rescue

On May 5th Southern States Dachshund Rescue will be holding their 3rd Annual Dachshund Derby Picnic event for dachshunds and their owners. It will be held at Henry Horton State Park, and they’ll be having nine contests including ‘Oldest Dachshund’ ‘Shortest Legs’ ‘Longest Ears’, best costume and of course racing.

It sounds a lot of fun, and you’ll be helping a very worthwhile cause. For more details go here: http://www.ssdr.org/picnic3.html

Southern States Dachshund Rescue also have a quarterly newsletter that you can sign up for from their home page. And if you are able to adopt or foster a dachshund, they have a form you can fill in too.
image courtesy of ssdr.org

85. Dachshund Underground Railroad

For rescue dachshunds who find homes in remote places, a group of dachshund lovers have founded this organization of volunteers to help out. I think this is a fabulous idea, and the title is brilliant too!

If you would like to be a volunteer, sign up at:

http://www.doxie.org/

If you arte unable to be a volunteer driver, you can help out in other ways, such as buying form their cafepress store, or opening your own store and naming DUR as the referrer.

16. Dachshund Racing in California

I love this photo of an airbourne dachshund!

Huntington Beach, California, is the venue for the Dachshund Racing.

“Dachshund Racing or Wiener Dog Racing has not been around for very long but thanks to the creative ad agency for the 1993 Miller Lite television commercial that listed odd possibilities for sports such as The Miss Perfect Face Off, Sumo Platform Diving and Wiener Dog Drag Races, this phenomenon has taken off in a big way. Wiener Dog Dachshund races are extremely popular events—some horse and dog racing tracks break attendance records when the doxies race days and nights are held.”

Read more Here. The article states that some people are concerned that dachshund racing is bad for their backs, but dachshunds were originally bred to hunt badgers. Surely, that must have involved lots of running too?

The next dachshund races at Huntington Beach, California, aren’t until September 16th but I can’t wait til Sept to show you this photo!

photo by Debbie Stock at
www.stockteam.com