Stable and Kennel 
(Jroup of prize winning dachshunds exliibited at Youngstown, Ohio, hy the Dalmore 
Kennels, Port Allegany, Pa. 
The Dog of Comedy 
\I 7 HKNEVER or pretty nearly whenever a Ger- 
^ ^ man caricaturist wishes to be as funny as he can 
he puts an exaggerated dachshund in his drawing. 
This charming little dog is, it seems to me, exagger¬ 
ated enough in his conformation without taking any 
further liberties with his very short legs and very 
long body. This type of dogs, by the way, is a par¬ 
ticularly interesting achievement in breeding dogs for 
a special purpose. Of course the dachshund was 
created to be able to go under the 
ground in burrows after vermin and 
game. I have never seen him 
so used and I doubt if in Amer¬ 
ica he is to any great extent 
trained to fulfil the purpose of 
his creation; that is not the case, 
however, in Germany. There 
he is put to practical service. 
Here he is used as a pet and 
companion and as he is intelli¬ 
gent and affectionate he is quite 
worth while; but he needs to 
be thoroughly broken, otherwise 
he is wilful and disobedient. 
The remarkable group of 
dachshunds that we print was exhibited at the 
Youngstown, Ohio, show and the photograph was 
taken in the bench there. They are owned by 
the Dalmore Kennels, Port Allegany, Pa. In this 
group are “ Champion Alarich von Weinerwold” (a 
champion both in Austria and America) and three 
of his get, all champions, “Fifi” from Cleveland, 
“Waldman” of Dalmore, and “ Hinda,” of Del- 
Also in the group are two more famous 
“Champion IlaisI M” 
Owned by the Dal 
more. 
winners and champions—“ Haisl M ” and “ Hardy 
M.” The last two have won first wherever shown. 
So as to afford a good view of a fine specimen of 
dachshund standing we print a portrait of “Cham¬ 
pion Haisl M.” 
I do not think this is a dog of great antiquity even 
in Germany and some writers go so far as to assert 
that the type is the perpetuation 
of a freak or a deformity. How¬ 
ever this may he he is highly 
esteemed in Germany and Aus¬ 
tria and is used to hunt rabbits 
as well as for burrowing. Bur¬ 
rowing is his real work, however, 
and he is rather a terrier than a 
hound. Misapprehension in Eng¬ 
land to the meaning of the German 
word hiind had an influence on the 
breeding of the type in Great 
Britain, the breeders seeking 
for a hound head rather than 
terrier head and when a class 
was first made for the type at 
the English Bench Shows the 
dogs were catalogued as “Ger¬ 
man badger hounds.” 
The dachshunds were not brought to America 
until about 1870 and it cannot be said even now that 
they are very extensively bred by others than Ger¬ 
mans who find in them something that reminds them 
forcibly of the beloved fatherland. “The German 
Bench Show Standard ” says that in general appear¬ 
ance “ the dogs should he dwarfed, short legged, elon¬ 
gated, but stiff of figure and muscular.” 
more Kennels, Port Allegany, Pa. 
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