It takes them some time to get used to someone new and they don't like the process.

Chihuahuas have no sense of scale. They have no idea they're ridiculous little dogs. They have the courage of lions.

The problem with pits and rotties is the amount of damage they do when they do become provoked enough to bite.

I have a Shepherd-Chihuahua mix (yes, I sent in the cheek swab DNA thing for this "free to good home" temporary pet we've had for the last 14 years), and while she looks like a small shepherd with skinny paws and kind of buggy eyes, she thinks she is a much smaller dog than she is. She always wants to play with little dogs and is completely aloof to larger ones.

She was just getting really good at listening to me before she started to go deaf.

Do you have a pic?

He's super loving to people unless you get between him, his toys, or his food.
He challenges my Viszla to fights quite a bit. Luckily the 65# Viszla is too old to care much anymore.

If my Husky mix were to attack, I doubt I would win that fight.

Perpetual motion maniac, until the inevitable disc injury.

Because it's not.

They may have the motive, but they don't have the means.

A lot of people rail about "breed history" when they want to march around popping a bullet into the braincase of every large dog they can.

Know what the breed history of the dachshund is?

The dachshund is a breed of dog bred and designed to go after this motherfucker:

To chase said motherfucker into the motherfucker's own den... and kill that motherfucker.

With its mouth.

Now, I don't know about you but I've never dived headfirst into a badger hole in an insane attempt to chew it to death, I'll bet it requires a certain level of genetic-based crazy that may have steadily been weeded out of the human gene pool (probably by badgers.)

Have you ever been rammed by a dachshund that is happy to see you? don't underestimate forty pounds of muscle with a low center of gravity that aims for the knees. All you can do is run, and hope your lifetime of indulging in butterfinger ice cream doesn't give the hound an advantage. They are the scud missiles of the dog world, my friend.

And remember, this one is happy to see you.

The angry one thinks you're a badger.

The job of the dachshund wasn't to chase the badger into its den and kill it. It was to flush the badger (or rabbit) out of the den and corner it so the hunter could kill it.

one is a lab/dachshund mix - she has the coloring of a chocolate lab, but is long and low to the ground with short legs. And I have what appears to be a beagle/dachshund mix. Beagle coloring, long and low to the ground.

They are wonderful dogs.

barky and full of themselves, but not biters.

1) Woody Allen: The Dog. This poor animal is just a neurotic wreck that constantly looks as though it expects anvils to startdropping on it. Presumably these individuals are the members of the breed that realize that everyone calls them "weiner dogs."

2) FUCKYOURSHITI'MGONNAEATEVERYTHINGBELOWTHEHIPS!. This dachshund isbasically Charlie Manson, with funny ears. Except it doesn't think its ears are funny. In fact it doesn't think ANYTHING is funny. Even the screams of pain it causes fail to amuse it, instead only irritating it further. If Woody Allen: The Dog lives past the age of ten, it finally uses up its lifetime amount of fucks to be given, and becomes this monstrosity. Thankfully, rarely travels far from the food bowl. But you can't get anywhere near that food bowl.

This is funny as hell.

strangers, and yeah, they can be somewhat neurotic. I had one who would get a sudden bristly stripe of stand-up hair along his back when he spotted an object in the house that he felt was out-of-place or otherwise disturbing: a feather duster, a friend's backpack on the floor, an air-filtration appliance. Easily freaked-out.

I mean, they just don't have any damns to give.

One of my dachshunds attacked a dog four times her size for 'trespassing' on her territory. The larger dog was so surprised, he slunk off back to his own yard.

so they can have a bit of spunk in them.

and dare cars to come down the street.

are just really big badgers

On a long incomplete or a field goal it's not a pretty sight when they touch down.

I believe the league rules allow use of a Pomeranian.

it's not like a pomeranian is worth a fuck for anything else, after all.

Maybe use as a dry mop.

Where do you think Pom Poms come from?

Research has shown that pit bull bites are much more likely to put people in the E.R.

I think we really need to consider, though, that even if pit bulls are more harmful to adults, these "weiner dogs" are marketed to children, and might be bringing more of them in contact with biting dogs generally... which can lead them to try pit bulls sooner or later.

Any word about the flavors?


How many times have you seen this at a children's party:



And they use cartoons to convince kids that dachsunds are "cool" or "grown up":

Still laughing.

the virus or the parasite is what kills.

Luckily he's gotten better about his greetings at the front door but he is very protective.

My family all own them. The best one is the baby my parents got here when visiting me. I have 4 Chihuahuas and only the baby is somewhat aggressive, but usually when you startle her while she is sleeping. But, I am the same way! The male barks in a deep "woof" which is funny as hell, to tell people it is HIS house. The older female can't be bothered with new people and walks away. Her half-sister would go home with an ax murderer if he showed her positive attention. Four dogs, four very different personalities.

They even get sick differently. The male, Voodoo, turns into a big baby and has to be coddled. The older female, Laveau, doesn't want to be touched. They are funny little critters and make us quite happy. They are spoiled rotten, which I know is wrong. The baby puts her tags in her mouth when I come home/downstairs after a nap and "twerks". It is a hoot.

My brother's dachshund attacked two of my chis when we were visiting, and for absolutely no reason, at least not one we could ascertain. So the study doesn't surprise me. I also know that people let chis get away with all kinds of anti-social behavior because it is "cute." We have let some things slide, but they know I am the Alpha and what I say goes. My partner, bless his heart, is a member of the pack.

always pissed off and angry about something.

Dachshunds and Chihuahaus were the most temperamental. I saw a coworker of mine get bit by a Dachshund, he bled for a good 10 minutes lol.

On the other hand, dogs that some people believe are all so aggressive and mean were the complete opposite in my experience.

there. It NEVER fails to bark if the woman has her door open so she
can see out the glass storm door. Never. And if she has it
out on a tether it will ALWAYS run to charge my 40 lb dog as
we go by. There are lots of dogs/walkers in the neighborhood
and nobody likes that dog.

They are my favorite breed because of their personalities

All 3 are so different it's beyond funny

Scooter is the brave alpha male. He protects his 2 sisters by hop barking. He has the funniest bark of any dog I know. He also knows how to bark at a squirrel and hawk - no fear. The hawk doesn't like our house now. Then there is the varmit he killed. We had a field mouse in the yard. Scooter saw it and shook it. It dies instantly with no blood. I couldn't believe how fast he was.

Then there's Sable. She's the queen B in my house. She sits by the front door and makes sure the kids who walk by know she is the Queen. Everyone laughs at her. They have no idea really. We had a big dog come into our yard. It was a calm Lab Mix, but it was in her yard. She chased and barked at him until he left. She didn't attack him - just barked him away. Her piercing bark hurts our ears, but we know she means business!!

And then there is my baby - Jasmine. She is afraid of everything. The only time she barks is to show how scared she is. But she has the deepest bark of any of the 3. She hides whenever she can, but because she's a dachshund I can always find her long body.

Every dog can be bad based upon the owners and how they are raised. My dogs bark aggressively, but have never bitten anyone. They've never even thought of hurting a child. They love my nieces and nephews. But guess what - they are animals. They like to go after other animals. They are protective and want to make you safe. And guess what I feel safe everyday because of those 3 little guys!!

They are great little characters and the best snugglers around.

she'd cross the street just to meet people.......only female we ever had out of 5 wieners. Miss her terribly.

Pit bull defenders seem very inconsistent on this point. There is at least one poster here who routinely throws around the term "genocide" in these discussions and claims that breeds of dog are equivalent to races of humanity and therefore it is bigoted to judge a breed's characteristics. And yet that same poster (and others) argue that pit bulls are really an exceptional breed (or type or whatever) and it's the dachshunds and chihuahuas who are the the true aggressive dogs. I wonder why there seems to be this discrepancy?

n/t

-Laelth

Just call them doxies so you won't say it wrong

All dogs bite end of story, it's just some dogs when they bite can kill while others just leave a little red mark.

Bigger dogs usually are not nasty unless some deliberately trains them that way. Many of the little yappy dogs seem to have been born with a nasty attitude.

I'll vote for Border Collie (mix). Sticking with what I've got. Got an agility trial to go to this weekend so it's a good choice.

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Edit to add herding breeds are absolutely sweetness with fur IMO.

If anyone even tries to walk into my front door, my Chihuahua is all over that person. It is definitely true that Chihuahuas are ankle biters.

I have had 2 Rottweilers and 2 pit bulls and none of them were aggressive. One of the Rotties and one of the pits were only aggressive toward cats and never people.

I believe it's correct that dachshunds are among the most aggressive dogs, and many of the more dangerous breeds are actually less likely to attack you.

But what makes a dog dangerous is not just how likely it is to attack you, it's how much damage that attack is likely to inflict - even though there are probably fewer attacks by pit bulls than by dachshunds, they kill many more people.

Alexandra Semyonova, who wrote The 100 Silliest Things People Say About Dogs:

One of the cutesy favorites is to point out that chihuahuas bite too. Aside from the fact that this ignores the difference between a bite and an all-out attack, the issue here is the ability of a breed really to kill a human or another dog by directed attack. I've never understood why people who bring chihuahuas (or dachshunds) into the discussion expect to be taken seriously ever again.

However, if you are looking for a breed that can and will kill a human being, most likely a daschund is not the breed for that.