Dachshund Decisions Are Not Easy
Choosing a dachshund puppy can be quite challenging. Your best bet is to check out several reputable breeders, visit each one and get a chance to see the puppies and their parents in person. That “may” give you an idea of the personality of dog you will be adopting. Trouble is, choosing a puppy is a lot like choosing a mate. We get so overwhelmed with the beauty of the outside we can’t think logically.
After Zoey was lost to us there was such a palpable grief over the entire family it was nearly impossible to think clearly about choosing another puppy. The primary concern was getting one quickly to help salve the pain of our loss. While we are quite happy with our decision the truth is we were quite lucky. We chatted online and over the phone with a few breeders and narrowed our decision to two pups; Mikkey and Snickerdoodle. Both breeders were very helpful and seemed very committed to the proper placement of their puppies but when you are dealing with people over a long distance you just never know.
If you’ve even glanced at this site you know we chose Mikkey. In truth there was much discussion about that choice. Weasel was inclined to get another black and tan like Zoey but Beautiful and the children were enamoured with Mikkey. As is stated elsewhere on this site, when your nickname is Beautiful a lot of things go your way and so our Norwegian badger hound was headed out to the Northwest. A note to breeders - I’m sure we wouldn’t have kept the name snickerdoodle. If you want to have a puppy adopted by a good family try coming up with less corny names. We looked through hundreds of puppy descriptions and some of the names were appallling or “bust a gut” funny. (In truth we probably wouldn’t have chosen Mikkey as a name on our own but it wasn’t horrible and so we kept it.)
Above you can see one of the pictures for each pup we were looking at when we made our decision. As I said above, the outside appearnace may not mean much when picking a pet, but, which would you have chosen?
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