hot dog!

i am a fan of dachshunds

which is funny for me because i don't usually like little dogs
i am certainly not a fan of their short legs, or the fact that breeders have willfully created chronic health conditions by their inordinately long backs
i do love their special jauntiness, and crucially

i love that they can be held under your arm like a fendi clutch purse

there are lots of things to do with dachshunds!

you can draw one!

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and read about them

or use them to hold up your books,

you can blog about them, the long and the short of it

(very amusing and lots of wonderful pictures)

satirise them

(poor old sausage)

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and wear them (not really, of course)

finally, of course, you can be utterly devoted to them, which brings me to my favourite dachsund story - picasso & lump years ago, i read an article (i believe it was in reader's digest!) about picasso and a dachshund he came to love, called lump there were lots of photostaken by photographer david douglas duncan. in fact, lump was duncan's dog until picasso fell in love with lump.

a book based on all these photos has been published recently

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you can all read about picasso and lump in this nytimes article, or this nicely put together blog)

my favourite photo was picasso presenting a plate he had painted especially for lump ("pour lump") to lump. lump seemed to like it.

one more thing to do with dachshunds, which happens to be what started me remembering my soft spot for dachs, dachshund u.n. an installation in the melbourne museum, put together by perth artist bennett miller