Still letting her adjust to the house and household right now, all is good, and hope to start blood trail training later this week...
Scar.
Lost my best friend a few weeks ago after 14 years of loyal friendship and pointing birds. Every time I see or hear about somebody getting a new puppy I get that 'Smile and a Tear' thing going at the same time. I see a lot of fun and blood trails in your future, enjoy each other!
During my Yeager training while stationed in Germany I learned Dach is the European Badger- smaller than NA variety. 'Badger dogs' are used to chase them out of their dens. If they are anywhere near as tough as the NA Badger when confronted- a dog has got to be tough to do that.
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Interesting history- glad my memory of info from 30 + years in intact. ;) http://www.true-teckels.com/history.html
Yeah Buffalo1, she's got some big feet...8^)
Am told both parents are around 20 pounds as adults, so she is not going to be a miniature by any means...
Charlie - Been a dog man all my life, but this is my first blood trailer to be, I'll take all the good training information I can get... Got a email or contact for "Clutch"... Don't remember that handle... My email is: [email protected]... Thanks
Thing is though, been laid off since February and was looking forward to spending a lot of time training her but just today secured a new job and start Wednesday... Go figure... I'll still make the time training her though...
Thanks again folks, will post progress...
This here is Master Seargent Buster K. Brown ( K is for Killer ) He's a natural blood trailer too.
She will be awesome!
I got a German Jagd Terrier back in September, she found 14 deer last fall, and i have been hammering obedience this summer - she is doing great and i expect her to do very well this fall / winter.
Mark
She’s a smart cookie with a heck of a nose… She knows her name and is now blood trailing out to 75 paces in different terrain such as dirt short grass, high weeds, etc. with slight turns and angles, although I haven’t done a sharp 90 degree on her yet but am sure she’d figure it out and I know she can trail much further… It seems natural to her… Am impressed… Years ago I tried blood trail training one of my lap dogs as a pup, but was a waste of time, they had no drive such as this pup… Bloodlines are amazing; this pup has it…
She’s had a big week so far with the Vet check and got microchipped…
The week of the 4th, the neighborhood fire crackers seem to get her attention and didn’t like them, so thought I try to nip gun shyness in the bud before it appeared, so I took her to the trap range Friday and as I pulled up they were shooting 50-60 yards or so away… The gunfire got her attention while in the car, and eventually I slowly started working toward the trap line… She was a big hit with the spectators, and by the time we left she was socializing with all the strangers and romping around just a few yards behind the trap shooting line guns a blazing… The gunfire didn’t bother her… She did great and is doing great…
Elsa is now 6-years old and weighs around 20 pounds depending on the day... Had her to the vet last week and she weighed in at 19.2 pounds but I've had her on scales at 22 pounds, but her fighting weight is right around 20 pounds... She is such a sweetheart and great dog with a strong prey drive... I've never had her bred but am now looking for stud dog for a spring breeding... Black and tan, smooth coat standard male Dachshund/Teckels from European working dog bloodlines are hard to come by... There are so few of them over here with European conformation in which they are bred to be built to hunt are slight longer legged with a slightly shorter backs than the American conformation... I'm staying away from wire hairs (there are a few of them out there) and longhairs am looking for a black and tan or chocolate and tan smooth hair... The American show dachshund is too long, too low and too heavy to be of much use in the fields and forests for any amount of time. I'm trying now to start networking with the field trailers for contact of stud dogs, so thought I'd also post here in case somebody might know of one...
If so please send me a PM or email me: [email protected]...
Thanks for any info...
Good looking pup!
She is such a socialite and likes everybody she meets and they all luv her back, yet hell on critters though...8^)
She is such a party animal...8^)
She has a bucket full of toys at home and never plays with them, but take her to the 4th of July party at the in-laws, what's she do, steal one of the dog's toy and wouldn't let it down... Go figure...8^)
Dang drycreek - I can tell just by looking at that little dude he's a handful of tornados...8^)
Research over, I had a meet and greet Saturday with the nice young lady owner of the potential mate for Elsa... This is Simon from hunting stock with a great pedigree, field champions everywhere, even his sire and dame are field champions...
What youenz think?
Cool Sam, great to hear, thanks for sharing...
You have a good looking pup there and looks like he's doing great!
I assume he is one of the pups in the photo from the litter you posted a while back? I remember conversing with you at the time...
Curious Sam, do you field trial? I've never been to a Dachshund/Teckel field trial but plan on attending one this year.
Am not counting my chickens before they hatch, but hoping for a successful mating come around May...
He is a bit bigger than her and hope it'll happen naturally without using a reproduction veterinarian
If successful, just hope she'll throw a female pup I can keep...
"nothing could have ever prepared me for how attached I got to those little buggers when we had our litter"
Yeah, it's rough... Have whelped 12 litters of other breeds through years and know the emotions of letting them go... It's tough,,, but what was tougher was I had a female Morkie-Poo lapdog in which I was there at her conception and her birth and personally doc her tail and removed her dew claws when she was just minutes old and after 12 years I was holding her in my arms when the vet had to put her down last year... Talk about a tear jerker...8^(((
I actually had amazing success field trialing, I had a wire hair male “Argos” that won absolute at his first field trial, my wife then about a year later ran him over in our side by side, that nearly ended in divorce. I haven’t field trialed Vanna yet because I don’t have her AKC registration, her Russian site “Vadim” is such a recent immigrant that shortly after he arrived on US soil the Ukrainian, Russian war broke out and the AKC in their infinant wisdom put a moratorium on Russian dogs. I have no doubt she also would win the title of absolute at her first FT.
Can't even imagine the red tape and paper work trying to immigrate a dog from a foreign country with a foreign dog registration trying to get AKC to register it....
If I remember right your litter was from a red male and black and tan female with Russian bloodlines?
"AKC Dachshund Field trialing is a different animal"
In these AKC field trials I understand the earthdog events, but the tracking events on their website are confusing because it seems Dachshunds are tracking/trailing rabbits, and not blood tracking/trailing: "In Dachshund field trials braces of dogs are put on the scent line of a rabbit or hare and judged on the quality of their work on the scent line."
I've raised and run beagles as a kid so understand that, but are there strictly blood trailing events at these AKC field trials or are the blood trailing events outside the the realm of the AKC and unaffiliated? Don't want to travel a couple hundred miles to a field trial just to learn they are just running rabbits...
Why I asked is I also see on their website: "Tracking Events TR/TX/VST/TDU", whatever those mean, can only assume "TR/TX" is track and trail or visa versa, but their website really doesn't explain what scent are they tracking , human scent for like search and rescue, or maybe bird or small game scent, or is this where the AKC blood tracking/trailing may come in?
Then there is this organization: https://www.unitedbloodtrackers.org/upcoming-events/ which seems only blood trailing but nothing close to me, and assume they haven't any association with AKC?
Forgive me I'm a little ignorant on this field trial stuff, the only time I was ever at a field trial was a retriever trial back in the day when a buddy and I were gunners... That was fun though, we actually shot a bunch of live ducks out of the air...8^)
Thanks for any info for those in the know...
Like you found, UBT’rs is where you get different levels of certification on actual mock blood trails. While it is a good organization and I wholeheartedly support what they are doing I also have never participated as they seem to never be near me.
My wife has done the earth dog a few times with our bitch, they both really enjoy it. I’m on board with pretty much anything that stimulates prey drive in the dog.
Was also looking into the German Versatility Test for Dachshunds, (DTK VSwP blood track testing) but can't find any events in U.S. for 2024 yet from the North American Teckel Club (NATC) website since it has not been updated...
"look up Yury Yury on FB and YouTube" - I will do so sir... I appreciate the info...
