Miniature Dachshunds | Chloe | Odie | Molly

We’ve had mixed results using housebreaking pads for Dachshunds. They worked very well for Chloe, but Odie and Molly thought the pads were toys and promptly chewed them up.
The best thing to do is to tape the pads down with masking tape. This helps prevent your Dacshund from playing with the pads.
The best […]

It was a strange day yesterday. It started of with Odie marking his territory on top of cat poop — cat poop that our absent minded cat left on the carpet in the library area.
Usually, one of the Dachshunds will eat the evidence surely protecting the evil cat, but this time the […]

Dachshunds are very resilient dogs. I’m reminded of this every time Odie lifts his hind leg to pee. Something so common to a male dog brings tears to my eyes only thinking that 7 months ago Odie was paralyzed and could not walk.
The three-legged stance is a testimony to his courage, strength and recovery from […]

I was talking to Pete today (Arfie’s daddy) and he said that Arfie is not potty trained. I don’t know what it is about Miniature Dachshunds, but it they seem to take forever to get potty trained. Just when you think they’re trained, they pee behind your back.
I don’t know how many bottles […]

Excuse the pun, but it’s raining cats and dogs here in Thousand Oaks today. I expect it will continue well into the New Year. Odie and Molly refusing to go potty is making it difficult for all of us.
I don’t know why these two don’t like the rain and I usually get wet […]

Yesterday, we took our Miniature Daschund Odie to see his Surgeon, Dr. Ian G. Holsworth for his three-month and final “after surgery” checkup. Odie, like all dogs like to “ride” and he was very happy to get into the car, but as soon as we got onto the freeway, Odie knew that we weren’t […]

I’ve been so busy the past two months working with Odie that I forgot to post a picture of Pete’s Short Haired Miniture Dachshund. “Arfie” looks just like Odie when he was about the same age (~9 months old).
Arfie just got neutered last week and Pete has been trying to keep him inactive so […]

Odie is learning how to walk and I am learning how to walk him. The belly swing is used to help relieve pressure on his spine and to give him extra balance. With male dogs you need to make sure that it doesn’t cover his wiener. Unfortunately, this is exactly what happened […]

Odie is in the house! Welcome home! After one week of surgery, the surgeon, Dr. Holsworth, lets us take Odie home for rest and recuperation. Odie will need about 8 weeks of recuperation before he has completely recovered from surgery.
Molly will have to give up her 4×4-exercise pen for Odie. […]

Odie is recovering nicely from his ruptured disk injury. We went to the hospital to visit him and I was expecting him still caged with a catheter. He was able to pee and poop on his own so they brought him out to an examination/visitor’s room for us to see him. He was […]