This blog is all about our 4 weinerdogs: Daisy, Lily, Lacy and the newest addition, Homer. Lily is the oldest, the dumbest, and the sweetest. She’s a chocolate and caramel long haired mini, prissy and proper with a prodigious goofy streak I keep trying to capture and put on YouTube. Daisy is the next one, a standard black-and-tan, lazy, grumpy and nearsighted. She’s also my favorite. Lacy is a brilliant long haired mini, black and tan, and capable of running a small 3rd world country or a major corporation. She also thinks she’s still a puppy,even though she’s nearly 6 years old. Homer is our most recent addition, a red wirehaired mini, and the only male in the bunch. He’s Terry’s Shop Buddy and will accompany him to work.
So why weinerdogs? Why not, say, Westies or bichon frises or a pack of toy poodles? WHY WEINERDOGS?
Let me tell you why…
They’re smart (well, other than Lily), and they don’t know they’re small. They’re BIG DOGS in small packages. They’re affectionate without being cloying sycophants. They aren’t irritatingly needy, and properly handled, they don’t yap. Sure, they’ll bark when they tree a squirrel, but that’s because they’re hounds. They’re protective of their territory, and properly handled, they sleep 20 hours a day.
They have big brown eyes and are surprisingly telekinetic. I mean it. You sit there eating nachos and tell me one of them doesn’t lift off your plate and into their mouths. Tell me even if you can resist, that you don’t feel the tug on them.
They have a powerful sense of shame. Oh, it won’t stop them from getting cookies out of the litter box, or pooping in the corner if it’s raining (they do not like rain), but they’ll avoid you and hang their heads and not look you in the face afterwards. On the other side of that coin, if you do something to offend them, they’ll totally get back at you somehow. They have a very strong sense of justice, as they define it.
Anyway, dachshunds, weinerdogs, sausage dogs, earthhounds, badgerhounds…whatever you call them, they’re great companions and a source of affection, entertainment and …dietary restraint.
