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A dachshund is half a dog high and two dogs long, so they are built right for attacking animals that live in holes.
I have also read about their being used for turning spits on which large roasts were being cooked. Not sure what the rig looked like, or what the incentive was to have the dachshund cooperate, yet keep it from eating more than its share.
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Hmm. . .you guys seem to think I'm an expert on German. Yeah, I live near a city originally settled by Germans, but I've only taken up to German 3 in high school.  As far as I know, Dachshund translates literally as "roof dog", which makes absolutely no sense. "Dach" means roof and "Hund" means dog. A couple side notes about Germans in Cincinnati. -The Cinci Oktoberfest is the largest outside of Germany -There were once several beer companies in Cinci, but because they were able to make enough money just from local business none of them expanded and most of them went down when that darn Milwaukee company expanded. -In the 1930s they built a subway system, but eventually ran out of money, it being the Depression and all. Now we have empty subway tunnels under the streets of Cincinnati because they've never found in necessary since for Cinci to have a subway system.
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According to the OED, dachshund means literally badger-dog in German. I've never heard anything about their being roof dogs. The ones with cleft palates don't survive to adulthood, so all dachshunds say woof instead of roof.
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Goodness, y'all need to go back to the beginning of this thread. N.B.: the neuter gender noun Dach plural Dächer means "roof'; the masculine noun Dachs plural Dachse means "badger" and Dachshund means "badger dog." Any German-English dictionary will tell you this.
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But I lost my Muret-Sanders fifty years ago.
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Lost your Muret-Sanders?
Are there no Heaths? Are there no Cassels? I use a Heaths which is at least 50 years old (I bought it second-hand). The German section is printed in Fraktur type, which is what I learned to read in German I back in the 50's.
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There was a woman who bred Dachshunds in a nearby town and on the sign for her kennel she had the words :
Dachshunds - get a long little doggie.
For those unfamiliar with the song it's a cowboy ditty
"Get along, little doggie" In cowboy lingo a doggie is a calf and the song told of a cattle drive.
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Here dachshunds are often referred to as sausage dogs, but I think they're just stringing us along. If you have one that goes "woof" then I think you're warped. 
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...a doggie is a calf...(wow)
A dogie, dogy, or dogey is a calf without a mother, according to my Encarta World English Dictionary.
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RighteeO Jeffrey, I was using the doggerel lyric in the old song, sung about a trail drive, "Get along little dogie, get along, get along ..."
I will note the correct spelling for future .
Thanks
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