It has been over a year and we have spent a lot on the Dachshund History Project website, constantly adding things and we hope everyone is happy with what we are doing.
If anyone has any money to give to the project, please send it to Dawn-Renee Watters and she will put it in our bank account. We are always happy to have a little more monetary help and , as usual, hope we are providing you with the info you are seeking about this great Breed, the Dachshund!!
Since DCA is fast approaching, we thought we would ask if anyone has any old books about Dachshunds or any old Dachshund magazines they would like to donate or loan to TDHP effort.
We would use old pictures on the website and use any info about older breeders as a way of keeping the old dogs and their breeders relevant and known.
If you do have anything for us, please feel free to bring it to DCA in appropriately-marked packages with your names and addresses so we can return them ASAP should you prefer to loan the material.
Many of us from TDHP will be at DCA, so just look us up and give us anything you would like to share with the website. Remember, everything you share will be shared with the rest of the Dachshund Fancy, for the good of our breed.
Sharing and preserving as much information as possible is the reason we started this website! Thank you!
TDHP would like to extend our sympathy to Kim Vidrine and Paula Carter for losing one of the best.
CH Solo’s Premiere SL JE ROMO was lost yesterday. He was born January 3, 2001 and was taken on April 15, 2013. He was a top winner and a top producer and will certainly be missed by all those who share what he gave back to the Breed as produce. he was outstanding.
Again, our sympathy to the owners of CH Solo’s Premiere SL JE ROMO, Kim Vidrine and Paula Carter.
How many of you continue to read the AKC Gazette now that it exists as a purely digital magazine? Did you know that the magazine was still available?
The February 2013 issue, which includes Ann Gordon’s most recent Dachshund column can be found here.
For those who are interested, the digital Gazette can be accessed for free. To read current and past issues back through June 2008 online, go to http://www.akc.org/pubs/gazette/digital_edition.cfm . On that page, you will only see links that go back to January 2011. By opening any issue, however, you can navigate back as far as the June 2008 Gazette via the left hand panel that will show up in the viewer.
If you wan to download Gazette issues to read offline or save for future use, you can do that from http://www.akc.org/pubs/gazette/pdf_edition.cfm . Issues back as far as October 2011 are available there.
Tracy Freeling
In tribute to Miles McElrath, we have a new article on the website. Written in his own words, Miles had a very interesting outlook on the breeding of Dapples, not necessarily what would come to mind initially. He encountered many disappointments and obstacles during his journey; but his perseverance brought him success. Hopefully we will be able to add a few photos in the near future.
https://www.dachshundhistoryonline.com/historic-information/notable-dachshund-people/miles-k-mcelrath-from-rags-to-dappled-dachshunds/
For anyone wanting an up-close reminder of why we have Dachshunds, try to visit the TDHP Group website on Facebook.
It is a great place to hang out and a place we can really discuss the good qualities that we need to bring back here to our current Dachshunds. There are many posts covering so many topics, from mentoring to getting those qualities back into our own dogs.
Please visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/334643526580701/ .
Join if you want to chime into some of the discussions.
As previously highlighted at TDHP, Jean Dieden is the recipient of the 2013 AKC Lifetime Achievement Award in Performance.
Jean and the recipients in conformation and companion events were honored at Friday’s AKC Delegates Meeting Luncheon. The luncheon was held in conjunction with this week’s Eukanuba in Orlando, Florida. The three winners received engraved silver bowls. A larger Tiffany and Company bowl, engraved with the names of all recipients past and present, is on permanent display at the AKC Headquarters in New York City.
AKC’s press release and a photo of the honorees can be found here.
There is a new AKC triple champion (TC) Dachshund!
On November 24th, DC Sharpree’s Imagine That! CD MX MXJ MXB MJB OF JE aka Gee! finished her Master Agility Championship (MACH) at the Calacsieu Kennel Club agility trial in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Gee! is the 8th triple champion Dachshund, the second longhaired Dachshund TC, and the first miniature longhaired Dachshund to attain that distinction. Once we receive AKC confirmation of Gee!’s new titles, we will add her name to our Triple Champions page.
Gee! was bred and owner-handled to all of her titles by Sharon McDonald. Sharon, a retired Naval officer, is widely known to Dachshund fanciers on the west coast and throughout the south. I know her many friends in both regions were as delighted as we here at TDHP were to receive news of Sharon and Gee!’s latest accomplishments. Good job, ladies!
A video of Gee!’s 20th double Q — which clinched her MACH — has been posted to Youtube here.
Tracy Freeling
Congratulations to our own Jean Dieden, DVM! AKC Lifetime Achievement Award Nominee, she has won in the Performance Event Category. Details below:
AKC ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF THE 2013 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
New York, NY — The American Kennel Club® (AKC) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 AKC® Lifetime Achievement Awards: Patricia Craige Trotter (Conformation), Sharon Redmer (Companion Events) and Jean Dieden, DVM (Performance). The three recipients will receive engraved Revere bowls on Friday, December 14, 2012 at the AKC Delegates luncheon held in conjunction with the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship in Orlando, Florida. A sterling silver Tiffany and Co. bowl, engraved with the names of all recipients past and present, is on permanent display at AKC headquarters in New York City.
Jean Dieden, DVM
Performance: Jean Dieden, DVM of Clinton, Washington Jean has been involved in AKC Performance events with her Hathor Farm Wirehaired Dachshunds since 1992. They have earned 12 Field Championships (11 of them Dual) and over 50 “Absolute Winner” awards, including three national specialty trial wins. She has been competing at dog shows, obedience trials and tracking tests for forty years.
She has had three dogs ranked in the DCA annual “Top 20” awards and one (TC M’I Spy of Hathor Farm SW VCD1 RN OA AXJ NAP OJP OF JE) with over 1000 points is among the top 10 lifetime point earners.
Jean has served on the DCA’s Trial Advisory Committee/Performance Events Committee for ten years, the last seven serving as chairman. This committee has been responsible for several successful AKC rule and procedural change proposals also adopted by the other hound events.
Dr. Dieden started in AKC Earthdog at its inception. Her dogs have earned over 300 qualifying scores, including 160 Master tests. She has held over eighty tests at her home, Hathor Farm on Whidbey Island. A founding officer of the Puget Sound Earthdog Club and longtime president of the Cascade Dachshund Club she is credited for gaining CDC’s licensing status for Dachshund Field Trials and Earthdog Tests.
Dr. Dieden has enjoyed being a field trial judge for 12 years and an Earthdog judge for 16 years, enjoying judging throughout the country, including eleven classes at DCA national events.
Congratulations to CH GrandGables Wee Mr Red Thorn ROMX, bred and owned by Guy Jeavons and Mark Houston-McMillan! He is now the All Time Top Producing MS Sire with 28 Champions!