Thumbing through the Letters of E.B. White to substantiate the anecdote below, I came across this sketch that he and his wife used for a Christmas card one year (E.B. White went by "Andy"). In his 1950 letter to H.K. Rigg, he wrote:
My advice, if you have a dachshund puppy, is to subscribe to the New York Times, and instead of reading it just distribute it liberally all over the house. In my opinion it is impossible housebreak a puppy three months old...
P.S. That business about stairs is no joke. We have a flight of rather steep stairs in Maine, and Fred [White's other dachshund] nosed over it twice. After that he refused the stairs, and always went around and used the front stairs (which were much flatter) even when he was in a hell of a hurry.
Bruno, this post's for you.
Dachshunds are famous for taking a looooooooong time to housebreak!
But they are so cute, and their messes are so small... we forgive them.
Posted by: Dora Crow | January 06, 2009 at 07:09 PM
I once heard a poem about dachshunds that ended with a line about their unique odor. Unfortunately, I didn't write the reference down and now I can't remember it (I should have told the name of the poem to Hans V, he would have remembered!!). Anyone know the poem I'm talking about--please send me the reference and CAHornung@Louisville.edu
Thanks in advance.
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