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Originally Posted by Sooner or later

My dachshund, Mia, is smart as they get.

"Wanna go to school". She plops her ass down knowing I will get down on the floor for practice. Sit, lay down, beg, roll over, dead dog, and shake hands.

Hide and seek from the other thread.

"Where's bear?" She knows it is fetch time and will find the small teddy bear wherever it is. Rarely do I have to suggest the game. She will grab him on her own and growl and bark at me until I get up to play.

"Big jump" and my point to a chair and up she goes.

She loves to lick. Lick, like, lick until my face is covered in slobber and I tell her "enough". Once I let her lick until she stopped on her own. I counted. Over a 1000 licks. Honest.

She hates "touch nose" The goal is for me to touch my nose to hers and look eye to eye without her licking me. When I give the "touch nose" command she turns her head away.

She can be hard headed as they get. If she won't come in from outside I just yell "wanna eat" and she comes a runnin' from wherever she is.

She is a great dog.

We've got a dachshund. My sister in law showed them and at one point had 11. When she divorced, the money to spend dried up and she thinned the heard. We got one, eventually my mom got his brother, and my wife's mom has one.

They are smart, but can also be willful. My understanding is that because they were supposed to be hunting dogs, they are smart, but also willful so they can go do what needs to be done without having to be told every thing.

Ours is a long-haired double-dapple (Merle) mini (11#). He's smart, but also beautiful. People stop when they are driving past if we are out walking him to tell us how pretty he is or ask about him.

You may know about this, but just in case...

Be careful with the "big jump." Dachshunds have issues with their backs, both the disks and bones. Jumping up/down and even going up/down stairs can cause problems. Ours had an issue coming down the stairs when he was young and required back surgery. I've known of several others that had issues, and if you ever look at any dachshund rescue outfits, you'll probably see that most of them have back issues and are partially paralyzed.