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Stories of Dachshund Breeding

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Today (2016) in her proud 93rd year, a dignified lady lives in Dutch Gelderland in a former servants’ house. She looks back on a long, fulfilling life accompanied by many dachshunds.
Not only Emil Ilgner, one of the two founders of the “Teckel-Klub”, from which today’s “Deutscher Teckelklub von 1888 e.V.” was to emerge, and its first president at short notice, had difficulties in presenting something like a stringent history of the Dachshund in his book “Der Dachshund”, published in 1896, and even today some recourse to the ancient Egyptians or…
Some time ago, when I was finally able to buy the original edition of “Der Dachshund” by Emil Ilgner (published by J. Neumann, 1896), I paused immediately at the third illustration of a dachshund of that time on page 10, because of the caption read “Schlaula – Reinecke (black with rusty brown) owner R. Benda, Biesenthal”.

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