Dachshunds are very good hunting dogs. They are used for badgers, foxes, fallow deer and roe deers.

Modern dachshunds are characterized by their crooked legs, loose skin, and barrel-like chest, attributes that were deliberately added to the breed to increase their ability to burrow into tight spaces. Dachshunds come in three coat varieties – smooth or short-haired, long-haired, and wire-haired. The wire-haired variety is generally shorter in spine length than the other two.

A full grown dachshund averages 16 to 28 pounds.(7 to 12.7 kg), while the Miniature variety typically weighs less than 11 lb. (5 kg). As early as the 1990s, owners’ use of a third weight class became common, the “tweenie,” which included those dachshunds that fell in between full and miniature, ranging from 10 to 15 lb. (4.5 to 6.75 kg).

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