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Some of the adventures of three dachshunds (and their people) in Oregon. Killer dachshund on the loose up ahead!
Brand New for November 2002
Come see my newest web page online with a dozen new
photographs of my travels in Israel. There may not be any dachshunds visible, but I think you might find the photos and the text of my time in Jerusalem and in other places of interest. Check it out at Israel Travel Photographs
Innocent little dachshunds, huh? They look so cute and harmless. Here are our two oldest doxies: Wotan on the left and Shakti on the right. Wotan is a smooth red mini who loves to chase a ball all day, and Shakti is a longhaired female who loves heights and eating pig ears.
Here I am on an Oregon beach holding Wotan while Shakti and the youngest (our adopted dappled dachsie Gaudi) sniffs the sand. All seems at peace.
Oregon dune country.
I'm shown holding our #1 boy Wotan. Wotan is the name of the chief Norse God -- a fearless warrior -- and that is what Wotan believes he is.
Gaudi is our newest doxie. We saw a flyer asking for someone to adopt him last year when we were up in the San Juan islands. He is a dappled dachshund and about 3 years old. Although he is strange in appearance (his body is shaped like a football and reminds us of an opossum), he is very clever and loving. He is shown here gutting a stuffed toy. He only kills toys ... unlike our other two
dachshunds.
Shakti dachsie and my husband Joe on a clifftop at the southern Oregon coast in autumn. The beach you see below is really great. Nobody else was around the three times we have been there; the only way to get to it is a 2- mile, one-way hike from an obscure parking area. Untouched black sand, high waves, lots of seals in the water and big craggy rocks on the beach. It has a very wild feeling which I loved.
After a long hot hike over the Oregon dunes this summer, Joe tossed the 3 wiener dogs into the ocean to cool off. As soon as they got out of the cold water they rolled and rolled in the sand. Joe shows off the results of this with Gaudi.
And here is how Joe would look in the above picture if it were all "gooed".
Ms. Shakti is an odd dachshund. She loves heights and is always doing things like sitting on her cat window seat or walking on the piano keyboard. Often when outside she walks on the high retaining wall in our backyard.
In her next life she wants to be a tightrope walker.
Wotan is a doxie who lives to hunt. All evening long, every day, he is chasing his high-bouncing rubber balls for practice. As he sat listening for hours at the heating vent, his actions told us that we had an animal visitor in our crawlspace. (Warning...if you don't want to see a photo of a dead rat skip the next picture here... although there is no blood shown).
Wotan's natural dachshund hunting skills (and his hours of practice) paid off in yet another killing. After listening at the vent for weeks, he finally got outside fast enough to terminate this unlucky rat. Immediately he was off searching for new prey while Shakti watched as Joe put the newly deceased rodent in the garbage.
And now for something completely different..... Below are a couple of photographs of the dachshunds' people:
Here is a photograph of my husband Joe (the Israeli born flute player) and me on the deck of a B&B in Lincoln City,Oregon. As you might have guessed from the photos here and on my other web pages, we take frequent trips to the Oregon coast.
This photo of me was taken at Cape Ferrello, near Brookings on the Oregon coast. We sat there for hours and watched the sunset. A few years ago, we sat on the same spot in the *pouring* rain with heavy winds blowing just to watch the huge waves crash on the rocks below (wearing full rain gear)... that was very exciting! So this place is important to me and I have been there quite a few times. Behind me is the coast reaching into California (about 8 miles away).
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New recently!!
Please come by and see my new dachshund page as of August 2002. See wiener dogs hiking at the Pacific ocean, terrorizing small lobsters and plaster deer, moving their home and murdering rats (ugh!). All this and more at
Dachshunds Rule!
Want to take a trip back in time to when Wotan and Shakti were young puppies? Then stop by and see the web page I made in the Spring of 2002.
There are quite a few cute portraits
and action photos of them as dachshund puppies. The text tells of how we got the names Wotan and Shakti, what they mean and also talks about the defect Wotan was born with (which hasn't held him back in his life). Please stop by and see it at Dachshund Puppies: Wotan and Shakti
See a number of German dachshunds we met on our trip in 2001 as well as new action photos of our own Wotan, Shakti & Gaudi. Come see Wotan with a yogurt container stuck on his head...that's a sight that will certain amaze and dazzle you:) Adventures with Dachshunds
I have recreated some of my dachshund pages that were on NBCi now and put them back online on AOL. Come and check them out!
Stop by and see 21st Century Dachshunds View a number of action photographs of our dachshunds in very large rabbit burrows. Also see 3 doxies face off in a challenge against 3 swans as well as other humorous photos.
See dachshunds licking horses, sleeping on plants, protecting humans from ferry boats and more at 10 Funny Dachshund Photos
Also take a look at the first web page I did all on one theme and that tells a little story. I think the captions I came up with for this one are more creative too. Come by and see it at: Wiener Dog Takes the Money and Runs
>Wiener dogs stare down Great Danes, get stuck in logs and blender jars, rips apart enormous carpets, swim in large ponds, hike on the edges of cliffs, help sift compost, and eat lots of pig ears. All that and more can be seen in action photographs at the page Dashing Dachshunds.
Come by and see my very first HTML code "hand-made" web page and the subject is...dachshunds of course! This was my first page with animated graphics, and is also my first dachshund page with lots of text...stories of some of the funny antics our three dachshunds have been involved in. You can also see many photos of Gaudi, our adopted doxie, as well as more of Wotan and Shakti. It's all here at:Dachshund Stories and Photos It's NOT about dachshunds....it's an inspiring page of poems about nature. You can find it at Well Known Nature Poems
I've traveled extensively in my life. If you are interested in seeing some of the places I have been to, stop by and see personal photos of some of my foreign travels. A handful of photographs from many of my/our trips to Europe are shown at this web page: Europe Travel Photos
Here's another page of travel photographs I used to have online at NBCi/xoom (ggggrrrrrrr to them Wotan says) which I just got back online after extensive additional work....it shows photos of some of my Asian trips. Photographs of Asian travels
Stop by to see my web page with over 20 large photographs and detailed text covering part of our almost month long trip to Europe in May of 2001. Come see it at Germany and Belgium 2001 OTHER LINKS:
See dachshunds in cages on ferry boats, doxies stuck in the slats of chairs sleeping comfortably, and dachshunds "going wormakin". Come see it all at Wonder Wiener Dogs of Washington.
Dachshund Club of America articles
DACHSHUNDS FAQ
TRAVELDOG
Wiener Dog Art
Travel Guide to Oregon
Oregon City Links