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It's traditional in the U.S. to pause and give thanks in November.

Ever Wonder Where Dachshunds Came From? There's a lot of disagreement about the origins of dog breeds, with recent research suggesting that many of the breeds we are familiar with today being much more recent than we have been led to believe.

Casper T. Armstrong: A Short Tale about a Long (Deaf and Blind) Dachshund

A year ago this month, we gave you a direct-from-the-set report on a movie called Wiener Dog Nationals, then being shot in California. We can now report that the movie has been released on DVD!

Sammy's back!

A guy walks into a bar. Now hold that thought and image for a minute. This is the webmaster speaking, taking over the main page of this site for the month. When Dachshund Delights management realized that this story would be a review of a book by a self-admitted grim-visaged, cranky curmudgeon, they assigned it to a noted expert in the field of unsmiling curmudgeonly crankiness. That would be me, and damnably proud of it.

We generally try to stay up-to-the-minute in bringing you dachshund-related literature, but here's one that was published in August of 2011, nearly two years ago, and that, as befits a book about a short-legged dog, flew under our radar.

Yin and yang. Balance in the universe. Doesn't it make sense that if you have one dog with only one hind leg, who balances on his front legs when he eats, that you should have a dog born without front legs, just to even things up? Our good friend and Northeast Ohio neighbor, Pat Holcomb, thinks so. And those two are only part of her pack.

Last month, dachshunds in need of rescue and fostering in Indiana lost one of the best friends they have ever had. Helen LaBuda, Indiana representative for MidWest Dachshund Rescue lost her battle with lymphoma at far too young an age.

My journey in life would never be what it is had it not been, nor would this book have come to life, had it not been for my wheelie dog, Frankie. I am no longer the same person I was because of this little dog with a spirit bigger than life itself. I see, speak and think in a new way because of her. I've found a peace about myself I never had before. Though I miss you dearly, little one, the abundant joy you brought to my world lives forever in my heart.

A few days before the end of 2012, we got an e-mail from Animal Friends, a fine shelter in Pittsburgh, not so far from us. In it was a link to a video about an old dog named Chance. He was found wandering as a stray, identified as one of their alumni and brought to the shelter.

There are a lot of people — good-hearted people who love dogs and would never hurt one — who have bought puppies from pet stores, not knowing the terrible place that most of those puppies came from. There are, similarly, people who have done all they can to find a reputable breeder and have still been fooled into getting a dog from a puppy mill. Yvonne Haldeman Moyer falls into the category of people who have done both of those things, who have recognized their folly and, through hard work and love, have worked their dogs through behavioral and medical crises and made them into healthy, happy and loving family members. And, aside from all that, she's turned her experiences into a book.