The Grand Rapids Press reports:

While other kids his age are attending proms and learning to drive, confessed dog killer Jonathan Castelan will be spending his high school years in prison.

For the first time in the three months since Castelan, 15, used a hammer to fatally bludgeon an 8-pound dachshund named Pinto, the dog’s owners heard an apology from the teenage killer, sentenced to spend three to 20 years in prison.

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According to the author:

Six months into dog ownership, Harriet had ruined a couch, a chair, a throw rug and my marriage with her poop-eat-it-and-vomit-it-back-up routine. The house smelled of poop and my husband refused to let her out of the kennel if it was just the two of them at home. Harriet bit him again and Dave insisted that she be sent to a shelter. “Will you do that if we have a child who has problems?” I shouted. “Will you just send them away?” Wisely, Dave didn’t respond, but that night we slept in separate beds.

And there was no happy ending.

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We’ll be back tomorrow after the dog media magnate behind the Daily Doxie recovers from three hours in the dental chair earlier today.

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Screen shot 2010 08 29 at 9.12.56 PM Monday morning Dachshund wake up photo

Kuby - My Long-Haired Dachshund

By Doug Klembara:Get the photo shoot details at Flickr.

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Screen shot 2010 08 26 at 10.39.45 PM 150x150 Runaway Dachshund saved by good samaritansFor Mary and Willy Cromie of Kinnelon, it all began last Friday when their wiener dog Bailey was frightened by a big dog outside a West Milford kennel and set off running along Route 23 Friday morning. Luckily, there was a happy ending.

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August 26, 2010

What Dachshund paradise would look like

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Read about how this composite shot was created by hoejaa

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August 26, 2010

The NY Times reports on dogs and gardening

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So much for the myth that it’s only female dogs’ urine that is a problem: “Bud is a dachshund-Yorkie mix,” Ms. Kocher said. “We call him a dorkie.” It is Bud that has taken up the steady task of murdering the boxwoods. Ms. Kocher planted a few of the evergreen shrubs last year, with the ...

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August 26, 2010

In Alabama, a reward is offered for a vicious crime against a Dachshund

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The Troy Messenger reports that veterinarians suspect Jim Berdeaux’ pet Bella was deliberately burned: “We all loved her,” Berdeaux said. “It just breaks my heart to think that she might have been lying there burned liked that for four, six or eight hours. Bella was one of those dogs that went running, wagging her tail ...

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August 25, 2010

Sammy Davis: an inspirational wiener dog

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While the Daily Dachhsund was not so daily, this story of Sammy Davis the Dachshund cropped up. We think it’s still well worth reading as it tells how a Doxie helped rekindle the will to live in a young man sick with kidney disease.

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August 24, 2010

Coyotes kill Calgary Dachshund

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We don’t mean to be a downer with this story, but rather to call your attention to the threat of coyotes. The Calgary Sun reports: Quinn Kliewer, 21, and a friend were biking near the 14 St. parking lot at Nose Hill Park with five dogs — two dachshunds, a border collie pup, German shepherd ...

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