Re: chucks and pups

Maybe the breeder was Austrailian and moved to US.  Who knows...

We're such a melting pot of nationalities is hard to say.

I did a yahoo search on Dachs and Egypt and got a lot of hits,  maybe the
German folks re-invented the wheel.  There is more burried in history than
we will ever know.


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> "Michael Brickley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Well Dachshund's were originaly bread to hunt rabbits in Syira (?)
>  rubbish..
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>  >Not a
> > German dog....
>  They are German in origin. Dachs means badger. They are ferocious badger
> hunters. If they were bred to hunt rabbits they would have been named
> kaninchenhund.
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> > Australian
> > Shepard's
> or shepherds even
>
> were bread
> bred
> >to heard and they can be a bit high strung.  Mine can
> > play ball 24/7 and want more.
>  I have no idea why American breeders produce this dog and named it
> Australian Shepherd, when the origins have nothing to do with Australia.
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>