It was in the 1700s that someone finally had the idea to use them to go after badgers.
Before that, they were always fighting dinosaurs.
In fact, it was Dachshunds that caused the extinction of dinosaurs.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3198511/Dachshund-sized-carnivore-roamed-Earth-225-million-years-ago.html