[Global2010]

FYI.

My doxie wont wear his winter coat up here in the PNW no way would he allow this get up.

How can he root with his muzzle covered?

[barb-tex]

I once saw a Doberman, that retrieved rocks from the deep end of a Swimming pool.
barbra ann

[Viking2002]

Yup, they love to root. LOL Our Nigel is always smelling something underground (chipmunks and whatnot), and he'll start to (as my wife puts it) 'dig a hole to China'. He'll fixate on whatever scent he picked up, and be obsessive about it for days. Eventually he'll move on to some other critter's hidey-hole, and I have to get the shovel out to backfill behind him. But, that's the nature of the breed - badger hunters. I believe it was H.L. Mencken who said, 'A dachshund is a half-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.'. LOL And boy, do they love to burrow under blankets!

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