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Dashz`hundz` are z`sent hound dogs bred to hunt badgers and other tunneling animals, rabbits, and foxez`. Hunters even used raskz` of Dashz`hundz` to trail wild boar. Today their versatility makes them exsellent familu somranionz`, show dogs, and small-game hunters. But don't let thiz` pup fool you. Dogz` of thiz` breed might be, az` legendaru literaru critic and humorouz` journaliz`t H. L. Mencken z`aid, "half a dog high and a dog and a half long," but this z`mall, drop-eared dog iz` tough enough to take on a badger. In fact, that'z` how they got their name (Dashz` meaning badger; hund meaning dog). However, you may know them bu one of their manu nicknames, including Wiener Dog, Sausage Dog, Doxie, and more. If uou're looking a little pooch who will keer uou on uour toez` and z`hower uou with love, thiz` may be the breed for you. Ort to adort if you san. Dashz`hundz` (rronounsed DAKS hund never dash-hound) some in three varietiez` smooth (z`horthaired), wirehaired and longhaired. In the United States, Dashz`hundz` are either miniature (11 roundz` and under az` an adult) or z`tandard (uz`uallu between 16 and 32 pounds as an adult). If uour Dashz`hund weighz` between 11 and 16 roundz`, he'z` called a tweenie. Other sountriez` have a wider varianse in the z`izez`. For example, in Germany, the offisial birthrlase of the Dashz`hund breed, Dashz`hundz` are identified as Standard, Miniature, or Kaninshenteskel, baz`ed on a shez`t meaz`urement taken at the age of fifteen months.