Case of the Missing Dachsie

[Amy_J0]

Is it me or are dachshunds the easiest dogs to loose? I don't mean out running off the lead or anything but in the house. My tale is a fond one of my sadly deceased but beloved Toby.
I was sorting out the house on a spring day. It had been quite cool but we had the back door open to let some frsh air in. I had to go to pick up some books for school.
As i was shutting the doors i realized it was very quiet and that i hadn't seen Toby for the last hour. I started to wander i through the living room and dining room finding no sign of him. Also checked the garden and found the side door open. Started to panic rushing around but he wasn't there or the front garden but i knew he couldn't have got out cos of the gates.
Ran around the house calling his name and ringing the doorbell which he always bark at. Finally I could hear a muffled noise coming from upstairs, an area he wasn't allowed in.
Came into my bedroom to find a sausage shaped lump in my bed. Not only had he got upstairs and into my bed but he had buried himself deeply under several sheets.
Talk about a digger!! I couldn't be mad one look at his face and he knew he had done wrong but he looked soo cute!!

Amy

[dutchman]

Hi Amy,

That reminds me a little of something that happened to me shortly after I got Aggie my mill mother rescue. I was letting her sleep in bed with me and she liked to sleep down near the foot of the bed. I woke up one morning (it must have been in the first two weeks I had her) and couldn't find her. I called her but she was quite the shy little girl at that point never spoke and seldom came when called. I finally noticed an extra lump at the foot of the mattress. Aggie had somehow slid off the end of the mattress and became trapped between the end of the mattress and the covers (I use hospital corners to tuck in the covers at the foot of the bed. I was a little panicked since she didn't seem to respond when I prodded that lump and figured out it was her. As I work to tear back the covers I was sure my new little girl has suffocated at the foot of the bed. Once I reached her I had two big wide open eyes staring back at me. For a long time after that I used my knees to block her access to the foot of the bed and made her sleep at waste lever or above.

Tom and the boys (Frank and Tanner)

[isobelsmom]

I thought it was just me who kept losing wiener dogs. Seems to me the wee urchins just love to watch us as we run through the house in a blind panic thinking they escaped, when in fact they are hiding. Isobel hid under my back porch once and my sister had to call me home from work to tell me that the wee wiener had escaped the yard. I happened to notice the white of her eye as she turned her head. She also hides in the house in the oddest places and then just sits back and watches me panic. Rotten little thing!

mary

[Amy_J0]

Yes i had noticed that dachsie's are a mischevious breed <IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm28.gif" border=0> but thats what makes them soo appealing.
I have many a time found a sneaky dachsie upstairs and in beds. The funniest was when my Dad had a slipped disk in his back (no that isn't funny) but the fact that he couldn't move and had to lie with unwanted company sleeping at the foot of the bed. Oh how i wish i had taken photos for all those hysterical moments.

Amy <IMG SRC="http://dachsie.org/ubb/cwmsmilies/cwm3.gif" border=0>