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Dachshunds: The Long and the Short of Them Hardcover – October 8, 2020

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4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
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The dachshund: bold, curious, and compact – a dog-and-a-half full of character - Dachshunds are everywhere. Walk down any fashionable street today and you will be tripping over the little sausages. The 12th most popular dog breed in the US, they are the dog du jour: compact enough for city living, yet feisty enough for a long country walk; cute but clever and independent, and with universal appeal, they are the stars of the sidewalk and the screen - Django the Gent from New York and Princess Lilo from California have 170,000 instagram followers between them. Caroline Donald shares her experience of life with a dachshund: what to look for and what to avoid, how to train and how to look after them. Also included are reports from dachsy homes: from Crusoe, the 11 year-old celebrity dachshund from Ottawa (801K followers on Instagram), River the Mini Dachshund on the Gold Coast in Australia, to the Great Dixter Dachshunds; Greta the puppy belonging to actor Dominic West and his family; and Willow, the elegant long-haired English cream belonging to Claire Waight Keller, artistic director of Givenchy and designer of Meghan’s wedding dress. There are also stories of artists’ dachshunds, including Picasso’s Lump, Andy Warhol’s Archie and Amos and David Hockney’s Stanley and Boodgie; as well as royal dachshunds. New to the breed or old hand, there’s more than a titbit or two to get your teeth into.
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    96 pages
  2. Language
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  3. Publisher
    Pimpernel Press
  4. Publication date
    October 8, 2020
  5. Dimensions
    8 x 0.5 x 4.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    191025827X
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1910258279
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"Absorbing and entertaining." —The Garden on The Generous Gardener

"These very personal encounters, each rendered in little more than a thousand words, like miniature paintings, tell us so much." —Hortus on The Generous Gardener

"A perfect present for anyone who has ever smiled at a passing sausage dog, ie everybody who isn't actually dead. Sweet, comical and hugely cheering." —India Knight, The Sunday Times

"Both informative and humorous, it contains stories about celebrity Dachshunds and reports from 'Dachsy' homes." —Your Dog Magazine 

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Caroline Donald has been the gardening editor of the Sunday Times since 2000. A writer and editor with a particular interest in the cross-pollination of the arts, she has also curated successful talks at the Somerset outpost of the international art gallery Hauser & Wirth and at Messum's, Wiltshire. She is the author of The Generous Gardener.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pimpernel Press (October 8, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 191025827X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1910258279
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 0.5 x 4.75 inches
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    4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings

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Caroline Donald is a freelance editor and writer. For 20 years she was the gardening editor of The Sunday Times newspaper, and also writes for publications such as The Daily Telegraph, House & Garden, Living etc and Country Life, travelling throughout the UK and around the world to talk to owners about what their gardens means to them. The Generous Gardener, published in 2018, is a collection of more than 40 of her interviews.

Her latest book Dachshunds - The Long and the Short of Them celebrates the vertically challenged but spirited breed and was published by Pimpernel Press in October 2020. She has curated The Art of the Garden, two successful series At Hauser & Wirth gallery in Bruton, Somerset examining the relationships between landscape and art. Many of these can be seen on You Tube, including Piet Oudolf, Dan Pearson, Tom Stuart-Smith, Kim Wilkie, Victoria Glendinning and Penelope Hobhouse. She has also arranged garden design-based talks at Messums gallery in Tisbury, Wiltshire.

Caroline’s first "garden" was a clump of daffodils she uprooted at her childhood home in Scotland to replant under an old apple tree, in the hopes that one day a tree house would be built there. The tree house remains a fantasy but she is still gardening, now in a quarter of an acre around her cottage in Somerset, where the resident dachshunds Mitzi von Schnitzel and Heidi Wirth are determined to turn the lawn into a golf course by digging holes all over it.

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We loved this witty and informative guide to dachshunds, otherwise known as sausage dogs, wieners, dachsies, doxies, teckels and dackels, The author, a well-known British gardening editor, came to realize that many top gardeners own dachsies because they combine enthusiasm for the outdoors (youdidwhatwithyourwiener.com) with a compact package that limits damage to flower beds. (A dachshund wandering through your perennials will cause a lot less destruction than, say, a golden retriever). Dachshunds also have an aesthetic appeal ("half a dog high and a dog-and-a-half long") that has attracted artistic types from Picasso to David Hockney and nourished today's sausage dog Instagram celebrities such as Ottawa's Crusoe (@crusoe_dachshund). It's all in here, plus a guide to how to care for the "pocket rockets", if you succumb. A great stocking-stuffer for all sausage dogs, their owners and friends.
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Annika Savill
5.0 out of 5 stars As entertaining as the title implies
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2021
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Everyone loves this book, dog-owner or not. The perfect gift.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sausage-dog stocking stuffer
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2020
We loved this witty and informative guide to dachshunds, otherwise known as sausage dogs, wieners, dachsies, doxies, teckels and dackels, The author, a well-known British gardening editor, came to realize that many top gardeners own dachsies because they combine enthusiasm for the outdoors (youdidwhatwithyourwiener.com) with a compact package that limits damage to flower beds. (A dachshund wandering through your perennials will cause a lot less destruction than, say, a golden retriever). Dachshunds also have an aesthetic appeal ("half a dog high and a dog-and-a-half long") that has attracted artistic types from Picasso to David Hockney and nourished today's sausage dog Instagram celebrities such as Ottawa's Crusoe (@crusoe_dachshund). It's all in here, plus a guide to how to care for the "pocket rockets", if you succumb. A great stocking-stuffer for all sausage dogs, their owners and friends.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sausage-dog stocking stuffer
Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2020
We loved this witty and informative guide to dachshunds, otherwise known as sausage dogs, wieners, dachsies, doxies, teckels and dackels, The author, a well-known British gardening editor, came to realize that many top gardeners own dachsies because they combine enthusiasm for the outdoors (youdidwhatwithyourwiener.com) with a compact package that limits damage to flower beds. (A dachshund wandering through your perennials will cause a lot less destruction than, say, a golden retriever). Dachshunds also have an aesthetic appeal ("half a dog high and a dog-and-a-half long") that has attracted artistic types from Picasso to David Hockney and nourished today's sausage dog Instagram celebrities such as Ottawa's Crusoe (@crusoe_dachshund). It's all in here, plus a guide to how to care for the "pocket rockets", if you succumb. A great stocking-stuffer for all sausage dogs, their owners and friends.
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Mr Truth
5.0 out of 5 stars Woof!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2022
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Beautiful book all about a beautiful breed of dog, thoroughly recommend A+
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LB
5.0 out of 5 stars Such a great book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 11, 2020
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I bought this book as a gift for my mother who is a Dachshund lover and she loves it. It's fun yet informative and easy to dip in and out of. I highly recommend it and I'm going to buy more as it's perfect Christmas present.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Present
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 24, 2020
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The person I got it for liked it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 14, 2020
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Great read. Bought as a gift, impressive.
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Redwing
1.0 out of 5 stars Not much of interest in this book
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Some pretty pictures but several of the dogs looked far too fat in my opinion.
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