December 2008
Duchess Doing What Comes Natural
This photo and headlines were published Sunday, May 4, 1986 in The Parkersburg [West Virginia] News accompanying an article by Jo Horvath. The subject of the article was smooth dachshund FC Pate's Duchess von Dailey CD.
Duchess was owned by Roberta Woods of West Virginia.Roberta, a member of the Central Oho Dachshund Club, had gotten Duchess as a pet from breeder Dorothea Pate in Dayton, Ohio. Roberta's father used Duchess for hunting rabbits and she was especially proficient on squirrels. Roberta brought her to the Ohio field trial in 1985 where Duchess impressed everyone with her ability - and her voice!
Roberta then took Duchess east to Calverton, Long Island, New York, and entered her in the Dachshund Association of Long Island field trial on Saturday, April 12, 1986. There were 22 Open All-Age Dog entries with 3 absentees (DALI took pre-entries in those days), 30 Open All-Age Bitches with one absentee, and 4 Field Champions. William Hall of New Jersey, Tony Keck of Connecticut, Patricia Nance of Ohio, and Wayne Price of Ohio judged this trial. Absolute Winner that day was Pate's Duchess von Dailey CD who 'wowed the crowd' and worked like the good Field Champion that she eventually became.
The detailed newspaper article appropriately reported "At the field trial in Long Island, Duchess competed against 56 other dogs. Some were wirehaired Dachshunds, imported from Germany with impressive field pedigrees. Duchess won paws down. The frisky, friendly russet dachshund of Roberta Woods has proven herself to be a real winner doing what she likes to do best."Yes. Duchess was, in fact, a natural.
Incidentally, Duchess' mother was a smooth and her father was a longhair.
Roberta married and moved to Florida. I visited her, her husband, their two young children, and their other dachshunds when DCA was held in Florida in 1989. Unfortunately, several weeks before my visit, seven-year-old Duchess was killed on a road while running a raccoon. Hunting was what she lived for and what she died doing. Naturally.
We talked of our great fondness and admiration for one very special hunting fool of a dachshund named Duchess.
This photo and headlines were published Sunday, May 4, 1986 in The Parkersburg [West Virginia] News accompanying an article by Jo Horvath. The subject of the article was smooth dachshund FC Pate's Duchess von Dailey CD.
Duchess was owned by Roberta Woods of West Virginia.Roberta, a member of the Central Oho Dachshund Club, had gotten Duchess as a pet from breeder Dorothea Pate in Dayton, Ohio. Roberta's father used Duchess for hunting rabbits and she was especially proficient on squirrels. Roberta brought her to the Ohio field trial in 1985 where Duchess impressed everyone with her ability - and her voice!
Roberta then took Duchess east to Calverton, Long Island, New York, and entered her in the Dachshund Association of Long Island field trial on Saturday, April 12, 1986. There were 22 Open All-Age Dog entries with 3 absentees (DALI took pre-entries in those days), 30 Open All-Age Bitches with one absentee, and 4 Field Champions. William Hall of New Jersey, Tony Keck of Connecticut, Patricia Nance of Ohio, and Wayne Price of Ohio judged this trial. Absolute Winner that day was Pate's Duchess von Dailey CD who 'wowed the crowd' and worked like the good Field Champion that she eventually became.
The detailed newspaper article appropriately reported "At the field trial in Long Island, Duchess competed against 56 other dogs. Some were wirehaired Dachshunds, imported from Germany with impressive field pedigrees. Duchess won paws down. The frisky, friendly russet dachshund of Roberta Woods has proven herself to be a real winner doing what she likes to do best."Yes. Duchess was, in fact, a natural.
Incidentally, Duchess' mother was a smooth and her father was a longhair.
Roberta married and moved to Florida. I visited her, her husband, their two young children, and their other dachshunds when DCA was held in Florida in 1989. Unfortunately, several weeks before my visit, seven-year-old Duchess was killed on a road while running a raccoon. Hunting was what she lived for and what she died doing. Naturally.
We talked of our great fondness and admiration for one very special hunting fool of a dachshund named Duchess.
