September 2008
This is yours truly handling a young Dorndorf's Andrea L to Best in Match in 1973 at an early Central Ohio Dachshund Club event. Andrea, whose call name was Angel, was the only female of four pups born that year in the first Dorndorf litter. Their breeder was my mother Emma Nance. Angel went on to be undefeated in the classes and finished at 15 months of age by going Winners Bitch at the Dachshund Club of America National Specialty in Jacksonville, Florida in 1974.
Handled variously by her breeder/owner and also by John Wade, Angel did a lot of winning as a special and kept on winning through middle age. This included being shown three times the year she was eight - at the Central Ohio, Southwestern Ohio, and MidwestDachshund Club specialties - and being awarded Best of Opposite Sex to Best of Breed at all three.
Angel won and placed in Central Ohio's first unlicensed field trials. She was gamey and sichtlaut when we did not really know those terms or appreciate those qualities. One story about her is the time my mother was in the shower while Angel was in the yard. Mom heard a loud commotion and looked out the window in time to see and hear Angel running down the sidewalk in full voice giving chase to a neighbor's cat. Real soon, my mother was running down the sidewalk in her bathrobe with suds in her hair, chasing Angel. The cat went under someone's porch, the dog went under the porch after the cat, and Emma went under the porch after her dog. The dog was the only one who was happy.
Another time, my mother was talking on the phone to one of her dog friends, Betty Piper, when Angel walked in and swallowed a long thin tail that had been hanging out of her mouth. Mom said, "Oh! Hang on a minute Betty. Angel just got one of the gerbils. Lisa must have left the cage open." My youngest sister Lisa had two gerbils on her chest of drawers in the bedroom and Angel often sat on Lisa's bed and watched them with a view toward extermination. But Angel hadn't gotten an entire gerbil. Both rodents were still in the cage on the dresser, lively and whole, except... Angel had somehow managed to get up there close enough to the cage to nip a tail right off close to the body. We never figured out how she did that.
Her two litters produced six Champion get, one of which was also a Champion in Canada and three of the six had Companion Dog titles. Angel is a seventh generation ancestor of the Dorndorf P litter born July, 2008 and S litter born August, 2009.
Handled variously by her breeder/owner and also by John Wade, Angel did a lot of winning as a special and kept on winning through middle age. This included being shown three times the year she was eight - at the Central Ohio, Southwestern Ohio, and MidwestDachshund Club specialties - and being awarded Best of Opposite Sex to Best of Breed at all three.
Angel won and placed in Central Ohio's first unlicensed field trials. She was gamey and sichtlaut when we did not really know those terms or appreciate those qualities. One story about her is the time my mother was in the shower while Angel was in the yard. Mom heard a loud commotion and looked out the window in time to see and hear Angel running down the sidewalk in full voice giving chase to a neighbor's cat. Real soon, my mother was running down the sidewalk in her bathrobe with suds in her hair, chasing Angel. The cat went under someone's porch, the dog went under the porch after the cat, and Emma went under the porch after her dog. The dog was the only one who was happy.
Another time, my mother was talking on the phone to one of her dog friends, Betty Piper, when Angel walked in and swallowed a long thin tail that had been hanging out of her mouth. Mom said, "Oh! Hang on a minute Betty. Angel just got one of the gerbils. Lisa must have left the cage open." My youngest sister Lisa had two gerbils on her chest of drawers in the bedroom and Angel often sat on Lisa's bed and watched them with a view toward extermination. But Angel hadn't gotten an entire gerbil. Both rodents were still in the cage on the dresser, lively and whole, except... Angel had somehow managed to get up there close enough to the cage to nip a tail right off close to the body. We never figured out how she did that.
Her two litters produced six Champion get, one of which was also a Champion in Canada and three of the six had Companion Dog titles. Angel is a seventh generation ancestor of the Dorndorf P litter born July, 2008 and S litter born August, 2009.
