For next the bull-dogs were the Dachshunde, with their short bow-legs, their flat little paws that can dig so quickly into the ground, and their long thin bodies and pointed noses. […] And the great mastiff, who hardly considered the Dachshund worthy of his notice before, begins to see some use in those tiny legs, and wishes he had been able to get the mouse himself. [1894 March 13, Harper’s Young People, volume XV, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 326:]
IF we can believe our old, wise searchers or investigators, the Dachshund belonged to the oldest breed of dogs known in ancient times. […] Since the Sixteenth Century German literature speaks of the Dachshunde, although they are described differently at times, as, for instance, the “little earth dog or hole dog.” [1907, G. A. Melbourne, Dogs, page 101:]
[…] judges are coming from Germany for two great outstanding German breeds, the Dachshunde and the German Shepherds, a judge from Norway for the Norwegian Elkhounds, a judge from England for the Scottish Terriers—and probably more dogs entered than ever before. [1935, Country Life, volume 68, page 4, column 2:]
Delaney lifted her head, glaring at her only purebreed dog—a black Dachshund with bladder control issues—who was tugging at his festively decorated dungaree wraparound diaper, trying to yank it off. [2009, Dakota Cassidy, chapter 1, in Kiss & Hell, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Sensation, →ISBN, pages 12–13:]