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Badger Dog

posted by Zed on March 11 2008 08:06

“Dachshund” comes from the German, “dachs” for badger and “hund” for dog. But a dachshund doesn’t look it all like a badger, you might say. It’s a small, sweet, lap dog.

But its name owes to dachshunds having been bred to hunt frikkin’ badgers, animals known to fight off wolves, bears, and coyotes.

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