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Last week my mini dachshund Tammy became one year old!  I don’t care what her age is: she’ll forever be my baby.  I’m always calling her “Tammy the pup” (okay, along with other nicknames like “Tammy the Troublemaker”, “Tammy the Terror”, “Tammy the Tripper” and too many others to count…)

But this week marks the one-year anniversary of the first time she and I met.  And the first time my eyes fell on her, I was madly in love with that fuzzy little ball of concentrated cuteness!

So I thought that for this installment of Tammy Tuesday, I’d post photos of that very first encounter between Tammy and I…

Tammy and her litter-mates

It was four weeks later that I got to bring her home. Y’all can’t imagine how eager I was to have at long last a female miniature dachshund to run around the place 🙂

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(Awright, who will get that reference without having to Google for it? 🙂

A few nights ago I was trying to snap a photo of Tammy and myself together.  Of the ten or so that I took none of them had Tammy looking at the camera!  She refused to cooperate any way at all.  I think it’s because she figures she has to be the star of everything and she doesn’t share her stage with anybody…

Anyway, here’s Tammy and her always-loving/more than occasionally exasperated owner:

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Here’s a hint: next week’s Tammy Tuesday features these same two characters in altogether different circumstances 🙂...

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I’ve had Tammy for ten months now. That’s plenty of time to chronicle a lot of her but one thing that keeps eluding me is a perfect shot of this baby’s teeth. She had those needle-like daggers that pups always have at first but ever since she lost her puppy teeth she’s grown in some positivalutely gnarly chompers.

Well, it’s not ideal by far, but this really is the best pic I’ve been able to take of not just her teeth but that psycho look in her eye when she’s showing them off 🙂

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Want more wiener dog?!?  Tammy is a more fortunate pup than many.  Ya see, my cousin nearby wound up with Tammy’s litter-mate Sassy.  And because of that they’ve had plenty of occasion to romp and play together.

So here is Tammy (with the red collar) and her sister Sassy, along with my cousin’s two children.  Hey, it’s two cute dachshunds and two cute kids: what could possibly be cute-sier? 🙂

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The very first thing I did when I brought Tammy home last May was to give her a bath, ‘cuz the poor girl had sooooo many fleas!  Then I had to give her another one the next day.  It was just a rotten flea season all around ‘cuz of the warm weather the preceding winter.

Anyhoo, ever since she’s had something of an aversion to water.  She doesn’t even enjoy going out in the rain to “do her doggie business”.  But she’s starting to take a liking to the warm water from the shower whenever she needs to get clean ‘n shiny.

Here’s Tammy about to get some puppy pamperin’:

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Dachshund UN, a “a miniature version of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights where the world’s leaders are replaced by dogs”, has opened in Toronto and runs through March 4th.  38 dachshunds represent the United States, Canada, France, Germany and other countries.  Australian artist Bennett Miller chose dachshunds because they come in so many varieties of color and fur (akin to the racial makeup of the real UN) and because they “are impressive but restricted, you can match that to the United Nations”.

CP24.com has an in-depth article about Dachshund UN  that will leave you wondering if the wiener dogs might do a better job at the real United Nations than us humans 🙂...

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Beginning today, look forward to a weekly (meaning: as often as I can remember to do it) photo of Tammy: my miniature dachshund! These won’t necessarily be a just-taken pic of her. It’ll be whatever is in the Tammy-file that I think might bring a smile to y’all’s faces. But since she’s still just ten months old, there aren’t that many photos of her that I could have made anyway.

Here she is from last week, looking content in the “nest” she’s made with a blanket in the recliner…

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Don’t ever let it be said that anybody in this wacky family lacks for gifts on Christmas!

This pic is actually a few days old, but I wanted her to go ahead and start enjoying it. Here is Tammy – now a very psycho eight-months old – with her new doggie bed 🙂

She’s come a long way from the bed she made on her first day with us…

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