For anyone wanting an up-close reminder of why we have Dachshunds, try to visit the TDHP Group website on Facebook.
It is a great place to hang out and a place we can really discuss the good qualities that we need to bring back here to our current Dachshunds. There are many posts covering so many topics, from mentoring to getting those qualities back into our own dogs.
Please visit https://www.facebook.com/groups/334643526580701/ .
Join if you want to chime into some of the discussions.
As previously highlighted at TDHP, Jean Dieden is the recipient of the 2013 AKC Lifetime Achievement Award in Performance.
Jean and the recipients in conformation and companion events were honored at Friday’s AKC Delegates Meeting Luncheon. The luncheon was held in conjunction with this week’s Eukanuba in Orlando, Florida. The three winners received engraved silver bowls. A larger Tiffany and Company bowl, engraved with the names of all recipients past and present, is on permanent display at the AKC Headquarters in New York City.
AKC’s press release and a photo of the honorees can be found here.
There is a new AKC triple champion (TC) Dachshund!
On November 24th, DC Sharpree’s Imagine That! CD MX MXJ MXB MJB OF JE aka Gee! finished her Master Agility Championship (MACH) at the Calacsieu Kennel Club agility trial in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Gee! is the 8th triple champion Dachshund, the second longhaired Dachshund TC, and the first miniature longhaired Dachshund to attain that distinction. Once we receive AKC confirmation of Gee!’s new titles, we will add her name to our Triple Champions page.
Gee! was bred and owner-handled to all of her titles by Sharon McDonald. Sharon, a retired Naval officer, is widely known to Dachshund fanciers on the west coast and throughout the south. I know her many friends in both regions were as delighted as we here at TDHP were to receive news of Sharon and Gee!’s latest accomplishments. Good job, ladies!
A video of Gee!’s 20th double Q — which clinched her MACH — has been posted to Youtube here.
Tracy Freeling
Congratulations to our own Jean Dieden, DVM! AKC Lifetime Achievement Award Nominee, she has won in the Performance Event Category. Details below:
AKC ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF THE 2013 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
New York, NY — The American Kennel Club® (AKC) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 AKC® Lifetime Achievement Awards: Patricia Craige Trotter (Conformation), Sharon Redmer (Companion Events) and Jean Dieden, DVM (Performance). The three recipients will receive engraved Revere bowls on Friday, December 14, 2012 at the AKC Delegates luncheon held in conjunction with the AKC/Eukanuba National Championship in Orlando, Florida. A sterling silver Tiffany and Co. bowl, engraved with the names of all recipients past and present, is on permanent display at AKC headquarters in New York City.
Jean Dieden, DVM
Performance: Jean Dieden, DVM of Clinton, Washington Jean has been involved in AKC Performance events with her Hathor Farm Wirehaired Dachshunds since 1992. They have earned 12 Field Championships (11 of them Dual) and over 50 “Absolute Winner” awards, including three national specialty trial wins. She has been competing at dog shows, obedience trials and tracking tests for forty years.
She has had three dogs ranked in the DCA annual “Top 20” awards and one (TC M’I Spy of Hathor Farm SW VCD1 RN OA AXJ NAP OJP OF JE) with over 1000 points is among the top 10 lifetime point earners.
Jean has served on the DCA’s Trial Advisory Committee/Performance Events Committee for ten years, the last seven serving as chairman. This committee has been responsible for several successful AKC rule and procedural change proposals also adopted by the other hound events.
Dr. Dieden started in AKC Earthdog at its inception. Her dogs have earned over 300 qualifying scores, including 160 Master tests. She has held over eighty tests at her home, Hathor Farm on Whidbey Island. A founding officer of the Puget Sound Earthdog Club and longtime president of the Cascade Dachshund Club she is credited for gaining CDC’s licensing status for Dachshund Field Trials and Earthdog Tests.
Dr. Dieden has enjoyed being a field trial judge for 12 years and an Earthdog judge for 16 years, enjoying judging throughout the country, including eleven classes at DCA national events.
Congratulations to CH GrandGables Wee Mr Red Thorn ROMX, bred and owned by Guy Jeavons and Mark Houston-McMillan! He is now the All Time Top Producing MS Sire with 28 Champions!
After the pages on CH Bayard le Tartare, the Wheelers of Willo-Mar and Katay Burg, TDHP has added info about:
1. Ray and Gene Shultis of Gera Smooths
2. Dunkeldorf
3. Harry Howell
4. An Appreciation of Bobby Fowler
5. CH Taunuswald Wee Sakura ML
We hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed writing them!
Jean Dieden, DVM, of Clinton, Washington, has been involved in AKC Performance events with her Hathor Farm Wirehaired Dachshunds since 1992. They have earned 12 Field Championships (11 of them Dual) and over 50 “Absolute Winner” awards, including three national specialty trial wins. She has been competing at dog shows, obedience trials and tracking tests for forty years.
She has had three dogs ranked in the DCA annual “Top 20” awards and one (TC M’I Spy of Hathor Farm SW VCD1 RN OA AXJ NAP OJP OF JE) with over 1000 points is among the top 10 lifetime point earners.
Jean has served on the DCA’s Trial Advisory Committee/Performance Events Committee for ten years, the last seven serving as chairman. This committee has been responsible for several successful AKC rule and procedural change proposals also adopted by the other hound events.
Dr. Dieden started in AKC Earthdog at its inception. Her dogs have earned over 300 qualifying scores, including 160 Master tests. She has held over eighty tests at her home, Hathor Farm on Whidbey Island. A founding officer of the Puget Sound Earthdog Club and longtime president of the Cascade Dachshund Club she is credited for gaining CDC’s licensing status for Dachshund Field Trials and Earthdog Tests.
Dr. Dieden has enjoyed being a field trial judge for 12 years and an Earthdog judge for 16 years, enjoying judging throughout the country, including eleven classes at DCA national events.
(Thanks to Cindi Todd for drawing this signal honor to our attention!)
George Richards passed away on June 17th at the age of 100.
George was well known in obedience circles and was an icon to Dachshund performance enthusiasts. At the tender age of 98, he was even an internet sensation after video of George and his beloved miniature long, Hummel, competing at the 2009 DCA National Obedience Trial, went viral.
George was the first (and to date, only) performance competitor with his own page on TDHP. While his accomplishments in dog sports are more than worthy of note, it was George’s spirit and attitude as much as anything else that inspired me to dedicate a page to him some months back when we first created TDHP. I updated George’s page today to include the news of his passing. Despite the sadness I felt in doing so, revisiting his life also brought a smile to my face.
George’s obituary can be found here. The funeral home offers an electronic guestbook for those who would like to offer their condolences to George’s family. Be sure to do so today, though. I am not sure how long the guestbook will be available since the burial is scheduled for tomorrow morning.
Tracy Freeling
Thanks to some research by Alicia Rescek, Midachs Jaqueline has been elevated to #2 All Time Top Producing MS Bitch! Well done, breeders Roy Colverd and Sharon Michael as well as owners Dr. and Mrs. W. G. Thomas!
https://www.dachshundhistoryonline.com/?p=13073
TDHP just added a remembrance of Frank Hardy by Stanley Orne, editor of “The American Dachshund”, from that magazine’s December 1967 issue. The article was published after Mr. Hardy’s death and was a reflection on the influence this giant presence (both figuratively and literally) had on Dachshunds and Bassets from the time he married Dorothy until his death.
He and Dorothy dominated the East Coast Dachshund rings for years, showing for Mrs. Nancy Onthank, Mary Howell, Peggy Westphal, Mrs. Charles Statler, Miss Delano, Dorothy Pickett, Vera Falco and others too numerous to mention. In Bassets, he was the handler for Peg Walton and Pat Fellman among others. They won too many DCA BVs and BBs to enumerate. Their crowning achievement was Frank’s winning back to back Group 1’s at Westminster in 1968 and 1969 with CH Crosswynd’s Crackerjack for Mrs Charles C. Statler’s Barberry Knowe Kennel.
The list of great dogs shown by them include the aforementioned Crackerjack, CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Forester, CH Pondwicks Hobgoblin, CH Bayard le Souvenir, CH Wilheen’s Knight Wire, CH Westphal’s Wandering Wind, CH Van Tebe’s Draht Timothy … the list goes on and on.
The Hardys bred under the Hubertus prefix as well as guiding many others in their own breeding programs. They also had many assistants through the years, but perhaps the most well known were Bobby Fowler and Dee Hutchinson, both of whom literally came of age in dogs working for the Hardys.
To read more about Frank and the sincere outpouring of affection for him at his passing, go to: