After pondering this question for a few seconds, I've decided that dachshunds just like food in general, especially "people" food. With their magnificent sense of smell, just think how good food must smell to them!
My Duke has his preferences, however, even with people food. He goes on alert the minute Clark takes the jar of dry roasted peanuts out of the pantry--and that's before he evens opens the lid! Is it possible that Duke can smell those peanuts through the jar??
He also adores any kind of cheese. You could probably put a Buick inside a piece of cheese and he'd try to eat it, LOL! Seriously, if there's any medication he doesn't like, we just wrap the pill up in cheese and down the hatch it goes.
Other foods he tries to shame us into giving to him (doxie lovers, you know that pitiful "look" they can use to their advantage): bacon . . . well, meat in general, green beans (Duke loves green bean casserole), peas, carrots, apples, and even cauliflower. Some of these are actually good for him in small doses.
In any case, we never leave anything to eat out where he can get to it, and even with those short legs, he's very resourceful! When the grandchildren visit, I always remind them to push in their dining chairs when they leave the table, because Duke will jump up into the chair and then onto the table. Voila! Instant access to leftover food! He's done that before when we had hamburgers. "Someone" who shall remain nameless left a chair out, and Duke did just that, then sashayed off with a hamburger. Boy, he thought he had hit the jackpot for certain!Dachshunds . . . you gotta love 'em!
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