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| Danish royal wiener dog savages queenŽs guard |
| 2009-06-07 |
| [Mail and Globe] A dachshund bitch kept by the husband of Denmark's Queen Margrethe that savaged a royal guard was the subject of lawmakers' calls for it to be put down on Thursday. Eleven-year-old Evita should be "euthanised," the opposition's animal welfare spokesman Bjarne Laustsen told AFP, deriding the "paradox that a royal guard is bitten by a dog belonging to those he is employed to protect." "If my dog had been so aggressive, I'd have had it put down," he added. "There is no difference between a royal dog and any other," he also told the bt.dk newspaper website. Prince Consort Henrik's dachshund left the blood-stained soldier needing hospital treatment for a leg wound last Saturday at the royal family's summer castle in Fredensborg, according to the Ekstra Bladet tabloid. It was the second such frenzied confrontation, after a May 2008 attack that left another royal guard needing three weeks off work. Fellow opposition deputy Marlene Harpsoee echoed Laustsen's call, with Karina Lorentzen Dehnhardt of the far-right PPD, which supports the government in parliament, also saying a muzzle must be fixed, or else. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #11 Colonel Mustård ... in the library ... with a M/95 |
| Posted by: mrp 2009-06-07 17:36 |
| #10 Point is he could have at least kicked the dog, not really harming it, but stopping the attack. Royal guards I've seen wear cavalry boots. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-06-07 12:27 |
| #9 Do royal dogs have tasters? I don't suppose the dog in question had a house dog bite the guard to see if it was safe to proceed? Just my Sunday morning pre Starbucks absurdity again. |
| Posted by: James Carville 2009-06-07 12:13 |
| #8 Don't be fooled by what you think you know about Dachshunds. They are a blend of between four and six other breeds, and have tremendous variation between them, even in the same litter. I would hazard to guess that the Queen's husband's Dachshunds are probably old school badger hounds, and can probably hold their own with much larger dogs in a fight. Unlike the typical dog throat attack, they will try to disembowel the other animal. http://www.teckelclub.org/hunting-with-dachs.php |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-06-07 12:09 |
| #7 Mike's bun is in the wringer for those. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2009-06-07 09:20 |
| #6 So far the jokes don't really have much legs. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-06-07 08:21 |
| #5 I don't relish the idea, but the weiner dog will have to be mustard out. The royal family will just have to play ketchup on this one. |
| Posted by: Mike 2009-06-07 08:07 |
| #4 .. "paradox that a royal guard is bitten by a dog belonging to those he is employed to protect." Sorta describes our MSM and Hollyweird when it comes to our military doesn't it./rhetorical question |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-06-07 07:29 |
| #3 Dachshunds were bred to go after badgers. I would not want to be bitten by one. |
| Posted by: gorb 2009-06-07 06:16 |
| #2 Jim, it was the Royal Wiener dog. If the guard had hurt the dog his other wiener would have been in a vise. |
| Posted by: DoDo 2009-06-07 01:55 |
| #1 You're supposed to protect people and cannot defend yourself from a "Weiner Dog"? Shame. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-06-07 00:32 |