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2009-06-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Danish royal wiener dog savages queenŽs guard

[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 2009-06-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#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|| 2009-06-07 00:32|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-06-07 01:55|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-06-07 06:16|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-06-07 07:29|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-06-07 08:07|| Front Page Top

#6 So far the jokes don't really have much legs.

Posted by gorb 2009-06-07 08:21|| 2009-06-07 08:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Mike's bun is in the wringer for those.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-06-07 09:20|| 2009-06-07 09:20|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-06-07 12:09|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-06-07 12:13|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2009-06-07 12:27|| Front Page Top

#11 Colonel Mustård ... in the library ... with a M/95

Posted by mrp 2009-06-07 17:36|| 2009-06-07 17:36|| Front Page Top

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