“Being the owner of dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humour,” he wrote. You can, in fact, train a dachshund, but only to do what he (or she) feels like doing. Nothing to see here, merely a broadly decent person with an unexceptional but obedient and inherently charming dog. An interesting thing about dog owners is their breed partiality. I may be projecting here, but I think this is particularly true of dachshund owners.