I saw a post on Facebook looking for Dachshunds that ‘do’ agility for a BBC documentary about dogs, so on a whim I sent some photos and a video of myself demonstrating my agility skills. The production team seemed impressed so I was asked to attend for some filming.

BBC2’s The Wonder of Dogs is a 3 part documentary looking into the history of dogs, what jobs they were bred to do and how different breeds became the pets dogs we know today. We arrived on a sunny Sunday morning and were greeted by lots of different dogs of different sizes, coats and characters. Of course I took my entourage, consisting of Mum, Nanny and Auntie Shelley – it’s always good to have your agent, personal groomer and veterinary nurse on stand by for emergency’s.

Unfortunately we were unable to take any photos of of me being filmed due to strict privacy details, I suppose they didn’t want anything being leaked before the show was aired. This was a shame as it would have been nice to show you the directors chair I had with my name stitched on the back, the bowl of bonio’s which I requested to be a certain size and colour and my Evian water fountain, oh well, you’ll just have to use your imagination.

They wanted to see me do agility, I felt a little intimidated to begin with as there was a ‘professional’ small dog agility team however I was the smallest dog there doing agility and feel I held my own and did my bit for the dachshund community. They watched me go round the course a few times and then wanted to see what us dachshund’s were bred to do – go through tunnels. I did this over and over again, racing through the perspex tunnel, they then filmed me down low using a slow-motion camera. Some may say I looked like a Baywatch hunk in the opening credits running in slow-mo along the beach with the wind in my hair but you can make your own mind up.

Mum and I settled down to watch the very first episode in hope of catching a glimpse of me. And there I was, the first dog in the whole programme, we couldn’t believe it! There was then a shot of me doing the see-saw and then the golden footage of me running in slow motion through the tube whilst the presenter, Kate Humble, explained about the history of dachshund’s and what we were bred to do.

I of course was watching avidly and I will admit to rewinding a few couple of times to watch it again, well it was a quick clip…

If you want to see the clips of me you can watch them here…

But if you missed the whole programme it’s well worth watching, not just for me, as it’s very interesting. So you can catch up here…

I was also featured in this month’s Dachshund Breed Council Newsletter, you can read it HERE

Mum and Dad say that I am becoming a little bit of a celebrity after my modelling for Mutts & Hounds, winning the Sausage Dog Agility Competition and now being on the TV, as long as there is party sausage treats involved and lots of cuddles I’m happy to do anything!

Dach’s all for now – all enquiries through my agent please.

Jeffrey The (almost) Famous Dachshund x