My tireless dachshund Tendu was 100% eager to work. Regardless of the time of day or night, she was always there immediately.

By a real coincidence, she finally came to us in Tyrol in February 2015 as the successor to Wicky from Slovakia and this decision was completely correct. Her ancestors do not have a complete working line, but they easily skipped that.

Easy to grip when it mattered, no burrow was too deep for her, no search was too difficult for her, no driven hunt too much and the hide could never be exciting enough. Once she even jumped from my high seat to loudly chase the cat passing by ...

She could just do a bit of everything, even if welding was her real favorite discipline. I never had to practice a lot with her, she just felt like she was on rails every time. She knew exactly what it was about and did not allow herself to be dissuaded from this project.

I was actively involved with her at the tracking station in Kitzbühel. We have even been called by our fellow searchers to ask whether we can possibly take over searches. Tendu was incredibly good at your search!

Still, it was with her that I learned to fail exams. Tendu always did her thing, sometimes really great and sometimes my jaw dropped.

Tendu is the first dog that has brought this title to Tyrol since the search for national winners began in Austria! Despite the fact that we raised the deer during the test track and that we took a short break, it brought us safely to our destination, to the end. That was a terrific achievement.

In terms of tests and hunting, she was definitely (with my Janchen) one of the most successful dachshunds! (As you know, I'm not so fond of beauty titles ...)

She was a really cool dog. Always happy, always funny. She was every day and she always went along with every stupidity with a helping of quick exaggeration. It was hardly going slowly.

I never would have thought it, but because she was such a funny guy and always had steam in her dachshund pop, she leaves a huge gap. Not just in the area, but in my heart <3

* thick tears roll down *