The Dachshund was originally bred to hunt
THE BADGER
The badger is a bear-like animal with a stocky, 3 foot body, short tail and short but powerful legs armed with strong claws on the front feet. It also walks on the soles of its feet like a bear, but the resemblance ends there. Both bear and badger are members of the Carnivore, or flesh eaters, but they are in different families. The badger is placed in the family Mustelidae, along with the otter and weasel. A character of the mustelids is that their foot prints show five toes. In this way the foot prints of a badger can be distinguished from a dog, which shows only four toes. At a distance, the badger's coat looks gray but the individual hairs are black and white. Most animals are lighter in color on the underside of the body, but the badger has black on its belly and legs. The most striking part of the badger, however, is its head. This is white with two broad, black stripes running from behind the ears almost to the tip of the muzzle. The black eyes are placed in the stripes and so are inconspicuous.
The American badger bears a resemblance to the European badger, but lacks the black and white striped head.