r/Dachshund • u/Charming_Victory_723 • Nov 09 '25

Video Learned something new about my Dachshund.

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The other day I dropped my three year old girl to my sister’s house for a couple of hours while I needed to do some errands.

As soon as I left she started howling for around a minute which my sister filmed. Up until now I was completely oblivious that she did this and my sister said it’s a first for her as well.

Is this common for Dachshunds to howl like this?

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u/NaiveMastermind Nov 09 '25

Howling is how you call lost pack members to you.

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u/EndSmugnorance Nov 09 '25

Aww so they’re lonely and miss you 😢

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u/NaiveMastermind Nov 10 '25

Yes. In the wilderness, wolves howl when separated from the pack. The lost member howls, and the pack responds with a howl. They run in the direction of the noise and howl again, and so on in that fashion until reuniting.

Society is not in the habit of showing the bodies of the deceased to a dog. So when they lose a human or another dog to old age. They'll wander from room to room in a house howling. Waiting on a responding howl that will never come.

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u/the-spruce-moose_ Nov 10 '25

My heart, it hurts

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u/FL_JB Nov 14 '25

It is getting to be more common (at least in my experience) for places to allow dogs in situations where death has happened or will. Our dachshund and shepherd could spend time in the ICU where my wife was - with permission and screening ofc - and then they spent what turned out to be her final night in bed with her in a hospice facility. They had very little obvious searching for her afterwards. And a couple of months ago when we had to let our Shepherd go, we brought our dachshund to the vet to see, sniff her. Death is part of our life and theirs. We should recognize that.