15 free designs belowBy: Printable Porch Team
A long dog for a long year. This is our Dachshund collection for 2027: fifteen one-page yearly calendars, each with a dachshund at the top and all twelve months below, plus everything else dachshund we make this year, all on one page and all free to print at home on US Letter or A4.
There is a smooth red doxie among Amalfi lemons, a cream longhair in a lavender field, a dapple on a beach boardwalk, a black-and-tan in a leather library chair, a chocolate longhair by the Christmas tree and a wire-eyed little face in a Paris café with a cappuccino. Smooth, longhaired, red, black-and-tan, chocolate, cream and dapple - pick the one that looks most like yours, print it, and give the sausage dog a place on the wall.
Dachshund 2027 Yearly Calendars
The whole of 2027 on one sheet, with a dachshund looking up from the top of it. Fifteen designs, from a lavender field to a Christmas fireside. Print one for the kitchen, the office or the hallway.
How to Print Your Dachshund Printables
Every sheet on this page is free for personal use. Click Download PDF for a print-ready file sized for US Letter (A4 works too - choose "Fit to page" in the print dialog), or Print to send the sheet straight to your printer. Plain paper is fine for a desk or a fridge; a heavier 28 lb / 110 gsm sheet stays flat on a wall and takes color better.
The monthly calendars come in matching sets of twelve, so you can print the whole year at once with Full 2027 Year PDF, punch two holes along the top and hang the stack on binder rings - or take it to a copy center for spiral binding. New Dachshund printables are added to this same page, so bookmark it and check back.
About the Dachshund
The dachshund was built for a job, and the job explains the shape. Six hundred years ago German foresters needed a dog that could follow a badger into its burrow and hold its ground underground, and by the 1500s they had one: a low, long, loud hound with a deep chest, short crooked legs for digging and a courage far larger than the body. The name says exactly that - Dachs is badger, Hund is dog. The standard size went after badgers and wild boar, the miniatures were bred later for rabbits and hares. The breed reached Britain with Queen Victoria, who kept a whole procession of them, and crossed to America in the 1880s. Two world wars nearly ended the dachshund's popularity in the English-speaking world because of its German name; owners renamed it the "badger dog" and "liberty hound" and waited it out. It has been in the top ten American breeds for most of the last century, and it is very hard to find a town without one.
Temperament
A dachshund is a hound in a small package, and it has not forgotten. They are brave to the point of foolishness, curious, playful and comically stubborn, with a bark that sounds like a much bigger dog and a nose that will follow a scent through a hedge and out the other side. They love their people fiercely and often pick one person as their own. They are good with children who treat them with respect, suspicious of strangers until introduced, and they dig - flower beds, blankets, the sofa cushions. Training takes patience and a sense of humor; a dachshund will do what you ask, but only after considering whether it agrees.
Size, coat and care
Standard dachshunds weigh 16 to 32 pounds and stand about 8 to 9 inches at the shoulder; miniatures are 11 pounds and under. There are three coats - smooth, longhaired and wirehaired - in reds, creams, black-and-tan, chocolate, and the marbled dapple and brindle patterns. The smooth coat needs almost no grooming, the longhaired coat a brush a few times a week, the wire coat an occasional stripping. The one thing every owner learns: protect the back. Keep a dachshund lean, use a ramp or steps for the sofa and the bed, and avoid letting them jump down from heights. With that care most live 12 to 16 years, and many go on well past.
A few things you may not know
Dachshunds are the smallest hound breed, and they are hounds, not terriers - the long ears are there to sweep scent up toward the nose. The word "hot dog" started with the dog: sausages in a bun were called dachshund sausages in the 1890s, and a cartoonist who could not spell the word shortened it. Picasso, Andy Warhol and David Hockney all kept dachshunds and painted them. The first Olympic mascot, at Munich in 1972, was a striped dachshund named Waldi. And a dachshund will sleep under a blanket every night of its life if allowed to, because a burrow is a burrow.
More Dachshund printables on this page
This page grows through the year. As we add new dachshund printables - planner pages, bookmarks, wall art, holiday sheets - they appear here as new sections, so the address stays the same and everything doxie lives in one place. If you would like a particular dachshund design, write to us at [email protected].