The one my family had did the exact same thing. He was also fantastic at crawling under the deck in the back yard looking for rabbit nests.

I have a Yorkie/Dachsund mix, and it middled out to make him essentially a Dachsund colored Jack Russell. This is basically his idea of doggie heaven.

I have two dachshunds and had to invest in those animals not filled with stuffing.

My dachshund is about three months old. We gave him a tennis ball the other day, and in about two hours he had every last fiber of that green fuzzy material torn off the ball.

He's proven to be a lousy hunter so far though. He just wants to play and be friends with everyone and everything, including the two mallards roosting in our back yard.