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With all possible deference to the great Mr. Attenborough, I contend that nature documentary of the present day is disproportionately fixated on megafauna. What wonder and drama there is to behold in the world of smaller creatures, and how tragic it is that we overlook it! Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Caitlin Keegan's Dachshund Combat.

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This is a scene familiar to Tompkins Square naturalists like myself. The two contestants eye one another from opposite ends of the pitch and, abruptly and simultaneously, they boldly wave in the wind their heels and meet in a chaotic embrace at center field. A confusion of stubby limbs and tails and teeth turns and turns in a widening gyre. A snarl sounds, a growl is heard in reply, a muffled bark erupts. The battle disbands as rapidly as it was joined and the jousters return, undaunted, to their corners as the cycle begins anew.

Little is ever settled definitively in these bouts. As dusk approaches the pugilists retire to their respective dens for lazy naps, pride unblemished by the events of the afternoon.

  The elusive canis lupus familiaris salsīcius in her natural habitat.

My dachshund, Dottie Matrix (her nom de guerre is Dottie Agonistes), has some Etsy finds of her own:

Dog pillows by nakeddecor 

Sheriff bandana by quilterbyheart 

Wiener koozie by dbayou18

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