A teckel. What is a teckel? I hear you cry. Well, it's a very large wire-haired dachshund, bred to hunt boars and badgers*.  Very fierce? You think? Well not at the start when they look like this….  More brown slugs than attack dogs here!

It was January when I was informed that A Teckel Goddess Was Born.  Did I want one?  (I did).  Could I find a Welsh name beginning with K for her Kennel Club pedigree certificate **.  I could (with difficulty). Cloghaneely Kerridwen seemed a little long for