| "The
idea for "Squirrel Season" came to me when my husband
Brian and I walked our dachshunds Lizzie and Edgar in our neighborhood,
AKA "Squirrel Alley." Squirrels stimulate two entirely
different approaches to "hunting" them: manly Edgar simply
stares at a squirrel -- as if he can "will" it down from
the tree, while his eternally optimistic grandmother Lizzie leaps
and leaps, hugging the tree and nearly wearing the hair off her
chest, each time she attempts to reach it. My dachshund anatomy
mentor Weldon Long once commented about my Dream Chasers Series
that I had done the impossible: I had made a dog look as if it is
"on the move." It was Weldon's comment that encouraged
me to create Lizzie leaping. Actually, now that she is a teenager
(DOB 11/23/89), she uses the staring method too, but at age twelve,
she nearly climbed trees for squirrels! As with my other 1:6 scale
works, I modeled these dachshunds directly in wax and created the
bases to fit the action. Designed as a pair, they may be used as
bookends or as a two-part free-standing sculpture." - Joy Kroeger
Beckner
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