(1 May 2025)
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Budapest, Hungary – 1 May 2025
1. Mid of dachshunds
2. Wide of dachshunds and their owners walking together
3. Mid of István Sebestyén, registrar and president of the Hungarian Records Association
4. Mid of dachshunds on the march
5. Wide of dachshunds and their owners walking together
6. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) István Sebestyén, registrar and president of the Hungarian Records Association:
"Our important task here is, by taking into account and recording the data, to determine as factually as possible the number that will be able to set the Hungarian record for the largest number of dogs of the same breed.”
7. Pan of dachshunds and their owners walking together
8. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) István Sebestyén, registrar and president of the Hungarian Records Association:
"There are a lot of people doing something special in a specific place at the same time. We don’t usually take dachshunds on walks in droves, so this experiment has to correspond to this system of rules.”
9. Wide of dachshunds and their owners walking together
10. Close of dogs
11. Wide of dachshunds and their owners walking together
12. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Lili Horvath, dachshund owner:
"He has very deeply human qualities and is very loyal. He’s really a love bomb. He’s like a little person.”
13. Wide of a woman petting a dachshund
14. Close of dogs playing
15. Tilt down from an owner to a barking dachshund
16. Wide of owners with their dogs
17. Close of a dachshund
18. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Valeria Fabian, dachshund owner:
"A dog brings consistency into a person’s life because they have to be taken for walks. But few people are capable of giving this kind of selflessness, because people don’t have as much love and self-sacrifice as a dog can give a human.”
19. Mid of dachshunds on leash
20. Mid of dachshunds and their owners walking together
21. Mid of person carrying their dog
22. Wide of dachshunds and their owners walking together
STORYLINE:
Throngs of dachshunds strutted in Hungary on Thursday as they tried to reach a record for the country’s biggest ever dog walk of a single breed.
Hundreds of dogs and their owners gathered at the Budapest City Park and walked in a long, barking loop in the spring sun.
The parade of pups was under the observation of the Hungarian Records Association, which was tasked with determining whether the canine chorus could make it into the record books.
Just as the event had been unleashed, István Sebestyén, registrar and president of the association, said that his organization would carefully tally the number of participating dogs — a challenge, he said, when so many hounds and humans were gathered in one place.
"We don’t usually take dachshunds on walks in droves, so this experiment has to correspond to our system of rules,” he said.
Dachshunds, a short, muscular breed with stubby legs, were first bred in Germany, and represent one of Hungary’s most popular breeds.
Also known as "wiener dogs” or "sausage dogs” for their long, thin body type, they were initially bred for hunting badgers and other burrowing creatures. But their loyal, curious and playful nature has also made them popular as family pets.
In Munich, Germany in 1972, a rainbow-colored dachshund named Waldi became the first official mascot in the history of the Olympic Summer Games.
Last September, the German city of Regensburg set the current world record for the largest dachshund dog walk as hundreds of the breed paraded through the medieval town center.
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