Dachshund Calendars for 2027 (Starring Your Own Wiener Dog)

The best dachshund calendar for 2027 is the one with your own wiener dog in it: twelve of your photos, their name on the cover, printed to order in 2-4 business days and backed by the Happy Tails happiness guarantee. A store calendar hands you twelve well-groomed strangers. Yours stars the one who tunnels to the bottom of the duvet and barks at the mailman like a much larger animal. Here is how to build it.

Last updated: August 2026 · By Patrick McCarthy

Why does a store dachshund calendar feel a little off?

Every autumn the bookstore stocks a perfectly nice dachshund calendar. Twelve glossy hounds, all groomed, all sitting politely, none of them yours. That is the whole problem. The dachshund on the January page has never burrowed under your covers at 2am and resurfaced at your feet like a small warm submarine.

Dachshunds are a very large dog that was manufactured slightly too long and nowhere near tall enough, and a stock photo cannot carry that energy. The fix is a dachshund calendar that stars your hound: your photos on all twelve months, their name on the cover, in a style you pick. Our personalized pet photo wall calendar for 2027 does exactly that. Upload thirteen photos, type "Frank" or "Duchess Noodle" on the cover, and the printer handles everything else. No design skills needed, which is handy, because your dachshund has strong opinions and zero relevant qualifications.

Dachshund calendar: store-bought vs. your own hound

The honest side by side. The store calendar is a fine object. It simply contains the wrong sausage.

Feature	Personalized dachshund calendar	Store breed calendar
Who is in it	Your dachshund, all 12 months plus the cover	Twelve dachshunds who owe you nothing
The cover	Your best photo plus your dog's name	A stock portrait and a stock font
Coat types shown	Exactly one: whichever coat is asleep on you	Mostly smooth red, because smooth red photographs easy
Size shown	Yours, standard or miniature, correctly scaled to your couch	Whichever the publisher licensed
Style choices	Classic, linen, sage, or blue	Whatever went to print
How it is made	Printed to order in 2-4 business days	Mass-printed months before it hits a shelf
Price tier	$$	$
If the print is wrong	Happy Tails guarantee: free reprint	Good luck finding the receipt
What happens in 2028	It moves to the keepsake drawer	It moves to the recycling

That last row is the entire argument. A store calendar is disposable. A calendar carrying your dachshund's first-snow outrage in January and their birthday side-eye in June is a yearbook, and nobody recycles a yearbook.

Which calendar style suits a dachshund?

Dachshunds arrive in three coats (smooth, long-haired, wire-haired) and a paint chart running red, cream, black and tan, chocolate, dapple and piebald. Color matters here, because a long low dog reads as a horizontal shape from across a room, and the background either helps that shape or eats it.

• Classic. The classic 2027 layout gives your photo the whole top half and a clean grid below. Best for black and tan or chocolate hounds: dark fur needs width and room to read from the far side of the kitchen.
• Minimalist linen. The linen calendar is a warm neutral that flatters a red or cream smooth coat beautifully. Very "dog asleep in a laundry basket that was, until recently, clean."
• Minimalist sage. The sage calendar is soft green, which suits a wire-haired dachshund's scruffy salt and pepper eyebrows without going stark. Calm on the wall, unlike the beard.
• Minimalist blue. The blue calendar is crisp and cool, and it does something specific for a dapple: the mottled pattern stops competing with the background and starts looking deliberate.

All four are 8.5x11 inches on sturdy stock and hang from the same hook, so choose purely on looks. Compare them side by side in the calendar collection. Two dachshunds in the house? Make two calendars. They will not share, they have never shared, and you know this.

How do you cast twelve months of a dachshund?

Dachshunds have one casting advantage most breeds do not: their comedy is structural. The dog is shaped like a joke and behaves like a much bigger animal who has not been told. Cast it like this:

1. January: the burrito. Wrapped in a blanket with only a nose showing, radiating disapproval of winter as a concept.
2. February: the duvet tunnel. Photograph the lump mid-migration, before it surfaces at your knees and demands to know why it is cold.
3. March: the standing meerkat. Back legs down, paws up, chest out, certain something in the kitchen concerns them.
4. April: the excavation. Dachshunds were bred to go down badger holes and your flower bed is the nearest available badger. Get the dirt on the nose.
5. May: the full-length side profile. The month that justifies the entire breed. Shoot square on, whole dog, frame to frame.
6. June: the birthday or gotcha day. Party hat on for four seconds, dignity gone for a year. Worth it.
7. July: the sunbeam sausage. Stretched to maximum length across the warmest strip of floor in the house, measurable in feet.
8. August: the bark at nothing. Mid-yodel, ears flying, defending the household from a distant car door.
9. September: the sweater. Long dogs need long sweaters, and long sweaters look ridiculous, and that is the entire point.
10. October: the hot dog costume. Yes, it is the obvious joke. It is also the joke that gets the most laughs near your fridge.
11. November: the lap claim. Any lap, ideally a guest's, occupied within eleven seconds of them sitting down.
12. December: under the tree, on a gift, refusing to move. Bonus points if a bow ends up on the dog.

Then the cover: the sharpest, most eye-contact-having photo you own, probably already on your fridge. It gets seen from across the room, so clarity matters more there than on any single month. Our dog calendar cover photo guide settles the argument in two minutes.

How do you photograph a dog that is longer than your frame?

This is the real skill question for the breed. A dachshund is a horizontal animal, and most people photograph pets vertically, from standing, which turns a magnificent hound into a small brown smudge near a shoe. Fix it with four habits:

• Turn the phone sideways. Landscape orientation is built for this dog. It is the single biggest improvement available and it costs nothing.
• Get on the floor. Down at knee height they read as a dog. From standing they read as a rug with a face. Lie down, elbows on the carpet, camera at nose level.
• Shoot the profile on purpose. Stand square to the side and let the whole length run across the frame. Other breed guides say fill the frame with the face. For a dachshund, at least three months should be the whole dog.
• Watch the background clutter. A long low dog collects background: table legs, chair legs, one shoe. A plain rug or a bare wall gives that silhouette room to be funny.

One kindness while you are at it: skip the photo where they leap off the sofa. Dachshund backs are famously fragile, and no calendar photo is worth a disc injury. There is plenty of comedy at ground level anyway.

And genuinely, any photo works: blurry phone snapshots, screenshots your dog sitter texted, the one your dad took at a forty-degree angle. The designer crops and places everything. Your only job is deciding which side-eye earns a month.

Who should get a dachshund calendar as a gift?

Anyone your dachshund has formally adopted as staff. The list is longer than the dog:

• The grandparents who ask after the granddog before the grandchildren. Twelve months of updates in one box, and it pairs well with a custom pet photo mug so the burrower can supervise their morning coffee too.
• The partner who insists the dog likes them best. A calendar plus a custom pet sweatshirt lets them argue the case in public and at volume.
• The friend with a new dachshund puppy. Build one from their first year. The ears alone are worth twelve months.
• You. For the desk at work, where a dachshund calendar reliably stops foot traffic. Everyone has a dachshund story and every one runs six minutes.

Ordering for the holidays? Place it by late November so printing (2-4 business days) and US delivery (typically about 5-10 business days) both clear before the wrapping starts. If one wall is not enough, that same long dog looks genuinely spectacular blown up on a custom pet canvas, rides along on a custom pet tote bag, or lives permanently on a custom pet phone case for people who show strangers dog photos unprompted. You know exactly who you are. For a dozen more ideas, our gifts for dachshund owners guide has the full list.

Frequently asked questions

Can I make a dachshund calendar with my own dog's photos?

Yes. Upload twelve photos plus a cover, add your dachshund's name, pick a style, and we print it to order. Phone snapshots are fine, including the one that is mostly nose.

Which calendar style looks best with a dapple or black and tan dachshund?

Blue for dapples, because it stops the mottling competing with the background. Classic for black and tan or chocolate, since dark fur needs the big top-half photo to read across a room.

How many photos do I need for a dachshund calendar?

Thirteen: one per month plus the cover. Make at least three of them full-length side profiles. The whole dog end to end is the funniest shape in dogs and it deserves the wall space.

Can I put my dachshund's name on the cover?

Absolutely. The cover carries your dog's name in a font matched to your chosen style, so it reads "Frank 2027" down the whole hallway. Absurd noodle-based nicknames warmly encouraged.

How long does a dachshund calendar take to arrive?

Each one is printed to order in 2-4 business days, and US delivery typically takes about 5-10 business days. Order by late November and it lands well before the under-the-tree occupation begins.

What if my calendar arrives with a print defect?

The Happy Tails happiness guarantee covers it with a free reprint, no hoops and no interrogation. Full details live on our FAQ page, but the short version is we fix it, fast.

The bottom line

A dachshund calendar from the bookstore holds twelve hounds and not one of them has ever tunneled to the foot of your bed and gone back to sleep there. A personalized one has the burrower, the digger, the sunbeam sausage, on every month of 2027 with their name printed on the front. Pick a style from the calendar collection, cast your thirteen photos (turn the phone sideways, this is the one rule), and give the long brave hound the twelve-month feature they have assumed was theirs all along.

Keep reading: our roundup of the best dog calendars for 2027, plus a dozen more gifts for dachshund owners who have long since accepted their role as household staff.