Bichon Frise vs Dachshund

Marketed as 'hypoallergenic' and easy, but that curly coat needs professional grooming roughly every four weeks for the dog's entire life or it mats painfully down to the skin, and the breed carries a real, well-documented risk of luxating kneecaps and lifelong dental crowding that small-dog buyers routinely underestimate.

That long back and short legs aren't just a cute silhouette — they're a genuine spinal deformity (chondrodystrophy) that gives Dachshunds one of the highest disc-disease rates of any breed, and a dog that's jumped off the couch for years without incident can still end up suddenly paralyzed.