Wiener dogs are a truly special breed, and their owners came up with a way to celebrate them in style. The Southwold Sausage Walk takes place every year on the Suffolk coast, and this year’s events attracted thousands of dachshunds from all around the world.
The Southwold Sausage Walk organizers expected 500 to show up to this year’s event, but the number of dachshunds in attendance exceeded 1,000. In addition to the British wiener dog owners, people from all around the world gathered on the English coast, bringing their adorable pups along.
Laura Baggott has been organizing the event since 2017, and she’s happy to see it grow into such a huge sensation, while still keeping its friendly atmosphere.
“It’s such a good atmosphere and because it’s built over the years we now have stalls, we have music, we have a big raffle… You see so many people who now know each other. Nobody is really left out, we all get to know each other. It’s just like a friends’ day out,” she told BBC.
Back in 2022, this event set an unofficial record for the world’s biggest gathering of dogs of any single breed, with 2,238 pups in attendance. Baggott is hoping they’ll officially break that record when the event reaches its 10th anniversary, and maybe even have a statue of a sausage dog built in Southwold.
