On Saturday, Ross and I went to the Dachshund U.N., which was part of the Next Wave Festival.

It was part art instillation, part performance art and totally fun. We had a blast!

The artist (Bennett Miller) had created a scale replica of the United Nations office in Geneva, Switzerland, and filled each seat with a Dachshund -- 40 or 50 of them! 

I've read a few reviews for it today, most of them were good, however, I did read one that was bad, saying that the dogs seemed 'stressed' and that they had 'lost their dignity'. I certainly don't agree with that writer, however to be fair, we went to the 2nd performance, and she'd gone to the first, so maybe the doggies on that day were stressed. I don't know. But I do know that if I was a Dachshund owner (which I'm not, but I would like to be!), I wouldn't have come back for round two of the event, if I thought my dog was A/ stressed and B/ being made fun of.

There was a really good 'vibe' on the day we went, the owners and the dogs all looked happy, and any dogs that seemed unhappy were quickly swapped out.

Here are a few of the photos I took:

The whole set up:

A close up of the 'speaker'.

This guy was the 'speaker' when we arrived, he was really funny -- he's actually barking at a photographer
who was trying to take his photo, but check out his tail mid-wag! LOL.

 *ruff*

This old doggy looked very proud as she wheeled out to the podium, however she didn't look
very comfortable when she was up there, so they switched her out pretty quickly.

(I'm not actually positive it was a her!)

I didn't take this photo, it was on a newspaper website. But I loved the fact that Indonesia and
Burkino Farso seem deep in debate, whereas South Africa and India are planning an escape!

Garbon might actually be asleep! hehe.

It was a beautiful day in Melbourne!

Museum Victoria Website (Dachshund U.N. page)

Video about the event.

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