Cooper lived a good life in two families that loved him: Bradley Le Boeuf

Cooper won “Honorable Mention” in the Best Costume Contest last year in the National Dachshund Races in Findlay, Ohio. He wore a costume resembling a school bus. The windows of the bus were pasted with decals of dachshund passengers. He had crashed the contest, obviously out-of-place among the dogs small enough to waddle underneath him as if he was a bridge, writes guest columnist Bradley Le Boeuf.