The Verstappen’s have owned dachshunds for over 30 years (according to Jos!) and as a dachshund lover myself I thought I would put together everything I know so far about the Verstappen sausages.
Spyke
Spyke is the most well known Verstappen dachshund as he was Max’s best friend for 11 years. Spyke lived with Jos and Max, until Max moved out, and then Spyke stayed with Jos.
Spyke died at the very end of 2020 and Max bid an emotional farewell to him on Instagram.
Zigi
Zigi is often confused for Spyke (as let’s be real they look the same) but Zigi is actually Sophie’s dog.
He is currently 14 years old and doing well! I think he had a sister called Zaza but I have not managed to find out very much about Zaza.
@tyrannosaurus-maxy also made me this gifset of Zigi (and Zaza?) from Max Verstappen: Whatever It Takes as Max fusses Zigi and Zaza in the video and they’re often spotted in the background.
Like here, where Zigi is watching Max play fifa.
Holly
Holly is a new addition! She lives with Sophie and Zigi. There is not currently any photos of Max with Holly and when there are you will know about it as I will likely combust.
Holly is an Isabella (this is a diluted colouring and makes me sad 😭) miniature smooth haired dachshund, which actually makes her different as up until now it appears the Verstappen’s have only owned miniature wire haired dachshunds.
Others
Jos does currently have a miniature wire haired dachshund but I am not sure of the name, however… here it is!
I believe this is Zaza? (Sophie’s dog and Zigi’s sister)
And then here are some more photos of Holly and Zigi!
(you can find all of these images on max, victoria, sophie, and jos’ instagram account and some are insta stories that I’ve saved because I’m obsessed with verstappen sausage dog lore)
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Hi my name is Zygismunt "Zigi" Berg and I have long greasy black hair and red tips that reaches my mid-back and icy blue eyes like limpid tears and a lot of people tell me I look like Ignus Nilsen (AN: if u don't know who he is get da hell out of here!). I'm not related to Frantiček the Brave but I wish I was because he's a major fucking hottie. I'm a communist but mostly just so that I can insult people by calling them bourgeois. I have pale white skin. I'm also a nihilist, and I can spend time in the pale without any negative effects which I've been doing for several decades (I'm thirty nine). I'm a rocker (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly black. For example 20 years ago I was wearing my favourite black leather jacket with seven white stripes running down the back, black jeans and black combat boots. I was walking outside Karl Lund's house because I hate him. It was snowing and raining so there was no sun, which I was very happy about. A lot of bourgeois fuckers stared at me. I put up my middle finger at them.
what if i was a decaying rock star and you were the memories made cytoplasm of a communist revolutionary and we had a dialogue in which i stood for nihilism, what will destroy the world, and you stood for communism, or hope in humanity, that which will revive it
I would like to congratulate Zigi for making up a version of his blorbo in his head to dialectically take out his issues with, for decades, and managing to keep him reasonably in-character to the very end. Dude's faring better than most of us on Tumblr.
Liam's interview with impaulsive - I watched the whole thing so you don't have to. He said some stuff about the experience of being in 1D, about being lost himself, and about Zayn. He said some nice stuff about Louis also.
I continue to be concerned about Liam's alcoholism - he talks about being drunk and wasted. He's even day drinking whiskey on the interview. He says he's lost and doesn't know who he is, is just imitating others. That's insightful but sad.
He didn't trash Zayn like Twitter is chirping he did. He did make a low blow reference to the Jake Paul fight where Gigi had tweeted "get yourself a respectful man" and Liam said, that didn't age well, presumably referencing the breakup drama.
But it's not a complete bagging on Zayn. Here's the full quote:
Liam: There's many reasons why I dislike Zayn and there's many reasons while I'll always, always be on his side. If I had had to go through what he went through - through his growth and whatever else - are your parents very supportive?
INT: Very, very.
Liam: My parents are overly supportive to the point where it's annoying sometimes...and Zayn - Zayn had a different upbringing in that sense, and you can always look at the man for where he is and say oh yeah, whatever, that guy's a dick, right? But at the end of the day once you understand what he's been through to get to that point, and whether or not he actually even wanted to be there.....
I don't agree with any of his actions, I can't commend some of the things he's done. I can't be on his side for that. What I can say is I understand and I hope that - your only hope is that sometime in your life the person on the other end of the phone wants to receive the help that you're willing to give."
That's a fair thing to say. Sounds like someone establishing healthy boundaries, who does actually care, who gets why it's not simple, and who hopes the other person will be better.
Also Liam on industry abuse - having agoraphobia now from having been locked into hotel rooms by 1D management: