I have heard that you cannot breed a short hair dachshund with another short hair dachsund?

Question

or that the babies will come out deformed. is that true?

but that you have to breed it either with a long haired or wire haired

Answer 1

alrighty then that is a new one,definatly false,you were misinformed,think of it this way,were you to breed a long hair to a short hair,got some long hair and some short hair puppies out of the litter then bred those short hair offspring to a longhair you would be more likely to get more long hair puppies with this litter,should you breed those shorthair offspring to a longhair and so on and so forth you would eventually eliminate all the shorthair altogether,there would be no more short hair dachsunds left,so basicly what i am saying is in order to keep the short hair dachsund in existence you have to breed short hair to short hair to get true shorthair

Answer 2

No..thats not true. How do you expect the breed gets carried on then?


If you breed it with a long haired or wire haired then you wont end up with short haired dachshunds. Look at it this way, if a white person had children with a black person, the offspring wont be JUST black or just white. You need 2 of the same to make more of the same.

Answer 3

Not even close to being true! You can breed most Dachshund to most Dachshund and you will end up with a variety of Dachshunds in your litter, short hair long hair wire hair etc. It's all dependent on genetics, and the lines you have followed in order to get the desired results in your puppies.

The only thing frowned upon is breeding a dapple to a dapple. You can end up with a lethal gene known as the "white gene" and these puppies commonly have tons of problems ranging from death to blind eyes, no eyes, red eyes, deafness etc. Breeding a dapple to a dapple is a HUGE gamble in genetics! And not recomended by most breeders!

Answer 4

This is not the case.

You can cross coats. It is not advised that you breed a long to a wire because the longhair gene is dominant and it would cause the wire coat to become soft. You can cross a smooth and wire and in some cases, the coat of any resulting smooth puppies would be more correct, or hard in texture.

The prefered method of breeding dachshunds is to breed a smooth to a smooth, a wire to a wire, and a long to a long.

Whoever told you that a smooth to smooth breeding would result in deformaties, obviously knows nothing about breeding dachshunds!

Answer 5

No, this can't possibly be true. Short-haired dachshund is a specific breed and you need to breed a short hair with another short hair to stay true to the breed standard, so this can't be true.

Answer 6

Check the Pedigree Papers and see what blood lilnes each dog comes from. By knowing his parentage it will help you make a smart decission.

If all you have is AKC papers and no Pedigree then I would not breed them at all. Which means that you have pet quality dogs (would not meet the standards for the breed) and should be spayed & neutered. BYBer's don't know enough to be able to predict what kinds of faults those two specific dogs carry and would pass on to the puppies. By breeding them you are creating more of the masses that are euthanized each year.

A pure breed dog comes with Pedigree Papers. Without the Pedigree all you have is a couple of mutts. Sorry, child, but this be fact.

Answer 7

Wow, I don't know who told you that but it couldn't further from the truth. If you breed to a long haired or wired haired or any other breed for that matter you will never have a pure breed dog.

Answer 8

That's ridiculous. Someone might have shared an isolated anecdote with you.

I've visited a short-haired dachshund breeder. She breeds short-haired dachshunds with each other and the results are fine.

Answer 9

And you believed this ?? the short hairs are breed that way one to another--

Answer 10

There is a chance if the dogs are related. Pure breed dogs tend to have genetic problems. But no its not true if they are not related.