Significant Changes in Standard Smooth Dachshunds Since WW II, Volume III
Download this page in PDF formatBy this time in the mid-’60s, the Smooth Dachshund Variety was huge in the Dog Show Ring in both numbers and quality, with many of them coming from the new Dachshunds that Tommy and Jean Dunk were adding in such a spectacular manner from Florida. Even though one of their first litters, with Falcon’s Favorite ROMO and Forester ROMO in it, was born in Florida, both of that litter’s parents were born and bred from the new lines from California that were changing the appearance of the American Dachshund line that the Heyings, the Shultis and Woodie Dorward were working on. All of their Dachshunds had a different look than most and a lot of that appearance was coming from CH Favorite v Marienlust and the little-used, but very prepotent, CH Dimas Earthstopper, along with help from the early Gera males, CH White Gable Basil and CH Badger Hill Nobby helping out so much. It must have been fantastic to see it all in person, but the pictures that breeders have left us show where they were going and the beauty that this new look captured. Remember, much of this change came from a Dog Show in California that Fred Heying judged his appreciation of the beauty of the Earthstopper daughter, CH Rivenrock Dorcas, and how he shared that information with a few out in California, and they, too, saw her, recognized the differences and started breeding and choosing puppies a new way with Fred and Rose’s great CH Favorite v Marienlust, and. later, CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO, to lead the way. There were lots of new dogs and bitches being shown back then and the Dachshunds from Marienlust, Badger Hill, White Gable, Heying-Teckel and Gera made that new look stick. To me, anyway, this change pleased me so much. This transfer was complete when I started breeding in the late ’70s, so this newer type is all I ever worked with in the Dachshund Breed.
When you see the way this look spread across the USA when breeders like Marcia Wheeler and Janet Wayock became breeders and owners of some of these younger dogs like CH Saber of Gera and CH Fleet of Gera and some great bitches and soon Dachshund breeders like Peggy Westphal and CH Sheen v Westphalen ROMO along with Thelma Moffet and all her Gera bred Dachshunds were also breeding these dogs with that beautiful new look and great movement since they were the ones winning so much in the Show Ring in the early ’60s. Marcia Wheeler certainly was a fan since she bred so many great ones and big winners through CH Saber of Gera and Janet Wayock also had her great old show dog, CH Fleet of Gera, and his daughter, CH Barbara of Gera, that she thought had the perfect outline (and I, pretty much, feel the same way) and the two 0f those Gera-bred Dachshunds produce that type for the Timbar look which Janet kept on producing down through the years.
Tommy and Jean Dunk, with a lot of help through Janet Wayock’s version of what a real Dachshund should look like, decided on using CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO on one of their first litters and they certainly hit the sweet spot when that litter was born. While there were many outstanding ones from the pairing with CH Fleming’s Cherry Carmella ROMX, the two main ones were CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Forester ROMO, owned by the Charles Stalters from the East Coast, and the Dunk’s own CH Dunkeldorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMO, both of them becoming top sires. They both were used a lot and spread that ‘new look’ into other bloodlines where it spread all over America. Looking at these two Dunkeldorf-bred Dachshunds, Forester did not pass on that heavy shyness that almost ruined the breed back then and so Forester had many happy offspring in the Eastern area that were great to show and live with. Falcon’s Favorite was quite another matter as that terrible temperament he passed on was not present at birth and most of those bad parts showed up AFTER their first season. This was not apparent at first and so many people, when they saw the outlines of their new puppies (and those outlines he threw were quite spectacular), used him and got that great profile on his new puppies, but many ALSO had a bad temperament that made the dogs unshowable. The problem was the dogs from the Dunks were just too good to pass up and, once they had that outline and movement (and that horrible temperament), they always bred the bitches and dogs with it and it just kept spreading wider and wider in the Dachshund breed. Later in the seventies, there came a time when the Dachshunds being shown were so crazy that no Judge could even touch them, but they were still being used to pass on that impossible temperament. When I started breeding back then, I saw the problem and I just NEVER bred any Dachshund I had that EVER had a bad temperament. It was harsh, but it did stop that shyness from ruining my line. Many were not so lucky.
Anyway, in looking over the problems that came down from the Dunk’s Falcon/Cherry Carmella litter, I have to say the quality was always there, but so was that temperament problem. In looking at their pedigree now, I saw that Falcon had two crosses back to CH Dimas Earthstopper and the bitch Polly Fleming bred, CH Fleming’s Cherry Carmela had seven Earthstopper crosses behind her. Many breeders probably thought that the breeding should never have been done, but, as I look at what they produced, I think we should always take advantage of the great ones in our midst and use them if we can. Many critics and breeders looked at the Dunkeldorf litter and decided that CH Fleming’s Cherry Carmela ROMX should never have been bred to Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO, because CH Dunkeldorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMO threw many instances of bad temperaments that usually showed up when the dog was over six months and going through a season. That is good to SAY, but there was so much quality in Smooths that the breeders never wanted to not use these beautiful Dachshunds and lose the advantage they had in type, style and movement, while the bad temperament was just one part of it. Polly Fleming was a dedicated Dachshund person who was active for a long time, breeding many nice dogs and was, to my knowledge, never behind any big problems in the Breed. The problem was she was married to a Judge from Los Angeles and could only have a small number of dogs at the same time. While she bred a lot, she couldn’t keep many back and watch how they matured so she did a lot of breeding and always had good results. She did, however, produce CH Fleming’s Cherry Carmela ROMX who, when bred to the Heying’s CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO, produced CH Dunkeldorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMO who did pass on a few bad qualities, but Cherry Carmela also produced his litter brother, CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Forester ROMO, who did not produce that shyness. I realize everyone likes to say what they would have done in the same situation, so I will say that no one likes to have bad qualities come from their dogs and I also have to say that Polly Fleming didn’t either because she certainly never bred a Dachshund that was going to create a problem that could not be fixed. In other words, it was just as big a surprise for her when that incredible shyness became such a problem in the Smooth Variety because she was a breeder who was always health conscious when breeding Dachshunds and was probably taken aback when this happened in the remarkable Falcon/Cherry Carmela pairing.
Cherry Carmela and Falcon produced something which was already behind them in their pedigrees and the problem arose when their two bloodlines were mixed together.
Was it a great breeding? Yes
Did it improve the line? Yes
Did it contain a problem? Yes (and with a little more knowledge that problem could have been fixed earlier.)
Was that any reason not to ever use the parents or the offspring? No
Remember, first of all, no one EVER tries to breed dogs with problems, but sometimes they occur. In other words, don’t blame the Heyings, Polly Fleming or Tommy and Jean Dunk for a shyness problem that occurred and was easily fixed. That breeding, even with this problem which almost ruined the Standard Smooth Dachshund, made the Smooth Variety better than it was before as the type and outline of the Dachshunds was always getting to be at this time.
At this time in Dachshunds, starting back in ’62, when Marcia Wheeler showed Barbara Lovering’s CH Willo-Mar’s Night and Day to BV and BB at the DCA National Specialty held with the Westminster KC Show in February in NYC. The Breeder-Judge was the fantastic George Spradling from Kansas and, when shown by Marcia Wheeler (after Handler Jerry Rigden had her trained!), Night and Day won easily and, if you knew Mr Spradling’s record and his attraction to the Heying-Teckel and Gera Dachshunds, he easily picked out Night and Day who looked like she just stepped out of the Heying-Teckel or Gera Kennel. As I wrote earlier, she was one I would take home with me as well since I so admire the new look that this Gera and Heying-Teckel-bred bitch possessed. More importantly, she was the second of this new look to be BV and BB at this National Specialty, but that look made it almost impossible for George Spradling to pass her by. What a win for that great bitch, CH Willo-Mar’s Night And Day, who had some offspring following closely behind her and these will be coming up quickly and show the progress that this new Dachshund look is making in the USA.
The next year, the ’63 DCA National Specialty was held in Pebble Beach, California and Smooths were judged by the Master, John Cook of Kleetal Dachshunds from New Jersey. He put up for BV and BB a homebred CH Lynsulee’s Luckibelle ROMX, owned and shown by Phil and Eleanor Bishop from Ohio and Luckibelle was sired by CH Willo-Mar’s Lucky Star who was by CH Saber of Gera with the new Smooth Dachshund breeding and whose dam was a littermate to CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO’s dam as both came from the Gera kennel and, of course, had the CH Dimas Earthstopper cross behind them several times. Lucky Star’s dam was Bayard Elise who was sired by a Bencelia Champion who was all Marienlust breeding and Elise was out of a Gera Bred bitch from Texas who was all CH Favorite and Gera on the bottom with a few crosses to CH Dimas Earthstopper always there. Luckibelle’s dam, Lynsulee’s Maribelle whose sire was CH Caseway Thunderbird (bred by Helene Case from Kentucky) who was sired by the almost ever-present CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO whose whole breeding was that new line from California with Favorite and Gera, with two crosses to the great CH Dimas Earthstopper back there as well. Thunderbird was owned at this time by the Bishops themselves and his dam was CH Caseway Kanilda who was by CH Caseway Kandi Man who went back to CH Favorite v Marienlust ROMO and Kanilda was out of nice unfinished bitch who went back to Favorite again along with a lot of George Spradling’s Hainheim breeding and more Marienlust. Maribelle’s dam was a typy Hainheim bitch whose pedigree was CH Hainheim’s Lance, CH Lance of Heying-Teckel, and more CH Favorite of Heying-Teckel and lots more Hainheim and Marienlust on the dam’s side. I know people have said that John Cook and Phil Bishop did not want CH Favorite v Marienlust ROMO behind their dogs, but after this ’63 DCA showing where John Cook awarded Phil Bishop’s CH Lynsulee’s Luckibelle ROMX these awards even though she carried eight crosses back to CH Favorite v Marenlust with lots of Heying-Teckel, Gera and Badger Hill behind her that perhaps their mood had changed. This was the third DCA where that new California look was winning and this bigger and sharper image was truly taking command in the Dachshund Show Ring. During this era, there was a real divide between the East Coast and the West Coast and some East Coast breeders hung onto the older dogs with the Marienlust look while the country seemed to be choosing the new look, started by the Heyings, the Shultis of Gera, Woodie Dorward and the Van Courts of White Gable Kennel, that came down from the CH Rivenrock Dorcas bitch mated to the great producer and real game-changer CH Favorite v Marienlust ROMO. Many older, Eastern breeders did not want to lose their advantage and so probably downplayed their feelings by saying bad things about the West Coast dogs (even CH Favorite v Marienlust ROMO who was ALL Marienlust breeding) and the truly great dogs that the California breeders were bringing out to show. The California breeders had already sold that new line to Marcia Wheeler and Thelma Moffett who were winning on the East Coast with their Gera, Heying-Teckel and Red Locket-bred Dachshunds. The new look was, in my mind, really taking over the Dachshund scene, especially at the DCA National Specialty where it was not wanted at all. Many breeders from the East started to say they didn’t use CH Favorite and the other Gera and Heying-Teckel bloodlines, but, in looking at the pedigrees of the winning dogs, this information was not true and most used them as the whole country was choosing the typier and better moving Dachshunds to represent them in the Show Ring.
After the Dunk’s great litter was born, the next ’64 DCA was held in NYC and Mr. Frank Hardy showed up with a class dog, Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Forester, purchased from Tommy and Jean Dunk, for Mr and Mrs Charles Stalter. He entered the B&T Open Dog class at the National and was soon the winner of BV, BW, BV and BB under renowned Breeder-Judge Jeannette Cross, who must have been a big proponent of the older Marienlust look since she campaigned the great CH Gunther v Marienlust to win BV and BB at the National Specialty three different times during WW II. As you can see from these placings, a sea change was being made in the Dachshund Show Ring and it gets even louder with the next few DCA National Specialties
The Stalters who were from NJ had a long history of owning top-winning Show Dogs and, in their original breed, Scottish Terriers, they also won BIS at the ’65 Westminster KC Show (which was then America’s most famous one) with their own CH Carmichael’s Fanfare. They were important dog people indeed and I am sure did not feel one way or the other about what type their new dog was, but he, being by CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO and out of CH Fleming’s Cherry Carmela ROMX was 100% the new Dachshund. Their other bitch, CH Christi Dachs Camile who was BV at the ’64 Westminster Show, was also a new Dachshund from her California-bred pedigree where she was sired by CH Raven of Heying-Teckel II and that Falcon son helped his line which was all Heying-Teckel and full of CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel and the Gera cross with hints of CH Dimas Earthstopper behind her. Needless to say, much more will be said about this Barberry Knowe Kennel as their history is just getting started.’
The next DCA National Specialty was held in Houston Texas in 1965 and Smooths were judged by Norman ‘Bud’ Lough and, in this instance, Tommy and Jean Dunk hired one of the best East Coast handlers, Bill Callahan, to show CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Fantasy, their Smooth BV entry who was from that golden CH Falcon/CH Cherry Carmela litter. Judging the National Show, Mr. Lough, one of the most popular Breeder-judges there was back then, soon found the beauty that Fantasy held and made her BV and BB winner and that made it five to nothing for the new look in Dachshunds. That look, profile and movement had broken through and captured the Dachshund Fancy. That was a lot of work that the Heyings, the Shultis, Woodie Dorward, Miriam and Albert Van Court, Marcia Wheeler, Janet Wayock and the Dunks put into this project and it certainly paid off for them all. I am ready to give them a cheer to them right now. By the way, Fantasy was a beautiful bitch who never put a foot wrong in the Show Ring and easily won the prize in that oh-so-strong lineup.
This must have been a high for the Dunks in the Show Ring, but, by doing all this winning, your new Dachshunds are going to be used a lot. Once Forester was sold to Mr and Mrs Charles Stalter of Barberry Knowe Kennel in NJ, CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Forester ROMO became an excellent producer and many local East Coast breeders used him on many bitches as they all wanted that profile and style that he threw and Forester never seemed to have temperament problems in his line. However, it was the get of the fourth to finish, CH Dunkeldorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMO, that captured everyone’s attention. Favorite was used locally and when people saw the outline he produced that really caught their eye and that absolutely no one had produced before, they all wanted to use him at stud. Since this is the mid-60s, there were easy ways to ship their bitches to the Dunks to breed to Falcon’s Favorite and so many did and that probably explains why the new look that he produced with the bad temperament got passed all through the Country. From the late ’60s and ’70s, there was a cross to CH Dunkeldorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMO in practically every litter. All I can say is that the outline might have been there in every litter, but, unfortunately, so was that shyness issue coming along with it. Now, everyone thinks we know how to cure it, but, as I keep saying, this was something different than an ‘iffy’ temperament which was also in the Smooth Variety at this time.
Then came the ’66 DCA National Specialty and it was going to be held in NYC on their February Westminster weekend and the Judge would be Ramona Andrews Van Court for the Smooth Variety. Coming back again was breeder Barbara Lovering who had entered a B&T eleven-month-old Bred By dog, Crosswynds Cracker Jack, who was a grandson of Barbara’s great bitch CH Willo-Mar’s Night and Day who had been BV and BB at the ’62 DCA National which was shown at this site as well. Anyway, Mrs Van Court quickly gave Cracker Jack the Bred By class, WD, BW, BV and BB of that ’66 National Specialty. What a day that was and it was far from CH Crosswynd’s Cracker Jack’s last great day at the Dachshund Club of America National Specialty Show. He had only been shown once before as a younger puppy and this was the second time he had been in the Show Ring. Looking at Cracker Jack’s pedigree, it is obvious that he is all “new” Dachshund on his pedigree like his grandmother, Night and Day. Cracker Jack did manage to get that new look and Cracker Jack and his younger red brother, CH Crosswynd’s Firecracker, turned out to be very nice producers for their owners. They were down from CH Saber of Gera who was all Badger Hill, Gera, CH Favorite and the ever-present CH Dimas Earthstopper on the sire’s side and the CH Saber of Gera/CH Hainheim’s Olinda breeding on the dam’s side. He and Firecracker certainly did have great background that looked wonderful on the pedigrees and certainly produced well, too.
Barbara Lovering, owning Night and Day and breeding Cracker Jack and Fire Cracker, who was owned by Mrs. Florence Parker and her daughter, Marcia Wheeler, gave a lot of power to the new Dachshund look since their whole Willo-Mar and Crosswynd look was that Gera/Heying-Teckel line with lots of older lines thrown in as well, such as CH Badget Hill Nobby, all the White Gables dogs, such as White Gables Basil, and many of the old Marienlust dogs that fit their idea of type and movement. The California type was setting the style along with the great-looking Dunkeldorf Dachshunds from Florida and the CH Sheen v Westphalen ROMO offspring from the Westphal kennel in NYC. These dogs had the type, style, outline and movement that the whole Dachshund community was on the lookout for and it was all showing up here in the Crosswynd and Willo-Mar Dachshunds.
I also have to say that when I started showing across the country that I did see Barbara Lovering, Marcia Wheeler and Mrs Florence Parker a lot and saw them often when they came to the Dachshund Shows. I always found them (and Marcia’s daughter Sharon) all to be humorous and a joy to talk with. I realize that, when the three of them sat together at the show in a small group and talked, the opinions were flowing as they all were VERY opinionated! I truly would have loved to know what they said in their little group together. I bet it was extremely interesting…and still very amusing!
After the ’66 DCA National, Barbara took Cracker Jack home and finished him quickly. He was a great Dachshund and so rarely lost. Barbara then hired handler Frank Hardy to show him at an East Coast Specialty where he was BV and BB! However, by October, Mr and Mrs Charles Stalter owned CH Crosswynd’s Cracker Jack and he joined CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Forester ROMO and his son, CH Dunkeldorf’s Jagerlust as great show dogs for Frank and Dorothy Hardy to show. Cracker Jack then won BV and BB at the ’66 Met Washington DC Specialty to start his career with them. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stalter, from NJ, were long-time Scottish Terrier breeders and exhibitors who had just won BIS at the incredible ’65 Westminster Show with a brindle bitch, CH Carmichael’s Fanfare, who was sired by a Barberry Knowe Scottie and owned by the Stalters. Their Scotties were shown by Scottish import, Johnny Murphy (uncle of current popular AKC Judge Desmond Murphy, who worked for his uncle Johnny back then and often exhibited the Stalter’s Dachshunds as well) who showed many great Show dogs from that glorious era. With their long career in dogs going on, Mr and Mrs Stalter decided to start with Dachshunds and hired Frank Hardy, a Dachshund expert, to show them. Since they were from the East Coast, they started with some Marienlust-bred Dachshunds and finished a few and then Frank Hardy saw the young Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Forester ROMO with the Dunks and purchased him to take to the ’64 DCA National Specialty where he won the Open Red, WD, BW, BV and BB which was held on the weekend before the Westminster KC Show. What a way for them to start. CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Forester ROMO turned out to be quite a producer and a big winner all up and down the East Coast. They finally added another Forester son, CH Dunkeldorf’s Jagerlust, from the Dunkeldorf Kennel right before the ’66 DCA National. CH Jagerlust did produce well enough to get the numbers for an ROMX and Jagerlust was behind Dee’s CH Karlstadt’s Lionel ROMO and many of Dorothy Muse’s Museland Standard Smooths. Jagerlust, too, did leave his mark.
At that, ’66 DCA, Barbara Lovering did win WD, BW, BV and BB with her very own CH Crosswynd’s Cracker Jack who was the talk of that DCA Specialty show and was later purchased by the Stalters who had a kennel full of great producers and all three of them were down from the California crosses who were making the current Standards look we wanted them all to look like. All three of the Stalter’s Specials (Forester, Jagerlust and Cracker Jack) won a lot and were fantastic producers for the new owners and the new one, CH Crosswynd’s Cracker Jack ROMX, was soon heading back to the Garden for the ’67 Westminster KC Dog Show where he was chosen BV by Judge Anna K Nicholas and later Group III under the esteemed Mrs. Ramona Van Court. CH Cracker Jack had been winning a lot and looked pretty great in that huge Show Ring. At the next DCA held in ’67 in Cleveland, OH, Cracker Jack was chosen BV and BB by Breeder-Judge George Spradling for the second time in a row and that surely must have been a thrill for the long-time breeders from California of that new Smooth Dachshund look since they had been truly trying to change the way we look at the Smooth Variety since the end of WW II. Then, CH Cracker Jack was still winning and was kept showing and gathering top prizes. The next year in 1968, they were back in NYC for the Westminster Weekend and, at the DCA National Specialty which was held right before the Garden in NYC, CH Crosswynd’s Cracker Jack was chosen BV and BB again for the third time. What a thrill that was and, at the huge DCA show, BOSV was the new CH Fleming’s Jolly Julie (shown by John Wade and bred by Polly Fleming), WD was CH Harmo Jackpot who was a Cracker Jack son. At the Westminster KC Show, CH Crosswynd’s Cracker Jack ROMX was chosen as BV by long-time Dachshund Breeder-Judge Charles Kellogg from Milwaukee and Cracker Jack, later that night was placed Group One by Hollis Wilson. Having the Smooths winning like this must have been a sight to see so my hat certainly went off to his breeder Barbara Lovering, her friend Marcia Wheeler, the fantastic new owners Mr and Mrs Charles Stalter and the great Dachshund man and handler Frank Hardy and his wife Dorothy. What a team and, so far, this new Dachshund look from California has been BV six times at the DCA National Specialty show. As you are watching the look has started to change all across the country as the whole country sees what the California breeders have been working on.
But, in the meantime, CH Crosswynd’s Cracker Jack ROMX, that B&T bombshell, is still out there winning. The next year in ’69, the Stalters went back to the Garden for Westminster KC without Frank Hardy who had passed away in late 1968, but with Dorothy Hardy showing Cracker Jack instead of Mr. Hardy. Mrs Ramona Van Court was judging Dachshunds so the dog won easily and then won ANOTHER Hound Group I under Judge Cyrus Rickel with Dorothy Hardy showing him. What a record this dog was making with the new look he added to the Smooth Dachshund. At this time, the Dunk’s are having great litters and beautiful dogs with good and bad temperaments and so are Barbara Lovering, Marcia Wheeler and Janet Wayock working hard in the background. Peggy Westphal is also having a grand time with her great CH Sheen v Westphalen ROMO who was by Falcon’s Favorite ROMO and out of a CH Fleet of Gera daughter, bred by Peggy herself. This new look is taking over the USA and that outline, type and movement grabbed the Dachshund breeders of the ’60s and ’70s, while transportation was so cheap, newer bloodlines from California, Florida and NY spread faster than they ever thought possible.
Anyway, before Cracker Jack retired, Dorothy took him down to the ’69 DCA National Specialty, held in Louisville where Smooths were being judged by Mrs. Thirza Hibner from California Cracker Jack was BOSV to the BV CH Fleming’s Jolly Julie (also from Polly Fleming ‘new look’ breeding from California) shown by Hannelore Heller from now on. WD and BW were Felsheim’s Bard’s Memory, RWD was Cracker Jack’s younger brother, Crosswynd’s Firecracker, WB was Dunkeldorf’s Kummel and RWB was Von Roblo’s Imperial and all of these carried that new look which was totally capturing the Smooth Variety and all of these dogs carried those newer lines from California. That show must have felt good to people looking at pedigrees as many of us still do even today.
Looking back from here in 2025, the bigger, more correct Dachshund which started in California right after WW II had just won the BV Smooth DCA National Specialty seven times in a row with two of them being Class Dogs. CH Felsheim’s Jolly Julie, owned by Dr. Fred Lawrence from Indianapolis, and CH Dunkeldorf’s Rittmeister won the next two BV’s at DCA and from then on the new look had really taken over the USA. As George Spradling, back in the ’60s, said when people around him were disparaging some that the bigger size is wrong in Dachshunds, he just said that ‘too big’ and ‘too little’ is just a complaint that people use about Judges. Mr Spradling said that he had seen both go up with the same judge if they are using type and structure in their decisions. He has seen some big ones, such as CH Dimas Earthstopper who was over thirty pounds, CH Rivenrock Dorcas who was over twenty five pounds and CH Albion’s Own Penelope ROMO who was over twenty seven pounds. Mr. Herbert Sanborn from Tennesee, was a true Dachshund authority and a real stickler on type, saw Penelope win an All-Breed BIS after Dr Sanborn gave her the St Louis Specialty the day before. Dr Sanborn said she was very correct and proportionate and he personally owned smaller standards and would have not put her up at the Specialty if her size bothered him. often changes th look of the American Dachshund, in both Standards and Miniatures, because the Standard size is not listed in the DCA Standard so that gives a lot of leeway for breeders to work in. As I said earlier, this ‘new’ look was what I grew up with and I am glad they settled on it.
Anyway, after Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stalter retired Cracker Jack after winning two Westminster Group I’s, three DCA National BV’s and one DCA BOSV, he was ready to go home to Barberry Knowe Kennel and, at that time, they had CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Forester ROMO, his son CH Dunkeldorf’s Jagerlust, CH Elfendorf’s Little Bit O’Jack and Cracker Jack all standing at their Barberry Knowe Kennel and all of them were big-winning, great-producing new Dachshunds who all came down from the older California dogs that helped create the new look that produced the Dachshunds that won 4 BVs and 4 BB’s at the DCA National Specialty for the Stalters in the ’60s. Being Top Breeders of Scottish Terriers with a Westminster KC All-Breed BIS in their Kennel gave them that standing, They produced many great Dachshunds that did well for themselves and they must have enjoyed these Dachshunds so much. I also have to say that when the Stalters passed away, CH Crosswynd’s Cracker Jack ROMX was given back to Barbara Lovering where his quality was still appreciated.
Anyway, another breeder from New England, Dr. Bill Nixon, also started breeding Dachsunds back in the ’60s and soon used many of these succesful older dogs in his pedigrees. He started with a bitch he bought from Peggy Westphal, So Sweet v Westphalen (who was a sister to CH Sheen v Westpahen ROMO’s dam, Fleet N’Lovely v Westphalen) who was a CH Fleet of Gera daughter out of Peggy’s great bitch CH Phalarope v Westphalen so, with Fleet as the sire, that bitch was full of all the new Smooth breeding from California and, when he used so many of the older dogs like CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Forester ROMO, CH Sheen v Westphalen ROMO, and CH Dunkeldorfs Jagerlust, he was concentrating on making the Smooths better as all of them were dogs that had the Gera/Favorite/Falcon look and they both were used all over the country since they certainly did produce the new Smooth image. Dr. Nixon was lucky because when he started breeding these top Dachshunds, Bobby Fowler and Howard Atlee joined forces and lived close to him so they were there to help pick out the puppies and also showed many of the bitches such as CH Nixon’s Forest Sprite, CH Nixon’s Penthouse Falforita and CH Nixon’s Penthouse Spreena. All of the Nixon Dachshunds were top Show dogs and he also had two top sires, CH Nixon’s Fleeting Encounter ROMX (owned and finished by Coletta Kinch) and CH Nixon’s Double Concerto (owned and finished by Ruth Williams and Jane Thomas Fowler) who wound up as Top Producers. His Nixon bitches always produced. Dr. Nixon had the touch, but he also used older males who had been Top Producers and were all from the line that was changing the Standard Smooth in the USA. Dr.Nixon also never doubled up on CH Dunkeldorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMX and instead used his son CH Sheen v Westpalen ROMO when he used Falcon Forester or Jagerlust. Whatever he did in breeding these great new ones, he made it better by using the best of the older Dachshunds as Stud Dogs. His bitches produced the best and so did his dogs. He certainly did make this look popular with his outstanding line and he was a great guy to talk to about the type and style that he liked. He is another that I still miss.
CH Nixon’s Fleeting Encounter ROMX, bred by Dr. Nixon, was owned by Coletta Kinch who always had some great ones at her side as she could pick out the best blindfolded, I thought back then. This dog was sired by CH Dunkeldorf’s Jagerlust who was by the great CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Forester ROMO and out of CH Nixon’s Penthouse Falforita who was by CH Sheen v Westphalen ROMO who was by CH Dunkedorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMO and out of CH Nixon’s Forest Sprite ROMX who was by CH Sheen v Westphal ROMO. Fleeting Encounter sired so well that so many people used him (and Double Concerto) a lot and that too spread the better profile and movement all over the Country. I remember when I saw the DCA BV winner CH Karlstadt’s Lionel ROMO in the Show Ring back in the ’70s, I was so impressed because I loved his Dachshund style so much as whenever I saw him standing and looking around, that look of his got me mainly because Lionel was sired by CH Nixon’s Fleeting Encounter ROMX who was sired by CH Dunkeldorf’s Jagerlust who had that same image looking at him from the front. Fleeting Encounter also sired the top special CH Museland’s Cybele, Cyril, Cybele and Cymric. Cyril went on to sire many Champions for the Barbadox Kennel including CH Barbadox Yolanda ROMX and CH Barbadox Andi ROMO who was the ’84 DCA National Specialty winner who later sired a young male who I awarded Best in Futurity at one of my first judging assignments back in ’86, CH Galadach’s My Boy Giorgio ROMO who ALSO was the ’87 DCA National Specialty BV winner)As you can tell by the ROMs on these dogs they were used by breeders all over the Country and that bloodline was ever growing. After being Clara Jean Davis helper at Carromall, Coletta herself wound up living at Bobby and Jane Fowler’s home and ran the kennel for them.
Jane Thomas Fowler also had a big winner that Dr Nixon bred in CH Nixon’s Double Concerto who was a big Special for her in the late ’60s and early ’70s and he had the look that Jane Fowler always wanted in her Dachshunds. Double Concerto, of course, was line-bred on CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO and CH Favorite v Marienlust ROMO through CH Dunkedorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMO and CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Forester and all the great Gera bitches including all their ties to the great old CH Dimas Earthstopper. What a pedigree he had and Double Concerto was used widely by Dorothy Muse in her first “A” litter, he was behind all the great Apple Hill Smooths and also was behind CH Cook’s Home Brew ROMX, was behind all the great Legibach Smooths and behind so many of Jane Fowler’s own Sandwood Dachshunds. Looking into what he produced willcertainly fill your mind and will also include the great B&T Group winner, CH Courtside Martina, owned by Pat Fellman. The new look of Double Concerto bred to the great Gera-bred bitches that Jane owned made your head spin. Two of the best Jane Fowler was involved in was Dorothy Muse’s ’74 DCA BV winner CH Sandwood Musette, owned by Dorothy Muse and shown by David Bolus, and another favorite, the ’92 DCA National Specialty Smooth BV winner, CH Luvadox Rose Parade SS, shown by Gina Middings for co-owner Pat Leone. Rose Parade was so magnificent that her looks depended on the two hits she got from two Standard Tallavast Dachshunds who were two Smooths down from Hannelore’s great CH Han-Jo’s Ulyssis L ROMO bloodline which also carried the new look in him as well and they were CH Tallavast Apollo and CH Tallavast Telemachus, merging from the Heying-Teckel, Gera, Dunkeldorf and Kleetal breeding. I felt Rose was as good as they got when I was judging her in the Specialty Ring. Jane also shared Janet Wayock’s body type fixation (as I did too) and Janet and Jane also used each other’s bloodlines along the way. Jane Fowler won WD/BW at the ’70 DCA National Specialty with CH Timbar’s Royale (line bred on CH Barbara of Gera, Janet Wayock’s foundation bitch) and with CH Sandwood Phillipe (a Double Concerto son) at the DCA National Specialty held in ’72. Being married to the handler Bobby Fowler let her have a lot of kennels to work her magic on and, if you look at her Sandwood Dachshunds carefully, you can see that she admired that Gera look and also the Nixon Stud dogs and, by the time I started judging, I could recognize her dogs because of the look and presence that they had. Knowing now, I can see where the changes came into her line and she always kept what she wanted and kept the type, presence and movement of the changes that came from California. She was always someone you could talk to and she absolutely made sense all the time. Another thing is you could see which breeders she helped and see the amazing progress they made (especially Gina Middings and Pat Leono with their Wires and Smooths). Knowing the breed and having the Fowlers helping you would be the kind of problem most of us would like to have as they were both talented breeders who were successful at showing great Dachshunds and they were always very willing to help out. The Fowlers made a difference when Dachshunds were at their peak. Jane Thomas Fowler is still out there breeding today and I tip my hat to the way she (and Bobby Fowler) helped Dachshunds.’
In looking back at his pedigrees, Dr Nixon did use CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Forester ROMO and his son, CH Dunkeldorf’s Jagerlust a lot in his breeding and, if he wanted a hit of CH Dunkeldorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMO, Dr Nixon used Peggy Westphal’s CH Sheen v Westphalen ROMO (who was Falcon Favorite’s son and CH Fleet of Gera’s grandson) and Sheen ROMO provided the profile, head and temperament that Dr Nixon liked. CH Sheen ROMO was a good-natured son of Falcon’s Favorite, also kept that spookiness away from Nixon’s line of Dachshunds. He produced some great ones from that newer California line of Smooth breeding and certainly spread it further with Fleeting Encounter and Double Concerto as they were both top producers for Coletta Kinch and Jane Fowler. The way his bitches and these two dogs produced had the Nixon line winning all across the USA and they seemed to be pretty healthy as well. They certainly got the job done as far as I was concerned. He was a really good breeder and having Howard Atlee (also a man who could ALWAYS find quality) and Bobby Fowler living so close and showing his Dachshunds certainly helped, too.
About this time, Tommy and Jean Dunk started to slow down in breeding Dachsunds after they started with a great litter and won so much with some top Show Dachshunds and a few great producers. To be honest, they still had some great ones coming out and, in ’71, they owned the Number One Smooth Dachshund, CH Dunkeldorf’s Rittmeister (DCA National BV and BB in ’70), and bred the Number Two as well (CH Dunkeldorf’s Richter, owned by the Frederiksen’s from Ill). Both were outstanding Dachshunds. The Dunk’s kept that quality up due to the nice number of bitches they had acquired earlier. From the pedigrees of those great bithes, you can certainly see Janet Wayock’s presence because of their outlines and breeding as there is a whole lot of Gera-bred bitches just waiting to be bred to those gorgeous Heying-Teckel/Gera Dachshunds of that first Dunk litter. The look that came down from their later breedings was outstanding. There was Corlew’s Shushiela, line-bred on CH Fleet and CH Faris of Gera, who produced four AKC Champions including CH Dunkeldorf’s Gunther (sire of CH Farmeadow Light Up The Sky ROMO, three time DCA BV winner) and CH Dunkeldorf’s Gerstmeister (’74 DCA WD). CH Sheen v Westphalen ROMO’s dam was a littermate to CH Timbar’s Bubbling Over who produced six AKC Champions such as CH Dunkeldorf’s Prachtig, CH Dunkeldorf’s Kaiser, CH Dunkeldorf’s Kummel (’69 DCA National WB) and Dunkeldorf’s Gimlet ROMX. Gimlet ROMX herself produced ten AKC Champions including CH Dunkeldorf’s Jagerlust, CH Dunkeldorf’s Richter and CH Dunkeldorf’s Rittmeister. CH Triste of Anchorage produced two AKC Champions including CH Dunkeldorf’s Mittkampfer who won an All Breed BIS from the classes. After the Dunks finished showing them, I have heard a lot of tales that are not anything I care to publish now, but I am going to ignore them and try to focus on the good parts of those beautiful Dachshunds who, in my opinion, were most likely as good as they can get in the early ’70s. As you can see, there were many great ones from that Jacksonville Kennel, since their Dachshund style really caught everyone’s eye, because the Dachshunds were so good in type with gorgeous outlines and beautifully movement. Again, producing and owning all these beautiful Dachshunds deserves nothing but respect from me, as I am sure that you all know what I like.
Sadly, besides all the great parts Dunkeldorf produced, some of that really horrible temperament came along with all the good things as well, mainly coming down through CH Dunkeldorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMX who produced the most gorgeous offspring but that horrible temperament was back there, too. It looked to many breeders like it was conquering the Breed, but FINALLY most people saw the problem and just stopped using those dogs in breeding and so, in a couple of years, they were back to being great in the Show Ring and that bad temperament seemed to be a thing of the past. I realize that many people blamed that whole slide on the Dunks and their litter, but no one realizes that the problem is going to be that horrific and long lasting. I don’t blame the Dunks, Fred and Rose Heying or Polly Fleming for the temperament as no one breeds Dachshunds to get problems, but it can happen whenever we breed dogs together. They produced this bad temperament in their line, but it was cured eventually. I prefer to give credit to the ones who bring out and show top quality Dachshunds as that is what I am alwys on the lookout for. If problems occur, we should be able to turn them around and stay clear of them in our own bloodline. These problems that occur shouldn’t just be blamed on the breeder as they did not breed the parents to produce it. It was an accident. BUT, if they keep on breeding it, and other people breed and produce the same faults, then there coud be a problem. Personally, I stay far away from problems and I try to fix them whenever one occurs in my bloodline. I think we do well in the Breed at keeping most of the bad things far way from our own Kennel.
Russ and Thelma Moffett, who also used that new California look, were a couple from Flint, Michigan who, back in ’55, bought their first Show Dachshund from the Shultis family from California, and she was a young bitch named CH Janice of Gera whose pedigree was full of CH Favorite v Marienlust ROMO, CH Rebecca of Gera, CH Dimas Earthstopper (naturally), Lisa of Gera, CH Badger Hill Nobby, CH White Gables Basil and many others including lots of Bergmanor Dachshunds of the Hirschmans. Trust me, that pedigree fills your eye. The Moffetts finished her and, when breeding her, they did not just breed to a local dog, they sent her back to California to be bred to the great producer CH Fleet of Gera and so got their own little litter with MORE of that new California look. The Moffett’s then sent her daughter, CH Moffett’s Fleeta, to Jerry Rigden’s kennel where she was mated to the Marcia Wheeler-bred, CH Willo-Mar’s Lucky Star, a CH Saber of Gera son out of a Bayard bitch who was all Bencelia, Marienlust, Gera, Favorite and Earthstopper bred. Then that bitch, when finished, went to the Barberry Knowe Kennel and was bred to CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Forester ROMO and, although three champions were produced, the bitch they bred was the unfinished Moffett’s Sandra ROMX who was then sent back to Barberry Knowe Kennel where she was bred to CH Crosswynd’s Cracker Jack ROMX and produced the Moffett’s best producer, CH Moffett’s Rosanne ROMO, born in 1969, who literally changed the whole Midwest when she produced her long list of Champions that changed the look of the Smooth Dachshund in the Midwest anyway. All of the Moffett Dachshunds were linebred on the great Gera and Favorite dogs of the past and whose bloodlines started this new look so long ago. To watch this new look spread all across the country was pretty amazing and to see how the Moffetts started with one Smooth Gera bitch, CH Janice of Gera back in ’55 and how they just decided to breed that Gera-bred bitch to the Gera-bred Dachshunds that Ray Shultis, Marcia Wheeler, Jean Dunk and Barbara Lovering whelped during this time showed the progress that great breeders make when they see a new type produced, they breed to it and watch it all come together in the offspring of a great dam like CH Moffett’s Rosanne ROMO.
Rosanne was sired by CH Crosswynd’s Cracker Jack ROMX and she was bred to a local dog that the Cooks owned, CH Felsheim’s Friendly Jester ROMX who was sired by CH Dunkeldorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMO who was from that great Dunk litter sired by the fantastic CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO and out of CH Fleming’s Cherry Carmela ROMX . Jester’s dam was the very lovely CH Fleming’s Jolly Julie who was, at the DCA National Specialty BV Smooth in ’69 and BOSV there in ’68 and ’70. Julie, bred by Polly Fleming, was sired by Ann Gordon’s CH Jolly Dachs George ROMO who was a son of the great CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO and Julie had Falcon again as the maternal grandsire as well. Jester was definitely that new look that started out in California, since his sire and dam were bred on the great old Dachshunds that got this new look started moving across the country. Julie must have been a special girl and I am sure passed on her great outline and movement to the Friendly ROMX/Rosanne ROMO litters coming up.
The quality was deep in these new litters from Rosanne and Jester, because they produced so many great ones that I hesitate to list them all, but the great CH Moffett’s Harvest ROMX, CH Moffett’s Georgi ROMX, CH Moffett’s Halo, CH Moffett’s Garnet and CH Moffett’s Gayla were there for the world to discover. The next generation was the CH females from Rosanne being bred to CH Cook’s Home Brew and producing CH Moffett’s Midas, CH Moffett’s Miss Flint and CH Moffett’s Locket who all were outstanding in my eye. There was so much quality in their dogs that they could really have bred to anything and gotten the best. Looking back, I can see where all that greatness came from and it certainly makes the Heying-Teckel and Gera dogs the best we have had in this long line of Dachshund Champions. The image of those great Dachshunds from the Moffett line still show up in many of the great dogs that I see down through the years and I, for one, certainly see the difference they made in the Dachshund breed. I often wonder how Thelma, from Michigan with no other serious breeders around her, had an image of those great Gera dogs and bitches from California in her mind and she, down through the years, always went to other Gera and Heying-Teckel dogs that would keep that look of the great older dogs that made her love the Breed. She KNEW what she wanted and she got it all the way over in Flint, Michigan and her CH Janice of Gera certainly produced even better than she thought possible. Personally, I really admired both Russ and Thelma and seeing their Dachshund’s pictures makes me very happy.
Peggy Westphal started exhibiting in the ’50s and showed, I believe, every Dachshund Variety, Standard and Miniature, but, by the ’70s, her Wires and Longs were gorgeous, sound and mentally stable. Her Smooths always did well in the Show Ring, but, when she got the litter that Janet Wayock bred which was sired by the great producer CH Dunkeldorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMO and out of a CH Fleet of Gera/ CH Pharalope v Westphalen daughter that Peggy Westphal bred, she struck gold. The male, who was from Falcon’s Favorite ROMO and a CH Fleet/CH Pharalope daughter, was indeed all new Dachshund breeding. Their son became CH Sheen v Westphalen ROMO who was WD/BW at the ’65 DCA National Specialty Show and was a winner at shows up and down the East Coast. Peggy had a portrait done of him and it was perfection as he had the great head, the perfect outline and great movement so he quickly became a big force at that time. He became a Top Producer and was behind so many great dogs that Peggy bred and that her friend, Dr. Bill Nixon, bred as well. Always on the lookout for great Smooth and Wire bitches to breed to him, she got several of the Standard Smooths when Mr. and Mrs. Willard Denton of Ardencaple dispersed their Smooth Standards (who were all from that new look from the West Coast). Peggy got the Denton’s herd sire, CH Valhari Space Bird, and one of his gorgeous daughters, CH Ardencaple’s Royal Satelitte. Satelitte was bred to Phalarope’s litter brother, CH Kleetal’s Raven Wing ROM, and produced Peggy Westphal’s top special, CH Jiridox Jujube, who then was bred to CH Sheen v Westphalen ROMO which produced Peggy Westphal’s favorite, CH Penny Candy v Westphalen ROM, who became Peggy’s nemesis for a long time in the show ring. CH Penny Candy also produced three AKC Champions sired by CH Moffett’s Harvest ROMX, three AKC Champions sired by CH Farmeadow Light Up the Sky ROMO and, most importantly, from the ’75 DCA WD, CH Dunkeldorf’s Gerstmeister produced four more AKC Champions, including the beautiful CH Call To Arms V Westphalen ROM.
(Now, I am going to discuss something that no one mentions since it is about Smooth temperament and how we react to it. It is hard to discuss and maybe we all feel differently about it, but, to me, temperament is something that affects me a lot and it is something, like epilepsy and disc disease, that I never want to get started in my bloodline as there still is no test for it yet. When I started showing, I had a few of the shy ones show up in my litters and so I never bred the parents together again and I placed the shaky ones in pet homes. If this bothers you, then skip this part, but it does show everyone what I think is so important about it.)
I always admired Peggy Wetphal so much and definitely was a fan of her Wires and Longhairs for their incredible temperaments and quality, since, as you should know, those are things I believe that all great Dachshunds must have, but there was definitely a spookiness that she had going on in her Smooths that absolutely bothered me a lot. Peggy still acted like it was just a ‘phase’ the dog was going through, but somehow that ‘phase’ lasted their entire life. It really bothered me, but I never spoke up since no one ever asked for my opinion. When CH Call To Arms v Westphalen ROM came around, he was totally different than the spookiness Wetphal Dachshunds had shown before I ever saw Call to Arms, but this poor temperament in Call to Arms made him ‘almost ‘ untouchable. I can still see his beautiful head and his wonderful outline (and absolutely drool over it) and that Call to Arms profile is what I always wanted to see in the Show Ring, but, when he was shown, most Judges just gave him room to show and they knew not to touch him just by looking at his behavior and, as I said, he went up really fast as he was so gorgeous looking. That bothered me then and it still does now. However, Call To Arms was loved at home and bred to by a lot of famous breeders who loved his picture and he did have that gorgeous pedigree to look at. Then, Carol Haight, who was a Dachshund and Corgi Judge (and a really, really good one), bred Call to Arms to his full unfinished sister and produced CH Bigdrum Close Call v Westphalen ROM who became the Number One Smooth in the Country and he still holds the record for most wins for a lifetime in the Show Ring. I know the temperament he had and how hard it was for Ray McGinnis to show him and, by the time he was shown so much, hardly anyone ever bred to him (even though the ones who did got gorgeous puppies, for sure), but I knew I was just seeing that bad temperament being shown by a fantastic handler. It was not easy. After Close Call had his time in the ring, Peggy started taking art classes and was involved other things and so was away from her Dachshunds for a time. When she came back in a few years, she got started again and went to a breeder that had her look, but they ALSO had that same temperament. I admired her new dogs a lot, but never could use them because of how they reacted to being shown. They were beautiful, but not what I wanted. Even though, they were all down from that newer California look, that temperament can still come through and you still have to stop it at some point. I guess Peggy Westphal’s reaction to that temperament was not what I wanted to see. Even though I admired the Dachshund type and style she had in her Dachshunds, her non-reaction to something like the bad temperament and ignoring it or acting like you didn’t see its importance truly bothered me a lot. That does not affect what I feel of her as a breeder, because she was a great one and should always be admired, even though we disagreed about a thing or two. Peggy Westphal was a magnificent breeder and exhibitor.
Now, Janet Wayock was another long-time breeder who started out with a couple of dogs from California right when they all started using Falcon, Favorite, Nobby, Basil and all the great Gera and Heying-Teckel bitches with some crosses from the great old CH Dimas Earthstopper behind them. Mrs. Wayock knew what she liked and soon had bought a foundation bitch,CH Barbara of Gera, from the Shultis and also purchased the great old producer, CH Fleet of Gera, and, when you see Fleet’s picture, you will see what she wanted to breed. Honestly, I probably agree more with Janet than anyone else about these old dogs, because what she liked was also what I liked. We really had almost the same taste in style, type, profile and movement and, when I see the dogs she owned and showed, I immediately liked them. At first, she was from Long Island and I am sure talked to Jane Fowler a lot as they liked the same type, but she soon moved to Jacksonville where she helped the Dunks get started and breed such nice Smooths (with, I am sure, great Fleet outlines and heads!). Janet, then, purchased from Peggy Westphal a CH Fleet of Gera daughter out of CH Pharalope v Westphalen who she bred to the Dunks, at that time, new Stud dog CH Dunkeldorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMO and they had a nice litter and then a court fight erupted and Peggy Westphal, the dam’s breeder, was given the puppies and so Peggy got CH Sheen v Westphalen ROMO who was WD and BW at DCA and was specialled and had some nice wins. His head was spectacular and he had the new outline that those dogs from California was spreading all over the USA. One of Barbara Haisch’s foundation bitches, CH Shimmer v Westphalen ROM, also came from this litter as did her litter sister CH Scintillate. When they wound up at Peggy Westphal’s and Sheen became a Top Sire, that new Standard Smooth look was spreading all over and most breeders were using Sheen at Peggy’s house, but Barbara Haisch of Barbadox, Dr Nixon, and Peggy Westphal were all passing on that great new look and that sparkle from Falcon’s Favorite ROMO was also busily being used by breeders from all over the country. Janet also lined up the Dunks with the gorgeous Fleet of Gera-bred Dachshunds who were behind so many new litters. Jane Thomas won WD at DCA with a Timbar dog and Dorothy Muse of Museland started with a Timbar-bred bitch. Dave and Diane Perry were also friends of Janet Wayock and their Sundachs Dachshunds were also wrapped up in the new look which was spreading across the land.
Later, in the mid-’70s, temperament became a problenm for her and, while she was judging Dacshunds, she found Hannelore Heller’s CH Han-Jo’s Ulyssis L ROMO(who at that time was being shown by Bobby Fowler) and so Janet bred a Smooth bitch to him and then wound up with CH Timbar’s Hedley Lamar L ROMX who was a longhair, but sired many great dogs for her, both Smooths and Longhairs. Ulyssis who was an absloutely great dog had an impecccable temperament and his conformation and movement were almost perfect, but he also had a lot of that new Dachshund blood behind him. CH Robert de Bayard ROMO (whose dam’s side was all ‘new’ Smooth Dachshund from California) was behind him four separate times as well as CH Calypso and Cochise of Gera and another Hainheim dog who also carried that new look. All of those Smooths gave Ulyssis that body and movement which he then passed on to the great CH Timbar’s Hedley Lamar L ROMX. Honestly, that was a match made in Heaven and Janet wisely used him to fix her temperaments and then she had the look she wanted with happy attitudes. Janet Wayock went on to breed great dogs the rest of her life and to pass her knowledge on to the next generations by working with current breeders such as Ted and Karen Brunner of Barkerville Dachshunds from Canada and the late Steve Wolden (who we all still miss) and Becky Stephens from the Pacific Northwest. She left a lot of knowedge behind her and, when I am judging, it is so nice to understand that the look from California is still being appreciated in all three coats. Again, finding the look I like always makes me a happy Judge and, when those breeders showed to me, their Dachshunds’ breed type and style made me a very happy Judge.
Finally, I am down to talking about another great one, Kaye Ladd, who who was a Saddle Horse breeder who lost her last Dachshund in 1980 at a Horse Show and she knew Ed Jenner and Luc Boileau of the Knolland Farm Kennel from the Saddle Horse industry so told them she wanted a puppy. A few months later, they sent her a bitch who became Knolland Lorna ROMX and Lorna ROMX did indeed have all that new look with a fantastic pedigree. She was out of the great bitch, CH Ram-Ral of Mar-Lar, who was a multiple SBIS and was sired by the amazing CH Moffett’s Harvest ROMX and Lorna’s sire, CH Knolland Kandyman was sired by Ed Jenner’s new Dachshund, CH Brandylan’s Lanson of Lucene, and out of CH Penny Candy v Westphalen ROM’s littermate. She had quite a pedigree and, after breeding her, Kaye wound up having one beautiful Bitch, sired, however, by Peggys dog, CH Call To Arms v Westphalen ROM, who, if you remember, had that horrible temperament and he really passed that temperament onto CH Knolland Cameo ROMX who temperament was absolutely made her a horrible one to show. She was beautiful, but Michael Zollo basically had to hang on to her and not let her bolt from the Show Ring. When I saw her, I instantly loved her style and conformation, since Cameo was a beautiful bitch, but, unfortunately, she had a temperament that probably should not ever be in the Show Ring. I did not know Kaye Ladd then, but, back in ’85, a handler’s wife and I were discussing Kaye’s gorgeous new bitch,, CH Laddland Cameo ROMX and we both agreed that her temperament was a waste and that Kaye, as a new exhibitor, would stick to her and breed her wrong every time. We both agreed it was sad as the bitch was so wonderful to look at that we both hoped that Kaye could fix it, but, as a new owner, I certainly did not give her enough credit for having the ability or knowledge to fix the mess she got in her first litter.
Well, I am happy to admit that I was wrong as Kaye bred her original bitch, Knolland Lorna ROMX, to CH Talavast Apollo, a grandson of the magnificent longhair, CH Han-Jo’s Ulyssis L ROMO, who NEVER had a shy bone in his body and was a machine to show as he also out moved any dog in the show ring. Knowing how beautiful CH Laddland Cameo ROMX was and how correct and smooth moving Ulyssis’ descendants, such as CH Tallavast Odyssey, CH Tallavast Telemachus and CH Tallavast Apollo, made me very curious to see them. I believe I finally saw CH Laddland Lorna Laurie ROMX at the DCA Specialty in Georgia in ’87 where she won BOSV to another great young dog, CH Galadachs My Boy Giorgio, and both came down fom the old Dachshunds from the Heying-Teckel and Gera Kennels. More than that, CH Laddland Lorna Laurie ROMX showed none of the shyness that came along with the breeding. Kaye had found the help she needed by breeding to that Tallavast dog and then wound up with the great breedings which came later. Kaye started off with a great bitch and bred her a time or two, saw the problems and fixed them. She did have the gift and, with her eye from showing Saddlebreds, she knew what type and movement she was looking for. From then on, I watched her line because I could see she had found a few dogs with great temperament that she was going to use on her best bitches.
Kaye had picked out a few dogs to try such as CH Roushland’s Neva Gonna Give An Inch, owned and bred by Cookie Roush, CH Luvadox Cocco Eckendorf, Jane Fowler’s breeding with Tallavast, Falcon’s Favorite and Jagerlust all behind him, and, to me, the most important CH Villanol’s Gladi’s Lad, owned by Gordon and Jean Carvill. All of them were great tempered Dachshunds who always passed on that great outlook and Kaye Ladd knowing to use them to get over the problem of Cameo’a uneasiness was worth it. The signs of her being a great breeder show up in her first few litters and that shyness was gone from her line.She had quality and movement from the start, but Kaye Ladd conquering the shynes part certainly got my attention and respect.
CH Laddland Cameo ROMX was truly my pick of her early dogs, even if she did have that shaky temperament, and so Kaye Ladd bred her first to Cookie Roush’s Neva Gonna Give An Inch and got the remarkably producing CH Laddland Pinch of Cameo ROMX who, sired by Gladi’s Lad ROMX, produced CH Laddland Just a Taste ROMX, who was the ’91 DCA National Specialty BV and BB Winner under Breeder-Judge Bob Wlodkowski and a Top Producer, CH Laddland Smidgeon of a Lad ROMO, Top Producer and owned by Jack Karcher, and CH Laddland A Wing And A Prayer ROMO, ’94 DCA National Specialty BV, big winner and Top Smoooth Sire of All Time and owned by Kaye Ladd. What a line up there and, as you can see from the dogs she is finishing, that Kaye was goung to be a Top Producer in Smooths. She bred them right and she finished them.
CH Laddland Cameo ROMX, when bred to CH Talllavast Apollo, down from Hannelore’s longhair Ullyssis line, really made a lot of great ones, like CH Laddland Camelot ROMO, who really was one of the best that Kaye bred, in my opinion. Camelot was specialled a little and was BOSV in Jacksonville during a DCA weekend there, shown by Jack Karcher, among other nice wins and Kaye then bred Camelot to the irrepresible CH Villanol’s Gladi’s Lad and got a very outstanding litter out of the two of them which consisted of five AKC Champions with the most famous being CH Laddland Stretch Limo, BV at the ’98 DCA National Specialty, CH Laddland Elvira ROM, RWB as a Puppy at DCA National Specialty and also a Top Producer and finally the Top winner and wonderful producer CH Laddland Emma Peel ROMX who I finished back in the day. Emma Peel was one I thought extremely nice in the show ring, but when bred to the Thompson’s great producing CH Georgia Dachs Chandler ROMX,(who very few people used, but Kaye Ladd, Martha Gratham and myself did happily) produced six American Champions including John and Nancy Thompson’s Group-winning, Top Producer CH Laddland Lucy Lawless ROMX who produced four AKC Champions and, last but not least, one of the nicest bitches that I ever watched grow up in the Show Ring, CH Laddland Juliet ROMO.
Juliet was a stunner from the first time I ever saw her when Kaye Ladd was just begining to get her in the Show Ring. She was a great show bitch and had a powerful body that really, in my mind, just owned the Show Ring. I loved her type, Dachshund style and movement and she always drew my eye to her and that style filled my eye with memories of the Heying-Teckel, Gera, Villanol, Roushland, Boondox, Moffet, Apple Hill, Farmeadow, Georgia Dachs, Wavecrest, Karlstadt, Tallavast, Westphal, Dunkeldorf and all the great Laddland dogs making her look this way. Carlos Puig made her a great Show Dog and she won 193 BVs (including Westminster KC in ’05), 10 BV/BB’s at Specialties including the ’01 DCA National Specialty, 13 BOSB’s at Specialties including the DCA National Specialty in ’00. At the All Breed Shows, Juliet won two All Breed BIS, 28 Group I’s, 19 Group II’s, 15 Group III’s and 19 Group IIII’s. She was amazing in the Show Ring and so full of herself that she must have been a very hard one to show, but, when things went her way (and, in Juliet’s mind, things ALWAYS went her way),she was very hard to beat because she had it all. When she started, she was the boss and Kaye Ladd had her hands full with all that quality she had on the end of her lead and, through mischieviousness and wanting her own way, she had too many losses, but, if I had been judging, she would have been winning every time I looked at her. She was a fantastic Dachshund in the Show ring and I treasure all the time I spent watching her trot around her Show Ring.
As for producing great Dachshunds, Juliet truly made Kaye Ladd and Juliet’s fans very happy indeed. She was a long way from the dogs the Heyings, the Shultis and Woodie Dorward started out with after WWII, but Juliet had all the type and structure that anyone wanted. With the Saddlebred as her model in her mind, Kaye’s eye for type was all brought together in Juliet and her offspring. Juliet produced twelve AKC Champions from three litters and among them were three DCA BV winners. From Juliet ROMO’s first litter of seven,whelped in Nov of 2001, sired by Juliet’s grandsire, CH Laddland A Wing And A Prayer ROMO, there were six American Champions and the one unfinished bitch, Laddland All A’Quiver, was an ROMX. Anyway, Jerry Cerasini and Roger Brown had Carlos show CH Laddland Wings Of Love SS to Judge Fran Colonna where this Wing/Juliet daughter was BV at the ’03 DCA National Specialty Show and also was BV at the Westminster KC. The next year at the National in ’04, Wings of Love was given an AOM at DCA when her litter sister, CH Laddland Crown Jewel of Lucene ROMO, owned by Jeanine Sudinski and Mechelle Stahl, was honored with BV and BB by the esteemed Judge Ann Gordon. In ’05, Crown Jewel was awarded BV and BOSB at DCA with her half-sister, a CH Laddland High Flyer/CH Laddland Juliet ROMO daughter, CH Laddland Miss Smooch,was given an Award of Merit by Judge Carol Spritzer in Wisconsin. CH Laddland Crown Jewel of Lucene was also awarded a BV at Westminster KC as well under Michal Dachiel for new co-owner Lexa Richmond, showing for Jeanine Sudinski. In ’06, CH Laddland Miss Smooch came back to win BV and BB under renowned Dachshund Authority, Mary Lou Harris. The next year in ’07, Smooch again was awarded BV and BB at the DCA National Specialty under John Contoupe. Smooch, at that time, was owned by Kaye Ladd, her breeder, but went to Jerry Cerasini and Roger Brown after Kaye’s death. In ’09, a bitch from the first Wing/Juliet litter, CH Laddland First Kiss, owned by Denise Simiessen and Jimmy Lloyd (Angie’s father) won Best Veteran in Show and an Award of Merit under the much-missed breeder-judge Ann Gordon. As you can see, Juliet’s daughters won BV five times at DCA and BB three times and won AOM three times as well.
Looking back on Kaye Ladd’s Dachsunds and knowing which ones she liked the best gave me plenty of room for thought. Named after the most famous Saddlebred, Wing Commander (and yes I do have a model of him, too) CH Laddland A Wing And A Prayer ROMO was one of the stars that took Kaye’s eye and he was a handsome dog that demanded your attention. He had a great Show Career and, more importantly, he was a great producer. He produced many that were even better in front than he was and, if you knew how I judge, that means so much in gauging a Dachshund’s quality. He was the Top Smooth Male in the USA and he has been there for awhile. How can you look at Juliet’s offspring winning so much and not give him partial credit as well. Then, comes CH Laddland Juliet ROMO,who really melted my heart when she was in the Show Ring and made me smile just watching her go around the Show Ring. She was the best of all Kaye’s Dachsunds for me as I saw the whole Dachshund breed in front of me as she moved around the circle. She was an incredible Dachsund in my eye. Then, CH Laddland Crown Jewel of Lucene ROMX came along and she was so typy and correct that her profile and outline made me happy inside. I think of a picture taken outside in which the great Breeder-Judge Monica Canstrini is looking at Crown Jewel and you can see that Jewel really has Monica’s attention because, in my mind, that profile is what ALL Dachshund breeders should want to breed and own. She would be my second choice as her outline melts my heart. Kaye had so many great ones, but Kaye had some that really grab your eye when all the parts of a fantastic Dachshund are there.
Kaye was also lucky to have great friends so close to her when she began her career breeding Dachshunds. The Apple Hill Dachshunds of Helen and Neal Hamillton were close and they certainly had those newer Smooth lines and so great quality in both the Laddland and Apple Hill Kennels. The Hamiltons owned CH Laddland High Flyer who sired one of Kaye’s last litters and all the older Apple Hill Dogs that Kaye used on some of her bitches. Iris Love was also a friend who got several dogs from Kaye Ladd and I was always happy to see them at shows. Cookie Roush from Texas was Wing’s handler and she also became a close friend, too. Showing Kaye’s Dachshunds started out with Michael Zollo and then Pam Tillotson took over. Finally she started using Carlos Puig as her Dachshund friends, Jerry Cerasini and Roger Brown, did, too, and certainly they all were very happy with the Show Re sults. I have to say that Wally and Mary Jones from Florida and Judy Anderson from California were also special friends of Kaye. Seeing this list of breeders and exhibitors who all based their breeding on that newer look in Smooths, because even now, all the great dogs had CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO, CH Favorite v Marienlust and a few of the Gera dogs and bitches behind them. I certainly miss Kaye Ladd, but I think she had a great life with her Dachshunds.
Now, at the end, I sort of nod to the great ones from this bloodline of new Smooths and, in this case, lots of them come to mind as you think about all that greatness that we have worked with coming together. There are so many that you hate to list any of them because you know you will be missing someone vitally important. I am glad I spent all my time in Dachshunds and seeing these great Smooths gives me hope that someone else will look at the Breed and study it like I have and enjoy looking at the pictures and pedigrees and wind up here again someday. In looking at the long list of great Dachshunds, I am trying to find the one dog that should be the one I think of as being so valuable to this change I think of in this movement and I always return to CH Falcon Of Heying-Teckel as, to me, he was close to perfection and sired so many great ones down the line. Bred and owned by Fred and Rose Heying, he sired many all across the country and he sure did keep the quality up. He was a great dog and more importantly owned by Fred Heying who started this more modern Dachshund to be the one that Americans wantedt. Runners up were CH Fleet of Gera, Bred by Ray and Gene Shultis and owned last by Janet Wayock, and CH Nixon’s Fleeting Encounter ROMX, bred by Dr Bill Nixon and Howard Atlee and owned by Coletta Kinch, because they threw the right type to make all the more Dachshunds have that outline and movementk that we all wanted. In bitches, the competition is even closer and I have two that would be amazing to see in the ring today as I would love to go over them again and to see their quality, inside and out. The two were CH Laddland Juliet ROMO and CH Luvadox Rose Parade SS who would be almost impossible to judge since they are both so correct, typy and amazing to see move. Judging them would have been an honor and I would love to stand in the middle and see them stacked and admire them standing or moving. I have to choose one and I loved what they both produced, but, when one of them produced three National Specialty BV winners who won the award five times and two of them were BB winners like their dam, you have to go with that. CH Laddland Juliet ROMO, shown by Carlos Puig and owned by Kaye Ladd, will be my Number one Smooth bitch with the gorgeous CH Luvadox Rose Parade SS, bred by HL Peters and Jane Fowler and owned and shown by Gina and Pat Leone, being next in line. What a pair and I wish competition was ever this close. I could not speak more highly of either of these bitches and they always were in the best of condition and ready to win. I would love to get that quality back in the Show Ring any day. Next on my list was a bitch from back in the late ’50s, CH Monica of Heying-Teckel, bred by Rose and Fred Heying and owned by Connie Eisenhower, who was a huge winner back in ’58 and ’59. She was very beautiful to look at and could pose like no one else. I might add that handler Frank Sabella trained her and finished her. I could look at her all day. Last would be CH Willo-Mar’s Night and Day, bred and shown by Marcia Wheeler and owned by Barbara Lovering, who was a stunner of a bitch and looked like Heaven when she was stacked. She won BV and BB at the ’62 DCA National Specialty and her grandson CH Crosswynd’s Cracker Jack was a three-time DCA BV and BB winner. She was a very stylish bitch and then, later, re-produced it. Linking the best of the best here to show the quality that there is in America makes me feel good and happy that I have spent my life breeding and raising great dogs. To see the Breed change when the people of California decided they liked that new look that Dorcas had and making a difference in picking out puppies in the Dachshund helps us all.
Starting at the beginning, looking at great dogs and their pedigrees and breeding them until you get those qualities in your Dachshunds should please all of us to watch how a Breed develops. Looking back at the pedigrees of the earlier Dachshunds there were some rough spots as they went along the way, but smart breeders, like Kaye Laddd and a few others soon fixed them. I wish that the older breeders could understand our fascination in looking at those bloodlines and watch what the breeding did to turn it into the Dachshund we have today. I hope they would be proud of our efforts, because they do know how much hard work it is. Personally, I have owned the breed since I was in the third grade in February of 1957 and started showing them in 1976. Focusing so much attention on breeding them, showing them and looking at pictures and pedigrees of them, the Dachshund has really filled my life and made me a happier person. I hope you enjoyed my tale of how the Dachshund changes and the important breeders and exhibitors who did make these changes happen. Changing the way we picked show dogs and dogs that win because of their good properties should make us all happy and seeing them all keep winning really accentuates we were right in going with this new look.
Looking back to the beginning of this change during WW II, when Fred Heying, Rose’s husband, saw CH Rivenrock Dorcas, by the UK import, CH Dimas Earthstopper, in the Show Ring and gave her BV over a large entry at big California show. Mr Heying loved her size along with her look and Breed Type and talked to his wife Rose and his breeder friends about the difference there was with the Dachshunds that they were showing then. Fred Heying said she was quite remarkable and better than the other bitches he was seeing in the ring out there. The Heyings had already bought CH Favorite v Marienlust ROMO and were waiting for him to arrive to use on their Marienlust and Heying-Teckel bitches. They hoped Favorite would be a great producer (and he was), Ed and Grace Hirschman bought a sister and a daughter of Dorcas that they liked and Ray Shultis also got two daughters of CH Rivenrock Dorcas, too. There were some other male Dachshunds out there to breed to as well, with Mr and Mrs Van Court having CH White Gable Basil ROMX and Woodie Dorward came out to California with his new young dog, CH Badger Hill Nobby who was White Gable on his sire’s side and his maternal granddam was the recent DCA National winner, CH Derbydachs Schatze who was a CH Favorite v Marienlust ROMO daughter and the dam’s breeding was all Badger Hill breeding from Harry and Vivian Sharpe from Wisconsin. The Rivenrock bitches were all bred to Favorite, Basil and Nobby and then bred with their cousins to get the cross going. Later, CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO who was by CH Favorite v Marienlust ROMO and out of a Gera-bred bitch, sired by CH White Gables Basil and out of the Rebecca line with two crosses to CH Dimas Earthstopper through the Rivenrock bitches owned by the Hirschmans and the Shultis. Then Rose and Fred Heying had that young dog, CH Favorite v Marienlust ROMO who just took off and then, when bred to a CH Dimas Earthstopper bred Gera bitch, produced CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel. Then you watched that new look spread across the Country. By the ’70s, the new look in Smooths had won every DCA BV in Smooths and it has kept going until today. Again, I must give those older breeders credit for all breeding to the same outline and movement and knowing if you were landing where you wanted to be. The bloodline spread East and Janet Wayock, Peggy Westphal, Tommy and Jean Dunk, Marcia Wheeler, Barbara Lovering, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stalter, Russ and Thelma Moffett and Kaye Ladd joined the old California breeders and got this new look to be what is accepted today as a great Dachshund all across the country. This was a remarkable record, unlike anything we have ever seen in the Dachshund world and, remember, the Dachshunds of today still have that new look of Smooths which has spread to all the other coats and sizes.