Significant Changes in Standard Smooth Dachshunds since WWII, Volume II

As I left the breeders, exhibitors and Judges who were making the American Dachshunds better and more beautifully moving in the last Volume of this work, I said that Fred and Rose Heying of Heying-Teckel Dachshunds had the best of what, in my mind, came along and that was the CH Favorite v Marienlust son, CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO, who was the best producer that I had seen so far because he produced the outline that I love and many of his offspring were better than Falcon was himself. Falcon was a big winner in the Show Ring and was Top Rated for a few years, but it was in the whelping box that his true greatness arrived and those profiles that Falcon produced were getting better all the time. During WWII, Mr Fred Heying was judging a big Dachshund entry in California and he discovered the great CH Rivenrock Dorcas, owned by Anne Smith Wenden, after awarding her a BV in this big lineup of Specials, Fred Heying stated that she was the best female Dachshund he had ever seen and judged. Seeing her that day were his friends, such as Ray Shultis, Woodie Dorward,  Ed and Grace Hirschmann and Donia Cline. They all got sisters or daughters of Dorcas and started breeding them to Fred and Rose’s CH Favorite v Marienlust dog and blending the two. After that distinction by Fred, the choices they made in the whelping box began which altered the  size and shape of the Dachshund which were accepted in the Show Ring From the first litters of the Heying’s Favorite dog, the breeders saw what size and shape Favorite produced and that they were real eyecatchers. They were winning all over the California area. Most of these dogs also had Mrs Wenden’s CH Dimas Earthstopper behind them and Earthstopper also was bringing forth a larger Dachshund with a great outline that showed off the correct Dachshund shape that most people wanted to display. Still, I am afraid that Earthstopper also most likely had some shyness problems that he did not want to spread along as that truly shows up in some of the pictures from back then.

When CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel was used, he had two crosses back to Earthstopper and so, to me anyway, meant that he was more likely to be passing many more things along when being bred to bitches with even more Earthstopper behind them. As noted, CH Dimas Earthstopper was an outstanding producer who passed on his great qualities (and a few not-so-great ones). His influence becomes even more powerful when you put him in several places in a pedigree when thinking about doing future breedings. By the time his presence is in there five or six times, it will be a recurring problem. When Favorite, Falcon and Earthstopper are all over this new litter, you can be prepared for anything. Looking back on the issue now, I realize it was easy to change certain things and have them disappear, but it was not an easy lesson to learn as I will explain in going over the changes that were made in the Smooth Variety.

Before I do that I wanted to say how much the changes were helped along by the forces of Mirian and Albert Van Court of the White Gable Kennel in LA. The Van Courts were one of the earliest successful breeders that were from California and, if I am being honest, I think Miriam Van Court was on the same level as Fred and Rose Heying were in producing quality Standard Smooth Dachshunds even though Miriam passed away at such a young age on Nov 11, 1952. In my opinion, her dogs were of that Heying-Teckel quality, and the White Gable Dachshunds were used at stud often when the Shultis, the Heyings and Mr. Dorward were keeping this new look healthy and typy. The Van Courts, back in the ’30s, were beginning to get started breeding and showing Dachshunds and they met Maud Daniels Smith, a Dachshund breeder from Pennsylvania who had some really good ones that she sold to them, including two full brothers, CH Eric v Stahlhaus and CH Cid Junior of the Lakelands (who later became All-Breed BIS winners), and a daughter of CH Eric v Stahlhaus, CH Cornhill Goldie of Dachshaven. All three of them became big winners in California and they produced more than enough finished AKC Championships to become ROM winners (and more). All three of these were big powerful red Dachshunds of great conformation and movement and had that Dachshund style ready to be appreciated. They looked wonderful in their pictures and led the Van Courts to always be breeding for that next generation to keep their line going and so that led them to go back East in the early ’40s and get a Marienlust dog from Joseph and Maria Mehrer when that new Marienlust strain of dogs which came down from CH Zep and CH Leutnant v Marienlust started winning BV and BB at the newly-started DCA National Specialty which was put on by the Dachshund Club of America and that DCA Show was under the spell of those Marienlust Dahshunds for twenty years or more. Albert and Mirian purchased CH Cavalier v Marienlust, a brother to the great CH Gunther v Marienlust, owned by Jerry Cross, who was three times BV and BB at the DCA National Specialty, held on the  East Coast. CH Gunther was held in the highest esteem by the big exhibitors and breeders of the East Coast,  but CH Cavalier v Marienlust’s get (Gunther’s littermate) was quite important as well and produced the best Smooth Dachshund (CH White Gables Basil) in California  at that point until the Heying’s brought out the amazing game-changer CH Favorite v Marienlust who set all others aside for a few years. However, the wiser breeders used Basil to maintain that smaller, beautiful look in the coming new venture while trying to make the Standaard Smooths even better.

CH White Gables Basil was used a lot and his pedigree made it worthwhile as he was sired by the Van Court’s CH Cavalier v Marienlust who was by the great CH Leutnant v Marenlust and Basil was also out of CH White Gables Mehitabel who was by the Van Court’s CH Cid Junior of the Lakelands and out of the Van Court’s CH Cornhill Goldie of Dachshaven who was by Cid Junior’s brother, CH Eric v Stahaus who was also owned by the Van Court’s, too. This pedigree was full of healthy, typy, and great moving Dachshunds and Basil sired that for everyone as he was a well-bred Dachshund from the Marienlust, Cid, and Asbeck lines. In his later years, Basil sired for White Gables, Gera, Red Locket, Badger Hill, Bergmanor, Casper, Hainheim, Cheery Lynn,  Fiddler’s Hill and Milrdachs. The Van Courts believed that breeding bitches was what real breeders did so they had many to breed to Basil and his father, CH Cavalier v Marienlust. All those bitches helped the Van Courts and all the other breeders as well. I remember when I was breeding Dachshunds and thought that the great bitches that you have in your Kennel always produded the next generation of winners if you kept the same strength in dogs and bitches because they shared the responsibility that you were giving them. Breeding is ALWAYS 50/50 when it is done correctly and so, please, do not neglect one side or the other as both sides make that next great litter. The Van Courts kept many of those great bitches they bred and they were always trying to make that next breeding as good as it can get. Mrs. Miriam Van Court was also missed by then as she had passed away back in ’52 and so Miriam’s thoughts on the White Gables Dachshunds were truly gone since Mr Van Court, after he married Mrs Ramona Andrews, got involved in judging a lot more and showing dogs that others bred. They were very successful in that and the Van Curts also ran some of the bigger shows like Beverly Hill KC, Westminster KC, and the monumental AKC. I do personally have to say that I often miss Miriam Van Court’s eye for a dog and what she could have still been producing. She was an amazing breeder. Mrs Miriam Van Court was very much missed since she passed away back in ’52 and so Miriam’s thoughts on the White Gables Dachshunds were gone since Mr Van Court, after he married Mrs Ramona Andrews, got involved in judging a lot more and showing dogs that others bred. They were very successful in that. I do personally have to say that I often miss Miriam Van Court’s eye for a dog and often wonder what she could have still produced in the Dachshund breed.

Also, at this time, Ray and Gene Shultis were linebreeding on their foundation bitch, Rivenrock Doric, out of CH Rivenrock Dorcas by Ch Dimas Earthstopper, and the inbreeding they did with CH White Gables Basil, CH Badger Hill Nobby, CH Lucifer v Bergman,CH Black Jack v Bergman and especially the great CH Favorite v Marienlust. There were so many combos and most of them were winners in the ShowRing who went on to be great producers. They had many All-Breed BIS winners and Specialty winners that people from all over were craving and especially from one of the best they ever had, CH Rebecca of Gera, who was by CH White Gables Basil and out of their foundation bitch, Rivenrock Doric. From her pedigree, she was all White Gable, Daniels and Rivenrock breeding and she took advantage of that health and beauty and was soon bred to the great CH Favorite v Marienlust and then the ‘Gera’ look was born and it still lives today. Rebecca was born during WWII and had the look that Mr and Mrs Shultis always bred for as it just declared what ‘Dachshund type’ was and all that they bred were wonderful to go over. In ’77, when I bought my foundation bitch from Dee Hutchinson, everyone said she had that ‘Gera’ look and that was almost thirty years after the Shultis  started breeding their Gera line f Dachshunds. They set the type that I still want today and, I am sure, that the ‘Gera’ look is still what everyone should be breeding for. Anyway, when bred to Favorite,she produced so many great ones, such as CH Eden, CH Allegro and CH Agilita, all of them All-Breed BIS winners that their place was made. Rebecca had a litter sister, Roxane, who was behind such greats as CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO, CH Saber of Gera and CH Sinbad of Gera who again were all male All-Breed BIS winners from Rebecca’s grandaughters, Lisa and Lana of Gera. That was an amazing run of top-quality dogs and from these big winners, the Gera Kennel became where so many came to get great producers and Show Dachshunds. Like Heying-Teckel, they had the best and did lots of breeding to show all the quality that this new look had coming forth. Again, they were icons to me when I started out breeding Dachshunds. The Heyings, Shultis’ and Woodie Dorward, along with the great Albert and Miriam Van Court, truly set the tone that we all should be striving for.

As I had said earlier, Woodie Dorward moved to California from Illinois and started to get more interested in breeding some great Dachshunds and so became friends with Fred and Rose Heying and Ray and Gene Shultis and helped them all show when they were together. Mr Dorward was a pretty good handler himself and, when he settled in, he had a new dog, CH Badger Hill Nobby who was bred by Harry and Vivian Sharpe, from Wisconsin and the Badger Hill Kennel. This dog, born in ’51, had a great look to him and he was from the Badger Hill line which was mostly White Gable and a double shot of the Sharp’s great Producer CH Albion’s Own Penelope. In fact, his dam, owned by the Sharpes and shown by the great Jerry Rigden, CH Derbydachs Schatze was BV and BB at the ’51 DCA National Specialty and, since she was sired by the great CH Favorite v Marienlust, Schatze was the only offspring of Favorite to ever win the BV award at the National Show, but it should have been a portent of what was coming later as the very busy and winning Dachshund Breeders were hard at work in California. Anyway, Nobby was used on a lot of litters and really made his mark by siring Marcia Wheeler’s CH Saber of Gera, the Malloy’s CH Sinbad of Gera and the Shultis and(later) Janet Wayock’ s CH Fleet of Gera. All of those Dahsunds were terrific sires and truly made their wide mark shine again. Nobby was, to me, a great sire and his son, CH Fleet of Gera, proved that. Fleet did not sire enough for the ROM (too few) but that look of his that he threw really set the tone in what I wanted my Dachsunds to look like. I do have to say that Janet Wayock, a new Dachshund owner and I certainly agree on what a Dachshund should look like outside the Show Ring. Anyway, Woodie’s Red Locket Kennel produced a lot of nice ones that he shared with others and Woodie soon was showing for other people until he became the top Dachshund handler in California by doing so much winning. As you can always say, you do find your mark in the dog game. Watch, study and learn and you will get on top just like Woodie Dorward did. I would have loved to talk with him about the stages of this new look and when everyone decided to join in with him and the others to push that subtle new look that was taking over Dachshunds. It must have been a fantastic story to hear.

By the way, I also have mentioned the Dachshunds of Donia Cline who really captured the new look that was honed in on by this California crew and she showed so many that filled the bill, but, as a small breeder who did not really sell a lot of dogs, she did not pass it on until she sold Shorb and Betty Steele CH Brenner’s Miss America who certainly had it all in my book. I am glad to mention her here though, because, as a Judge, she always liked it and always put it up and was there from the beginning back during WWII until her passing. She also was an amazing breeder, exhibitor and Judge and was always active in the California Dachshund Community.

Finally, coming back to Fred and Rose Heying of Heying-Teckel Dachshunds who must have been on quite a roll since, from the end of WWII,  they had the two Top Producers in the USA (Favorite and Falcon) who were used a lot and produced the best quality seen when the Dachshund Fancy gathered to show. I always felt that Falcon, sired by Favorite and out of Jassy of Gera who had two  crosses to CH Dimas Earthstopper behind her with lines back to the great CH Rivenrock Dorcas and her full sister, Rivenrock Dulcie, both sired by Earthstopper and out of an East Coast bitch. I feel that cross gave him the look and movement that appealed to me and always, from the first Falcon puppy pictures that I saw, I admired their outline and the Dachshund type they truly had for me. I was a fan of his as soon as I saw the progress he was still making in the Breed until his last litter. The Heyings really used him a lot and had a couple more top winners and producers to show and that was basically another bitch I love, CH Falconeve of Heying-Teckel who was finally WB at the ’65 DCA National Specialty under Bud Lough. Winners Dog was CH Sheen V Westphalen ROMO, a Falcon grandson sired by the outline maker of all-time, CH Dunkeldorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMO (who had lots of problems, but who produced such quality that I still admired what he produced so much). Sheen was bred by Janet Wayock of Timbar’s Dachshunds, but out of a bitch that Peggy Westphal bred, so I understand there was a huge problem in the breeding and Peggy wound up with the litter and Sheen became quite the producer for her and his sisters also finished fast and produced so well. As you can see , the new Dachshund breeding is really taking off in the USA and now is all over the East Coast (winning, I might add) and breeders want more and more of it. Knowing what I do now, it is hard to say if maybe some concessions were made to the really tragic temperament breaks that truly almost stopped showing Standard Smooths, but that is another story which comes AFTER the Dunks! Anyway, having all this background made Fred and Rose a mainstay in the Dachshund world and, as Judges, both were great at anything they tried in choosing the best Show Quality Dachshunds. CH Falconeve was sold after her DCA wins and Rose Heying showed what she produced from the great CH Dunkeldorf’s Mitkampfer. I also think of the great CH Joy of Heying-Teckel who was such an eyeful to me when she was in the classes and did produce the great bitch, CH Remanded’s Julie Flare, who was finished by Lorraine Heichel Masely and specialled by John Wade. To me, she is another one that I would want to own, even if all I do is admire her type and movement. It must have been a long, wonderful trip for them to change how we look at Dachshunds and, during this time, from WWII to ’63, they also had top producing males that they used on so many bitches, that it must have been a relief to see the time coming when they could go on and examine what they did for the Breed. I know they do have so much appreciation from me anyway. Fred and Rose always considered CH Favorite v Marienlust to be the better producer and, at the end, made sure that the great CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO’s eighty eight AKC Champions did not pass over Favorite’s seventy sixt Champions and left them, at that time, Number One and Number Two in Champions produced in the USA. However, I am sure that Fred and Rose Heying could not concieve of what Tommy and Jean Dunk had planned as the Dunks were getting ready to to send their bitch, CH Fleming’s Cherry Carmella, bred by Pollly Fleming, also from California, to be bred to the fantastic CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO. What a litter it was and what problems they had to overcome.

At this time, around ’61 or ’62, Tommy and Jean Dunk were gathering a few bitches in Jacksonville, Florida and which included CH Fleming’s Cherry Carmella, CH Timbar’s Bubbling Over, Corlew’s Shusheila CH Triste of Anchorage and Armida of Gera who basically were all from California and all had that new look that I liked anyway. The Dunk’s new friend was the recently moved to Jacksonville, Janet Wayock, with her top bitches and the great old CH Fleet of Gera. I can say that, to me, Janet was a good one to guide you, since I have seen what she had and what she produced from her foundation bitch, CH Barbara of Gera and her new dog, CH Fleet of Gera who from that litter of four Champion sons that Ray and Gene Shultis bred back in California. The Fleet dog is who Mrs Wayock wanted her dogs to look like and she always tried to get her Dachshunds there. CH Barbara of Gera was sired by CH Fleet and out of Red Locket Barbara who was by CH Black Jack v Bergman who was by CH Favorite v Marienlust and out of a bitch that went back to CH Dimas Earthstopper. CH Barbara of Gera’s dam, Red Locket Barbara, was out of a Red Locket bitch sired by CH Badger Hill Nobby and out of a bitch of all Heying-Teckel breeding. As you can tell from her pedigrees, Janet Wayock was certainly behind that new Dachshund look coming from California. She became friends with the Dunk’s and sold them a couple of bitches and, I am sure, went on about the new look in Dachshunds and how to keep it going. Finally, in getting ready to breed, they sent one bitch out to Fred and Rose Heying’s kennel to be bred to CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO and that was CH Fleming’s Cherry Carmella who was purchased from Polly Fleming who also was breeding that new look of Dachshunds but could not keep many in her home since her husband was a Judge and so many of them were sold to great homes, but the ones that stayed in the Dachshund ring were very successful and the bitches were usualy great producers Cherry Carmella did indeed have all that and when she whelped the litter, I believe, the Dunks must have been astounded as the quality here was deep and amazing.

I generally just talk about the Dachshunds in these pages, but, in this instance, starting with such a great  litter and the changes the Dunks made in Dachshund breeding all across the USA, I will go into some detail here. First of all, I have heard all the stories about Mr Dunk and the treatment of his animals, but I will not go into them here as I do want this tale to be about the dogs. This litter did indeed change history in so many ways and so I will tell you what was in this great litter and where they went. The dam, Cherry Carmella, was never bred again. This litter was born on Sepember 4, 1962 and then the line up of Dachshunds certainly got better in the Dunk Household. The sire was CH Falcon of Heying Teckel ROMO who was a son of CH Favorite v Marienlust and Falcon was out of Lana of Gera who was by CH White Gables Basil and out of Jassy of Gera who had two crosses back to CH Dimas Earthstopper. The dam of this litter was CH Fleming’s Cherry Carmella who was by Red Locket Racketeer who was by CH Calypso of Gera with two crosses back to Earthstopper and out of a bitch sired by CH Fleet of Gera who had one cross to Earthstopper and out of Amanda of Gera who again had two crosses to Earthstopper.  Carmella’s dam was Fleming’s Cherry Genevieve who had one cross to Earthstopper. In other words, this litter had eight crosses to CH Dimas Earthstopper and that cross had a lot of good things and a few not-so-good ones as well which we will address later on in this article. Anyway,the litter consisted of  CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Frappe’ who finished but was never bred, CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Fantasia who finished by winning a Group One and produced one Champion, CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Fantasy who was BV and BB at the ’65 DCA National Specialty judged by Bud Lough and also was not bred, CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Forester ROMO, owned by  Mr and Mrs Charles Statler of Barberry Knowe Kennel from NJ, shown by Frank Hardy, was WD, BW, BV and BB from the classes at the ’64 DCA National Specialty Show under Judge Jeannette Cross on his way to his Championship and, from there, he won lots of Groups and more Specialties. Forester also sired 24 Champions and finally, CH Dunkeldorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMO finished easily and then, after people saw what he was producing, he became the Number One producer in America by siring eighty eight AKC Champions. As I often said, no Dachshund in History ever produced profiles like Falcon’s Favorite did and the gorgeous quality he sired just drew the entire fancy into this line. Even after seeing this shyness problem getting bigger, they just kept using him and using him. You can hardly find any dogs that do not have him listed in their pedigree from the ’60s and ’70s. I cringe now at how much he was used, but they ALL had the profile, conformation and movement that everyone was wanting. His brother, Forester ROMO, was owned by the Stalters and he did not carry the gene for the shyness  problem and when Forester was used in the pedigrees, they had great profiles and were terrific movers. These two dogs Favorite and Forester, were used constantly from Coast to Coast and their good points were spread more and so were their perhaps not-so-good points as well. After they got started producing, it seemed no one sired like Falcon’s Favorite ROMO who was really following in his sire CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO’s progress and the quality that came out of him was really a marvel to see.’

Before Tommy and Jean Dunk bred CH Fleming’s Cherry Carmella, to Falcon, they became good friends with Janet Wayock who, in all honesty, knew the Dachshund breed inside and out. Janet’s first Show Champion was bred by Ray and Gene Shultis, CH Barbara of Gera who was by CH Fleet of Gera and out of a Red Locket bitch, sired by CH Black Jack v Bergman, and out of another Red Locket bitch sired by CH Badger Hill Nobby. That bitch had all the greats behind her with five more crosses back to CH Favorite v Marienlust which all of those crosses made her and her offspring so valuable in the whelping box. One of the Dachshunds she owned was the great older CH Fleet of Gera who did not sire a lot of Champions but did throw that handsome outline in all the Dachshunds that came down from him. At that pont in time, Jean Dunk was the lady who had some great Dachshunds, while Tommy was more or less helpimg her. They did get a nice bitch, CH Timbar’s Bubbling Over, from Barbara and she, later, was a great producer for them when bred correctly, but I am sure that Janet cleared the way to breed CH Fleming’s Cherry Carmella  bitch to CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO. When that litter was born, I bet rockets went off and I believe that was Tommy and Jean Dunk’s second litter!

I am just going to say that, now, when a breeder looks at Falcon’s and Cherry Carmella’s pedigree and sort of knows how thing are passed down, most will automatically say the two parents should never have been bred together, but we now know a lot more about how things occur. To me, even after seeing so many pedigrees from the ’60s and ’70s with so many Falcon’s Favorite crossings in them, I would conclude that he did make a bright spot with so many great offspring with great conformation and perfect outlines as well as being great movers that the Variety did get better with him in it, because he WAS a great producer who unfortunately did pass on a problem that almost stopped the Breed in its tracks and it was that horrible shyness that you could never shake out of the line once it appeared. It was horrible and made the Dacshunds unshowable, but the gorgeous ones he produced did make the breed better and that is something each person must take into account when dealing with what they did when CH Dunkeldorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMO was being used so much. His offspring were amazing…whether you could touch them or not. Many people place the blame on the bitch’s breeder, but you really have to know what causes the problems and remember that no one ever tries to produce puppies with problems. I think the bitch’s problems got mixed up with his and it almost eradicated the Variety. Now that we know how to get past it, it would be a lesser thing, but I personally would NEVER say breeding to the great CH Dunkeldorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMO was a sin, because what he produced made him a legend and so Fred and Rose Heying for breeding Falcon and Polly Fleming for breeding Cherry Carmella should be proud for making way for such style and class to be rewarded. Falcon’s Favorite was a great dog and his parents did so much by producing him when you saw how wonderful his offspring became. Enjoy what you produce and  then, in your next breeding, change what needs help and remember that next generation should be in everyone’s mind when you are actively breeding. Fixing that problem should be what is also is on our mind as well.

CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Forester ROMO, Falcon’s Favorite’s littermate, was also a great producer and he stood at the Stalter’s Barberry Knowe Kennel and, as far as I knew, did not throw that spookiness and was loved by the help there. In fact, if you look at the pedigrees from back then in the ’60s and ’70s, you can see that Forester was used a lot and a breeder like Dr Billl Nixon used him in most of his top producing Dachshund’s pedigrees  and never, to my knowledge had the horrible temperament show up and he also was using CH Sheen v Westphalen ROMO (a Falcon’s Favorite son) at the same time. I almost think that Forester held back that shyness in seeing so many pedigrees with Forester in them. He was a great Show Dog and also had a superb temperament and realy helped people use Falcon’s Favorite and get that superb outline and profile. CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Forester was a great help and a fantatstic producer for the Stalter’s and the Hardys.

The other three littermates to Favorite and Forester were not great producers, but the fancy really took a shine to Falcon’s Favorite ROMO and Forester ROMO because these two were used Coast to Coast for years and then their sons and grandsons were used often and so, by the mid to late ’60s, their names were all over the great Dachshund’s pedigrees as the name’s of CH Sheen v Westphalen ROMO, CH Nixon’s Fleeting Encouner ROMX, CH Nixon’s Double Concerto, CH Dunkeldorf’s Jagerlust, CH Dunkeldorf’s Gunther, CH Felsheim’s Friendly Jester ROMX, CH Timbar’s Basil and CH Dunkeldorf’ Gerstmeister will attest. All of these dogs were great producers as well so the lines of Falcon’s Favorite and Forester were used all across the land. When I see profiles and outlines that make me drop my jaw, I know that everyone wants to see that in their Kennel or would not use that quality. Along with that quality came the shyness problem, which came down from Falcon’s Favorite and almost knocked the Smooth Variety from being so popular. Now we know that it could be cured by crossing out and getting away from this quality that made them just unshowable as, after they had their first season, their temperament was ruined because they were just unshowable and would not take a step inside the Show Ring nor let Judges even touch them. They were usually so gorgeus that breeders bred tham anyway and that just kept that shyness in the bloodline and breeding program when you breed her to back to the dog that carried the shyness within him. Finally, after a long while, that shyness was stopped when they started breeding by using the great-tempered dogs that we all had.

As for Tommy and Jean Dunk, it was Jean that had the eye for a great Dachshund, while Tommy, who went on to become a Breeder-Judge but he was not that interested in the great Dachshunds that Jean was breeding with the help of Janet Wayock. At the time the Dunk’s owned a few nicely bred bitches such as CH Triste of Anchorage who was all Heying-Teckel and Marienlust bred and later became the dam of CH Dunkeldorf’s Mitkampfer who sired the last Dachshunds that Rose and Fred Heying ever finished out of their’65 WB at DCA, CH Falconeve of Heying-Teckel. John Wade finished Mitkampfer and really had him looking great in the Classes and even won an All Breed BIS in Ohio. The Dunks’s also had CH Timbar’s Bubbling Over who was sired by CH White Gable Ristocrat who was not White Gable at all but down from Marienlust and Heying-Teckel and Bubbling Over was out of a bitch, CH Barbar of Gera who was bred by the Shultis and sired by CH Fleet of Gera. When bred to er grandsire, CH Fleet, produced a litter wth no AKC Champions but two nice producers came down from them: Dunkeldorf’s Gin Rickey who produced Corlew’s Shusheila, another great producer for the Dunks, and Dunkeldorf’s Gimlet ROMO who produced CH Dunkeldorf’s Jagerlust (bought by the Stalters), CH Dunkeldorf’s Richter who was #2 Smooth in the country in ’71 and the Dunks own, CH Dunkeldorf’s Rittmeister who was DCA National Specialty winner. Bubbling Over, when bred to Falcon Forester ROMO,  produced three AKC Champions in the “P” litter such as CH Dunkeldorf’s Prachtig and, when bred to Falcon’s Favorite ROMO, produced three Champions for the “K” litter. Janet Wayock did indeed add quite a producer to Tommy and Jean Dunk’s kennel in CH Timbar’s Bubbling Over and Bubbling Over certainly did pass on her great qualities.

Next, Corlew’s Shusheila was another granddaughter of Bubbling Over and was the dam of the “G” litter which consisted of CH Dunkeldorf’s Gerstmeister (who was the grandsire of the great Show Dog CH Bigdrum Close Call v Westpalen ROM among many other greats) and CH Dunkeldorf’s Gunther who was a Top Rated Special for Lem Strauss and also the sire of CH Farmeadow Light Up the Sky ROMO who was three times DCA National BV winner in ’76,’77 and ’78. Shusheila was the dam of four AKC Champions from this great “G” litter. What a great band of brood bitches they had to produce such quality that truly won everywhere across the USA, from the smallest shows to the biggest in numbers. They were on quite a ride and I certainly hoped they did enjoy it. Also, as you can see from the numbers, many of the Dunkeldorf Dachshunds became part of the Top Ten of each year because of the wonderful winning they all did. I really believe that no one bred so many big winning Dachshunds as the Dunks did, but, as good as they bred them, the worse Mr Dunk treated them, but that is another lengthy story that I will not go into in this message because I try to talk abot the great thngs they did in the Breed.

When Janet Wayock moved down to Jacksonville herself with all her Gera bred Dachsunds, she had to know how this new loook was going to change things in the Show Ring, because all her dogs were from the Gera/Heying-Teckel/Red Locket line and the look of those two puppies in the Dunk Kennel must have made her realize that they would bring these new Smooths out and  literally sweep the USA and be even better than Janet thought they would be. I hope she understood how important her advice was to the new breeders, Tommy and Jean Dunk, and I hope Jean was always listening to the Heyings, Shultis, Dorwards and others working on that same project.

Right before Janet came down to Jacksonville, Florida, she got a puppy, Fleet N Lovely v Westphalen from Peggy Westphal who had bred her foundation bitch, CH Pharalope v Westphalen, who was mostly Kleetal breeding from John Cook, to the great producer, CH Fleet of Gera, who Janet had just brought out from California and Fleet himself was by CH Badger Hill Nobby and out of CH Annette of Gera so was personally all the new California breeding that had pretty much taken over the big California Shows and which also was a big part of Marcia Wheeler’s Willomar line from Virginia   and also the line of the future great producers, Russ and Thelma Moffett from Michigan. Anyway, when Fleet N Lovely v Westphlen was old enough, Janet who had moved to Jacksonville, Florida and was a great friend of Tommy and Jean Dunk, bred her to CH Dunkeldort Falcon’s Favorite ROMO and got a spectacular litter which consisted of CH Sheen v Westphalen ROMO who was a great producer and was WD and BW at DCA in ’65 and a multiple Specialty Winner including the largest Dachshund show in the USA, DALI; CH Shimmer v Westphalen ROMX, foundation bitch for Barbara Haisch of Barbadox Kennel in California; CH Scintillate v Westphalen and CH Ketchum’s Lusty Lulu who produced a few more Champions for Peggy Westphal. This was an important litter and, for some reason, Janet Wayock, the owner of the dam, Fleet N Lovely, was not going to register the puppies with AKC. Then, Peggy decided she was and a drawn-out court battle gave Peggy the puppies and they soon all had the Westphal prefix and Peggy gor to sell them. That was great for the puppies as they all had successfu careers in the whelping box and the Show Ring. This was before my time, but I think you can see that Janet Wayock, while an expert in Dachshunds, was not the easiest person to deal with in the real world. This was before my time knowing these breeders and, when I got started showing Dachshunds, Janet had moved her Timbar line to the Pacific Nothwest by the time I was around these people in ’76 and ’77, so I have no idea if there were sharp feelings between Peggy and Janet. Basically, I will say that if the bitches breeder sued me and then was awarded all the puppies and AKC registered them as belonging to Fleet N Lovely’s breeder, then something must have been very wrong with the circumstances of the CH Dunkeldorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMO and Fleet N Lonely v Westphalen litter. The quality, as I said, was so great and there were several DCA winners and Top Producers that made the whole litter amazing and it must have been worth it for Peggy to get that whole great litter and be able to put her kennel name on them. I have no idea where the problems arose on registering this litter sired by CH Dunkeldorf Falcon’s Favorite ROMO and out of a CH Fleet of Gera daughter and that new Smooth  look certainly came through in these puppies. As I have previously stated, CH Sheen v Westphalen ROMO was one of the new look who really captured everyone’s attention on the East Coast and Peggy Westphal and Dr Bill Nixon both used him a lot and that spread the new look with its larger size and great shape shape all over the USA, starting on the East Coast this time. From then on, the new look had really captured the USA and most of it was from the look  had caught Fred Heying’s eye when, back during WWII, he judged that great bitch, CH Rivenrock Dorcas, and decided he wanted to cross CH Rivenrock Dorcas and his new producer CH Favorite v Marienlust ROMO. He did and it all grew from there as it led to looking at puppies differently and keeping everything you wanted to add to each generation. In all honesty, that is still the ways I looked at puppies all through my breeding years and I feel it did well for me.

Also, in reading the comments about breeders not using Favorite, but instead using the also very nice Marienlust dogs, I personally think that is part of the East Coast establishment taking on the ‘pushy’ California breeders. Really, Favorite is 100% Marienlust and, as far as I knew, never produced health problems at all. I think it is a way to sort of cut down on the way that the (successful) California breeders were changing the Breed and producing all the winners that were starting to appear all over the country. I know John Cook was mentioned as was Phil Booth and I know both showed several CH Favorite v Marienlust puppies along the journey here. I also know that Phil and Eleanor won BV and BB DCA under Breeder-Judge John Cook with a bitch that went back to Favorite four or five times and so, to my way of thinking, that is promoting Favorite, not cutting him down. Phil and Eleanor’s bitch,CH Lynsulee’s Luckibelle ROMX, was all Heying-Teckel, Gera and Red Locket breeding with a little Caseway thrown in as well. Most of the others breeders and exhibitors were older and all came before this new look started to win so much. I realize this was part of the ‘feud’ between the East Coast and the West Coast and many people spouting the party line did not really believe it and all would switch the type they liked anyway as that new look became more popular and winning. As for the National Specialty Show, after ’62, when Barbara Lovering’s CH Willo-Mar’s Night and Day won BV and BB, all the Dachshunds from then on were all based on that new California-based look which consisted of CH Favorite v Marienlust ROMO, CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel ROMO, CH Dimas Earthstopper, CH Badger Hill Nobby and CH White Gables Basil with all the variations coming down from these great dogs. I do have to say that they were spectacular dogs to look at and watch show.

My last volume stopped when, in my mind, CH Falcon of Heying-Teckel had been the highlight of those first few generations and helped raise the bar in a great way among this new look that the California breeders and exhibitors developed after WWII. It was quite distinctive and I personally still look for it even in the last Dachshund litters I bred in the early 2000’s. That look stays with you and you can pick it out at an early age. After writing about these Dachshunds, I try to pick out the Special ones who really draw my eye because those are the ones I want to steal and seeing more pics of them make me want them even more. Since Falcon, a few have caught me eye, such as CH Fleet of Gera and CH Barbara of Gera who belonged to Janet Wayock and they both gave Janet that look that she always wanted. CH Sheen v Westphalen was another one that sent that gorgeous outline into his next generation too. Most of all, I loved the great CH Dunkeldorf’s Mitkampfer who John Wade showed and no one ever posed like John got him to in those win pictures that they published. From the great Dunkeldorf litter, I personally always loved the great bitch that the Dunks sold to Ohio, CH Dunkeldorf’s Falcon Fantasia, where she finished in a hurry and even won a Group I from the classes. Any of these I would have owned on the spot and would have been so proud of their presence in the whelping box and the Show Ring. I understand that I probably should have included one of the greats like Falcon’s Favorite ROMO, Falcon Forester ROMO or Falcon Fantasy, but there were certain things sort of kept me from using them and there were some problems that I hated to see get started when they were used so much by so many folks raising the next generation  to show.

I said I would finish with this post about that new loook, but, I only got this far into the ’60s and have a few other breeders that I really want to include so I am going on with Volume III which will talk bout the breeders that I grew up with and their insistence on this new look and why they liked it. I have to say that, IMO, they were right and this new look really took over the Dachshund fancy since the height of the amazing Dunkeldorf spree back in the ’60s.