Sometimes you have to tell the story of the worst puppy you ever raised.
Read it and tell me what you think.
“The Worst Puppy EVER” – The Dachshund History Project (dachshundhistoryonline.com)
Here is an article that the Harry and Vivian Sharpe wrote back in the ’70s about potential matings and what to consider. This is one to read through if you have time. It is fascinating.
Here is an article that famed handler and Breeder Leon Warren wrote about breeding a nice Litter. This article was written by him for the September ’72 Issue of The American Dachshund. I agree with everything he wrote.
I like to look at things in the future and so do look back and forth a lot while writing on this website, but I rarely talk about other breeds. In the old days , when there were many Dog Magazines, they always kept us informed about what preceded us and, in their vein, I will bring Mr Oppenheimer to your attention. He was a great man and was a savior to the Bull terrier and, in breeding, he came up with some great principles that still should be thought about by all of us as we think about our new generations we are bringing into the World. I have included them here and left my comments after Raymond Oppenheimer presented his. These will really help you when picking out who and what to breed to. Read them, appreciate their worth and good luck in breeding better Dachshunds!
Read about it here: Raymond Oppenheimer
I have been sort of fixing up all the posts on the TDHP website and ended up consolidating on one page all of the posts about Dee Hutchinson and her dogs as well as her concept of judging them. I always speak highly of Dee and, even to this day, I miss talking with her and being a great friend, In my mind, Dee was the best breeder and a very great Dog Judge (and she KNEW it!).
Although she passed away in 2010, I still miss her a lot.
Here is my last message about the Longhairs helping Smooths. Lots of good things in the post about the Dachshund breed. I hope you all like it!
Here is my second part of the article about adding the Smooth qualities to the Longhair . There is a lot of talk about pedigrees and what was being added. I am hoping we take the time to consider what I have written and how to be as successful as Mary Howell was back in the days that she started crossing her Bayard bitches to the best of Ben Klimkiewicz’ Smooths. I want all of us to be as successful as Mary was as she really helped the Longhair Variety.
Finally, I am finished and here is the first part on crossing coats and why it was done. I hope I have not talked too much about pedigrees, but somehow I always like to see what happens when I read a new pedigree. I always hope the right choices were made and I certainly think they were really on the money with how they got the Standard Wire better. Most are Standards that I talk about, because Standards were what I bred, but the same perspectives still apply in either Miniature or Standard crossing.
I just wrote an article about Robert and just published it today! It is a long one. I hope some people enjoy it.
I just finished my post about my “E” Litter and it was my first cross using Gerolf on my dogs. It was a good one and a lot of Dachshund History comes from it as well. If you are interested, you can read about it here:
The Boondox “E” Litter – The Dachshund History Project (dachshundhistoryonline.com)