Cedar Hills Miniature Dachshunds

  No color is 'rare'.  It is 'bred for'.  Some colors are not as popular as others, therefore aren't 'bred for'.  

  Keep in mind that everyone grooms just a little different, so every dog is not going to look like these grooming pictures.

The wire coat

  Wires hairs can be soft coated.

 Or harsh coated.This is the proper coat

                                                                                                             for a wire hair.

Depending on how you want your wire to look, he will need grooming.

A groomed wire will look more like this.

Here's Digger, before grooming, half done and finished except for nails and some touch-up.

totally ungroomed

The half that towards the mirror is groomed and the top of his head--took about 45 minutes.

all except the nails and a lot more touch up.

again, except from the side.

I spent about 3 1/2 hours hand stripping him for the upcoming shows.  What a difference!!

Longhair coat

un-groomed foot         groomed foot

This is Chip, first un-groomed and second, ready for the ring.

The smooth is what we call a 'wash and wear' dog.  Give him a bath, trim the nails, clean the ears and he's ready to go.

Colors:

Red

wire hair                                               smooth hair                                                      long hair

Black and tan

wire hair puppy                                         smooth hair                                   long hair

Black and Cream

Chocolate and tan

wire hair-not groomed                                              smooth hair                               long hair

Wild boar--most commonly occurs in wire hairs

Wild boar smooth hair                                            wild boar wire hair

Black--no tan markings

Chocolate--all chocolate colored, no tan markings

Chocolate dapple--solid chocolate pictured above with dapple markings, no tan markings.

Isabella (Fawn)

    washed out chocolate in color, with or without tan markings.  Isabella's can be prone to coat problems

Blue--can have either tan or cream points

can also be prone to coat problems--steel gray similar to a weimaraner, has tan markings.

Wheaton--most common in wire hairs

  no picture--very pale yellow

Piebald: not to be confused with double dapples.  A true Piebald will never have blue eyes.

black and tan piebald without ticking                                red piebald with ticking

cream--predominately a long hair color, but starting to appear in smooth hairs

long hair--cream with a shaded cream                                                   smooth cream

Patterns: (markings)

Any pattern can appear on any color and if combinations are right, two patterns can appear on any color.  Only one pattern will be registered by AKC in most cases.  See current colors listed below.  These change from time to time.

Brindle

red brindle smooth hair                                                    red brindle long hair

can also be black and tan brindle with the brindle showing only in the tan points

Dapple

wild boar dapple smooth hair                                    Chocolate and tan dapple long hair             black and tan dapple smooth hair

Sable--most common in long hairs

very dark, looks like a black and tan from a distance.  

 Many colors with a black or dark overlay are called 'sables'. 

double dapple--breeding for this pattern is the result of breeding two dapples together and has the potential to produce small eyes, deafness, blindness or other abnormalities.  

Colors that can be currently registered with AKC: (2-15-08)

Black                                 

Black & cream

Black & tan

Black and silver dapple

Blue & cream

Blue & tan

Chocolate

Chocolate dapple

Chocolate & Tan

Cream

Fawn

Fawn (Isabella) & tan

Red

Wheaton

Wild Boar

Markings that can be registered with AKC in conjunction with any of the above colors:

Brindle

Brindle Piebald

Dapple

Double Dapple

Piebald

Sable

Cream markings

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