Wednesday, January 25, 2012

What happens if i were to breed a short hair minature dachshaund with a long haired minature dachshund? ?

I have a female minature Dachshund, i want to get another Dachshund, but it seems longhaires are more expensive. Would i get a wirehaired if i bred a long and a shorthair? Or will i just get both long hair, and shorthair?What happens if i were to breed a short hair minature dachshaund with a long haired minature dachshund? ?
why do you want to breed? go to the animal shelters. might take some time and searching but you will find one that fits right for you and take comfort into knowing you gave it a good home before it was euthanized. What happens if i were to breed a short hair minature dachshaund with a long haired minature dachshund? ?
I assume you are just asking out of curiosity and not planing on breeding so....I'm not as familiar with daschunds but basically long hair is recessive to short hair and wirehair is carried on another seperate gene. So if you breed a longhair to a shorthair that does not carry the gene for longhair and both dogs don't carry the gene for wirehair then you will end up with 100% shorthaired puppies that will carry the gene for long hair. If the shorthair carries the gene for long hair then about 50% will be long hair and 50% will be shorthair. If both carry the gene for wirehair then about 25% will be wirehair
Wire is a dominant coat pattern -- it is not a cross between smooth and long.





If you cross coat types, you end up with inferior versions of those coat types -- i.e. breeding a long to a smooth will generally produce longs with thin, poor coats, and breeding a long to a wire will produce soft, longer wire coats.





In a litter between a long and a smooth, you would likely get smooths and poor-coated longs, depending on whether or not your smooth also carries the (recessive) longhaired gene.





People do it, but that doesn't make it smart.





Have you considered adopting another Dachshund through a rescue group, rather than buying one to breed? Less expensive, and you'll be saving a life. There are plenty of poorly bred Miniature Dachshunds in the world already. There is no reason to make more.
What happens is that you contribute to an already huge, yet always growing animal population problem. This is a problem for all of us...for rescues %26amp; shelters, it's a matter of the heart on top of a problem for space and funding. For the general public, it's a danger because that means more animals roaming the street which increases the risk of accidents %26amp; illness. For the taxpayer, it means they're hard earned money is paying to feed, care for and even kill animals.





Think big picture...you're actions have a huge impact. Don't breed since you obviously know nothing about it.
There are so many loving and beautiful dogs that are abandoned. If you wan't another dog, don't breed. Go to a pound and save a soul. The length of hair won't make a diiference to you when you know that you have saved a life.
You most likely will get both. But I have found that most puppies favor the Male. Hope you get better info. But that's what I have found.
No need to breed. So don't worry you're little head about it. Enjoy your dogs, love your dogs, and spay and neuter your dogs. Problem solved!
You will get a medium haired miniature dachshund.
Beanie weenies
I think you might get both or a combo of the two

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