Yeah...we love that pic..... It was taken on there first day together I don´t think I´ll ever stop missing that dog. It would have been nice to see some more puppie after him. Unforunatly we had to put him to sleep at four years of age when he got an inoperable knee injury.
Well I did a little research myself. It seems that Merle and Dapple are pretty much the same thing, the term Dapple refers to this type of coloring specifically for Dachshunds.
Brandon now i know the differens.... Talked to my breeder whom has Smooths for nearly 30 years. The dapple/double dapple gene is "normal" and doesn't bring healthproblems to the dogs and the Blue merl gen is (as I allready knew) a deffect gene that can bring deafness, blindness and white puppies. You can therefor mate dapple/double dapple dogs bot not Blm with Blm.
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I don´t think I´ll ever stop missing that dog.
It would have been nice to see some more puppie after him.
Unforunatly we had to put him to sleep at four years of age when he got an inoperable knee injury.
http://www.dachshund.org/article_double_dapple.html
The dapple/double dapple gene is "normal" and doesn't bring healthproblems to the dogs and the Blue merl gen is (as I allready knew) a deffect gene that can bring deafness, blindness and white puppies.
You can therefor mate dapple/double dapple dogs bot not Blm with Blm.
We need to do some more reserch into the subject
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