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about my family
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Welcome to my website and my woofers! My name is Lisa, and I live south and east of Kansas City, Missouri. My extended family of wiener dogs lives all over the metro and out of the area in Massachusetts, California, New Jersey, Oklahoma, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Florida, and the Bahamas. I have been a very small-scale dachshund breeder since the summer of 2006, usually having a couple of litters every year, and refining my breeding program to create better dogs as I go. I am proud of what I have accomplished in only four years' time and soon look forward to breeding some of the finest, most healthy old style shorthair dachshunds in the country. I have also written two books on dachshunds and have a few more in the works.
When I met a friend's family and fell head over heels in love with their puppies, I knew I'd have to have one (or two or three or four...  ). As they say, 'dachshunds are like potato chips; you can't just have one'. Since then I have spent a considerable amount of time studying the breed. One thing about them I find most pleasing is that, unlike toy breeds, dachshunds are very much still terriers even when they are small in size - they have that small-dog-in-a-big-dog's-body attitude with a whole lot of personality to go around. They are true joys to have.
My "personal beast" Hazel, as well as any other adults and puppies I may have at any given time, live in the house with us and they otherwise live with their loan-adoptive forever families. We take them for walks and hunts, and we also take them around town to see friends and relatives, to go exploring, to attend different events to get them socialized, and occasionally to treat them to "ice cream socials", among other things.
By the time they are adults, they have all been crate trained, house trained, lead trained, and have had basic training ("[name]", "no", "come"/"here", "down", "out", "go", "move", "sit", "lie down", "look", "find it", "potty", and so on). The adults are drive-/hunt-tested in the warmer months. Most of my dachshunds are currently registered with the AKC, but this may change in the future as registration fees continue to increase and as my breeding priorities shift.
All my puppies live in the house from the moment they are born as well, where they are thoroughly played with, socialized, and begin to learn basic manners, basic obedience, and basic potty training. All puppies bred by me are health-, structure-, temperament- and drive-tested by me and are often leash-broken by me before they are placed, all are health-checked by at least one of my veterinarians at least once before they are placed, and some are also examined by an ophthalmologist before they are placed. Please contact me, either here or on my Facebook page, if you would like veterinary references or have any other questions, and I will be happy to answer.
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breeding goals
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My goal is to produce a line of quality dachshunds that:
- have confident, solid temperaments
(are not nervous, sharp, shy, submissive, or human-aggressive)
- have forgiveness and tolerances
- are observant, inquisitive, and responsive
- are prey-driven and earth-driven
- have endurance, boldness, and gameness
- have spurlaut and sichtlaut
- have excellent noses
- can problem-solve
- have a medium to medium-high energy level
- want to please but are still independently minded
- structurally conform to the traditional terrier type
and the now-extinct tachskrieger type from the early 1700s
- have decent movement
- are between about 7 and 10 pounds
- have complementary and reasonable chest sizes
- have correct toplines and are "clear" of back problems
- have scissor bites and do not retain deciduous teeth
- have good eyesight and are free of affective eye disorders
- are healthy, sound, and well-balanced overall
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Other personal goals I have are to improve the quality of:
- KSESes by breeding to quality specimens,
- dilutes by breeding unaffecteds to superior coats,
- dapples by breeding "unaffecteds", and
- creams by breeding to quality specimens.
My statement on my breeding:
I further strive to breed for correct dachshund-like temperament, drives, and structure rather than breed for the latest fads or trends. In that vein, I will never purposefully breed for the "modern show dachshund" type, which I believe is physically more unsound/unhealthy and which makes such dogs useless for real terrier work.
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health screening
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eye testing
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patella testing
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I have each of my adult dogs I desire to breed screened for certain genetic disorders that are known to occur in the breed. Results can be found on the hotdog stats page.
- Back screening: I check the spine at the appropriate age to screen for back trouble. To my knowledge, I am currently the only dachshund breeder in North America who does this appropriate screening for all (or even any) of her dachshunds. However, as the incidence of the disorder in the breed is so high (roughly 1 in 2 dachshunds have visibly degraded spines from it, and 1 in 5 herniate a disc in their lives because of it), I believe it is imperative to screen for it and thereby be able to knowingly breed away from it.
- Other orthopedic screening: I have each dog's patellas tested at various intervals by a competent veterinarian and regsitered with the OFA after a year or two of age. Some also have x-rays taken of their elbows and/or hips to screen for elbow dysplasia and hip dysplasia, and they are subsequently registered with the OFA.
- Eye screening: I have each dog's eyes tested by an ACVO-certified veterinary ophthalmologist at least once and registered with CERF.
- Genetic screening: Some are tested for CRD-cord1 and/or NCL-JO by MU. As prices are dropped for other relevant genetic tests, I will consider adding them to my screening list.
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hip testing
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