I do not breeds doxies nor do I even own one. It is my nephew who breeds them. It was really just a question of curiosity. He KNOWS he can not breed his female dapple to another dapple, which to my understanding is the same as merles in our breed....no merle to merle breeding......But his male was killed last year by a pit so he used an outside stud with his female this year and the stud is a piebald. I was just trying to figure out what these means as far as genetics. If a piebald/dapple breeding is ok. From what I am learning, a piebald would be in the same category as any other "color" while a dapple is a genetics thing. And like it would be fine to breed a merle and a brindle chi, the results may not be pretty, but they can be healthy, but a merle to merle would cause health problems like a dapple to dapple would cause health problems, but a dapple to piebald would be healthy.....like I said, this aint my breed, so it doesn't really effect me...I was just curious. Marsha
----- Original Message ----- From: shirley osterholt To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 7:15 PM Subject: Re: [Chihuahuas] OT: Dachshunds * You need to do thorough checking of your breeder, etc. just like in any breed. Our doxie, Oreo, for which I just mentioned, is the healthiest of all our dogs. However, it never, we weren't out for breeding and felt God lead us to this little guy because I had in mind I wanted another female, just because of have Maggie and mostly females in the past. Neither of his parents were Piebald and both of his siblings were Black and Tan. I looked everywhere to find him as our daughter-in-law has one she had when our son married her and he is gorgeous. They live in Nevada but it appears that around our area here in Ohio what I wanted was very hard to find unless I wanted to pay for a show dog and price that went with some of those breeders. Please understand I am NOT putting ALL breeders, down. As people considered us breeders when we home raised our pets some 10 plus yrs. ago. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marsha although new to the ins and outs of color breeding I can tell u a dachshund piebald has white on head what ramifications there are after that I am still learning glad u asked though as my breeder friend told me to get a pie female for my stud who is black and tan Alison ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Get a sneak peak of the all-new AOL.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Park yourself in front of a world of choices in alternative vehicles. Visit the Yahoo! Auto Green Center.
