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Red (can appear in all coats): The most familiar and common of the dachshund
colors. A red dachshund can be any shade of red from blonde to a deep red mahogany -- all of which is just red, not cream
or wheaten or mahongany. You can have a clear red which means no dark hairs anywhere in the coat or you can have black hairs
interspersed -- either of these -- is still just red. It should have a black eyes, black noes, and black nails unless it is
a 'liver-nose red' which means its nose and nails would be the same color as the chocolate and tan. For a red to produce black/tans
it must carry the tan point gene. A red that does not carry the tan point gene can not ever produce anything but red puppies.
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BLACK/TAN (can appear in all coats): The second most familiar dachshund color.
A blk/tan dachshund will be black all over with tain points (tan feet, over eyes, on face around muzzle, on chest, under tail).
It will have black eyes, nose, and black nails. Blk/tan is recessive which means a blk/tan bred to a blk/tan will produce
blk/tan unless they both carry the chinchilla factor which will create a recessive red puppy.
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BLACK (can appear in all coats): A black dachshund will be black all over
without any tan points. It will have black eyes, black nose, and black nails. This is not the result of continuous breeding
of black/tan to blk/tan. Black breeds true and appears to breed dominant over the black/tan. The black is simply the 'B' gene
lacking the tan point gene.
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CHOCOLATE/TAN (can appear in all coats): A choc/tan will be from milk chocolate
brown to a dark chocolate brown with tan points (tan on feet, over eyes, on face around muzzle, on chest, under tail). It
will have a brown to light brown nose and nails. A true choc/tan will NEVER have a black nose. It will have brown to light
brown eyes and on occasion green to hazel eyes. This is a recessive color it must be showing or carried in both parents to
appear.
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CHOCOLATE(can appear in all coats): A chocolate will be a dark chocolate
brown all over without any tan points. It will have a brown to light brown eyes, nose, and nails. This is a recessive color
it must be showing or carried in both parents to appear but breeds dominant to chocolate/tan.
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CREAM(only applicable to long coats): A true cream will be from a platinum
blonde to butter yellow in color. It will have black eyes, black nose and black nails.
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BLACK/CREAM (only applicable to long coats): A black and cream dachshund
will be black all over with cream points (cream on feet, over eyes, on face around muzzle, on chest, under tail). It will
have black eyes, black nose, and black nails.
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WHEATEN ( only applicable to wire coats): A wheaten will be from a platinum
blonde to light red in color. It will have black eyes, black nose, and black nails. This is a recessive color it must be showing
or carried in both parents to appear.
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BLUE/TAN (can appear in all coats): A blue and tan is a diluted black/tan.
It will be a gun metal blue color with tan points. Its color should resemble a blue Doberman. It will have grey eyes, grey
nose, and grey nails. This is a recessive color it must be showing or carried in both parents to appear.
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ISABELLA(fawn)/TAN (can appear in all coats): An Isabella/Tan is a diluted
chocolate/tan. It will appear to be a washed out chocolate/tan. Its color should resemble a Weimaraner but with tan points.
It will have grey eyes, grey nose and grey nails. This is a recessive color it must be showing or carried in both parents
to appear.
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PATTERNS
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BRINDLE(can appear in all coats): Brindling is a distinct tiger stripe pattern
over the base coat color. It can appear over any color. It is dominant which means one of the parents mush show pattern for
it to appear and it can appear with piebald pattern.
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DAPPLE (can appear in all coats): Dappling is spotting or marbling of a lighter
color mixed in with base coat color. It can appear over any color. It is dominant which means one of the parents must show
pattern for it to appear and it can appear over any color. It is dominant which means one of the parents mush show pattern
for it to appear and it can appear with piebald pattern. Red dapple-dappling is lighter red, black/tan dapple-dappling is
grey/silver, chocolate/tan dapple-dappling is eggnog colored, blue/tan dappling-dappling is diluted eggnog color. If dappling
occurs in eyes, eyes will be blue (can be one or both) or just have blue flecks in the. It is impossible to have blue eyes
on a dachshund without the dapple pattern.
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DOUBLE DAPPLE (can appear in all coats): CAN ONLY OCCUR WHEN TO DAPPLED DACHSHUNDS
ARE BRED TOGETHER. A double dapple will be dappled dachshund with patches of white also mixed in. It can appear over any color,
can only occur when both parents are dappled. The dapple gene is lethal in double doses, 4% of all double dapples born are
blind or deaf or both. Dapple to dapple breeding should be done only with great consideration and caution by experienced breeders.
Most usually the have two blue eyes but can have only one blue eye and on occasion two brown eyes. It is impossible to have
blue eyes on a dachshund without the dapple pattern. A double dapple will make all dapple offspring when bred. It is often
mistaken for the piebald pattern.
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PIEBLAD-WHITE SPOTTING(can appear in all coats); There are three degrees
of white spotting possilbe in the dachshund only two of the three degrees should be registered as piebalds. The first degree
of white spotting is 'irish white spotting'. This classification would include any amount of white on a dachshund LESS than
four white legs, a white tipped tail and a white chest. This minimum amount of white spotting should NOT be registered as
a piebald but instead simply as the base coat color. The second degree is 'pieblad shite spotting'. This classification would
be the minimum amount of white being four completly white legs, a white tipped tail, and a white chest and then up to 80%
of white on the coat. The third degree is 'extreme pieblad white spotting'. This is where more than 80% of the coat is white.
Both the second and third degrees of white spotting should be registered as piebalds. These can appear with any color. White
spotting is recessive which means both parents must be showing or carrying for it to appear. It can appear with the dominant
patterns brindle and dapple patterns but be aware AKC does not register or recongnize two patterns on the dachshund. It is
a safemeans of creating white dachshund color, not lethal like dapple gene. (Note: Dapple piebalds often have one or two blue
eyes - a solid peibald or brindle piebald will NEVER have blue eyes only brown eyes. It is impossible to have blue eyes on
a dachshund without the dapple pattern). White spotting can have 'ticking' which looks like someone took a marker and put
little dots of color in the white. 'Ticking' is dominant only one of the parents needs to be ticked for ticking to appear.
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SABLE(applicable only to long coats)/WILDBOAR(technically
a color but in essence a pattern, applicable to wire and smooth coats): These terms (especially sable) are often mistakenly
used to refer to an interspersion of black hairs on back and neck over red color. A true red sable/wildboar will appear to
be black and tan from a distance. The undercoat beneath black being red. Sable/wildboar is a very heavy layer of black over
the base coat color. This is an uncommon pattern. This is a pattern that can not be truly labeled until pup reaches 6 months
of age. Many pups labeled sable/wildboar lose black overlay and become simply red with no pattern. Smooth puppies born from
blk/tan and red smooths with black overlay are often mistakenly labeled sable.
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