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| Short-Haired ( or Smooth ) Dachshund |
| Hair |
| Short,thick,smooth and shining;no bald patches, Special faults are; too fine or thin, leathery ears, bald patches, too coarse or too thick hair in general. |
| Tail |
| Gradually tapered to a point, well but not too richly haired; long sleek bristles on the underside are considered a patch of strong-growing hair,not a fault. A brush tail is a fault, as is also partly or wholly hairless tail. |
| Colour of Hair, Nose and Nails |
| a) One-Coloured Dachshund |
| This group includes red (often called tan),red-yellow, and yellow, with or without a shading of interspersed black hairs. Nevertheless a clean colour is preferable,and red is to considered more desirable than red-yellow or yellow. Dogs strongly shaded with interspersed black hairs belong to this class, and not to the other colour groups. No white is desirable, but a solitary small spot is not exactly disqualifying. Nose and nails - black, although red is admissable, but not desirable. |
| b) Two-Coloured Dachshund |
| These comprise deep black, chocolate, grey, and white; each with rust-brown or yellow marks over the eyes, on the sides of the jaw and underlip, on the inner edge of the ear, front,breast, inside and behind the frontleg, on the paws and around the anus and from there to about one-third to one-half of the length of the tail on the underside. (The most common Two-Coloured Dachshund is usually called black and tan.) Except white dogs, no white is desirable, but a solitary small spot is not exactly disqualifying. Absence,or undue prominence of tan markings, is undesirable. Nose and nails ~ In the case of black dogs, black; for chocolate, brown or black; for grey, grey or even flesh colour, but the last named colour is not desirable. In the case of white dogs, black nose and nails are to be preferred. |
| c) Dappled and Stripped Dachshund |
| The colour of the dappled (or tiger) Dachshund is a clear brownish or greyish colour, or even a white ground, with dark irregular patches or dark-grey,brown,red-yellow or black(large areas of one colour not desirable). It is desirable that neither the light nor the dark colour should predominate. The colour of the striped (brindle) Dachshund is red or yellow with a darker streaking. Nose and nails ~ as for One and Two-Coloured Dachshunds. |
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| General Appearance The general appearance is the same as that of the Short-haired, but without being long in the legs, it is permissible for the body to be somewhat higher off the ground. Hair With the exception of the jaw, eyebrows, and the ears, the whole body is covered with a perfectly uniform tight, short,thick, rough, hard coat, but with finer, shorter hairs ( undercoat ) everywhere distributed between the coarser hairs, resembling the coat of the German Spiky-Haired Pointer. There should be a beard on the chin. The eyebrows are bushy. On the ears the hair is shorter than on the body, almost smooth; but in any case conforming to the rest of the coat. The general arrangement of the hair should be such that the Wire-haired Dachshund, when seen from a distance, should resemble a Smooth-haired. Any sort of soft hair in the coat is faulty, whether short or long, or wherever found on the body. The same is true of long, curly or wavy hair, or hair that sticks out irregularly in all directions. A flag tail is also objectionable. Tail Robust, as thickly haired as possible, gradually coming to a point and without a tuft. Colour of Hair, Nose and Nails All colours are admissible. White patches on the chest, though allowable, are not desirable. |
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| The distinctive characteristic differentiating this coat from the other varieties is alone the rather long silky hair. Hair The soft, sleek, glistening, often slightly wavy hair should be longer under the neck, on the the underside of the body, and especially on the ears and behind the legs, becoming there a pronounced feather; the hair should attain its greatest length on the underside of the tail. The hair should fall beyond the lower edge of the ear. Short hair on the ear, so-called "leather" ears, is not desirable. Too luxurious a coat causes the long-haired dachshund to seem coarse, and masks the type. The coat should remind one of the Irish Setter, and should give the dog an elegant appearance. Too thick hair on the paws, so-called "mops" is non-elegant and renders the animal unfit for use. It is faulty for the dog to have equally long hair over all the body, if the coat is too curly, or too scrubby, or if a flag tail or overhanging hair on the ears are lacking; or if there is a very pronounced parting in the back, or a vigorous growth between the toes. Tail Carried gracefully in prolongation of the spine; the hair attains here its greatest length and forms a vertitable flag. Colour of Hair, Nose and Nails Exactly as for the Smooth- haired Dachshund . |
| Wire-Haired Dachshund |
| Long-haired Dachshund |
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