A Walk In The Park Dachshunds

10/24/2026

I’m very excited to announce… we had a pile of puppies arrive healthy and sound this week! Including a few dapples — our first dapples to be born in nearly a year!

This is an Encore x Vodka pairing and they blessed us with several girls and boys. This is a really lovely pairing and a repeat one.

Encore has her APRI Champion title as do both of her parents. Her dad has also been shown in UKC. Both of her parents are CHIC certified with full OFA and Genetic testing, and Encore is as well, with OFA eyes, patellas, cardiac, and dentition all done.

Encore has many other relatives who are health tested and shown. Her full sister Valentine has her APRI Champion and competed for Top Dog with the highest score of her breed. She also has her full CHIC and she has her hips and elbows done. Elbows normal, hips Excellent!

Encore also has a cousin who has her full CHIC; and an aunt on both parents’ sides with their full CHICs and APRI Champion titles. Encore is also the aunt to Bellamy, who has her UKC Champion and her full CHIC as well.

Vodka is our prized boy and has his UKC Champion, International Champion, and APRI Champion titles. He has a few merits including taking Group 3 in IABCA among a lineup of more than twenty impressive dogs! He also recently took Reserve Best In Show Brace as most of you know with his son, Luca.

Luca is a lovely boy and also related to this pairing. Encore’s mom is a full sibling to Luca’s grandmother — and therefore Encore is his mother’s first cousin. His mother is APRI Champion Drama, owned by Tinker Toy Doxies, and with OFA’s completed. His grandmother is also an APRI Champion and has full health testing completed.

Carmen — who has her Trick Dog Novice title in AKC, is UKC Altered Ptd, and took Best In Show Puppy in APRI — is also closely related as her mother is Encore’s aunt, and her father is Vodka as well!

Vodka has several past offspring including Carmen and Bellamy, and a few others within their respective homes, who have shown in APRI and UKC and have completed full health testing. He even has a few who have shown in AKC, Luca included.

Therefore, this is a pairing with a lot of health testing around them. The sire — Vodka — also has his Hips rated good and his eyes done multiple times; elbows normal; and a full Embark panel.

We have several cream girls and boys born to this pairing and I will be waiting to determine who is longhaired and who is smooth. But I am very excited to see these littles grow up 😍

As always, my waitlist gets contacted first once littles are a bit older, so I’d recommend applying if you have any interest — but as I’m no longer accepting waitlist applications for dapples, given how infrequently we have them, I’d prefer if you reached out to me directly to inquire.

I can’t wait to share updates of these little ones once they’re a bit bigger 💗

10/22/2026

Some of my favourites of Carmen!

10/22/2026

Short legs on a dog are useful for digging, getting the mouth and nose close to the ground, and crawling through tunnels. Short legs, however, can decrease speed and jumping. The best way to have a long stride in a short legged breed like the Dachshund is to have what “dog people” refer to as a “well angulated” front – and having one isn’t just for show dogs.

Much of a dog’s physical ability is a function of how its front end is built. Where the scapula and humerus meet, and where the humerus and the radius/ulna join is an angle, and it’s these angles that provide levers. On the levers are muscles that exert the forces that drive the dog’s body forward, important because bones involved in the dog’s front assembly aren’t articulated with the rest of the body by joints. They’re kept in place by ligaments and muscles.

Dogs with well-angulated front limbs can unfold those angles to reach far forward and push well back. This is important because a dog with “good angulation” in the front can cover more ground with less effort with each stride, and that’s important to any dog whether it’s a backyard warrior or a show dog.

A dog with poor angulation has to use more energy to cover the same distance as the well built dog. Put another way, a poorly built dog poops out faster and is at higher risk for injury.

The well angulated Dachshund can sit on it’s “keel” (chest) as it digs furiously and all we see is a blur – and s/he can do it for a long time.

Image shared with the kind permission of the Dachshund Breed Council

10/21/2026

Diplomat 😍

10/20/2026

Three cream pointed gals 😍
Vodka is the dad!

10/20/2026

Ringside photos are in! Vodka, his son Luca, and Cutie.

Cutie has her next AKC show in November 😍

10/15/2026

10/15/2026

I’ve been putting together a few new adverts for some of the dachshunds. It’s hard whenever there are so many good pictures of all of them 😆

10/14/2026

Vodka grandbabies 😍

10/14/2026

Dalmarfloridachs The Prodigal Son at WITP

Lovelyyyyy boy!