History, coats, colours, temperament, health and culture of the badger hound — one long, low, stubborn encyclopedia.
Red, black and tan, chocolate, cream, blue and Isabella; and the patterns laid over them — dapple, brindle, sable, piebald — with the genetics that make double dapple a warning sign.
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Underneath every pattern sits a base colour, and there are only a handful: two pigments, a dilution switch, and the tan-point arrangement do most of the work.
A pattern is not a colour — it is a rule laid over one. Here is what each of the four main dachshund patterns does and how it is inherited.
Breeding dapple to dapple produces striking white-marked puppies and a high rate of blindness and deafness. Every major club condemns it.