The Cream Dachshund
Interesting facts of A Cream dachshund
Many people do not like the emphasis placed on color, but my husband and I, have fallen in love with the elegance of the English Cream Miniature Dachshund. The information contained within this page is that "simply Information" and is not meant to place a "Special" or "Rare" status on color but rather to help educate puppy people on the temperament and/or qualities of True Type English Cream Miniature Dachshunds. Our primary focus in selecting a Miniature Dachshund for our Breeding program is their confirmation and temperament. You can always breed color into a line however you must first start with excellent confirmation!
CONFIRMATION before COLOR!
A true type English Cream miniature dachshund can range anywhere in color from "golden" to a "yellowish" or "strawberry" color blonde. They should always have black noses with the exception of the Chocolate and Creams which is acceptable to have a dilute nose as is in the Chocolate miniature dachshunds. They can have black or self-colored nails and should also have exquisite black eye lines around the eye rims with again the Chocolate exception. Most Creams are of English decent hence the term "English Cream Dachshund”. True English cream will trace back to British Imports which can be viewed on our pedigrees. Cream is a recessive gene and so both parents must be or carry the cream gene or factor to produce Cream pups.
The term American Cream has come about to describe cream dachshunds who are not of English decent but rather appear to be cream. These dogs may or may not be True English Creams (double recessive). Some dogs labeled as cream may be recessive red or "e-red" dachshunds which will darken as they age. True Cream dachshunds (English Creams) get lighter as they age. Check with the breeder of the puppy when in doubt. If a dachshund has the characteristics above they may be in fact a True English Cream. As previously stated the, the recessive cream factor in the English Cream Dachshunds is what is referred to as a "Double Chinchilla Factor" (also referred to as "double recessive" or "double dilute" or "EE"). The chinchilla factor only acts on the red color, it does not act on the black or the Chocolate. This is why we often see Black and Cream dachshunds and Chocolate and Cream dachshunds.
A dog referred to as American cream dachshunds is due to a different dilution factor than the chinchilla-factor. Many believe that it is the blue dilution factor that affects black (for blue) and chocolate (for Isabella) and that this dilution will also affect the base coat red.
(info from various sites)
