Does anyone know anything about...dachshunds?? They CAN look just like tiny doodles!

[Ginny Nightingale]

I met the cutest, but weirdest dog at a therapy dog event today--and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas about this--I got one very poor picture with my cell phone and will try to download it tomorrow--but in the meantime, let me tell you the story. The dog was a mini dachshund and was supposed to be a wirehair dachshund--he was black and brown with straight hair when he was a tiny pup. BUT, now he has creamy-tan colored, curly, SOFT fur--just like a doodle, but  he has totally dachshund features--I asked the woman if perhaps the wrong daddy got to breed with the female and perhaps it was a mini-or toy poodle--but she said that the dog, named Harry, has a black wire-haired sister. Well, being a biologist, I just couldn't let this go--and my latest thought is that the two pups had two different daddies! That can happen, right?

Regardless, he was the cutest little guy!! Picture the wavy, soft curls of a creamy colored doodle all over the cute body of a dachshund! I have never seen anything like him. What do you all think of my theory??

UPDATE--we have figured it out--thanks everyone--a "soft" wire haired dachshund--but they can really look just like tiny doodles with very short legs! Here is a photo from a breeder website--I put it in the comments below too--now you don't have to scroll down to see it.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Pups in the same litter can have diiferent fathers. Whether this one did, who knows :-) 

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

Looks as if they come in a wide variety of colors, hair types, etc. Sound familiar. Just like doodles.

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

I had trouble putting some of the better examples here without doing a lot of work. Lazy and tired tonight.  Opps, sorry. 

And yes, a litter can have more than one father and have different breeds of pups.  We had a member on DK who had this happen and got a "KInd of Doodle"  a few years back

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

There is a coat type in dachshunds called a "soft" wire coat, which is curlier and softer than the typical wirehaired coat. Google "soft wirehaired dachshund" and you can see and read about them.  And as Joanne noted, they have a wide variety of colors. The creams are not all that unusual. And of course you know that a litter can contain many different colored pups from the same parents, and that a dog's coloring can lighten and change as they get older. So I think it's entitrely possible and even probable that he was exactly what he was supposed to be, a wirehaired dachshund.

I think this soft wirehaired dachshund looks a lot like a doodle.

[Ginny Nightingale]

OK! That must be it--the soft wire haired terrier--which seems like a very contradictory term! No wonder I was confused--he was gorgeous and someday when I can't lug a doodle around anymore, maybe I will get one of those!! Here is my terrible picture--I have an old cell phone and he was across the room, so I had to crop it to zoom in on him--and another of Mattie with the students (this was a college therapy dog event). Mattie was totally in love with Harry the dachshund--I think she was thrilled to meet a "doodle" with shorter legs than hers!!

[Kaytlin and Cooper]

just yesterday someone was telling me about their dach-a-poo!

[Ginny Nightingale]

I was really wondering if that was what this dog was--but if there is a soft wire hair dachy, that must be it.

[Ginny Nightingale]

Can you believe this??? I would swear this was a doodle--it is a soft coated, wheaten colored dachshund from a breeder website and weighs just 8 pounds! He is still a LOT less curly than the one I saw yesterday, but I am more convinced that no poodle was involved in that guy's ancestry--I will look up dach-a-poo and see how they look!

[Ricki and Tara (doodle)]

What a cutie! I have not heard of this type of dachshund before either.  So funny that Mattie took such a liking to the short legged doodle!

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

It does look doodlish, but I think we all have doodles on the brain and see them everywhere, even when there aren't any to see. :-}  I know I do.

[Ginny Nightingale]

LOL! So true!!