Didn’t Know We Have A Designer Dog

Hershey is our new rescue dog. We picked her out from other dogs based on a picture of her when my wife said “she’s the one”. After getting her and helping her get into her new forever home environment we started researching her background. We were told she was a Dachshund Chocolate Labrador Retriever mix and was abused by the children of her previous owner. We thought that was a very unusual mating. How did they...well, you know. Later we learned that they don’t. Artificial insemination of a Labrador female with sperm from a Dachshund male is required. We learned that it cannot be the other way around because the large puppies threaten the health of a Dachshund female.

So without realizing it we have a designer dog called a Dachsador. We have studied extensively the good and bad features of this pairing and have concluded that our Hershey has most of the better physical features she could have in that she is like a miniature Chocolate Lab, but most of the bad behavioral traits. My wife and I are approaching our 7th decade of taking up space on the planet’s surface and she is a handful for us. However, like grandparents who end up raising their grandchildren, there are benefits to this challenge that include long walks to tire out our little pooch and feigned fights in the backyard that stave off the effects of old age.

Our Hershey has unusually long legs for a Dachsador which helps her run like a brown bullet across her backyard sanctuary. Dachsador matings result in a very wide range of appearance outcomes as the images below suggest. Our Hershey is the first image.


This is a website to learn more about the Dachsador breed:
https://wagwalking.com/breed/dachsador

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