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Old 04-29-2010, 11:54 AM   #11
Nancy1999
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Originally Posted by Woogie Man View Post
This does seem like an odd mix. Dachshunds often have problems due to the long back. If you mixed a Yorkie with one, you could get a dog very much like a Dachshund but more fine boned like a Yorkie. That would be very bad. At least a pure Dachshund has a heavier skeleton to hold up the body. There's no way a Yorkie frame is built to hold that. I've never seen such a mix but I can imagine many results from it.....all of them bad.
Very informative answer, that's why it so good for breeders to actually study the breed before they decide to breed anything, and especially if they are mixing.
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