Taya
Female, Born May 27, 2012
Breeder: Lise-Lotte Schulz
Imported to US: July 24, 2012
Weight: 9 kg / 19.8 lbs Chest: 44 cm / 17 in
Sire: WUTJCH KBHV2011 DECH VDH DECH-KLB
Maxi-Tax Maroon Marstax (Best in Show -1)
Dam: WUTJCH Hound's American Dream (Best in Group - 1)
PATERNAL GRANDFATHER SIMO
PATERNAL GRANDMOTHER SIIRI
Taya's arrival in the U.S. in the summer of 2012 was the culmination of nearly a year of correspondence with her breeder, Lise-Lotte Schulz of Kennel Tranevang in Denmark.
I had been following Mrs. Schulz and dogs of her breeding from a distance ever since DC Tranevangs P Yaschatax was imported to Michigan by my friend Liane Stiles in the mid-1980s. I admired Yascha; she had the character, conformation, size, coat, drive, and voice that make a truly typical standard longhaired dachshund. In August, 2011, I emailed Lise-Lotte asking if she might send another excellent female to the US.
October, 2011, Lise-Lotte notified me that she was planning to breed her bitch WUTJCH Hound's American Dream in the spring of 2012. A female puppy might be available to me. She said she had two stud dogs in mind for Ami and very kindly asked which dog I would prefer. After studying the dogs and their pedigrees for some time, I told her that I would prefer the smaller dog from Finland to father Ami's puppies.
Ami and Mars mated in March, 2012. On May 27, Ami whelped six puppies, five of them females! Lise-Lotte wrote that there were "no problems at all. They were born while I was judging in Finland, but my husband was happy to be the midwife, even if Ami did it all by herself. I’m very happy with them."
In the days following, Ami's litter thrived. Babe had been bred to Owl earlier in the month and while I waited for news of Babe's pregnancy, too, I enjoyed photos of Ami's litter.
On June 8, Stan Knoll called with the unfortunate news that Babe's ultrasound showed no pregnancy. I was very disappointed by this - for myself and especially for the people who had expressed strong interest in her puppies.
On June 13, I emailed people who were patiently waiting for puppies from Owl x Babe and told them of this litter in Denmark. Two men, both hunters, were willing to investigate the possibility of importing puppies. I believed that this bode well for them and for the future of working standard longhairs in the States. We absolutely need additional bloodlines!
In the meantime, John Willmore and Diane Webb were on a two week business trip to Scandinavia. While there, they visited three breeders and their dogs and puppies. Lise-Lotte's litter in Denmark was 10 days old, Marie Gadolin's litter in Sweden seven weeks, and May-Gun Bandige's litter on the island of Gotland 14 weeks. Interestingly, the 10 day old puppies out of Hound's American Dream are cousins of the 14 week old pups sired by Hound's Uncle Sam, for Ami and Sam are littermates. John and Diane spent an afternoon and evening with the Gotland puppies and returned to visit them the next morning. The end result of their visit was that the smallest female in May-Gun's litter, named Chirribi's Bossa Nova Baby, accompanied them home to California.
[Bossa is another much-needed feather in the new bloodlines cap. For though her father Hound's Uncle Sam is related to our dogs here in the States, her mother Hound's Mercedes is not. And Mercedes' father is a champion on fox in Denmark which is a rigorous den test unlike anything we know in the States. Furthermore, Mercedes' grandmother is a daughter of the German Gebrauchseiger (Hunting Champion) Quacks vom Tösbusch.]
Lise-Lotte sent new photos of Ami's puppies every week. And John and Diane had taken and emailed photos, too. The task of determining if one of the five girl puppies was for me - and which one - was both daunting and frustrating. It can be difficult enough evaluating a litter when you're in the same room, much less a couple of thousand miles away!
On July 15, the puppies turned seven weeks old. Traveling 360 miles from her home in Sweden to Lise-Lotte's home in Denmark, Marie Gadolin worked with Lise-Lotte on that day to evaluate and take photos of the puppies. This included administering the Volhard Puppy Test. Marie's travel expenses were paid for by Diane Webb and John Willmore and I am very grateful to them and to Marie for all their assist in this endeavor!
Marie forwarded photos and comments after she arrived home on July 16. I poured over it all and made my decision on the 17th. Yes, I would take a puppy. And, though the dark girl was also attractive to me, my puppy, Taya, would be the Green Collar girl.
[Bossa is another much-needed feather in the new bloodlines cap. For though her father Hound's Uncle Sam is related to our dogs here in the States, her mother Hound's Mercedes is not. And Mercedes' father is a champion on fox in Denmark which is a rigorous den test unlike anything we know in the States. Furthermore, Mercedes' grandmother is a daughter of the German Gebrauchseiger (Hunting Champion) Quacks vom Tösbusch.]
Lise-Lotte sent new photos of Ami's puppies every week. And John and Diane had taken and emailed photos, too. The task of determining if one of the five girl puppies was for me - and which one - was both daunting and frustrating. It can be difficult enough evaluating a litter when you're in the same room, much less a couple of thousand miles away!
On July 15, the puppies turned seven weeks old. Traveling 360 miles from her home in Sweden to Lise-Lotte's home in Denmark, Marie Gadolin worked with Lise-Lotte on that day to evaluate and take photos of the puppies. This included administering the Volhard Puppy Test. Marie's travel expenses were paid for by Diane Webb and John Willmore and I am very grateful to them and to Marie for all their assist in this endeavor!
Marie forwarded photos and comments after she arrived home on July 16. I poured over it all and made my decision on the 17th. Yes, I would take a puppy. And, though the dark girl was also attractive to me, my puppy, Taya, would be the Green Collar girl.
Transportation for Taya and Thor was booked with the forwarding agent and a shipping date of Tuesday, July 24. The pups were flown SAS airlines and the receiving airport was Newark International, Newark, New Jersey.
I welcomed Taya (front) and Thor when they arrived stateside on July 24, 2012. Lisa Warren kindly kept Thor with her in Pennsylvania for a few days until Derek and Jennifer Smith could take him home to Virgina. A third littermate, the dark girl Tasha, flew mid-August into Chicago enroute to her new home in Lousiana with Cliff and Cheryl Shrader.