In ansaw to Farlap, no I dont think I have missed the point here, there show stock and the show dachshunds in the UK are a world apart, I think I made my feelings clear on this subject in another post on the UK Teckel society, which at one point got rather heated, I still stand by what I said, no way would I want any UK KC blood in a working teckel/dachshund in my kennels, this is only my opinion but why would any one want to dilute good working blood with UK KC stock, now I dont want to take any thing away from this exellent thread, if we are going to talk of UK KC dogs lets open another thre