Ruby and Preston Litter 2

The big problem here is getting them to hold still for pictures.  I have a lot of pictures with only a part of their tail in them and some with no puppy at all!!!  Forgive the blurry effect on a couple, I simply could not resist the cute action photos inspite of a little blurr.

Well, Dreamie is Creamie.  She seems to get lighter, if anything.   Dreamie is to become Gala and will live in Mazatlan Mexico with Guadalupe.  This wonderful little girl is going to be the delight of Mazatlan.

Alex is going to live in Colorado.  Bernie and his Donna who are friends of Elle and Jim who adopted Josephine (DeeDee) from the Preston Blondie Litter.  This little guy is full of life.  Fire bit him on the tail and he was after him tooth and nail.  He lives up to his namesake, Alexander the Great.  A block, oh boy, think I will pushi it with my nose, or maybe chew on it.  Forgive the blur but if you want a photo of me in action you better get a faster camera!!

Fire (and Prince too) becomes Aiden and goes to live in Ney York with Deanna who is friends with Ray and Joanne who adopted Gidget and Ginger from the first Ruby Preston litter, hmmm, sound familiar.  It is not an accident that the people who adopt puppies from us refer their friends, nor that their friends wait patiently for the puppies to be born and come of age.  Our puppies have EXTRAORDINARY personality and behavior.  They are also incredibly BEAUTIFUL.  Even among woderful Dachshunds, our stand out.  OK, maybe I am a LITTLE biased but so are their owners.  Each person who adopts one of our puppies becomes an extended family through that adoption.

Want a closeup of my face, ok, you are going to have to hold my head still, cause I am not going to stop moving.  I have places to go.  Hmmm a block, I wonder if I can eat it.

Prince becomes Spencer and, with Fire who becomes Aiden, goes to live with Deanna in New York.  Deanna had first pick and knew she wanted Fire who looked so much like Ginger (Ray and Joanne's puppy from first litter) but was pretty sure she did not want a cream.  Then she saw Prince.  She says his picture looked at her and said "I am Spencer, pick me" and she did.  Wow, good choice Deanna and thank you for your patience, you were first in line and you waited the longest.  These two little bundles of joy will provide many years of pleasure for you.  To all of you, take a lesson from this and make your reservations broad.  You don't always pick the puppy, sometimes the puppy picks you!!!

I am so beautiful it hurts.  Look how long my ears are!!  How about a profile???  Roberta's fingers tickled, I think I will shake!!!!

Dreamie is soooo pretty.  Still black and cream without a single tan hair, if she is to turn black and tan she needs to do it soon, no tan or red hairs yet.  We will make a final decision as to her points next week.  There is some tan look to her nose and eyes but it is not due to tan hair, it is the amount of black hair mixed in.  This black hair recedes and reveals the undercoat.  Also her nose lenghtens and more point coloring appears.  So far all that hair is cream but it is just not possible to say for a certainty yet.  RESERVED

Alex is the playful little tiger.  AVAILABLE .  Just like his namsake, Alexander the Great, he is the explorer and conqueror.  What a cute little guy, whoops, excuse me Alex, handsome!!

Fire is also aptly named for he both looks and acts full of fire.  RESERVED  I am just too pretty.  See my wavy black ears?

Prince, and of course he is.  The Prince of Light.  RESERVED  What a special little guy.  He is a rare EE English cream.  We don't use the term "rare" easily.  To get a Prince it requires two different gene series.  He must be CHCH for Chinchilla dilution, creating the English Cream and then EE for the E series which inhibits all black shading.  Puppies who look like Prince but are created with the D dilute gene (such as the little Platinum pupy on our welcome page) look very light but redden over time.  See Butter on our Dash of Fame page, he is that platinum puppy as an adult.  Notice how tan he became.  Prince will stay light all her life.  He will develop a little golden glow but not a bit of red.

Dreamie is "Waking up" to her world.  She is exploring and like, all of the puppies is unafraid.  At this point she still does not have a tan or brown hair we can identify.  We are watching the nose and mouth areas closely.  It is very hard to tell because there is so little light hair there and so much black.  Look at the pictures of Alex, the next little EC boy.  He is clearly an English Cream with NO red hair at all, yet in a photo his face looks much like Dreamies'.  Then look at Fire's face and you can see the red.  This last photo shows the lage areas of the points on Dreamie.  They are very light blond.  The camera still add a little red, notice Roberta's hands.  Her hands are not that red in real life.  Look at the difference in the top hand and the bottom.  The camera and my lack of skill with it makes color match impossible.  These were taken indoors with a flash.  It was too cold to take them outside.  I would say the odds are 60% that Dreamie is cream.  We have to make a decision at 7 weeks so everyone can arrange to pick them up, etc.  I will be 90% by then but it is still possible I can make a mistake.  The Chinchilla gene fights hard to turn those points cream and sometimes one gene can hold off the red for quite a while.  Ultimately there is no doubt and at 7 weeks I will be fairly certain.  Reserved with two back up reservations.

Speaking of Alex, here he is.  WOW, every one of these puppies is turning out great.  Each has their own particular coloring and shading but they are all beautiful.  Alex is living up to his name as a conqueror.  Roberta says "I put him down and he growled at me".  lol  He was the first to learn to bark and will be the defender of the food bowl.  Look how light he is already.  Notice his face looks tan or brown but he is composed ENTIRELY of cream and black hair.  His chest too, is the best measure and largest quantity of light hair.  Look at that shading and that cute little mug.   Notice how long their ears are already.  Beautiful wavy hair on nice long ears.  Their ears measure to the tip of the nose already and will continue to extend another inch or so.  Available.  Hey what's wrong with me?  I am beautiful.  It isn't my fault I am not a girl.  Neuter my while I am young and I will be just as sweet ans any old girl would be.

You can see why we call him Fire.  He and Prince are the smallest of the group but they make up for it in enthusiasm.  What a lady killer this little boy is.  Look at that face.  He is simply gorgeous !!!  He looks just like his older sister Ginger did at this age.  We call him Fire because he looks like a smoldering ember.  Note his red tint compared to either of the light areas on the two above.  Reserved

We call him Prince and that is what he is.  This little guy is extraordinary!!  Most of you know the long hairs and in particular the light creams are my favorite.  But even if cream is not your favorite color you have to admit this little boy is  incredible.  I know I said similar tings about each puppy but each is truly beautiful.  It comes down to personal preference.  Just like with people some like Blondes and some Brunettes, etc but all of these puppies are stand outs in their color.  There is not an average looking puppy in the bunch.  Look at the beautiful striped sahding above and the wavy long hair on the easrs of them all.  This little guy is so brightly blonde it is striking.  He would stand out in a room full of English Cream puppies.  Prince is my grandson Ken's vaorite.  No matter which one we pick up for him to play with he says "no" and points to Prince.  He is very dicerning for a two year old.  :-)  Reserved with one back up reservation

It is time for temporary names, of course you can keep them or change them to whatever you like.  You can also keep the registered name and chane the call name.

DASHaHOUNDS MIDNIGHT DREAM MLBC "Dreamie"  Our little black girl is getting prettier by the day.  Not to raise or dash any hopes, only for future reference, her points can be seen to be cream at this point.  The only color in them at all is camera supplied or the presence of some black hair mixed in with the cream.  She will either continue to lighten or begin to darken as the Chinchilla gene shows its influence.  One gene and she will darken, two and she will lighten.  We will know for sure shortly.

DASHaHOUNDS ALEXANDER THE GREAT MLEC "Alex".  Check out this little guy.  Notice how light his chest is already.  Move over Ruffy here comes Alex.

DASHaHOUNDS ROYAL FIRE MLR "Fire"  Look at me, I am BEAUTIFUL!!!  Whoops, I mean HANDSOME!!!

DASHaHOUNDS PRINCE OF LIGHT MLEC "Prince"  It is rare that I get even two good pictures but Roberta refused to let me delete any one of these three.  This little boy truly is the Prince of Light.

Here is the little black female.  Her points are very light but it is still too early to tell for sure.  We could not tell with Ebony until about 7 weeks.  Many breeders mistakenly register black puppies with a single allele for Chinchilla as black and cream or a double as black and tan.  We want to be sure.  The picture on the left is the most accurate for color.  The closeup flash adds red.  You can see the red in the backgraound and in the white as well.

The little English Cream boy has taken over as the tubby of the group.  He has discovered he likes to eat.  lol.  Notice how the cream color is starting to come out.  He will continue to lighten.  Again the closeup adds a lot of red.  He has no red at all.  The right hand picture is truest for color.  At early ages with the English Creams it is hard to tell what they will look like.  He may look very similar to his brother below but won't in 4 more weeks.  He will continue to show more of the cream undercoat and his brother will show the deep red undercoat.  The black will receed on both and they will end up looking completely different.  This one will look like Ruffy and the little red boy below will look like Ginger.

Our little red guy is the smallest of the litter but by no means a runt.  He is the most active at this point and starting to investigate his world.  He appears to be colored just like Ginger (named for her color) from the first Ruby Preston Litter.  If so, he is a lucky boy.  Look at the coloring on his cute little mug and ears.  I will try to get a shot of him looking at the camera next week.  He was "on the move" today.

This little guy is beautiful (handsome).  He is going to look just like BooBoo from the first Ruby Preston Litter.  He is so light it is hard to photo him.  I will need to try it against a dark background.

Our little shaded cream boy is growing fast.  He is the picture of health and starting to open his eyes.  Watch him lighten up as the weeks go by.  He is going to look like Ruffy when he grows up.

Our litle red boy says "I can see you!"  He is growing rapidly and his eyes are open wide.  He is going to look like Ginger when he grows up.

Not to be out done our little EE cream boy is on the watch.  His eyes are open wide and he too is growing fast.  This isn't a great picture but he is not inclined to hold still.  lol  Notice the black nose yet light cream hair.  This is the true English Cream when further influenced by the EE gene series.  An American Cream might look similar at this age but would not have the nice black nose and nails.  The D dilute gene which creates an American Cream also fades the black to a sort of blue color.  This failure to have black pigment on the nose and nails is considered a fault in Creams.  American creams also darken as they get older.  Only the English Creams have the nice dark nose and nails and only the EEs are born light colored and then stay that way.  He is going to look like BooBoo when he grows up.

This sweet little black and tan?cream? puppy is fat and sassy.  They are all gaining weight and healthy.  She looks very promising.  It will be some time before I can tell about the points.

This little guy I believe to be shaded cream.  It is possible he will turn out to be shaded red but I don't think so at this point.

This little guy is almost certainly a deep shaded red.  Not how even the white towel he is on looks pink.  The camera lies.

This little boy is an EE cream (no black hair at all).  He is much lighter than this picture.  Again the red is added by the camera.