Author: Sharon Boyes-Schiller

I have been involved with dogs for over 35 years and have been an avid Dachshund owner for the last seven years. I have six lovely Dachshunds girls and we had our first MandalaDax litter in November 2015; Peony is already Belgian Junior Champion and now at 2 years old she is Croatian Champion as well! This summer we had our first litter from Yestie, the puppies are now 5 months old and Belle and Bonbon will shortly be in the ring!
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We are looking for a golden sofa for one of Lilu’s pups

The two Black and Tan boy pups from Lilu will be six weeks old on Wednesday.

They are:

MandalaDax Jedi Spirit (Jethro) and
MandalaDax Jagger Moves (Jagger)

Both were reserved. One of the families waiting for them has a situation where an older dachshund has had surgery a few weeks ago and is now recovering from a back hernia, and they don’t feel it would be a good idea for a puppy now, and I agree with them it’s not ideal. So one of these cuties is looking again for his golden sofa.

At 5.5 weeks I cannot say whether either will become a show boy, to me they look promising though it’s impossible to know at this age.

What I can say that both have all their milk teeth, including 6 upper and lower deciduous incisors, and they are happy and adventurous boys. I have four boys here, I need another boy to go with my five intact girls like I need another hole in my head, so far every says, maybe this means you should keep him!

Parents:

Dad –
MandalaDax Dream Puptjie (Dreamer), MS, born May 2019
(Eschio Odno Chudo iz Mishkinogo Doma x Dachshaus Yesterday at MandalaDax – my Makar and Yestie)
No junior titles during Covid
Champion Belgium, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, CIE
Bred by me at MandalaDax, much loved and shown by me

Mum –
Good Point Legenda (Lilu), MS, born December 2021
(Lisego Nosa Baileys Original x Finti Flyushka ot Forest Girts)
2x BIG1, 3x BIG2, 3xBIG3, 1x BPISS1, 2x BPIS2
Champion Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, CIE
Bred by Anna Bubovich, much loved, owned and shown by me
This is Lilu’s first litter

Lilu has been a very good mum to her litter of two boys. Soon they will be weaning, at the moment she’s in with them a good part of the time still, but they are enjoying their solid foods – they are being weaned on puppy raw, also scrambled eggs, also Happy Dog Mini Mom & Puppy Starter (mixed with hot water and goat’s milk and then well smushed!).

Lilu is on her normal raw, plus the Mom and Puppy Starter, plus goat’s milk diluted with water and scrambled eggs. So very much the same diet as her pups.

Shortly the pups will get the mini puppy hard kibbles to try.

On Wednesday they are off to the vet for their first checks. They were microchipped by the Dutch Kennel Club this past Tuesday and their DNA was swabbed to be processed for parentage and other DNA tests in the Dachshund package. Wednesday they will get their Dutch Pet Passport. I’m pleased and proud to say that the Dutch Kennel Club certifies all parentage by DNA on their pedigree certificates.

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Welcome to Jethro and Jagger, Lilu and Dreamer’s boy pups!

The “J” Litter has Arrived!!

Born on 8th October, Jagger was a natural delivery arriving at 10.10am, he was followed by a slightly delayed delivery of a breech baby girl who is an Angel pup and Jethro was born at 12.45 by emergency c-section. Lilu is recovering fine and they are all doing well. We have waited to post here about the litter, just to be sure the pups are gaining weight. I hadn’t planned on keeping a boy pup from Lilu, but we do have a possible home for one boy pup and for now I’ll reserve the other pup for us. The three families on the waiting list who wanted girls sadly won’t be seeing a Lilu pup this year.

I’ve registered the litter and applied for their names, MandalaDax Jagger Moves (Jagger) and MandalaDax Jedi Spirit (Jethro). The tiny Angel girl pup would have been MandalaDax Joyful Noise (Joy). They all three were perfect Black and Tan puppies. I’m heartbroken we lost the wee girl.

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YES!! Lilu and Dreamer are having puppies!! Expected in mid-October!

MandalaDax Litter “J”

The Mum:

Good Point Legenda (Lilu), Mini Smooth

(Lisego Nosa Baileys Original x Finti Flyushka ot Forest Girts)

Bred by Anna Bubovich, owned and loved by Sharon at MandalaDax

Lilu is Ch RO, Ch HR, Ch BiH, Ch FBiH, FCI CIE, BiH Autumn Winner ’23; she has also opened her Dutch and Belgian championships, hopefully to be closed after puppies. She has been 3x BIG, 3x BIG2, 2x BIG3; BPISS-1, 2x BPIS-2; 9x BOB, 2x BOS; 11x CAC, 7x CACIB; she’s been shown 30x, and was class winner 22x.

We are so proud of our Lilu who has a wonderful personality, is very sweet, loves all people and animals and is an easy dog at home. We are so excited that she is in pup as this is our fourth attempt to have a litter with her!

The Dad:

MandalaDax Dream Puptjie (Dreamer), Mini Smooth

(Eschio Odno Chudo iz Mishkinogo Doma x Dachshaus Yesterday at MandalaDax)

Dreamer is our own breeding.  He is Ch RO, Ch MNE, Ch HR, Ch BiH, Ch FBiH, Ch BE, FCI CIE. Dreamer matured during Covid, which has shaped how he is as an adult.  He was never shown as a junior, as I took 17 months off of showing during the lockdowns. In his 3 shows in minor puppy, he was BBIS-3 in Croatia and selected for the last six in his other two shows, so pre-Covid he had good fun in the ring and seemed to enjoy it. As an adult, post-Covid, and starting out in Open class as he was already over 2 years old, he’s been Best in Group-2 at an international show, and 6x Best of Breed, he’s also had 9x Best Opposite Sex. Dreamer is simply not a show boy, he doesn’t love the ring; he’d prefer to stay at home, hanging out in the garden or on the sofa, or playing with the puppies. At 6.5 years old, he is retired and we won’t be bringing him out in Veteran Class, he would just rather hang out at home and we are just fine with that.  Not every dog is like Yestie, Bombur and Hermes, and loves to show off in the ring.  We’re hoping his puppies are more like young Dreamer in the ring!  But he’s got a lovely attitude towards life at home and is an easy boy here and loves visitors and good cuddles. If his puppies have that attitude, they will be wonderful companions.  Rosie, from his litter with Tinie, has really enjoyed her first show as a baby, and really enjoyed running around and meeting people.

Both Dreamer and Lilu are clear by DNA of PRA Cord1 and PRA; both carry the chocolate gene, so Black and Tan puppies as well as Chocolate and Tan puppies are possible. By DNA, Dreamer is N/CDDY, Lilu is CDDY/CDDY; N/CDDY seems to highly correlate with back scores or 0 and 1, and we believe it will make back issues less likely. This is still an evolving effort to understand how to decrease the risks of IVDD, and we are hoping we can be part of that effort, as we have several N/CDDY dachshunds here.

At the scan on day 36 post-mating, there were three puppies visible with strong heartbeats; at this point it’s unlikely that there are more than three puppies as we would have seen them – but it’s not impossible.  We hope that all three puppies we saw today will be born happy and healthy around 8-10th October.  We are over the moon that Lilu, on her fourth attempt, is carrying puppies!!!

This will be our “J” litter and the first litter carrying the MandalaDax affix in the Netherlands.

If you’d like to be on the waiting list, please send me an email or a message!  We have one family on the list already.

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MandalaDax is now a Dutch Kennel Name!

So happy to say that we’ve got our official kennel registration in the Netherlands. We’ve been members of the Nederlandse Teckel Club (Dutch Dachshund Club) for the past 5 years, but as we weren’t having any litters, it didn’t seem sensible to move our affix from the UK. But with the decision to have litters in 2025, we’ve done it!

Officially registered as well with the local government. As we don’t expect to ever exceed the 20 puppies a year that requires a company to be established, we have set up the required government UBN number to be a “hobby breeder”.

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Yes, we had puppies in 2025!! Tinie’s litter was born in March!

After a break of more than 4 years, we’ve finally had a litter of puppies! Our dearest Tinie, Darmatic Martini Uut de Slikhoek, had a wonderful litter.

They were all born inside of one hour!!! It was a beautiful litter of two boys and two girls on the 24th of March. This was our “I” litter, and so the puppies are Imagination, Iridessa, Ifigenia and Irrepressible. But we called them Teddy, Rosie, Blossom and Jamie. As they have been going to their new homes, some of them are also getting new “house names”. Blossom is now Millie, and Jamie is now Zeus. But their pedigree names will stay the same!

We thought the dad of all the litters was our MandalaDax Dream Puptjie. At 5 weeks, the chipper came and gave them their microchips and took there DNA…. And that’s when the interesting thing happened — only one of the puppies was from Dreamer (Rosie)! And it happened because we REALLY wanted a litter from Tinie and Hermes (Hermes MandalaDax Bassotti di Spalato). Tinie comes from the Yestie/Makar side of our dogs, but Hermes came from the Vicky side – and I was really hoping to merge the two in this litter. Peony’s second litter was like that – it was Peony (Vicky’s daughter) x Dreamer (Yestie and Makar’s son). This one would have Yestie and Makar’s granddaughter mated to Vicky’s great grandson…. I was loving the idea. So we tried. With help for the mating. But it looked like nothing had worked, so as a backup to using Hermes, we used good old Dreamer who always does the business. So I get a letter that says, one or more pups isn’t from the sire you’ve listed on your mating form. Oh oh, I think, now what??? They asked if there was another male I had which it could be. And I think, well possibly Hermes?? So I hand matched the puppies DNA to Tinie, Dreamer and Hermes and I figured out that Rosie was from Dreamer and the other three definitely were Hermes. And indeed when they matched the DNA officially, that was the case. So Mr. I’m Not Interested was interested enough to produce three of the four puppies!! And I had a litter which had the puppies I wanted in it.

I wanted to keep a girl puppy from this combination.. But the girl pup from Hermes and Tinie had a white patch on her chest. So currently Rosie is living here but she has a home lined up for her in the new year when their farm renovation is done and when it’s a safe homestead for her to be living. So all of these pups are either in their homes or will be shortly.

We will absolutely repeat the mating of Hermes and Tinie next Summer when she comes in season again. She’s in season now but that’s too soon, and she’s on a 7.5 month cycle, so I imagine we may have new Tinie pups in June 2026 with some luck!

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Proud of this boy!!!

Our standard smooth boy, Bombur Capax Venandi, is maturing into a really kind, generous and happy boy – and loves being I the ring. I am so very proud of how he has been doing lately!

As always, we are so slow to update our website – that is *this* summer’s work for sure. Maybe a 15 minutes every day on this slotted into my agenda would help me get it all up to date.

The girls and boys from 2022 and 2023 all need to have their pages set up!! And I really want to do this all in time to welcome a litter hopefully in Autumn 2024.

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Currently available for stud in the UK — MandalaDax Dream Puptjie (“Dreamer”)

Dreamer is available to selected girls in the UK, he is PRA clear by DNA and has a clear valid ECVO exam, DNA tests show that he carries chocolate and does not carry merle/dapple.

He is 4.7kg and measures 46.5cm chest circumference.

Born 3rd May 2019, his father is Eschio Odno Chudo is Mishkinogo Doma (“Makar”) and his mother is Dachshaus Yesterday at MandalaDax (“Yestie”), both FCI international champions and multi-country champions.

Here is his pedigree:

http://www.dachpedigrees.com/dog/mandaladax-dream-puptjie-nid/469139

He is a very sweet boy, and his pups have his generous and kind character. Here is a boy pup from his litter with me (from my MandalaDax Antique Peony), this is MandalaDax Great Escape (“Apollo”):

Please contact me if you are interested in using Dreamer.