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    THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT DASHA & KLAUS

    Paparali (www.paparali.com) wrote a couple of posts profiling her “fur babies” and so I thought why not do the same for my canine companions, Dasha & Klaus. Dasha & Klaus are littermates (two from a set of triplets) born on 11th November 2013 in Kells in Co Meath – where the famous Book of Kells comes from. They’re a cross between a chihuahua mother and a kaninchen dachshund father. Kaninchen dachshunds are the smallest variety of the breed and the word “kaninchen’ in German means “little rabbit’. They were an “accident” when one of the kaninchen dachshund dogs used for breeding took a secret shine to the breeders family pet chihuahua (or she took a shine to him!). We called the female Dasha because the woman who bred them was Russian and that was the most popular…