Greg said in rec.pets.dogs.breeds:

I am receiving & reading conflicting info about differences
in temperament between long & shorthair dachshunds. The
general consensus is that longhaired are generally more
docile and friendly towards other dogs and people.

Interesting - the above goes against my "Theory of Popular
Varieties." In a nutshell, my theory presupposes that people
generally remember "bad" and forget "good." When a breed has
more than one variety and one of those varieties is the least
common, all it takes is one incidence of "bad" in the least
common to label that variety as bad. Now that I write it down,
it sounds like a pile of horse pucky. Methinks that I should
refine my theory before trying to publish.

The other aspect to my theory is that breeders who breed only
for one characteristic (like an uncommon colour) tend to forget
about other genetic traits like health and temperament. This is
more likely.

As to why the less common longhaired Dachshund may be mellower
than the smooth variety, are smooth Dachshunds used more for
working than the longhaired or wirehaired? Breeds closer to
their working lines tend to be less mellow than their non-
working line cousins.

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--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.