Dorkie

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Dorkie is a small house dog that is a hybrid mixture of a Dachshund and a Yorkshire Terrier. In the dog breeding world, a hybrid is considered to be a designer dog. Designer dogs are not purebred but simply a mixture that a particular breeder finds appealing. The characteristics of a designer dogs are not set in stone, as an offspring will have a mixture of its parent's genes. When a breeder is breeding a Dorkie, they will select pure-breed dogs as the parents. The name "Dorkie" is not scientific in any manner; it is simply a blending of the nicknames of its parent breeds "Doxie" and "Yorkie."