I have two dachshunds as well, cept mine are mini and short hair
So far I am considering a darker purple like the stock blue shade, cept in purple. The current color of her is claret. Any examples of how light of a wine color? I actually ironically got the estimate of what it will cost to custom make my dark purple from a whine bottle. They mixed me up a sample using dark violete toner as the base and then added a splash of rose. Looked nice, but I am just seeing if there are any other ideas out there i might like even more.