Welcome to the Minikids Kennel Web site!
We breed healthy dogs and puppies to go to loving homes.  Our puppies are quality pets NOT pet quality. We go to great lengths to insure that our puppies are healthy and of the highest quality. Lovable homes are required! For the most part, our puppies are and will remain in limited supply. As adults our mini-dachshunds weigh 8 to 11 pounds some are even smaller. All our pups are top quality and healthy. Our main purpose in breeding dogs is to have dogs that reflect the Breed Standard that are sound and exhibit sweet, loving temperaments. Each of our Pet/Companion Puppies/Young adults are sold with a Spay/Neuter Agreement Contract and with an CKC or AKC Limited Registration. These animals are strictly for Pets or Companions and cannot be used for breeding or for showing.

Our pups are home raised with Ocicat's, with  hands on from the day they are born.  They love people and look forward to company anytime. We believe that quality, not quantity, is a major factor in raising Dachshunds as family pets. Our kennel has a heated nursery room, heated play room with a sunny window, indoor/outdoor individual playpens, individual beds and individual care.

Colors - Pure chocolate, chocolate & white, double red dapple with white
Coat length - Very shorthaired

Health Care & Guarantee
They are wormed at 5 weeks and are given their first puppy shots at 6 weeks. When you purchase a puppy from Minikids Kennel, we guarantee that the bite is scissors or level, and that the back is straight. All pups and dogs are sold with a written health guarantee. If it is a pup, you will be required to have follow-up booster shots given in a timely manner by your veterinarian.
Please contact us for pups that may be currently available.
Call or e-mail for prices
Catoninetail@abcs.com
765-832-6400 Located in Indiana
When sending an email inquiry or using a telephone inquiry, please take some time to share your family situation, homelife, geographical location, other critters in the home and just some general information about what a potential Minikids Kennel puppy might expect to find there. Since we do not have many dogs and do not breed frequently, we are in a position to be selective as to where and to whom our dogs go. It is important to us that each of our pups finds a home and family of quality.

Shipping
A deposit (1/2 the purchase price) will hold a dog until it is ready to go or is ready to be shipped. Coming here to pick up your new pup is of course best for the puppy. However, if this cannot be arranged, we provide shipping by airlines at a cost of $310.00 plus an airline approved shipping crate and the cost of a health certificate from the vet, (usually $100.00 ). Those figures includes a vet check up, rabies shot if required, state health certificate needed for animals crossing state lines, new shipping kennel, trip to Indianapolis, Indiana (200 mile round trip for us) and the airplane. We will not ship a young pup until it is at least 10-12 weeks of age, depending on each individual  puppy.

History
The original Dachshund was developed in Germany for hunting badgers and having a long body, a usually short-haired brown, red and white, black and brown coat, drooping ears, and very short legs.
[German: Dachs, badger (from Middle High German dahs, from Old High German) + Hund, dog (from Middle High German hunt, from Old High German).]
The name Dachshund at once reveals and conceals the origin of the breed. In medieval European books on hunting, dogs similar only in possessing the tracking ability of hounds and the proportions and temperament of terriers, because they were used to follow badgers to earth, were called badger-dogs or dachshunds. Importation of Dachshunds into the United States antedates the earliest American dog shows or stud books, and eleven were included in AKC Stud Book, Volume II in 1885.

Please contact us for pups that may be currently available and for prices
Catoninetail@abcs.com
765-832-6400
Located in Indiana

Also visit our Catoninetails Cattery Web site

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Kate Bynum