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Living with a Miniature Pinscher
My first sight of a Miniature Pinscher was at it, it can easily be hurt. This lesson I learnt when
Crufts when it was at Earls Court and I could not my grandson was about two, and it made me
believe my eyes. A Dobermann in miniature I realize how unintentionally little ones could be
thought, but how wrong I was. A few months much too rough. The most common reason I
later my first Min Pin arrived. A little black and have for taking a Min Pin into rescue is because
tan dog called Dancer, and I was completely they have bitten a child, usually because the
hooked, and forty years later I still love this child has not been taught how to behave around
breed to bits. dogs.
One thing about owning a Min Pin is that life They are not always the best at coming back
is never dull. They are full of energy, stubborn, when called and they are off the lead, but you
they like to sleep on your bed, and give you utter know its not so bad if they have to kept on an
love and devotion. extending lead, but have the run of the house
and garden. Again if you have your Min Pin as
On a more practical note, they are easy to a puppy it should be easier to teach a proper
maintain requiring very little grooming, but ears re-call.
on the black and tans need to be kept clean with
the application of a little baby oil to the edges I know that I am lucky because I have had so
once a week, teeth need cleaning and nails many. Every single one has been loved and
trimmed. Perhaps you should consult your vet wanted and if I may be allowed to go down
about the last two as nails especially can be a memory lane for a few moments I would like
challenge. They do not need constant bathing to mention my first bitch, a lovely little girl who
unless the perfume called “fox” has been was bred by the late Fred Leonard, and it did
applied. not take her long to become top dog. I had three
Dobes at the time and it was not uncommon to
I find house training a bit of an ordeal if I have see her when they had a gentle disagreement
to deal with an older dog, but it is usually much walk across the kitchen floor, tick them off, and
easier with a puppy. However, they don’t like the strange thing was that they always obeyed
the rain or the cold so housetraining may fall by her. At another time we were getting ready for
the way side if they think they are going to get a show which she loved doing, and she tried to
wet! pack herself in the show bag together with one
of her puppies.
They are intelligent but stubborn, and generally
quite feisty. They also have a sense of humour I hope that this gives you an insight into living
and at times will have you in fits of laughter, but with a Min Pin. Of the ups and downs, but most
there are other times when they are naughty of all the love and sheer delight of owning such
and you feel like you could give them away, but a super loving, intelligent, funny, smart little dog.
you never do.
Care needs to be taken around very young by Susan Colbourne-Baber
children and this you can understand when
you realize that your Min Pin should weigh on
average about three and a half to four and a
half kilos, and if a child plays a bit roughly with
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