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Miniature Smooth Haired Dachshund puppies

Miniature Smooth Haired Dachshund puppies and litters from UK breeders, with the parents’ health tests and licence details.

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Advertise Miniature Smooth Haired Dachshund puppies for sale

Have a Miniature Smooth Haired Dachshund litter due or ready? Advertise it here with the mother's details, health test results and your licence number, and link it to your free breeder profile.

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Do I need a licence to advertise puppies?

In England you need a dog breeding licence from your council if you breed three or more litters in 12 months or breed and sell dogs as a business, and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own schemes. Licensed breeders show their licence number and issuing council on every advert. Puppies must be at least eight weeks old before they go to new homes.

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Buying a Miniature Smooth Haired Dachshund puppy

This page lists UK breeders on caninebreeder.co.uk with Miniature Smooth Haired Dachshund puppies for sale or litters planned. Listings reflect what breeders tell us, so verify the details yourself. Before you pay anything, look up both parents on the RKC Health Test Results Finder for IVDD grades, cord1 PRA results and eye certificates. Put colour last: the standard accepts red, cream, black or chocolate with tan or cream, brindle and dapple, while the RKC lists shades such as blue, Isabella and piebald as non-breed-standard. Plan for a small dog with an RKC-listed lifespan of over 12 years that needs up to an hour's exercise a day and should be kept fit and trim; the RKC counts diet and exercise among the factors that influence IVDD risk. Always see the mother with her litter, and never take a puppy home before eight weeks. Read our buyer safety guide first, or compare hound breeders across the UK.

Health tests to ask about

Dachshund Health UK identifies back disease, intervertebral disc disease (IVDD), as the most frequent health problem in the breed in the UK. In IVDD, spinal discs harden early and can herniate, causing pain, poor coordination or loss of use of the legs. The RKC cites the breed council's DachsLife 2018 survey, in which 29.9% of Miniature Smooths over three years old had been reported with IVDD, the highest of the six varieties. The IVDD scheme X-rays dogs aged 24 to 48 months, counts calcified discs and grades the spine from 0 (none) to 3 (five or more). One screening lasts for life. The RKC says grading reduces risk but cannot guarantee an unaffected puppy.

All three miniature varieties can inherit cord1 PRA, a recessive mutation that causes night blindness and usually progresses to loss of sight. It was first thought to appear at around two years, but some affected dogs are not diagnosed until as late as ten. The RKC places the variety in Breed Watch Category 2, for breeds with visible conformation-related concerns needing closer monitoring; judges are asked to look for thin dogs, sore or weeping eyes, poor hind movement and too little ground clearance. The RKC will not register puppies from dapple-to-dapple matings made on or after 1 January 2010.

More for Miniature Smooth Haired Dachshund owners and breeders

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