The Miniature Pinscher or Min Pin is the most active and lively of all the toy dog breeds. Miniature Pinschers are full of energy, alert, loyal, intelligent and very courageous for their size. Min Pins think they are much larger than their toy size and can be aggressive towards other dogs. These toy dogs can be stubborn and need lots of early socialization and obedience training while puppies. The breed does fine with older considerate children and household pets. Outdoors, this toy breed should be on a leash or in a securely fenced yard as they can disappear quickly.
Miniature pinscher's natural reaction to food and feeding time. Whether it's your food or theirs - it's all a very good reason to leap on on their hinds legs, and jump again and again. Try and imagine how hard your heart would be beating if you jumped up and down about 20 times as high as you could without stopping? LOL!
This miniature pinscher rescue story touched my heart. I hope it helps to make you and anyone you forward it to - more aware of just how scary the world can be for these precious dogs.
A three year-old female Miniature Pincer with a broken leg from a "run-in" with a car was on "death row" after spending nearly a month at a local shelter, when The Misha May Foundation snapped her up. Soon after that the non-profit dog rescue learned from an x-ray that their diminutive canine charge also had B-B pellets lodged in her thoracic cavity.
This Saturday, July 12, from noon to 4 p.m. the dog, now named Shasta, and other adoptable Misha May dogs will be at the Lakewood Petco (across from Belmar's Whole Foods) at 475 S. Wadsworth Blvd.
Shasta's foster, Michelle Stanfield, said she was quite timid at first. "We are teaching her that 'some humans' can actually be nice," she said. "She is very sweet, just guarded. And extremely shy of the camera flash. I'm sure she doesn't like things being pointed at her — especially B-B guns."
According to Misha May's founder and executive director, Lorraine May, her group "is completely blind to breed, age, handicap or infirmity, because we believe all dogs deserve a loving home." The unique non-profit provides whatever is needed to help dogs become adoptable, whether it be affordable training or medical treatment.
Because Misha May is very careful about adoptions to assure the right match for its dogs, people aren't able to adopt on the spot at adoptathons the rescue holds throughout the year. Volunteers need time to check references, fences, and more. Misha May also needs people to foster, adopt, and also help with fundraising.
My miniature pinscher Little Dog gets after a squirrel. This squirrel just loves getting up on the window ledge and teasing my min pin. Little Dog paws the window and fusses but the squirrel knows unless he hears the door - he's safe as houses.
She tears out of the house when I open the door and runs the squirrel up a tree - where the taunting starts again.
Saying goodbye to a Miniature Pinscher is never easy
By Sunday Pearson
Sacramento District
I never thought I'd become one of those silly adults who fawn over a little dog. Nope, not me! I'm much too mature for that kind of behavior.
Yeah, right!
As my children grew up and began pulling away to begin lives of their own, little Buffy-Marie came along. I used to refer to her as my "midlife crisis dog"…a bug-eyed five-pound Miniature Pinscher (Min Pin) who thought she was a person, and I never had the heart to tell her otherwise.
Each night for about 11 years, Buffy-Marie snuggled up and slept next to me in bed, inside my gown no less. (Don't let that get around, okay?) She licked tears from my face when I was sad or happy, and remained faithfully by my side when I was ill. More on Miniature Pinschers Usually Live 15 Years
BusinessWeek - Having all kind of problems getting voice mails or other services where you have to enter numbers, it dose not recognize that - like Pin# or account #. I wonder if it is hardware problem or anything else. Since I cant get any help from sunrocket, I am
Des Moines burglar steals dog
Des Moines Register - Since a min pin is such a small dog, hopefully it was someone who will take care of the dog as a pet. A lot of dog fighters will steal larger family dogs left out in the yard over night and use them as bate to train their dogs to fight Just another
None History: The Miniature Pinscher was developed in Germany from terrier breeds, including the German Pinscher. ("Pinscher" means "terrier" in German. Source: us.eukanuba.com
Two of the most frequently asked questions I hear in regard to Min Pins are “How often should I bathe him (or her)?”, and “How do you trim their nails?” Both excellent questions and ones you need to know the answers to if you have on of these balls o’ fire living in your house.
Let’s start with bathing - I think we can all agree that dogs need to be bathed from time to time - some more than others. In fact, some dogs have a very distinctive “doggie odor” than can be downright … um… unpleasant. More on Beauty Parlor Time for your Min Pin
Two of the most frequently asked questions I hear in regard to Min Pins are “How often should I bathe him (or her)?”, and “How do you trim their nails?” Both excellent questions and ones you need to know the answers to if you have on of these balls o’ fire living in your house.
Let’s start with bathing - I think we can all agree that dogs need to be bathed from time to time - some more than others. In fact, some dogs have a very distinctive “doggie odor” than can be downright … um… unpleasant.
Well, I’m glad to say that Min Pins don’t fall into that category - they’re relatively odor-free, unless there are some unusual circumstances, like ill health or they tangle with a skunk or roll in something icky and stinky. Other than that, these dogs are pretty clean and aroma-free - but they still need a bath occasionally. More on Miniature Pinscher Dog Grooming
Let’s get one thing straight right off the bat - a Min Pin (a.k.a. Miniature Pinscher) is not a smaller version of a Doberman Pinscher. In fact, the Min Pin breed predates the Doberman Pinscher breed by about 250 years. But people still persist in thinking the two are related, or somehow the Min Pins are just littler guys than their more ferocious cousins.
Many dog breeds don’t have a well-documented history - largely because when breeders hundreds of years ago were experimenting and cross-breeding and reaching for new combinations of bloodlines, they weren’t always thinking about the need for future documentation for kennel clubs and the like - in fact, kennel clubs didn’t exist back then - so in many cases the origins of a new breed of dog have simply been lost to the mists of time. It’s not quite that bad with Min Pins - their history goes back about 350 years or so - originating in Germany, where they were the descendents of the German Smooth-Haired Pinscher, believed to have been crossed with an Italian Greyhound and a Dachshund. In 1836, a Dr. H.G. Reinchenbach, a German writer, declared that those three bloodlines had comprised the makeup of the Min Pin - a theory that is generally accepted by historians and researchers today. More on History of the Miniature Pinscher
Beauty Parlor Time for Your Min Pin
