Adorable Mini Dachshunds
Reviews and Complaints

This business, which mass produces Dachshund puppies, some in poor health, no longer operates as Adorable mini dachshunds but now rebranded as Range Road Dachshunds and is still always producing large amount of puppies but now has 5 star reviews

Don't be fooled by this lady. She sold us a female 2 years ago. Haven't had any health problems thankfully. But when we went to pick her up her chest bone was sticking out closest to her belly button. She didn't mention anything to me on the phone about this. Wouldn't show me pictures of parents. I would not recommend getting a dog from her. I do love our addition to our family and wouldn't trade her but I would change who we got her from.

Nearly a year ago I purchased my "mini" dachshund from this breeder. Supposedly, he is a pure bred, "mini" dachshund but he has grown to be nearly 20lbs at less than a year old. He arrived to me with a broken and crooked tail that was not mentioned prior to my interest in him or sending payment. I kept asking how big he would grow and Cindy insisted he would be between 8-11 lbs. He does not even fit in a travel pet carrier. I was charged an arm and a leg, $2500 specifically, on false premises. He is definitely NOT mini and he has a permanently crooked tail from it being broken somehow...though I will never know how. This woman was also eager to move the puppy and pressuring me, telling me there were already deposits on him, etc, etc. I still recieve emails from the breeder and the frequency at which litters are being produced (weekly), leads me to believe dogs are being bred in mass amounts.

This month is the one year anniversary of my little guy passing away which is why I thought to google to see if this breeder was still active. I purchased him from Cindy. The initial experience of it all was strange. She, also like others experienced, made excuses so I wouldn't see his parents. She also made a point to tell me that they were in their last year of breeding and that they were going to retire...it's 9 years later and that clearly isn't true. My little guy had major anxiety and aggression. I had another doxie when I brought him home and it didn't take long before he would randomly start viciously attacking her up to 5 times a day. It got so bad that I hired a dog trainer who specialized in aggression to work with him. The trainer told me that it was in his genetics and that the breeder I got him from should not be breeding. Regardless of his aggression I of course loved him like crazy. He had his sweet sides too, but only with me. He couldn't be trusted around children or other animals. When he was around 3 years old, that is when the seizures started. He was very anxious around everything, even toy cars or anything that he didn't recognize no matter how much I tried to socialize him. He ended up passing away last year from organ failure at the age of 8. I will never again buy a puppy from a breeder, this is one of the reasons why. I have heard of so many negative experiences with aggression and seizures from this breeder, it breaks my heart that they continue. I wouldn't trade the time I had with my little dude but I wish he didn't have to suffer the way he did because of Cindy breeding when she clearly should just do what she said, and retire.

Like the other lady who submitted comments on this Cruella Diville, I will say that I agree with all of the statements and will add to. First of all, these are NOT "miniature" dachshunds! They are FULL size! Mature to 25 pounds!

Since I drove the long distance to her home for a puppy, I decided to ignore several red flags... It sounded like there were 100 dogs in her back room and I viewed a room with dog crates piled up the walls. I firmly believe that this is a puppy mill and I do not understand why no-one (SPCA) has done anything about her. I did not see any outdoor runs for these poor dogs. Second, she sent us home with a puppy that was obviously too young. This dog still had a very strong suckle desire and became very anxious. It was only 6 weeks old and most legitimate dog breeders keep the puppies to at least 8 weeks, especially for small breeds.

I ended up having to rehome the dog due to its anxiety issues and size and tried to contact her to discuss. The full size of the dog was an issue for me because of frequent travel.

She completely ignored my emails and continues to advertise her "mini" dachshunds. She is a real slime ball and is charging criminal prices. I would worry about interbreeding as I doubt any legit breeders would sell her new breeding dogs unless she managed to trick them.

This is my story about a Mini dachshund breeder in Barnwell near Taber Alberta It all started when I received a call from this lady wanting to buy my pet chocolate tan female Tula that I had decided to sell as a pet as I felt she was not breeding quality. This woman Cindy gave me a big story about how her little girl wanted a puppy so bad and now she could finally have one. She told me she had NO other dogs and that Tula was for a pet for her little girl only! and that she would spay her and they would give her a great pet home. She also talked me down on the price saying she was a single mom who couldn't afford my price of $900.00. So I lowered it thinking of making the little girl happy.

So I shipped her my little Tula believing what she had told me.
A few months later I come across this website called Adorable Mini dachshunds and I see a nice pup that I'm interested in so I contact her. And guess what its Cindy the lady who lied to me about having no dogs. I find out from police they could see at least 60 dogs in one area they where allowed to go in. I now am investigating and start talking to other friend breeders and they also have had problems like mine with her and much more. If you go to her website at any time of year there are puppies for sale. On her website she says we have puppies all year round ! no one should have puppies all the time! She also claims she is the most experienced breeder in Alberta YES I Imagine when you are breeding 24/7 you would be ! Not a good thing to me? If you look at her puppy page you can see on the dates of birth she has many litters per month all year round. Why are there no pictures of parents ? No pictures of where her dogs are living ? HMM
I am posting this to warn people and to try and stop people like this who go around buying any dog out there from families and breeders with lies and then using them for monetary gain. These people upset me because she has made it hard for me to trust honest people.

Our beautiful Tula who was fraudulently bought as a pet Please spay and neuter your animals so they don't fall pray to this kind of thing especially if you have to sell your dog.

I have already gotten many complaints about her high prices for unregistered dogs and also that she has let puppies go at 5 to 5 1/2 weeks old. I am going to now post your stories here all I ask is that it is the truth only. I have now been told there are over 150 dogs on her property by a reliable source. She also claims to be a CKC breeder which is also a lie you can call the CKC yourself and ask as I have.They have never heard of her.

Over the last 15 years my husband and I have bought 4 doxies from Cindy for our family. We have always given these dogs love and a comfortable home. In fact my husband repeatedly says they are treated better than most people. Looking back on this we have given Cindy and her business over $7000 in cash - a lot of money for our family but we love these special dogs.

Two of our pups we purchased from Cindy were sent to us from Alberta to BC on the airplane at 5 1/2 weeks old. Our one dog still to this day is very insecure and suffers over anxiety when there is no one in the room. I truly believe this is the result of Cindy sending him out so early.

Another one of our pups had epilepsy.

Cindy said our pups were all CKC registered. But when we checked with the CKC her name and business 'adoreable dachshunds' were not on this website.

I also found with Cindy that even purchasing four of her pups and paying full price over the years and giving them a loving home she was not at all interested n giving us a discount to purchase a 5th pup from her. In fact she did not even respond to us when we asked for a fair lower price due to our loyalty to her in the past.

I have purchased a puppy from Cindy I was charged 1700.00 for a unreg puppy and was not treated very nicely. Cindy only seemed to care about her 500.00 deposit more than telling me any thing about the puppy first. She seemed annoyed that I would even ask for pictures of the parents and some sort of proof they where purebred.

My puppy is very insecure around any strangers she always has been. I believe its due to her shipping her at 6 weeks of age. When I asked her about it she said she has been doing this for years with out issues. I feel really stupid now that I just didn't run the other way. Im gald you are trying to do something about this as she is a glorified puppy mill I feel only breeding for money doesn't care about her buyers at all. I tried to contact her and told her about my dogs problems but get no response. I just gave up. Oh does she pay taxes ? I'm going to find out!
Our first pup was purchased at 8 weeks, she is so wonderful, we could not be happier. Shortly after we purchased her we purchased a male, he was shipped to us at 5 1/2 weeks and only lived for 4 months. After a month his problems began, then he went blind, soon after that started going only in circles. He had a brain disease according to our vet. I was refunded by Cindy with a credit for vet bills, decided to purchase another male from her to fill the void of our loss. The replacement puppy was double what we paid for our other boy. We received him at 7 weeks. Over time he started having seizers around twice a year, and 6 years later has them around 10 time per year. He has OCD & social anxiety, he is an odd one.

These are several stories of buyers of dogs rom adorable dachshunds in taber alberta. Please stop buying dogs here it is a mass production of puppies all year round .