Miniature Dachshund Puppies for Sale in Florida
Our Mini Dachshund Puppies can be hand-delivered right to your door In Florida.
Miniature Dachshund Puppies for Sale in Florida
Families looking at Miniature Dachshund puppies for sale in Florida can reserve one straight from The Puppy Lodge, a program the Nisley family has run for more than thirteen years on a five acre farm in Fresno, Ohio. Our mini doxies mature at roughly eight to eleven pounds, with the bold and curious personality the breed is known for in a lap sized package. Every puppy goes home vet checked, microchipped, current on vaccinations and dewormings, and covered by a written three year health guarantee. The complete terms live on our health guarantee page.
Florida sits well south of us. The drive is around twelve hours to the Panhandle and closer to nineteen by the time you reach South Florida, so very few of our Florida families make the trip themselves. Most have us bring the puppy to the door by van or fly one down with a nanny.
Our Available Miniature Dachshund Puppies
Everything currently available is listed below with photos, pricing, and a reserve button. Puppies are sold on the site, so you can pick one, place a $200 deposit, and finish the paperwork online without a phone call first. That deposit is non refundable but transfers to another available puppy if you change your mind. We also post upcoming litters ahead of time, which lets you claim a pick before the puppies are born. Financing runs through Credova and can be applied for online, and we are happy to do a FaceTime call so you can see a puppy move around before you commit.
There is no waitlist here. Reservations tend to happen within a day of a puppy going up, so timing is most of it. Once yours is reserved we set up a call to sort out how it gets to Florida. If you are still weighing the breed, our Miniature Dachshund temperament and care guide goes deeper on what living with one is actually like.
Miniature Dachshund Puppies We've Placed With Florida Families
Marcella
in Ocoee, FL
Mason
in Ocoee, FL
Benson
in Tampa, FL
Miniature Dachshund Delivery to Florida: Van, Flight Nanny, or Farm Pickup
Ground delivery is what most Florida families choose. Every van goes out with two drivers aboard, which means no puppy is sitting alone in a parked vehicle. Each puppy has its own carrier, the van stays climate controlled, a vet signs off before departure, and updates come through along the way. Florida falls in our regional pricing tier, so the fee is a flat $350 whether you are in Pensacola or Key Largo. Vans pull out of Ohio on Tuesday mornings, and a Florida route generally takes two to three days on the road depending on where the other stops fall.
Flight nanny is the faster option. A flight nanny is a person, not a service. She has a seat of her own, watches the carrier the whole way, and meets you at baggage claim, usually the same day the puppy leaves Ohio. Your puppy is never in cargo. Nannies fly into Orlando International, Tampa International, Miami International, Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International, Jacksonville International, and Southwest Florida International in Fort Myers. The puppy needs to be at least eight weeks old, under twenty pounds including the carrier, and traveling with a health certificate from a licensed vet. A mini dachshund clears the weight limit easily and fits an under seat carrier with room to stretch. Flight nanny is quoted per flight and costs more than the van, and weather can push a flight, so a little schedule flexibility helps.
In person pickup at the Fresno farm is open to anyone by appointment. You get to meet the puppy's mother, walk the kennel, and go through the vaccination records and health guarantee in person before you leave with a bag of food and a blanket that smells like where it came from. For most of Florida that is a long drive each way, so it usually only makes sense if you are already heading north.
Our recommendation for most of Florida is the van. The flat regional rate makes it the better value across a state this long, and the puppy stays in one climate controlled space the whole way instead of moving through terminals. If you live close to Orlando, Tampa, or Miami and want the puppy home in a single day, the flight nanny is worth the extra cost. One Florida note if you are collecting the puppy yourself or meeting a nanny: park in the shade and have water and a carrier waiting in the car, since a young dachshund with a belly that rides low to the ground heats up fast on hot pavement.
About Our Miniature Dachshund Puppy Breeder Program Serving Florida
We are eight hundred to twelve hundred miles from most of Florida, so the reason to buy from us rather than someone an hour down I-75 comes down to what stands behind the puppy. The Puppy Lodge owns every parent dog, and each one is genetically and health tested and picked for temperament, pedigree, and color genetics before it is ever bred. Litters are raised across a small closed network of kennels near our farm by breeders who work only with our dogs and follow the same testing and raising standards. The vet from Danville Veterinary Clinic comes through weekly to check the adults and every new litter.
With this breed we pay particular attention to structure. Spinal soundness factors into which dogs get paired, since the long back is the part of a dachshund that needs protecting for life. The ENS protocol starts on day three and finishes on day sixteen. Daily handling from our children picks up from there, along with potty and crate work before the puppy goes home. The three year health guarantee follows the puppy to Florida the same as it would down the road from us.
