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one of my dogs growing up was a mini (but a big mini). She just died earlier this year.
They are fantastic dogs. Ours didn't bark that much but we live in the woods and she did get slightly obsessed with barking at night if an animal walked by the house. In that way, a burglar would have had trouble getting into the driveway, let alone the house, without us hearing about it. They didn't need to know that she would have sooner licked them to death then bite. She only bit one person in all her years and that was a bratty kid that kept bothering her after she did a warning growel.
You do need to give them a place to run around from time to time as they love to run around and be crazy. They have small legs but they can move fast on them when they want to do it.
Also, their job in nature is to dig..and they do. The one thing about her that drove my mother nuts was that she would tear up pillows by digging her claws and teeth into them and starting to 'dig'. They also chew a lot of weird things. Ours had a thing for pencils and once she got one stuck in her throat and had to have it removed.
Every breed will have issue but I have to say I would have another in a heartbeat.
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