MiniHuskies
reviews and complaints

Most of her pictures are not her puppies. They are stock photos from the internet. I’m shocked she has a happy customer.

We also purchased a pup from Bree. The Wisdom Panel DNA test showed he was NOT only Siberian but had Pom, American Eskimo and Terrier. Total misrepresentation by this breeder!

I went through the same thing. My DNA test showed 50% pom. Bree denied it; however, her dad breeds Poms..go figga. My pup came with fleas, worms, and parasites. her dad admitted putting a different dog in with dam...and he admitted that the birthday provided by Bree was off by a month. He aw taken form his mom at 5.5 weeks. The rest of the litter went out even earlier.

we need to do something about this lady... anyone had any luck with contacting the Attorney General? She is committing fraud

For the people she has scammed, you can press charges. It is a felony charge to scam people the way she is.

To all who have been deceived by this 'breeder' and others ~ Siberian Huskies DO NOT COME IN MINI. Any dog presented as a 'miniature Siberian Husky' MUST be a mix. Some 'breeders' use Pomeranians. Others use American Eskimo. Either way, no alleged miniature Siberian Husky is a purebred. A breed DNA test on one of these dogs will always show a mixed breed.

Many of us have had the same experience with Bree. We have also lodged complaints with the USDA for falsifying health records in order to ship before 8 weeks. I have yet to see a pure Husky co e from Bree as well. Most are mixed with American Eskimo and or Pomeranian, German Shepard, and others. This has been so bad that we started a group on Facebook to compare notes and warn others. Mini Husky Awareness is the name of the group. It's a private group, so requests to join are required. Most of us have been blocked from Bree's FB page since we kept calling her on her lies.

We bought a mini husky in June and the dog was flea infested and full of parasites. We have a great vet and our little dog is doing great. I never received paperwork for the dog and Im pretty sure she is not a purebred as these folks seem to run a puppy mill. I wouldnt buy from these people in the future.

Be aware that Bree Normandin is claiming that a woman named "Vicki" has taken over Mininhuskues and she is no longer involved. "Vicki" is supposedly in the network of breeders thatt appear to include only Bree's first and possibly second degree relatives. Any questions are being funneled to Vicki who has no last name and has yet to respond to anyone. A woman of mystery!
Bree Normandin is a scammer, she can manipulate and lie herself out of so many situations. Because she stands between people and the puppies they have wanted, she has been able to get away so much for so long including 1) fraud (by breeding mixes she claims are purebred puppies), 2) theft by taking $120-150 deposits and never providing puppies and 3) inhumane treatment of animals, specifically the puppies she sends across state lines who are as young as 3 weeks, not weaned and unable to walk. Since they require a health certificate to fly, Bree has a veterinarian by the name of Thomas Dillman falsify health certificates claiming the puppies are 8 weeks old. Then she puts the puppies on Delta, the airlines she works for! Soooo convenient.
Paypal dumped her in March and froze her account. She is only providing puppies to people who have paid the extra $600 for Pick of the Litter, which is not deducted from the purchase price of the puppy so her minimum puppy price of $1600 for the most basic pup becomes $2200 (hasn't priced a pup below $1600 in months despite her claim she sells them for as low as $900-$1200) . Meanwhile there are people who have waited over 2 years with paid deposits and she deletes all their negative comments off of her FB page and somehow I don't think "Vicki" will care any more than Bree does about the money she has taken from hundreds of people who have no hope of getting a puppy now.
Bree Normandin is a compulsive liar and her puppies are not even purebred and arrive with fleas, parasites, infections and anatomical abnormalities. If she owes you money, file a complaint with the North Carolina Consumer Fraud
Division and call the Hendersonville County Sherriffs Office.

A brief summary of my experience: A $150 deposit was required to get access to the "available pups" section of the web page. A wait time of 6 months was noted as average, possibly longer or shorter if specific characteristics were requested. The pup price was listed as $900-$1, 250. Following my deposit (September 2015) the breeder became unresponsive to e-mails. I observed multiple questions and comments directed toward the breeder on the Facebook page deleted. I have requested multiple puppies (without preference for a particular color) without success. I have since connected with others who have worked with/contacted this breeder some never received their pups, some have been on the wait list for 2 yrs, some received pups (shipped) younger than 8 wks, some requested to pick their pups up and the breeder changed the pick-up location at the last minute to a gas station, some were promised pups paid for their pups and then the breeder told them she had made a mistake and promised the pups to someone else, additionally the grown pups are not meeting the breed standard. Further, stories of folks who have received pups from this breeder suggest not only dishonest business practices but also inhumane treatment of animals.

The only time I have received a response from the breeder in the last 6 months is when I asked for details on the option for paying more (called pick of the litter) to have a pup sooner. During this chain of facebook messages she indicated that with out paying for the pick of the litter option it would almost definitely be after the June/July time frame before I would receive a pup if I remained on the regular wait list (note this time frame would essentially be a year after I paid my deposit).

It has become evident that puppies who are going home with buyers are as young as 3 weeks in the case of pick ups and are, on average, 5 weeks old when sent by Delta Airlines, who sends them because they have falsified birth dates on health certificates signed off by this breeders vet, who is complicit in this cruel treatment. This is done to give the illusion of a tiny, 2 or 3 lb mini who is between 8 and 10 weeks old. When they start doubling in size quickly and begin exhibiting behaviors consistent with early removal from their mother and litter, Bree N disappears and never responds to inquiries and concerns and will block you from all communication.

Owners who post on her page that their mini is 40 -55 lbs and have their post deleted, and they are blocked from her community page and email account. She no longer identifies the litters or puppies she posts on her Facebook page because she has been discovered through dated posts on her page, and her father's page, as sending these puppies home as young as 3 weeks, which is absolutely cruel. She deletes pictures, not realizing everyone screen shots things immediately once they stop trusting her.

I am aware of 7 "mini husky" puppies who have been DNA tested and all 7 have come back as a mix of Pomeranian, Siberian Husky and American Eskimo, along with toy and terrier mixes. I don't know of a puppy who came from Bree whose DNA has been full husky. I know of 4 puppies/dogs of Bree's whose DNA tests are pending. I know they wull be mixes as well. and know they will be mixed as well. At home canine DNA tests have become widely available and affordable. They will be the end of the mini husky myth.

Bree has to be honest about what she is breeding and stop claiming she breeds a small size variant of a Siberian Husky. She also has got to stop trying to appear legitimate by sending home tiny puppies at such young ages that they are are plagued with behavioral issues. These issues are entirely avoidable if she allowed them to be raised with their litter until they are at least 8 weeks. They are not tiny little huskies arriving in giant airline crates as Bree would like people to believe. They are just extremely young husky mixes taken away from their mother way too young, all in the name of perpetuating a lie. This is why they double in size after a month. This is why you don't see pictures of adults or hear stories from satisfied owners, you will just see the same breeding adults and the same few grown puppies over and over again.

Do not trust this woman. She is very convincing and manipulative. She has done this for years and Facebok has allowed her puppies to become so in demand that she will only sell puppies to "pick of the litter" buyers who pay the extra $600. But she will take your $150 "non-refundable membership fee" to be part of a list that posts available puppies every few months, with 1-3 available puppies that are snapped up in minutes, or that will be her claim anyway. That's if you even get an email back from her.

First of all if you read a post by Bree on June 27, 2013 on this site she says she uses Pay Pal and if she was doing fraud transactions they would not let her use them. Well Pay Pal has dropped her. So there you go. We had been lied to by her many times in our faking a with her. We saw no negative reviews on her so we went ahead with our purchase. Gave her the $150 deposit, $600 for pick if the litter and $1450 before the pup shipped and $450 before she sent the pup. She said he would be under 25 pounds and he was just 100 per cent Siberian and not mixed with anything. All not true. We had DNA done and he is husky, Pomeranian, American Eskimo, and some terriers which we suspected because he barks and dies not have other husky characteristics. We had AKC malamutes and Diberians fir forty years and decided since we were semi is now we needed a smaller dog for the first time but still wanted the breed we lived all those years. This dog has all the traits of the small dogs mixed in him including being hyper, a barker and a biter. None of our huskies acted like him. We told Bree we could not have a barking dog so the reason we were buying from her was to get the traits if a husky just smaller which is what she advertises. She has made life very difficult and expensive with lieing to us about this dog. We would have never taken him knowing he was mixed. He is over 30 pounds now and only 7 months old. We had to have a personal trainer at considerable expense to train him to be able to live with him at all. And he is still a lot to handle any given day. Poor dog has too many mixes in him that are high energy barkers to be able to be clam. I feel bad for him, sometimes he looks at me as if to say what the heck is wrong with me. He simply can not control himself on occasions. No one should be allowed to mess a dog up this way. We suspect he was not 9 weeks old when he came because he was only 4.5 pounds and had parasites bad. The vet told us he could smell blood from him when we brought him in the exam room even before testing him. Took three visits and medication to clear that up. Also taking him away from his mom and siblings too soon gives them problems. He had all those issues associated with that type separation. Bree has early posts on this site dating back to 2010 and maybe then she was trying to be responsive but in 2015 when we dealt with her she was very difficult to communicate with and when we complained in writing she blocked us from her site. That is why we never saw negative comments either. She deletes negative comments then blocked us from posting to the site. I have posted and they never appear anywhere once we complained. We put in a complaint with BBB of North Carolins and they said they had no negative reviews, we put in a complaint with Consumer Fraud Diviaion of Nieth Carolina and Bree had 15 days to respond in writing. But she just lied to them. Said she never received a complaint from us, included a guarantee that we never saw bir did anyone else, and the Consumer Fraud Folks said our only recourse was to sue her in small claims court in North Carolina. Since we are in Califirnia that is not practical. But uf anyone on here and on here in the future should put in a complaint to the fraud division because at least Bree has to answer your complaint to that department. She has to answer and if everyone does it she will be kept busy answering. Nothing may come of it but there is going to be a lot of negative attention brought to her. The BBB will give her a bad rating as well. We are not out deposits and we actually got a dog unlike some folks so I feel not as much attention is paid to us just because we were lied to about his size and him being mixed instead of just Siberian. But folks that can prove their pups were sent too young and sick to them have a valid point for animal cruelty and that is another whole can of worms to open. That vet signing those health forms is a problem for him and if she forged that Bree is really in trouble. Someone is in trouble for those vet records lieing about age of pups. Shipping too young pups and taking them away too soon from litter is so wrong. Please complain formally everywhere you can think of to stop too young of pups being sent at least. Thanks for reading. Betty