[doortego]

I know exactly how you feel. You wouldn't trade your baby for the world but it ticks you off to know that you paid extra for a "teacup" and didn't get it. You are certainly not the first to do so and I doubt seriously if you will be the last.


The only way to be certain you are getting a smaller one is to buy it after maturity. My puppy was 13 oz. when I got her & I was told she wouldn't be over 2#. I didn't really believe she would be that small but still I paid extra money for a standard sized 5 pound Yorkie. Of course, I would never let her go either but do feel like I was taken advantage of in my ignorance.

It is sad to say but unless you spend a lot of time and effort in your puppy search and can deal with a breeder that you personally know you can trust, you can't believe anything they tell you. Even if they show you the parents & the rest of the litter, it may not be their parents or their siblings.

I am horrified to think that maybe I took mine away from her mother at much too early an age, just so they could sell her as a tiny. The vet questioned her age because of the stage of teeth eruption, or actually lack thereof & if the size charts are close to accurate, going by her puppy size she wouldn't have been over 2#.

But the money is long gone & what I've spent on her since is certainly more than I paid for her & she has been relatively healthy so I am indeed fortunate in that. Other than the fact that she had coccidia when I got her, she is fine.