It's so funny---I thought my Yorkie was like 15 pounds when I had to take him in because he got into some chocolate cookies. When they asked my I said "oh, about 15 pounds"--after all I carry him everywhere, I should know. Well, they weighed him and said, "hmm, how about 9 lbs". In any case no matter if he was 9 or 15, I love him to death and frankly when he was really little I was so worried about hurting him from stepping on him (or when we'd had him for only 2 days, closing his head in the fridge as I didn't notice he had run in to the door==yikes!!