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Originally Posted by abbie's mom  Yep, and as long as people pay these ludicrous prices for pups that are purposely bred to be "tinies", unethical people will keep churning them out. Supply and demand.
I've been disapointly surprised by some of the responses to this thread. Most of the time, we (YT) discourage the purposeful breeding of under-sized bitches - no matter how "adorable" the end result (should the bitch live through labor, that is). |
I'm certainly not defending that breeder but much ado is made about smaller bitches having pups. It all depends on the bitch. I have a 3.5 pound female that we kept from one of our litters but not to breed. Sure enough one our males nailed her in less than one minute, and I'm not making that up. They were hosed down right away but she got pregnant. It certainly wasn't by our choice. Because she was so small, I made arrangements for a C-section on July 13th but the morning of the 10th I woke up to one pup, still in the sack but not living. About 3 hours later she began delivering a second one, breach. He didn't make it. Less than a half an hour later she had another coming breach and I rushed her to the vet. When he pulled back the towel, there was another little boy already out, whom we call Li' T because he was the third one and weighed 3 ounces. The other two were 4 ounces each. To say we were shocked, not only by the number of pups but by their size, is an understatement. And she did it all on her own. My 6 pound bitches have pups that weigh that much at birth. Lil' T wouldn't nurse for 2 days so I hand feed him but by Friday, the 13th, the day they should have been born, he began to nurse. He is now 9 weeks old. The bottom line is problems can arise with any delivery, regardless of the size of the bitch.