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Originally Posted by Susan Williams I have several sizes of yorkies and starting with my three pound yorkie to my biggest yorkie, I haven't had no per say problems with them health wise. My smallest girl had to have eye surgery, she scratched her corena and we couldn't stop the infection, so we opt'd to do a graft to save the eye, which was successful. But while at the specialist there were many breeds there with this situation. I guess I could chalk it up to the fact she is so low to the ground that she is more likely to have this happen. But not all small yorkies are sickly. |
I am sorry Susan if you took that I was saying was that
any yorkie under the standard AKC weight range was sickly. Please accept my apology if you took me that way. What I meant to suggest would be more closely fitting by saying the smaller (meaning under AKC 4-7 pound range) would have a higher percentage of health problems from my understanding. I made my opinion from Vet advice and stats and research I have done. Again, this is only my opinion I have drawn from some of the horror stories I have read and heard about. Please don't take what I wrote previously as an attack. I truly didn't mean to offend. A scratch of the cornea is not something I would never put in a catagory of being sickly. Things of that nature can happen if the dog is 3 pounds or 12.
I never have welcomed you to Yorkie Talk and would like to do so at this time. Thanks for getting in there and speaking your mind.
justus...Kirk and Mary