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Old 01-24-2008, 12:19 PM   #11
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In answer to the question of why they tend towards hypoglycemia: their livers are too small (especially in tinies and puppies) to store enough glycogon which is the way sugar is stored for energy. So they run out of sugar faster than larger dogs with larger livers, which causes them to become hypoglycemic.
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