[belindaY]

You should feel bad for breeders because we're the ones who end up being blamed for everything. The vets won't admit they're causing some of this liver disease with vaccinations, pills and ointments for everything under the sun. Yorkies are tiny dogs, and their livers are maybe not as big or strong as some other breeds, yet they get loaded up with these toxins then everybody looks at the breeder and says "congenital portosystemic shunt; it's all your fault; write me a big check." The last couple of years it's the dog food that's full of toxic material causing liver problems, but you take a sick Yorkie to the vet and all they want to do is say "liver shunt." They do surgery, can't find a shunt and they're still screaming CPSS. I have a house full of healthy Yorkies--no health problems whatsoever--but I do not give them all these vaccines and medicines the vet quacks are pushing. I'm careful what I feed them, keep their environment disease free and hope for the best, and so far it works great. The only liver shunt claim I ever had on a puppy came from one where they had loaded up this little 3 lb baby with vaccines for diseases we don't even get around here. I know it wasn't shunt, but some other liver damage they did themselves, but my guarantee was worded in such a way i couldn't get the puppy back to prove it...