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Originally Posted by lulababy  When I was looking for a puppy, I wanted a "smaller" pup, not because I wanted to be paris hilton or nicole richie or whoever. My friend neil has a sweet little pomeranian that is 4lbs and I thought he was the perfect size!! Neko (his dog) is what made me want to get a smaller one because my mom has a yorkie that turned out to be a teapot at 8lbs and he is a handful/harder to carry. You can't really take him anywhere in any sort of carrier! He loves to be out in public places, but he is too big to be hidden, so he mostly has to stay at home with her! So I had 4-5lbs in mind--good to stay at home, good to take out. I wanted to make sure the parents were smaller as well, to get as good as guarantee as I could that they wouldnt end up 8lbs. I just picked the smallest one I could find, but she ended up not growing very much as Pebbles is almost 7 months and she is 2.8 pounds. I guess she will be around 3 1/2 pounds full grown which is close enough for me.
I am getting a playmate for her though and he will be coming home in two weeks. Size was really important for me with finding him, because Pebbles is so small that she cannot play with most dogs on even footing. I do not know of any dogs her size around here (all of them are big dogs), and being that I was getting him primarily for her, I wanted them to be the same size!! Well, when i found him he was adorable and I had to have him even though he is probably going to be smaller than pebbles. Being that he is 17 ounces and 10 weeks currently, this will probably be the case.
I think it is fine though, but I don't like people thinking I am "shallow" or something because my dog is smaller. They are both extremely healthy and sweet, and were not bred to be so small. They just happened to show up on this earth that way! |
Good post. I think size is only one consideration out of many. Health for me is absolutely number one, and breeders who breed to standard usually try to breed healthy and sociable puppies as well. I think many people are bothered by the fact that some breeders always say that the dog will not be over 7 pounds and it gets
much bigger than this. I have read many posts that say that their pup was "guarantee teacup" and weighs 8 pounds at 4 months. So when a breeder says 7 pounds, you always wonder.