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Originally Posted by kt_luvs_kitties  I bought Dora, and she weighed 1 pound 3 ounces. Now she is almost 4 months old, and she weighs around 2 pounds - 2 1/2 pounds.
I PRAY she gets to be a "bigger yorkie". Other than the fact that I think bigger yorkies are SO adorable, I have a chihuahua that weighs barely 2 pounds, and he might even be a little less than two pounds! And he is an adult.
It is SO hard to keep a smaller dog safe.. You worry about everything from jumping off the couch, to stepping on them, to not being able to let them play/wrestle with other dogs. I would NEVER EVER suggest a tiny (1-2 pound) dog to anyone. Hypoglycemia is also a HUGE factor.
I am sure you will love yours either way! And I dont think their is any way to determine how big one will get, until they are grown  |
I found a web site a couple of months ago that advertises 1 1/2 - 2 pound Yorkies, and that is just abnormal. They aren't supposed to be that small, and it comes with its own set of problems. What really annoys me even more is that some people breed 2-3 pound females, and that is beyond irresponsible. I have a beautiful 3 pound female that I had spayed at about 14 months. Not because I wouldn't have liked another ten puppies that looked just like her, but because she's simply too little to have babies safely.
As KT said, they can't get on and off the sofa on their own, and it's very hard not to step on them if they're really little. I cannot count the times I've thrown myself in the floor to avoid stepping on one of mine. They tend to run under my feet rather than away from them, so it's often a choice of step on the dog or lose your balance and fall on the floor to avoid it.
The small ones are also very hard to keep track of outside. We aren't allowed to have fences in our subdivision, and there have been a couple of times that one of them has run into a next-door neighbor's yard. When that happens, they just look like a little black dot in the middle of the yard because they're so hard to see if they get very far away from you. I nearly had a heart attack one day when one went to investigate the neighbor's swimming pool. I was looking right at her but still didn't see her until she started walking around their pool deck and I saw movement.
Who says size doesn't matter