My Jilly and Scotty each weighed 3 lbs., though Jilly was born a runt with larger siblings. Jilly lived to be 12 1/2lbs. and Scotty to almost 8 years old. Each was an only dog & very carefully protected from the usual dangers(though Jilly was nearly killed in a dog attack as the 65 lb. dog ran from a porch behind bushes), each watched closely when up on furniture or in laps, ramps & stairs provided to avoid repetitive stress injuries to tiny joints from jumping and promptly vetted as any problem arose. Jilly almost choked to death on a chew bone - those tiny ones tied in a knot on each end - when she chewed through the neck of the rawhide & tried to swallow the tied end whole. It stuck in her pharynx & she swelled around it. She stopped breathing so I had to to drive with one hand & breath for her as I held her up to my mouth with the other. Occas. I stopped smack dead in the street to reposition her as I breathed & then drive on, ignoring the honking. We made it and she lived! With great care & the grace of God, a tiny can live past puppyhood and on but you really have to take excellent care of them or bad things can happen very quickly.
__________________  Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |