There are some breeds of dogs that are naturally small. Like the Maltese that has been small for thousands of years. In the last 20 years breeders have been creating a smaller size of the breed by selective breeding.
Yorkshire Terriers were also originally a small breed, meaning around 15 to 20 lbs. As breeders continue to selectively cause the breed to become smaller and smaller the organs and systems of the body become weaker and less able to withstand disease and reproduction also becomes more complicated. Since a tiny dog contains tiny reproductive organs ideally it should conceive tiny puppies but since the genetic pool carrierd by both the mother and the father contain the potential to produce much larger puppies reproduction is often difficult. A tiny may be able to conceive but has a greater potential to carry over sized pups that they cannot naturally give birth to. In human terms it would be considered a high risk pregnancy. She could go into labor prematurely. She could spontaneously abort the pups. She could bleed out and die. At the very least she would need a c-section and be unable to produce enough milk to feed a pup, should it survive. Such breeding practices are inhumane to say the very least. But people will attempt to do it in order to obtain that big price tag pup that, by the way, could grow to be a normal, or even bigger dog. A tiny dog, male or female, still carries the genes to produce normal or even over sized offspring.
This tiny dog thing is a scam. A very inhumane and cruel scam. |