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Originally Posted by lillymae  People are just sick  The lady we got our Sassy from , we found out months later, had been told about many sick pups & denied any of her pups had ever had a problem. Needless to say , she lied & knew she was breeding this condition in her lines & to make matters worse, after Sassy passed I found out that my neighbor bought what she called a Munchkin (yorkie/shihtzu) & on the yorkie side her great grandfather was my sassys father who I believe was the carrier. My neighbors pup was PTS at 2 yrs as she also had Chiari. My Sassy was not big eyed when she came home but by 3 she was & I have since seen many puppies from this evil woman & they greatly resemble the pups in the pics & videos. The woman died 2 yrs ago BUT now her daughter has all of her dogs & she IS breeding them So the line goes on & many more pups will be diagnosed with Chiari & suffer |
I had always understand that with Chiari the signs that you can see with your eyes such as the large head and big eyes do mostly develop after young puppyhood and not at the age these very young pups are. Looks like many are 5 - 6 weeks of age.
If I ever see another puppy with a large head in a puppy if I ever go puppy-shopping again, I'm running fast the other way. You'd think I would have known better but I was pretty young and thought that big head was cute until I found out it was hydrocephalus and the little thing was dying. I sure hope that lady put her to sleep and didn't wait for her to die in pain.