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Originally Posted by Began  I bought my puppy from a private owner. My puppy is almost 6 months and she is only 2lbs 14 oz. I wads just wondering if she is going to stay this little? The mother is 5 lbs and the father 6 lbs. My puppy was the smallest of the litter. She is very healthy and a little sweetheart! |
Is this as far back as you investigated? Genetic makeup on any living thing, goes back much farther than mom and dad....you may be a spitting image of your great great grandmother when she was young....same thing with dogs, and every other living breathing thing walking around. Your genetic make up goes back many generations, not just as far back as your own momma and daddy. THAT is the problem with breeders that say a puppy will be small because the parents were small....the parents had very little to do with what that puppy is going to be.....it goes back MANY generations, but you can get a pretty good idea about what your puppy will be, if you go back 9-12 generations. THIS is what excellent breeders/show breeders do...they have a line of dogs they have bred for many, many generations, and they know with reasonable soundness, what that breeding is going to produce in size, color, temperament, etc. Backyard breeders throw two dogs together, with zero knowledge about what went on in the generations before those dogs, and they end up with genetic incompatibilities/deformaties, both internally as well as externally, and they could care less. All they are concerned with are "puppies = $$$$", and the sooner they can dump them, the more money they clear. My hackles go straight up when I see "my puppy is 6 (or 7 or 8 or 9....anything less than a bare minimum of 12 weeks) weeks old"......this almost alone, is contributing to the explosion of puppy mills across this country.....so anyone that is financially supporting puppy mills on one hand, can hardly complain about this blight called puppy mills, on the existence of our beautiful Yorkshire terrier breed and the destruction these people are proliferating.