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Originally Posted by cekaai I can name one bigger yorkie who died of hypoglycemia, My good friend lost her 9 lbs yorkie to a hypoglecimic attack. He never had one before and she was away at work and came home and found her 2 year old 9 lb dog dead.
The necropsey showed low blood sugar as the cause.
It's not a tiny yorkie problem it can affect all yorkies. |
the dog was proberly diebetic.
larger yorkies can control there blood suger wheres smaller ones cant so suffer from a hypoglecimic attack.
smaller yorkies do not do well under the gas where larger ones do better.
smaller yorkies sometimes can not be spayed for this reason.
smaller yorkies are harmed more easely.
and some vets say smaller yorkies organs are not developed fully so can suffer from illnesses.
yorkies were a lot bigger when first bred and over the years were bred down in size and the way they did this was to breed the runts of the litters together, runts are runts for a reason, they did not do as well in the womb, they did not get as much goodness from the mother, and when born were a lot smaller than there litter mates, they then can find it hard to compete for there mothers milk, take longer to grow, and are more prone to illness than the larger more healthy litter mates.
years ago no one wanted the runt of the litter and they were a lot cheaper than the other pups.
so a smaller yorkie could be the runt of the litter so due to this it might not of had the best start in life to be as healthy as its bigger brothers and sisters but this dosent mean it wont be healthy.
