I for one just crack up at the thought of the "oh I want a small one so I can take it everywhere" spill everytime.
We have a small one (Kasey)...2 lbs, 2 oz and the LAST thing we are going to try to do is take him
anywhere. I can't even fathom how to go about doing that in a safe manner...wrap him in bubble wrap? Honestly, he's as healthy as any of the others, but 10x more prone to being injurred by even the smallest bump that wouldn't so much as phase the others. As it is, whenever anyone in the house is doing...well, anything other than sitting, he has to be kept out of the room to keep from getting underfoot...I can't even imagine a good reason to increase the risk of injury to him by carting him around everywhere.
I guess it's just funny to me because I didn't fully understood the things others warn about until we got him and I saw first hand what everyone means. His littermates are now 4-5 pounds, as were his parents, but this little spit hardly grew at all after we got him at 11 weeks.