I dont know about peeing more but hes got better aim any spot on the carpet will do for jewels. chachi learned to potty train jewels didntIm doing good to geet her to go upstairs on the bathroom rug

Until you own, bath, and care for a tiny one you will not be able to see the difference. Kyra is very fragile, her little legs are the size of my index finger, she is never allowed to jump up or down from things. When we bath her we do it in a small basin on the floor just in case she did decide to jump out of her bath. When we walk them half the walk we carry Kyra because she gets tired much faster. I could go on and on. Yes all dogs need lots of care and should get it but the little ones truly are different.

I also think a lot depends on the dog more then the size I notice some things small dogs can do that Callie can't and so on. Some people think omg a 17 pound yorkie that's like a horse but really 17 pounds is not that big and Callie still curls up on me like on my chest and in my arms.

*sigh* I had a feeling this well intentioned harmless thread would come to this ;). I think everyone agrees that all dogs in the toy category are fragile, yes? Most who have owned a "tiny" yorkie(I consider any dog under 5 lbs to be tiny) and a "normal" sized yorkie (or any larger breed) do see differences. I'll compare it with babies...if you had a baby make it to full term and a preemie both are very fragile but you would pay extra attention to the premature baby in terms of eating, developmental stages, etc than you would with the full term newborn because they wouldn't have the extra resistance to certain things that a full term would. The OP asked for info regarding using bells for their yorkie's and people's EXPERIENCES with owning a tiny pup...not a debate. :)

But some people think 17 pound yorkies are considered big dogs and that is very far from the truth.

I don't think anyone has said 17lbs is a big dog. The OP was asking about the tiny ones so we were responding to her questions.

To me 17 is a big dog.. To ME. To ME anything over 15 is big. My opinion.

Megan was only 3.4 lbs her whole adult life, she had a heart condition, sensitive skin, and her teeth were a constant problem. I think the smaller ones are more fragile, mainly due to bone size and density. Gina is almost 17 weeks and close to 3lbs now, her legs are thicker than Megan's were. Regardless, Yorkies of any size need to be watched out for, as well as any small breed. Megan needed to go out more frequently than Gina does, but Gina is doing better at potty training than Megan did. I still like the smaller sized Yorkies, but Gina will hopefully be my service dog, so a larger size is better in this instance. I hope your fur baby gets better soon, but for 15 years we had health issues with Megan, but it was a wonderful 15 years with her.
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I am not trying to debate but I feel like sometimes bigger yorkies get singled out and said not be yorkies or are totally different and it makes me upset so I am a little over emotional on the topic. I spent my life being the fat kid or fat person but in the end I was still a person who has feelings and needs. In the end a yorkie is a yorkie all have similar problems and health issues all want love and have needs and feel things. Maybe Callie is different from other bigger yorkies because of her LP and other issues not sure. She gets tired and starts limping after walking to long and jumping off the couch she hurt her front leg, she has needing to eat issues, she gets stepped on and she gets in small places she should not so on. But she also curls up in my arms on my chest and I still carry her around. She seems the same as all the yorkies we have personally met.

But see that's not true or right they are still considered small dogs by vets and most classification systems.

I agree that there is a difference.

It seems like the little dogs are more prone to health issues...yes, bigger yorkies can have the same issues too, but it seems more prevalent in the littler guys. On top of that, the little ones don't seem to handle the health issues as well as the bigger dogs...they get dehydrated quicker, illnesses are harder on them, it takes longer to recover... etc etc. A lot of them seem to be more fragile, in general.

Maybe it's not so much their size, but the genetics that made them small in the first place are the cause of other health problems...IDK...maybe it's because their bodies and organs have to work much harder to perform the same functions a bigger dogs organs do.

I have a 2 year old thats 4 lbs and an 10 year old that's 8 lbs...and my little guy can hold his pee way longer than my bigger guy...so size doesn't always matter...but I think it really depends on the individual dog. It seems like some little dogs live long healthy lives(like the 15 year old 3 lb male I posted about recently) and then there are other little dogs that die really really young and/or are riddled with health problems. I definitely worry about hypoglycemia more with my little guy and I am definitely more concerned about him missing a meal...but I still try to treat him as an equal to my bigger dog....and he definitely does not know he's little!! LOL!!

My bigger dog is actually much more needy an fragile than my little dog is though...more health problems, due to his age, and he's just a spoiled boy...so again...it comes down to an individuals needs more than size.

Well this is my opinion.

Taylor when people ask about the tiny ones it does not mean they are in any way insulting the larger yorkies. It just happens that the OP at the time has a tiny. It would be no different than me going on a thread about teapot yorkies and being offended because someone said my little ones are different. We know a yorkie is a yorkie and all are beautiful bundles of love.

A lot of Vets say their is a difference in a small yorkie ( 4 pounds) and a bigger yorkie ( we will say 15 pounds).

Yup!! All beautiful bundles of love!!