| yorkietalkjilly | 05-21-2014 04:14 PM |
Please rethink this for the good of the breed by not purchasing from those who purposefully and intentionally breed for very tiny, undersized, often unhealthy dogs who will very frequently be born with congenital conditions that don't show up the first two months or so of life and some don't show up until the dog is 3 or 4 years old. If you buy a runt of normal-sized litter from a reputable breeder who breeds only to improve the breed, that's a totally different matter, though often the dogs are tiny runts due to something that happened in the womb that prevented normal neonatal development so just be prepared for many medical conditions - may never happened but you should know tiny runts or tiny dogs are fragile, easily injured, don't have the most easy life in the world and are often in the vet's office for one problem or the other. Often, just running outside in the grass is difficult for them as is much of life in a human world.
Here is a Google search that shows that teacup Yorkies very often have a host of medical problems. Any breeder, knowing this, who deliberately and knowingly breeds for a tiny teacup Yorkie therefore is taking too great a chance of not producing a healthy dog who can live a good dog's life and shouldn't be rewarded by a Yorkie-lover ever doing business with them. Run from them for the good of the breed. https://www.google.com/search?q=heal..._sm=0&ie=UTF-8
I speak from past personal experience and have seen the suffering of a tiny dog from congenital medical problems that began when she was 4 or 5 months old and was at death's door far more than once and a life of IBS and frequent GI issues and suffering, many, many, many vet visits and consults. When she was 13, she simply jumped down off the couch on her doggie steps and dislocated her tiny shoulder joint and went down in agony. The trip to the ER vet and then across town to the specialist were terrifying with my poor hurt baby in the car suffering right beside me. So was the hour the emergency surgery took. And it didn't work - her shoulder wouldn't stay in, even after casting for weeks. The vet said her shoulder joints were just too congenitally mal-formed and now fragile due to her tiny size and repetitive years of jumping as she did many times a day using her doggie steps to access the couch and bed eventually just weakened her left shoulder joint integrity, which was irreparable.
If you do get a tiny Yorkie, just know you are buying from an unethical person who no matter what they say, truly isn't interested in the well-being of their puppies or they would breed for standard-sized dogs. They are breeding for tiny puppies just to be able to line their pockets as more and more people clamor for tiny dogs and we so often see their tragic stories here and other sites online. If breeders of teacups lose their buyers due to them demanding healthy dogs, maybe they will start to breed to improve the breed and try to bring healthy dogs into the world, not just tiny, cute dogs that sell due to their petite size and cutesy looks. I'm all for cute toy dogs but the super tiny ones all too often tend to be too unhealthy to really enjoy their lives and their owners are riddled with heartache from watching their babies suffer. | 