There’s enough dogs that need homes! Stop breeding!!!!

I have a chihuahua that’s 16 lbs, and bigger than my bichon ever was. Purebread longhair deer chihuahua. Looks more like a white fox than anything. Not sure how he is so big. If you’re getting a puppy, be prepared for potential surprises in size. 🙂 If you want a specific size, adopt an adult dog.

We just looked at a 4week old Springer Spaniel litter.
The runt is half the size of his litter mates. Not skinny just small and very snuggly.
How did it go with your puppy?

We have a Boston that is pure bred.8 think he’s an inch taller than average and weighs 40 lbs. he was fixed after he studded a bit. And he has had a few large pups too. We thought maybe we were lied to about the pedigree,and he was tested and he’s full pure breed. He may be an inch taller and ten pound heavie than breed standard but he’s athletic and fast and smarter than we like! Ans he is also the sweetest temper men at of a boy. Being outside the breed standard just means they can be shown as a dog of that pedigree. Interesting that there are colors that are not expected etc when they occur naturally. If the dog breed can be taller smaller a different color would it not make sense to expand the breeds standards for those variations. It’s like telling a shirt person they aren’t a certain ethnicity like ah-697 can’t be Swedish cause you don’t have pale skin and pale eyes. Sorry, both parents were Swedish. I’m Swedish. It sure is dumb if you ask me.

We had a runt that we thought had hydrocephalus,it was less than quarter of the size of littermates and was less than 3 oz at birth.I had her in a bedroom dresser drawer and woke up every two to three hours to feed hers she’ll her poop and keep her dry snd check the temp etc.she almost faded. She has since that time grown out of any hydrocephalus she had(I had used omperAzole with her)./ she is now about four months old. She is more than a pound. She is cute snd smart and funny and very tiny. She’s expected to be maybe five pounds full grown. A friend of mine adopted her and she and everyone in her family loves her. She has to be careful no one crushes her accidentally and keeping her clothes/ warm/ with a blanket is essential. She had colustrum and Breast milk. Seized sugar water and formula mostly cause she could barely be attached without the other littermates crushing her so that had to be supervised and she needed constant assistance. We put s little oil oil in her formula ahe she got constipated snd I gently stimulated her with s moistened warm make up brush snd I always warmed her during snd after feedings and assured she was dry comfortable snd well nourished 24 hours a day for two months. She had a great check up and the vet found nothing wrong with her. She is a frenchton.

I hope you chose a different breeder. These dogs don’t sound healthy.

Did you figure anything out? You basically just described my rund and I’m so afraid but I also don’t have the money to get her to the vet anymore. She’s 2 weeks old.