I saw one puppy yesterday at a breeder that was barely a pound and she said she would weigh 2 – 3 pounds. How do they get to be so small? Are they genetically altered or something?
Breeders use poor breeding practices..
breeding runts to runts..
purposly breeding dogs with health problems that keep them smaller
poor nutrition during pregnancy and growth
early cecarians to deliver underdeveloped puppies
breeding the bitch twice during her heat cycle more than a week apart, so there are pups in the litter that are a week or more behind.. when the first set are ready to be born, she will give birth to all of them… resulting in some underdeveloped pups in the litter.
lying about the age of the puppy so that it seems small for its age compared to other puppies
Also many of these dogs are just small anyways.. so the breeders just slap the "teacup" label and lie about the adult size.. a breeder can NOT guarantee the exact size of the pup as an adult.
They are the runts of the litter, the little sickly dogs that are called teacups and sold for more money
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Long story short…Irresponsibility makes them so small.
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Don't buy from that breeder. That breeder has her ill bred runt parent dogs breed.
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they are the runt of the litter and get charged for crazy amounts of money.
these dogs are likely not to be healthy.
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The breed the smallest dogs from each litter so they get increasingly small dogs – which also become increasingly sickly and frail. These tiny dogs have more health problems and on average shorter lifespans than their standard littermates. It's a sign of a bad breeder who is doing this. No one who care about the dogs would do this – only someone who cares about money.
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Backyard breeders breed their very, tiny, undersized dogs to other tiny, undersized dogs. You keep on doing that and all you're going to get are undersized puppies – yes, it's genetics. You use genetics to breed really good as well as really bad dogs.
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They are runts, or bred *from* runts.
In reality, they are just badly bred. There are plenty of runts of the litter that are sold for high dollar as "teacup" and become normal-sized; they may just be smaller starting out. They may even be larger than their siblings.
They are 100% a scam.
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Bad breeding.
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Just like when you put a cotton shirt in REALLY hot water and then dry it in a REALLY hot dryer, these breeders shrink down their dogs by doing stupid things too.
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no. not genetically altered. bred to be that way. duh. that's how you get healthy Teacup Yorkies.
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they can make them that small in a few ways:
one way: they take the pups away from their mom for long hours of the day so they cant feed and therefore grow. this causes many nutritional deficenties.
another way: they breed the b*tch on just say the ninth day of her heat cycle. then they breed her again on the fifteenth day of her heat cycle. when the first bunch of puppies are ready to be born, then the pups that were conceived on the fifteenth day are born too. since the pups conceieved on the fifteenth day werent in the womb as long as they should be they are really tiny, and also have nutritional deficenties.
they can also repeatedly breed the runt of every litter.
its sick. dont encourage the breeding of "teacup" dogs.
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Breeders use poor breeding practices..
breeding runts to runts..
purposly breeding dogs with health problems that keep them smaller
poor nutrition during pregnancy and growth
early cecarians to deliver underdeveloped puppies
breeding the bitch twice during her heat cycle more than a week apart, so there are pups in the litter that are a week or more behind.. when the first set are ready to be born, she will give birth to all of them… resulting in some underdeveloped pups in the litter.
lying about the age of the puppy so that it seems small for its age compared to other puppies
Also many of these dogs are just small anyways.. so the breeders just slap the "teacup" label and lie about the adult size.. a breeder can NOT guarantee the exact size of the pup as an adult.
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technically, there isn't anything "tea cup". It is just a term devised by breeders to attract gullible customers looking for a small dog. Like "Hypo-allergenic".
No such breed.
Not all dogs under 3 pounds are poorly bred but they are obviously more frail, subject to illnesses and accidents, surgeries are more risky. A reputable breeder would not be advertising "tea cups".
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There is No Such Thing, as a Teacup anything! Teacup, is just a term, that irresponsible backyard breeders use when they breed one Runt (Smallest puppy in the litter), to another Runt in order to produce smaller puppies. These breeders do not care about whether the poor dog lives or dies, during the pregnancy or whelping (delivery)! They just move on to the next Runt, and the process just repeats itself. All they care about, is charging people outrageous prices for these dog, ripping them off and the only reason they breed these dogs is for profit. Many of the puppies, turn out to be sick and don't live very long lives! No Runt should ever, under any circumstances be bred at any time. They are way too small and fragile to put them throught that type of trauma! It's traumatic enough for a Standard size dog to have puppies, and a breeding a Runt is ridiculous! Anytime you hear the word Teacup, Mini, or Pocket Size, run in the opposite direction. The people that breed these Runts in my eyes are abusing these dogs, and the need to be caught and stopped! It's cruel and it's wrong!
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there really isn't a responsible breeder that would sell a yorkie that small,or even think about breeding them that small
most dogs considred "teacup" are the smallest,and unhealthiest of the litter
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They are poorly bred dogs. They take runts to breed more runts most "teacups" are unhealthy and will not have a very long life.
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See most of the above posts – the ones with 'thumbs up'. Always go for the bigger Yorkies in the litter – and show those @%"@ 'teacup' merchants!
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