One of the smallest breeds in the world. Of course it was bred to be small. It's obviously a runt, but bred to be tiny in the first place.Animavore wrote:FFS! I know no one breeds small men! But they just happen sometimes. That's the exact case with the dog in the OP. It wasn't bred to be small. It was a freak of nature. The owner nearly threw it in the bin after mistaking it for a piece of placenta from the rest of the litter.
I think it's a Yorkshire terriier. I looked it up on wikipedia, and there is a huge list of ailments that they suffer from. The health section is the biggest section in the article.
In other news, the African dogs in Pittsburgh Zoo have been naughty :
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-575 ... o-exhibit/