Where is the best place to ask for Teacup testimonials?

My name is Bailee N. and I had no idea that teacup puppies were bad. I always thought they were fine because if they weren't I didn't think they would be allowed to sell them. Anyway, I bought a teacup Maltese this past Saturday and fell absolutely in love with it, but it died earlier today in the care of a vet. It had many of the problems you mentioned in the information about teacups. I had no idea and all of my friends didn't know teacups were bad either.

I bought a teacup Maltese on Saturday April 4th she was an early graduation present from my parents and I got to pick her out. I was looking at puppies for hours when I saw this one. She was absolutely adorable, and I fell in love. She laid in my arms and fell asleep. She was really easy, but I thought it was just because of her personality and the fact that she was tired. I didn't know it was because she was sick. She died two days later. This is what the vet wrote about Lily. --- Lily is dehydrated, she is hypoglycemic, she has diarrea with blood. This pup is hypothermic Temp is 97.7 she weighs 10.5 ounces (.66 lbs). She has two intestinal parasites that are protozoal infection and not worms, she might have had round worms I saw part of a parasite egg that looks like a round worm egg, because her stool is so loose I cannot properly evaluate the stool for other parasites. She has an open fontanel (soft spot) on top of her head some of these pups with the will lead a normal life, some will develop hydrocephalus and epilepsy. She died at 11:35am on Monday April, 6. The vet also said that Lily would have been more likely to survive if she wasn't so tiny, but her little body couldn't handle the stress.

I would like to volunteer in any way and get the word out about how unhealthy it is to breed "teacups". If there are any opputunities I would love to know about them.

Let's start out by saying "THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A "TEACUP" PUPPY".

With that in mind, let me say this; It seems as though there is a plethora of people who are insistent on buying tiny puppies in the 2 to 4 pound range. Also commonly referred to as a "Teacup puppy".

The word "Teacup" has been used to merely describe the size of a puppy, meaning it is very small and will probably be under the standard size which is 4 to 7 pounds for the Toy Group, Yorkshire Terrier breed. We cannot imagine anyone wanting anything smaller than that! Their bones are VERY fragile and can be broken by jumping off of a coach, falling off of a bed, being stepped on or worse.

Many breeders, while tacking a whooping price on a puppy, "claim" to breed so called "teacups" as if they were a breed all their own. Don't be fooled! They are NOT a breed of their own.

If a breeder says they specialize in "teacups" RUN, RUN, RUN for the hills! Most "TEACUP" puppies are in reality, a premature puppy.

Most females are bred on the ninth through the fifteenth day of their heat cycles. Eggs can be fertilized for up to 72 hours after any of these breeding's. Therefore, it is possible to have puppies conceived up to a week or so younger than the puppies first conceived in a litter. However, when the first puppies conceived are mature and ready to be born, labor starts and all the puppies will be born, no matter when they were fertilized.

Some of the problems that may be encountered are both genetic and congenital in these tiny babies and the list is a long one.

The risk of open fontanels (soft spot from the cranial bone not forming), portosystemic shunts (PSS- abnormal vessel that allows blood to bypass the liver. As a result the blood is not cleansed by one of the bodies filters: the liver.), hypoglycemia, cardiac problems, collapsing trachea, luxating patellas, Leggs Calves Perthes disease, seizures, hydroencephaly, blindness and digestive problems can be increased in these tiny babies.

Problems such as respiratory problems can remain or worsen throughout their lives. These babies frequently are so fragile that they do not live more than a few years. There have been several tiny Yorkies as adults who still had open fontanels and their owners had to carry nourishment with them all the time. Their vets have felt it unsafe to give a full dose of vaccine so the puppies had to get several injections to be on the safe side.

There is no such thing as a "tea cup" Yorkshire Terrier, Maltese, Poodle, or any other breed for that matter. They simply do not exist. "Tea-cup" is just a marketing ploy given by unethical and unscrupulous breeders to drive up the price of their puppies!

So called "Teacups" fetch anything from $1000 to $10,000! This is ridiculous and shameful! There are a lot of chronically, unhealthy puppies because unscrupulous breeders and puppy mills are inbreeding. Some poor darlings only live for a very, very short time!

They take the little teeny, tiny Yorkies and they breed 2 1/2 pounders with 3 pounders ... well, they’re playing with genetics. You should NEVER breed a female of any breed less then 5pounds

Hello!

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I'm quoting what I told someone else.

"I personally have no problem with the word as long as the breeder is doing her breeding ethnically. Who cares if a person uses a word that they know will grab attention? At the end of the day, the breeder will be charging the same price regardless of what they call the dog. The tinier ones require more attention so people will charge more because they weren't able to make their income any other way. People never really think about that.

Many people believe the small dogs develops more health problems but that is a bunch of bull. It depends on the steps the breeder takes to insure she is breeding a line with no health problems. And if the lines are genetically small. I have seen more larger dogs develop health problems pertaining to their hips, head, and heart then I do toy dogs that grow to be 2-4lbs as an adult.

health problems doesn't happen because the dog grows up small. It happens because of bad genetic breeding and accidents. When everyone say the x-small ones will develop health problems, people will start to believe the normal size doesn't when that is far from the case. ALL DOGS DEVELOPS HEALTH PROBLEMS!!! It's all in the genetics.

If you truly look around you will see more 'normal' size dogs develop health problems. Again, Genetics."

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To read a story about a bad breeder who doesn't test her dogs and sell dogs with known health problems, please visit this question: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiaEO...

People are trying hard to share knowledge on the subject of teacups, when that's all they heard (teacups develop health problems). They don't hear nothing else about the smaller ones so they aren't able to say more. They don't even try to spend 10 minutes to see why a certain pup became ill.

Most people are ignorant on the other aspects of the x-tiny puppy and toy dogs. Almost all toy breeds have certain health problems that are common towards the breed. When A small dog develops a problem. People don't even think about the background of the dog. Problems are caused by recessive genes in the parents background. Meaning, even if the pup would have been larger, the problem would have still been there.

So if anyone should mention problems concerning 'Teacups' they have to also mention that the problem are mostly because the parents carried those problems. Most dogs don't just develop problems because of their size.

If anyone has a question... email me.

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Tulip, did you get your baby from a petstore? If so, that was the number one problem there.

You have mentioned tons of problem associated with puppymill dogs. No matter if the dog was 1 pound or 20lbs. she would have had the same problem. almost half of petstore dogs develop health problems, regardless of size.

The death of your dog was caused by problems/parasites caused by poor living conditions and things caught from other dogs, not from birth. Your dog came from someplace where it lived in filthy conditions and she caught and experienced many things. I don't think your story is a is regarding smaller dogs, just bad living habits and the wrong place to get your dog.

Did your vet mention any problems that were birth defects? Not caused by picking it up from somewhere or not given enough attention/nutrients?

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I believe when being presented with a case from a 'teacup' (or ex-teacup) owner that you should research the problem that they had. That way you can make sure it only happened because the dog was too small. Most of the times, the problem is because of the bad living conditions they lived in or the lack of best procedures to go through with that dog. (which effects all size canines).