If you breed 2 dogs of unknown pedigrees you can get anything. There is no way to know if a dashchund was a grandparent. Dogs can appear to be purebred and not be. A litter of pups whose dam is a lab and sire was a german shepherd is not half lab half shepherd. Some are 90% shepherd and 10% lab, some are 80% lab and 20% shepherd and so on. So just because 2 dogs look purebred doesn't mean they are. Many shelters in Fl have 8-10 dogs who look Chihuahua to more or less of a degree but since Backyard breeders and Puppymills breed anything to make pups many are less then purebred or poorly bred. And most die because there are no one wanting to adopt them and rescues are full. Monty is a great pet, typical brown deerhead who should be 5lbs when he gains his last half pound, housebroken, very outgoing, great with all dogs, not a barker and learning very quickly at class but he would have been dead in another day or two. No one wanted to adopt him or the other 6 Chis at the shelter and no rescue had room for any of the Chis. And his owners didn't want him obviously.
Robin, the Dobe Axel CGC, TT, the German Pin Ranger CGC, TT, the Chihuahuas Alice CGC and Monte, the MinPins HoneyB, Brutus, and IMPS foster Jordan www.minpinrescue.org -------- Original message -------- Subject: [Chihuahuas] Just a quick question on pups From: chargeit2him <chargeit2...@yahoo.com> To: Chihuahuas@yahoogroups.com CC: How unusual is it that in a litter of chi's one pup has shorter legs than the others ? Nothing is wrong with her she just looks more like a 'hot dog" with her short legs. we love her no matter what . I was just wondering. Sandy
