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What is the smallest dog in the world?

The world record belongs to the Yorkshire Terrier from the English city of Blackburn, Lancashire. The dog was groomed by Arthur Marples, editor-in-chief of the English newspaper Our Dogs. His ward weighed 113 grams, height at the withers reached 6,5 cm, from the tip of the nose to the base of the tail was 9,5 cm long, lived for two years and died in 1945.

The smallest dog breed is usually considered to be the Chihuahua. However, according to the Guinness Book of Records, today's world record for the smallest dog does not necessarily belong to a representative of this breed.

It all depends on what you consider "small". So, the current world record is shared between a Chihuahua (the shortest) and a Yorkshire Terrier (the shortest).

Whitney, the record breaking Yorkshire terrier, lives in Shoeburyness, Essex; his height at the withers is 7,3 cm. Chihuahua named Danka Kordak Slovakia - 18,8 cm in length and lives, you guessed it, in Slovakia.

There are over 400 dog breeds in the world today, and they all belong to the same species. Any male can cross with any female. There is no second creature in the world, which would be represented by such a wide variety of shapes and sizes. No one has yet figured out why.

The unique variety of dog breeds is primarily due to man, but the biggest mystery is that without exception, all dog breeds originate from ordinary wolves.

The Doberman Pinscher was bred by crossing German Pinschers, Rottweilers, Manchester Terriers, and possibly Pointers in as little as thirty-five years, effectively defying Darwin's theory of species evolution, according to which such processes take thousands, if not millions of years.

For some reason unknown to us, when crossing different dog breeds, not some average creature is born, but a complete surprise. Moreover, the new "breed" retains the ability to interbreed.

Chihuahua got its name in honor of the state of the same name in Mexico: it was believed (based on the art of the Aztecs and Toltecs) that this breed has lived there since ancient times. However, none of the archaeological finds confirms such a theory, and today it is generally accepted that the animals depicted by the Indians are a kind of rodent.

Most likely, the ancestors of these dogs were brought to Mexico by the Spaniards from China, where the practice of breeding dwarf plants and animals has a rather long history.

In Mexico, Chihuahua cheese is very popular, but it is named after the state, and not after the dog.

Author: John Lloyd, John Mitchinson

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