I need some help deciding what breed my puppy is. I bought her from a woman who claimed she was a Teacup Yorkie/ Teacup Chihuahua mix. I am starting to doubt her since my dog is now 10 pounds and she only 6 months old. Here is a picture of her, if you can please help me that would be great!

I have been a vet tech for 15yrs and it's really hard to tell the breed ( absolute ) until they are grown. But it does look chihuahua mix could be with yorkie/pommie ect...

To me she looks like that rare breed of dogs that resembles no other, is more strong with diseases than any other known breed and carries no hereditary breed ailments to torment her or you throughout her Life.
She is the New Breed, better that all others before her!

yah it looks hard to tell.. but the first pic look like a chihuahua

For me she looks like chihuahua mix...hard to tell the exact breed but anyway she is cute...

Looks like a Chihuahua and some wire haired terrier mix. Basically you have a mutt and won't be able to determine its full size & looks until he's a year or year and 1/2 old. A DNA test could determine which breeds are mixed in with him.

I seriously doubt there is Yorkie anywhere in there. However, there is no such thing as a "teacup". It's a fancy byb term for RUNT! Which obviously you didn't get if she's already 10 lbs. LMAO

looks to me as a chihuahua mix, but as some other people mentioned, its really hard to tell unless the dog is at least a teenager but cuuuuuute dog very cute

Originally Posted by Salem1986

I need some help deciding what breed my puppy is. I bought her from a woman who claimed she was a Teacup Yorkie/ Teacup Chihuahua mix. I am starting to doubt her since my dog is now 10 pounds and she only 6 months old. Here is a picture of her, if you can please help me that would be great!

She is soooooooooooooo cute. Definitely chihuahua, could be yorkie with the stronger gene on the chihuahua side.

10lb, well perhaps she eats well LOL. She doesnt look a big dog to me to weigh in that much.

Gorgeous though, a true Heinz 57.

Yep no such thing as teacup it was just something which came from saying they were so small they could fit a teacup.

You have a lovely healthy looking puppie there, enjoy. :mrgreen:

Thanks everyone!

Lately, I've been thinking she was mixed with a Pom. She gets a "mane" around her neck and she gets fluffy if I dont take her to the groomer. Now she is almost 11 lbs....I definitely got lied to by the person who sold me the dog. But thats alright, because I love her no matter what she is! She is a real feisty puppy.

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For the record, there is no such thing as a tea cup in any breed. The fact is it came from a photograph back in the 1960's. A photographer took a picture of a 6 week old Chihuahua puppy in an oversized tea cup. The photo was published in Look or Life magazine (sorry, cannot remember which one I saw it in). The caption read "tea cup Chihuahua. That is where it all started. Unfortunately with the photo no one seemed to catch the fact that it was a puppy not an adult tiny dog and breeders were inundated with requests for a tea cup Chihuahua. After much time trying to convince people they did not exist they gave up and many started breeding their runts to achieve a smaller than breed standard dog that unfortunately was left with numerous health issues. Your dogs looks to definitely have Chihuahua but as for what ever else is subject.

Beside what's already been said about "teacup" anything, breeding a runt to a runt doesn't mean all of the puppies in the litter will be runts. There can be a wide range of sizes, depending on what's in the dog's background several generations back. They can "throw back" to dogs who were normal sized, or even oversized.

So it's possible you weren't exactly lied to. The parents of your dog might very well be "teacup" size.

Cute pup, though.