Pip weighs 1 pound and is less than four inches tall.
Meet Pip, a four-month-old pug.
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Pip apparently weighs just over 1 pound and her owner thinks she could be one of the smallest pugs in the world.
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Pip was part of a litter of four and survived numerous cases of pneumonia caused by a cleft palate, the SWNS news agency reported.
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She is just four inches tall and half the size of her sister Poppy.
“She must be Britain’s smallest pug – if not the smallest pug in the world,” the Daily Mail quoted her owner Joanne Astley as saying.
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“People stop and stare – they can’t believe she’s real, they all think she’s a toy.”
According to the Guinness World Records, the smallest living dog is a female chihuahua called Milly.
Milly is just 3.8 inches tall.
The smallest dog, in terms of length, is Heaven Sent Brandy – who measures six inches from nose to tail.
Pip’s mother Ruby gave birth to a litter in January and Astley admitted she was taken aback by her size.
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“I couldn’t believe it – she was just so tiny,” the Mail quoted Astley, from Dudley, West Midlands.
“We took her to the vet, but they said that she was fine, apart from a cleft lip, and is just small.”
Astley also revealed that when she wants to take her dog out and about, she has to put Pip in her handbag.
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It’s clearly the only way to travel.
