Not all breeds are designed to pull sleds around the Alaskan tundra all winter.
31 popular dogs that should stay inside this winter
Intro
UpdatedAlthough we know that dogs are descended from the mighty wolf, different dog breeds exhibit a huge variety of characteristics. While some breeds can pull sleds around the Alaskan tundra and face the cold weather, other pups were meant to stay bundled up inside this winter.
The data experts at pet data site PetBreeds used data from Animal Planet and the American Kennel Club to find the 31 most popular breeds that can't handle the cold weather. These dogs are qualified as the least cold tolerant, or "1" (Animal Planet measures on a scale of 1-low tolerance, 2-medium tolerance and 3-high tolerance). Dog breeds are ranked by their popularity in 2015, based on information from the American Kennel Club.
Most of these canines have short fur (or none at all) and not enough body fat to keep them cozy in freezing temperatures. Size, however, is not a determining factor. Of course, tiny breeds like Chihuahuas and Shih Tzus would prefer to stay curled up on the couch, but larger dogs like Weimaraners and Great Danes do not handle cold temperatures well, either.
#31. Pharaoh Hound
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 171
Average life expectancy: 13 years
Average weight: 55 lbs
#30. Ibizan Hound
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 160
Average life expectancy: 13 years
Average weight: 65 lbs
#29. Greyhound
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 147
Average life expectancy: 12 years
Average weight: 70 lbs
#28. Redbone Coonhound
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 139
Average life expectancy: 13 years
Average weight: 65 lbs
#27. German Pinscher
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 138
Average life expectancy: 14 years
Average weight: 35 lbs
#26. Manchester Terrier
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 137
Average life expectancy: 16 years
Average weight: 22 lbs
#25. Affenpinscher
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 136
Average life expectancy: 13 years
Average weight: 9 lbs
#24. Saluki
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 132
Average life expectancy: 13 years
Average weight: 65 lbs
#23. Toy Fox Terrier
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 110
Average life expectancy: 14 years
Average weight: 7 lbs
#22. Rat Terrier
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 101
Average life expectancy: 19 years
Average weight: 40 lbs
#21. Japanese Chin
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 97
Average life expectancy: 13 years
Average weight: 7 lbs
#20. Brussels Griffon
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 95
Average life expectancy: 14 years
Average weight: 10 lbs
#19. Basenji
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 87
Average life expectancy: 13 years
Average weight: 26 lbs
#18. Staffordshire Bull Terrier
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 79
Average life expectancy: 13 years
Average weight: 40 lbs
#17. Chinese Crested
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 75
Average life expectancy: 14 years
Average weight: 12 lbs
#16. Italian Greyhound
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 71
Average life expectancy: 14 years
Average weight: 14 lbs
#15. Miniature Pinscher (Min Pin)
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 64
Average life expectancy: 13 years
Average weight: 10 lbs
#14. Dogue de Bordeaux
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 63
Average life expectancy: 11 years
Average weight: 144 lbs
#13. Dalmatian
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 62
Average life expectancy: 13 years
Average weight: 60 lbs
#12. Whippet
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 57
Average life expectancy: 14 years
Average weight: 40 lbs
#11. Papillon
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 48
Average life expectancy: 14 years
Average weight: 9 lbs
#10. Weimaraner
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 34
Average life expectancy: 11 years
Average weight: 90 lbs
#9. Vizsla
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 32
Average life expectancy: 12 years
Average weight: 65 lbs
#8. Chihuahua
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 28
Average life expectancy: 16 years
Average weight: 6 lbs
#7. Havanese
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 24
Average life expectancy: 13 years
Average weight: 13 lbs
#6. Boston Terrier
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 22
Average life expectancy: 12 years
Average weight: 25 lbs
#5. Shih Tzu
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 19
Average life expectancy: 13 years
Average weight: 16 lbs
#4. Great Dane
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 15
Average life expectancy: 7 years
Average weight: 180 lbs
#3. Boxer
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 10
Average life expectancy: 11 years
Average weight: 80 lbs
#2. Yorkshire Terrier
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 7
Average life expectancy: 13 years
Average weight: 6 lbs
#1. Bulldog
UpdatedPopularity (2015): 4
Average life expectancy: 9 years
Average weight: 55 lbs
Puppy store in Marana mall closes amid claims it sold sick dog that later died
UpdatedA Tucson area pet store accused of selling puppies bred under abusive conditions has closed four months after it opened amid claims it sold a sick animal with one lung that died within a month of purchase.
The tiny Yorkshire terrier pup, purchased Oct. 4 from Puppy World at Tucson Premium Outlets in Marana, cost $2,700 to purchase, plus another $1,500 in veterinary bills for what was supposed to be a healthy, vet-checked specimen with a 12-month guarantee against genetic defects, the buyer’s paperwork shows.
But the man behind the guarantee was nowhere to be found when Alyssa Madril went back to the store last weekend to confront the management about fate of the 12-week-old male Yorkie her family named Yappy, who died Nov.3.
The glass storefront of Puppy World was covered over with brown paper, with no information left behind to let customers know what happened.
Madril, 39, of Phoenix, said her family is heartbroken, and she’s preparing a complaint to the Arizona attorney general’s consumer fraud division.
“My heart hurts for my puppy, to not have him for even a month, to have stayed up late at night caring for him and watching him suffer,” she said in an email interview of the pooch.
“Then not seeing him at the end … then to hear he passed away and getting his ashes. My heart broke. It’s been a tough time for me and my family.”
The business license for Puppy World is registered to a 23-year old California man, Rickie Gallardo, who promotes get-rich-quick videos online and advertises them by posing with photos of luxury cars and stacks of $100 bills.
Gallardo previously ran a Puppy World store in his home state but relocated to Arizona soon after he was named a defendant in a federal lawsuit that accuses him of procuring his puppies from puppy mills.
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Gallardo denied wrongdoing in an interview in August with the Arizona Daily Star.
Animal welfare groups say puppy mills churn out product at high speed by sacrificing the health of mother dogs, who are kept in cramped cages and bred every heat cycle to produce as many offspring as possible in the shortest time possible.
Gallardo did not respond to requests for comment for this story including a voicemail, a text message and two emails over a three-day period this week.
Madril said she has family members in Tucson and visits often, sometime stopping at the outlet mall on the way home. Though her household already has several rescue dogs, she stopped by Puppy World and “fell in love,” with the 3-month-old Yorkie, she said.
Mardril’s sales contract offered a 12-month guarantee against genetic defects that lead to the death of a puppy.
Under the terms, she was to receive a $2,700 credit, her purchase price, toward the purchase of another puppy.
Meanwhile, a Tucson-based animal welfare group that protested against Puppy World on the sidewalks around the Marana outlet mall is claiming credit for forcing the pet store to close four months after it opened in early August.
“At the very site where Rickie Gallardo briefly exploited mill-bred animals for profit, Tucson’s animal activist community now celebrates his removal,” said a news release from SPEAK, an acronym for Supporting and Promoting Ethics for the Animal Kingdom.
Not all breeds are designed to pull sleds around the Alaskan tundra all winter.