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Meet The Breed - Pomeranian
Everything you want and need to know about owning a toy pomeranian from Care, Aliments, Personality, and Conformation. Pomeranians have an average life expectancy of 12 to 16 years some living several years longer!
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Pomeranian Personalities
These small dogs have a lot of personality in a little body! They are cheerful happy go lucky energetic balls of fur. Although they do have lot of energy they absoultely love being held and cuddling on your lap. They are excellent lap dogs and make excellent dogs for kids that want a companion to sit with them while they learn/ play on the floor/ or watch tv. Poms can also be territorial and show possiveness of their people and think they are little gaurd dogs. It is important to soicalize them while they are young.
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Pomeranian Breed Standards
Coat -Pomeranians are double coated. The Pomeranian’s outer coat is straight and puffy. It’s held off his body by the dense, soft, fluffy undercoat and acts as insulation in extremely cold and warm weather. Their face fur is short.
Size - The Pomeranian ideally weighs 4 to 5 pounds but may weigh 3 to 7 pounds. This is correct size for a pom and is also sometimes reffered to as tea cup pomeranian although no such classication actually exsits.
Eyes and Ears - The Pomeranian eye color should be dark. Pomeranian eyes should be medium-sized and, most importantly, almond-shaped to give them a soft expression. Pomeranian ears should be small and pointy. The ears must be small and well-positioned (not set too low down). Most often people breed them with the ears either set too wide apart, too large, or both.
Pomeranian Colors - Poms come in a large variety of colors which make each unique:
Blue Merle, Blue Brindle, Chocolate Merle, Blue Sable
Black, Black & Tan, Blue, Blue & Tan, Chocolate, Chocolate & Tan, Cream, Cream Sable, Orange, Orange Sable, Red,
Red Sable, Beaver, Brindle, Chocolate Sable, White, Wolf Sable, Beaver Sable, Tri-Colored, Black & Brindle
Along with colors there are many different patterns as well:
Parti-Color, Mask, White Markings, Tan Markings, Brindle
Irish Marked, Tri Color Markings, Sable, Merle Markings
Here are descriptions of more uncommon / rare colors:
Lavender - This is an exotic Pomeranian...imagine a grey, lightened with a touch of purple! Truly amazing. It is
believed that lavender is a diluted blue, which is a diluted black and it is a difficult color to breed for.
Beaver - Beaver is an interesting color. It is a dilute chocolate. Some may mistake a cream Pom for a beaver;
however this is determined by the skin pigmentation. Creams always have black noses (and paws and eye rims).
Abeaver colored Pomeranian will have beaver skin pigmentation (which is a diluted chocolate, which will be light brown skin)
Chocolate - Many, but not all, chocolates will remind you of a Hershey's chocolate bar. More often than not, it is a
deep, dark, thick brunette. However, any hue as light as what may appear to be a cream is considered a chocolate
as long as skin pigmentation is dark brown (beaver has a lighter noise).
Wolf sable - Such a wonderful coat...This is a light grey undercoat with a darker shade of steel grey guard hairs with black tips. There will not be cream or an orange tint to the grey base color. With a wolf sable Pomeranian, eye rims, nose, lips and pads are black.
Blue - A blue Pomeranian is a less commonly seen, yet beautiful color. The easiest way to spot a blue is by looking
at the nose. All true blue Poms will have blue skin; this is what sets them apart from black coats; with blue, the coat may appear black but if the skin pigmentation is blue, the Pom will be a blue.
Blue is a diluted black. Sometimes the fur will look dull; with other dogs it may have a metallic tinge to it. The skin
points (nose, eye rims, paws. lips) will have a blue tint (sometimes only noticeable in bright sunlight)... Blue eyes are more common in blue Pomeranians and merles.
Parti - Colored Pomeranians
Any Pomeranian that has a second solid color is deemed to be parti-color. A parti-colored is just as valuable and
highly regarded as a solid. Parti Poms are very popular...as each dog will be unique and the patterns can be quite
remarkable.
There are 3 basic types of Parti Pomeranians: Irish Parti, Piebald Parti and Spotted Parti
Irish Parti This dog will have a white collar, chest, legs and most often blaze.
Piebald Parti This type will have 50/50 coloring .
Extreme Parti This dog will have 80% or more of white fur and will have spots of other color on its back.
Brindle - This is actually a pattern. This Pomeranian dog will have a base under coat of golden tan, deep red or
light orange and then have black fur crossing over in stripes, which can run thin or thick. With some, this brindling will only be apparent on the saddle (back).
Merle- Merling is the dilution of any color that falls into the coat. Most often you will see a light blue, grey or red
blended in, usually in patches or "dots", giving the dog an interesting speckled appearance. More on the Merle.
White - A true white will be a pure snow, there will not be any shading to the coat, otherwise this places the dog into the cream category.
The color will be solid without another hue mixed in. A secondary color will move the Pomeranian to a parti (2 colors).
Cream - With a cream Pomeranian, color can actually range quite a bit. This can be very light - one "step" darker
than a white, and it goes through shade gradients all the way to what one would consider to be brown.
How do you distinguish a dark cream from chocolate (brown)? It will show in the skin pigmentation of the Pom. A deep cream Pom will have black pigmentation, and a chocolate will have brown points (eye rims, nose, lips, paw pads).some creams are often born white.
Red, Orange, Orange Sable and Black are the more common colors and are pretty self explanatory.
Sabling is the black hairs mixed into the primary coat color
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The Basics Of Pomeranian Care
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Common Pomeranian Aliments
Number 1 Concern You NEED to be aware of is Puppy Hypoglycemia!
Low blood sugar can affect puppies much more often than adult dogs, even when your puppy is healthy, so it's important to learn about low blood sugar symptoms and what to do. The technical term is hypoglycemia, and happens most often with adult pets that suffer from diabetes. Sugar moves into the cells with the help of insulin, and too much insulin can cause hypoglycemia. Puppies almost never have diabetes, but can develop low blood sugar due to intestinal parasites that compromise digestion. Very small puppies, especially Toy breeds like the Pomeranian, are so tiny, they have very few fat stores. Fat is body fuel, and when there’s not enough, the blood sugar levels fall. Adult pets can make up this difference when their liver churns out the necessary sugar. But immature livers can’t manufacture enough necessary sugar and as a result, these tiny pups develop hypoglycemia.
What Are Low Blood Sugar Symptoms?
The signs of low blood sugar can be vague. It’s important to watch out for them. Without enough sugar, the puppy’s heartbeat rate and breathing slows down and that triggers a cascade effect of other symptoms. Be alert for any one or combination of the following signs.
The puppy acts weak.
The puppy becomes sleepy.
The puppy seems disoriented.
He develops a wobbly “drunk” gait.
His eyes look ‘glassy’ and unfocussed.
The puppy starts to twitch, shake or tremble/shiver.
His head tilts to one side.
He develops seizures.
The puppy falls unconscious and can’t be wakened.
Without prompt help and first aid, your puppy could die. But fortunately, when you recognize the signs early in the process, low blood sugar is easy to treat and reverse at home. In almost all cases, the puppy will respond very quickly to treatment, within five or ten minutes. However, it treatment doesn’t reverse the symptoms within this time frame take your puppy to the veterinarian immediately as something else could have caused the signs.
Even when your baby dog responds quickly it’s a good idea to have the vet check your puppy sometime that day to be sure everything is as it should be.First Aid for HypoglycemiaWhen you catch the symptoms early and treat with first aid immediately, most puppies are fine. But without prompt help puppies can fall into a coma, and their breathing and/or heartbeat may stop. Refer to the articles on rescue breathing and puppy CPR to save your pet’s life.
For All Symptoms. When the blood sugar drops, puppies can’t regulate their body temperature. It’s important to keep him warm until the glucose level rises enough to burn for energy. Wrap your puppy in a blanket, and snuggle him with a hot water bottle or heating pad. This can also slow down the effects of shock.
For Sleepy/Woozy Behavior. Getting sugar into the puppy will counteract all these symptoms. Often, you’ll notice the wooziness when it’s been a while since the puppy’s last meal. So as soon as you notice puppy woozy behavior, offer him something to eat. Make it something smelly and yummy that you know he’ll eagerly snarf up, like a tablespoon or two of canned food.
For Drunk/Shivery Behavior. A highly concentrated sugar source like Karo syrup, pancake syrup or honey can work even more quickly. Just be sure your puppy is still able to swallow before giving him about a teaspoonful of the sugar source. If he’s very groggy, offer a bit of water first and if he won’t lap it up, give some with a syringe. Check to be sure he swallows, and then offer the syrup. He should be able to lap it up from the spoon.
For Seizures/Unconscious. . Once the seizure has finished, or when the puppy has fallen unconscious, you can still administer a sugar source. He doesn’t need to swallow. It will be absorbed directly through the mucus membranes in the puppy’s mouth and transferred into the bloodstream. Honey works best for this. Rub the honey on the inside of his lips and gums, and watch for recovery in five to 15 minutes. You can drive your puppy to the vet clinic during this period.
Preventing Low Blood Sugar
When your puppy has suffered from a bout of hypoglycemia, you’ll know to be alert for the signs of low blood sugar in the future. You can also take steps to prevent the problem, especially if your puppy is a high-risk pet. Add two tablespoons Karo syrup to your puppy’s water for all day sipping. Be sure to dump out and add fresh each day or the sugar water could grow bacteria. Schedule several meals every day. Toy breed adults and any young puppy have trouble eating enough food at one setting. So a small meal several times a day helps keep the blood sugar levels normal. Provide dry food out all the time, in a puzzle toy ball, for intermittent snacking. You can measure this amount, too, and regulate how much the pup gets to help keep him slim, prevent puppy obesity, but provide health blood sugar levels. Most adult dogs won’t have problems with hypoglycemia. However, playing and running too hard without rest can cause low blood sugar even in adults that are not Toy breed dogs. It’s up to pet parents to stay watchful and make sure the puppy and maturing dog eat right and maintain healthy food habits.