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By standard, their average life is 13-16 years. Covering different sides of appropriate care, this article aimed to help owners with useful tips.

Care

Provide Your Pet with appropriate care:

• Balanced diet. If you suddenly change the diet, York may react some allergies. Increased protein content leads to obesity. Remember that dogs cannot produce fatty roasts.
• It is necessary to pay special attention to the eyes of York. They need to be washed every day decoction of chamomile, using for this purpose with a cotton pad. Also, after the washing you should use special drops that must be purchased from a retailer. If there is pus in the eyes, immediately contact a veterinarian.
• It is important to carry out a course of vaccinations. A veterinarian will help to make it in better way.
• Caring for the hair. Directly on the duration of the life of grooming has no effect, but York, whose wool is properly laid, will be a significant concern. Avoid risk factors. For mini Yorkshire this is especially important – as has already been stated above, it can be easily crushed. Therefore, when buying a mini Yorkies Organize their home so that they could not harm themselves and could not get “under the distribution” of man.

Warning! Remember that health of your pet depends on the food and nutrition it has. If a young dog shows no signs of the disorder, at the age of 5-6 years, the effects of malnutrition will be shown, and the first thing that suffers in the body York – is the liver.

Diseases

Diseases reducing lifespan of York several years even considering the fact that the usual (not mini) Yorkies – extremely disease resistant breed, they can still have a number of diseases, such as disease Pertessa. This may cause lameness or breach of tooth replacement.