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they are small because that's how they were bred.

Also called selective breeding. Runts from litters where kept to breed with other runts to make small dogs stay small.

this article explains how mutations in a gene keep dogs small...it's really very interesting: http://www.livescience.com/7268-study-reveals-dogs-small.html

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