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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Smaller dogs tend to live a lot longer than big dogs. It's not rare to see a 10-20lb dog live for 15-20 years. Illnesses are kind of too broad to make sense here. Besides genetic defeats, there's a bunch of illnesses that plague different breeds of dogs and different sizes.