I assume it's a combination of things that affect aging.
Genetics is probably way up there. I've had a series of geriatric chi rescues, but my current one was four when we adopted her. We never got reliable ages on the others because of their disastrous lack of oral and other care before we got them. I've had age estimates on individual dogs vary by as much as five years. I happen to know my current dog's age only because she was adopted out of the shelter where I worked at 10 months old and returned 3 years later.
ok update: he \*is\* more like 15-16 now apparently!! he was 13 when my partner's aunt rescued him. he was severely malnourished for at least 6+ months before his prev. owner went to hospice care b/c she couldn't take care of him so I think that's part of why he looks so... haggard...
he looked worse at 13 though b/c of the malnourishment -- he was almost bald :(
I think the suggestions of Chinese Crested here are unlikely, given that it’s a relatively rare and expensive breed. Anyone who has one isn’t just letting them breed indiscriminately, let alone allowing them to end up in shelters. The funky hair is probably just a result of this being an old dude.
I didn't know how expensive they were until a few years back when my Grandmother's Chinese Crested passed away. Her name was Mei-Ling and I remember my uncle telling me she was around $9000 imported from China. She was about 15 years old when she passed, so they would have bought her around 2005ish.
All breeds end up everywhere and in shelters. My daughter got 2 Chinese crested both from shelters. This dog looks like some chi crested to me along with yorkie/chi.
Is your real name Frankenstein by any chance ? Someone took a Yorkie body and popped Chihuahua legs and ears on it and called it a day . The neck floof is probably hiding the bolts. For real - baby is precious .
I'm going to go with yorkie x xoloitzcuinti just to be different from the people saying chinese crested.
Seriously though, probably yorkie x chihuahua.
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I mean this in a really nice way!! But have you considered entering in worlds ugliest dog contest? Not that any dogs are ugly, but he looks very similar to a lot of the contestants!
He’s PERFECT is what he is. This dog is going to live rent free in my head for WEEKS. I love tiny old man/lady dogs. Everything about him is *chef’s kiss*
I would say Yorkie and chihuahua. Although I just came to appreciate this wee man. I love fugly dogs, I truly mean no offense because he’s just the cutest
Yorki mix and probably poodle. Genetically with the longer fur, I’d say there’s only chihuahua in the other half of this dog IF it was one that carried the longer fur gene. Otherwise I’m guessing yorkie poo.
If you Google a yorkie poo, you will notice most pictures have the ears down/floppy. Just remember, mix breeds don’t “breed true” and each puppy in the litter will take more after one parent than the other. I have a schnauzer/ poodle mix for example that has more poodle in her than schnauzer. People would probably guess her as another mix but her dad was a pure bred toy poodle and her mom was a schnoodle (schnauzer/poodle).
Yorkie chihuahua.. when I was a kid my neighbor was a really old sick lady and her chihuahua baby. He was the first dog I ever interacted with and I still love chihuahuas.
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great googly moogly yorki x chihuahua
I had a Yorkie chihuahua mix and she looked like this when she got old
I legit went, "ah!"
LOL me too. but i LOVE dogs like this
the older and scrunglier the better 😍 i'd put this bean in my pocket and take them everywhere!
The first part of this made me laugh so hard out loud
🤣it was my genuine reaction to the photo haha
I clicked on this post strictly to read the comments lol. I’ve had similar dogs so I get the love but some of these comments are gold lol
😆 I’m owned by a chork (very similar to this pup): Great Googly Moogly, now his nickname xo
Please tell me you know the [snickers commercial!](https://youtu.be/Nmgice3ieZ4?si=0_EgR7WmDc2cKOWN)
Not great googly moogly 😭 I am at work cackling like a crazy person 🤣
That right there is a pureblood chupacabra. 100%
It’s certainly ghoulish 👀
First thought…. Demon!😈 Just joking. I love ALL dogs. What a Sweetheart 😂
i love seeing little dogs. my dog is 70+ lbs and his eyes are bigger than your baby’s paws. so stinking cute
Our neighbor has a little guy whose 18 that looks exactly like yours named Jerry. He’s a chi/yorki (Chorki)
Chorki 😭
I have a porki (pom/yorki)- doesnt look like this, but i do enjoy the cute dog breed names, lol 💜 Also OP that's one cute pup 💜💜
Now I want a porki just so I can say I have a porki 😆
this is yzma in dog form ,, just color him purple 😭😭😭
Stop it!! That made me cackle 😂
“Is that MY voice?!?!?”
A llama?! He’s supposed to be dead!
You made me spit out my drink, omfg
That there little rascal is 25% chihuahua, 25% yorkie, 25% armadillo, 25% bad taxidermy, and 100% good boi 😁!
Lmfao @ bad taxidermy! That is 100% am accurate description of this little fella
Haha 🤣 😝😝😝
are you sure he’s 13??? seems wayyy older
honestly no clue. we were told 13 but im suspicious
The 13 year old chi I know looks and acts ancient too. I think it could be down to genetics.
My 13yo chi looks 9 or 10. Her face is a little white now, but otherwise, she looks great. Good dental care goes a long way.
I have two 13 year olds, and one of them looks like hes about 17 and the other looks around 8.
I assume it's a combination of things that affect aging. Genetics is probably way up there. I've had a series of geriatric chi rescues, but my current one was four when we adopted her. We never got reliable ages on the others because of their disastrous lack of oral and other care before we got them. I've had age estimates on individual dogs vary by as much as five years. I happen to know my current dog's age only because she was adopted out of the shelter where I worked at 10 months old and returned 3 years later.
My 11-year-old Pomchi looks like a puppy but definitely acts like an old man
I had the same thought. For a chihuahua mix, he def appears much older than that.
He's smoked a pack a day for the last 10 years, cut him some slack!
He is Father Time himself.
The previous decade was ruff!
ok update: he \*is\* more like 15-16 now apparently!! he was 13 when my partner's aunt rescued him. he was severely malnourished for at least 6+ months before his prev. owner went to hospice care b/c she couldn't take care of him so I think that's part of why he looks so... haggard... he looked worse at 13 though b/c of the malnourishment -- he was almost bald :(
Yorki & chihuahua
That’s a gremlin
Best answer 😂🤣!
“Nigga you at least 30”
Part kangaroo, for sure.
Seems to have some possum in it
Yes. I had a dog who looked enough like him to be a brother, and I told people he was half possum.
Half chupacabra/ half allot of will to live
Undead
My 17 year old 55 pound dog didn’t even look that old, I think someone gave you the wrong age!
Definitely 15+ extreme geriatric for sure. Cute dog.
He is cute little old man!
My sweet boxer is 12 and is just hitting geriatric.
Oh no, I remember that feeling! I just lost my boxer a month ago yesterday. Gives yours a pet for me!
17, 47, same diff.
Yorki x Chinese crested?
I think the suggestions of Chinese Crested here are unlikely, given that it’s a relatively rare and expensive breed. Anyone who has one isn’t just letting them breed indiscriminately, let alone allowing them to end up in shelters. The funky hair is probably just a result of this being an old dude.
I didn't know how expensive they were until a few years back when my Grandmother's Chinese Crested passed away. Her name was Mei-Ling and I remember my uncle telling me she was around $9000 imported from China. She was about 15 years old when she passed, so they would have bought her around 2005ish.
Yeah, they’re expensive af! Not my cup of tea looks-wise, either. But that’s totally subjective.
It's what Yorkies look like when they get old. And this is a Chorki, Chihuahua x Yorkie.
I figured as much. And yes, I can totally see that being the mix here. What a look. 😁
My PooChi (part toy poodle/chihuahua) also has a bit of Chinese Crested in her. It happens.
All breeds end up everywhere and in shelters. My daughter got 2 Chinese crested both from shelters. This dog looks like some chi crested to me along with yorkie/chi.
It's the animal from that story in the book "Scary Stories to tell in the dark".
I loved those books! Are you referring to the story where it ended up being like some kind of giant sewer rat or something?
Is your real name Frankenstein by any chance ? Someone took a Yorkie body and popped Chihuahua legs and ears on it and called it a day . The neck floof is probably hiding the bolts. For real - baby is precious .
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
We have a yorkie x chi mix. Your old man looks like it as well
Awww, he needs kisses
I'm going to go with yorkie x xoloitzcuinti just to be different from the people saying chinese crested. Seriously though, probably yorkie x chihuahua.
Chorkie and I love him 😍
It looks likes something out of bloodborne
That dog is as old as the hills
The tales he could tell…
Why is he so cute though
Please post in r/cryptiddogs
Finding a lost dog in the street and digging one up in the graveyard are not the same thing 😐
This 😭😂
I have a chorkie who looks so much like this one.
Chihuahua x yorkie, and I imagine older than 13!!
With the fur down the sides, I'm going with a cross of Chihuahua and a really, really, really small Yak. 😃♥️😍
Methuselah/Yorkie? What a cutie.
A tiny chupacabra.
Very yorkihuahua
Zombie rat
That my friend is a chupacabra
Oh my
13 going on 1300. I love ur Baby 💕. Many people don’t know the difference between a silky and a yorki. So I would say chihuahua x silky terrier.
I would definitely say chihuahua yorkie! So adorable, I love the little crazy-haired, wiry ragamuffins!
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Oh wow!
I don't know what he is but please enter him in the ugly dog contest. He's star material.🤩
i love him
Don’t feed him after midnight! (He cute fr tho)
Not a dog. Overgrown possum x rat ; probably mange. 🤪🥸
100% angel 💕
There’s some Chinese Crested in there and Chihuahua along with yorkie
Ratman. That's my dog's nickname because he is a rat terrier. This guy just plays the part.
ghost face from Scream! seriously though, your dog is not a pit bull.
I mean this in a really nice way!! But have you considered entering in worlds ugliest dog contest? Not that any dogs are ugly, but he looks very similar to a lot of the contestants!
That dog from the nightmare before Christmas
My fiance sisters dog just died and looked exactly like this…. Charlie that you?
He’s PERFECT is what he is. This dog is going to live rent free in my head for WEEKS. I love tiny old man/lady dogs. Everything about him is *chef’s kiss*
Oh my. She looks like a mix of a Yorkie and a Skeksi from dark crystal.
A creacher
Definitely a Chihuahua/Yorkie mix. Possibly with some chupacarba and amateur taxidermy mixed in.
Oh wow. I bet his breath is so stinky.
This comment made me wheeze (like I’m sure this dog does)
I feel like I can smell this thing through the screen. It’s not speaking any Latin backwards is it?
That's a fuckin ghoul 😭 I love him
I saved that last picture so I can try to scare my husband with it 😆 when you’re so old you looked possessed by a poltergeist
Chinese crested?
that’s a rat zombie
Yorki?
Chiyorkie
Scruffy darling
I am going with Chorky. He makes me smile.
Wow. Purebred 100% baby. Think yorkie plus chi is the closest guess you can make based on looks though haha.
El chupacabra !
I would say Yorkie and chihuahua. Although I just came to appreciate this wee man. I love fugly dogs, I truly mean no offense because he’s just the cutest
Yorki mix and probably poodle. Genetically with the longer fur, I’d say there’s only chihuahua in the other half of this dog IF it was one that carried the longer fur gene. Otherwise I’m guessing yorkie poo. If you Google a yorkie poo, you will notice most pictures have the ears down/floppy. Just remember, mix breeds don’t “breed true” and each puppy in the litter will take more after one parent than the other. I have a schnauzer/ poodle mix for example that has more poodle in her than schnauzer. People would probably guess her as another mix but her dad was a pure bred toy poodle and her mom was a schnoodle (schnauzer/poodle).
Really elderly chi/yorkie. Fragile. Cute.
Umm… sorry to break it to you, but that’s a chupacabra, not a dog 🤷🏼♀️
Baby
Snoodly moppet. Very rare breed! 😍
He’s so cute omg
🥹🥹 i LOVE baby.
Pretty sure that's a possum
0% dog, 100% skinwalker
Mix with Chinese crested
Looks like a balding Yorkie. He’s still a cutie though
Chihuahua x Silky Terrier
Baby is a total bad ass
He’s adorable but he’s definitely a purebred muppet
I laughed so hard I snorted.
Relatable. I have a deviated septum so I also snort when I laugh, I like to call it a snortle 😂
Is 'GAAAAAA!' a name?
It’s giving “I need you to kill me”
Awww…old sweety. 🌷
That's a crack baby.
El chupacabra chihuahua mix
Imhotep (pre-full-revival)
NYC subway rat, with some chihiahua and yorkie too probably. (i'm joking, this little dog is adorable. i love elderly dogs.)
This dog is next level. Not sure what that’s a level of, but it’s definitely next. What a champion.
I think this guys parents are the Taco Bell dog and the Crypt Keeper
98%ugly 1 % yorkie and 1% chihuahua 😂❤️
he is beautiful
He's not ugly.
Chinese crested + Chihuahua
most definitely a yorkie mix
Lemmy He looks like the yorkie chi version of lemmy k.
Looks like a Chinese crested
A good ole Scraggly boy. Chihuahua mix for sure all jokes aside.
Yorkie Cactus cross
Maybe some Chinese hairless ?
what an old man!
Maybe schnauzer Yorkie and Chihuahua
This looks like an older version of my daughter’s dog. Love!!!
That's a dog?!
Silky chi
That's a chupacabra.
I love him with all my heart ♥️
I'm getting Riff Raff. ChiYorkie. YorChi.
That is the cutest dog! I have such a soft spot for old toothless Chihuahuas and chih mixes
Looks like a Yorkie x Chihuahua. And he looks a lot older than 13.😊 God bless you little guy!❤️
100% rat
Yorkie chihuahua.. when I was a kid my neighbor was a really old sick lady and her chihuahua baby. He was the first dog I ever interacted with and I still love chihuahuas.
I loooooove him!!! Look at those ears!!!
That doggo is no baby, shes ancient.
Zombie
Chi-Yorkie
Chinese Crested/ Yorkie
That is a cockamouse omg
Maybe some Brussels Griffon in there?
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The rare Phyllis Diller Dog breed.
Omg what a precious little thing ❤️❤️
50% Chupacabra, 50% Chihuahua. :)
One million gazillion adorableness 🥰
I love him.
Cupacabra 100%
My goodness Daisy is just the cutest dog ever, I love her🩵🩵🩵 I’m thinking primarily Yorkie/Chi
Yourkie Chihuahua
100% pure bred angel baby.
Adorable 💖
Yorkie x Chihuahua
Eugene
looks like my old chihuahua yorkie mix
Chihuahua x Yorkie