Sentences with phrase «runt of the litter»

Most imperial shih tzus are runts of the litter who fail to reach the standard shih tzu size.
At school, he does his best to hold his own with his other «loser» friends — Abby «The Ugly Duckling» Mallard (Joan Cusack), a pig named Runt of the Litter (Steve Zahn), and «Fish Out of Water» (Dan Molina) who travels around with a water - filled diver's helmet over his head.
The iPad mini can only be described as the perpetual Runt of the litter... Originally spurned, then introduced (in haste) in 2012, it was a mini version of the older 2011 iPad 2 with a 1024x768 resolution display and a reduced 62 percent Color Gamut, when the full size iPads already had a 2048x1536 Retina display with a 100 percent Color Gamut.
Fake Teacups are usually runts of a litter and that the breeder lied about the puppy's exact age.
He had been the bottle fed runt of the litter but was still a spunky 10 year old cat.
The term runt of the litter refers to the smallest (or sometimes weakest) puppy born in a litter.
Behind the creation of a teacup, there is often a breeder who is purposely raising runts of the litter.
I specifically asked for a male runt of the litter and at eight weeks of age I brought home a male runt and the smallest female of a 12 pup litter.
I had hoped Runt of the Litter [$ 3.99] would put a new spin on the theme, with its central conceit being that you need to raise and train a war gryphon.
This is a deceitful ploy to charge customers more money for runts of a litter.
Although we may be somewhat spoiled and able to get away with more than our older brothers and sisters, we certainly are not the «runt of the litter
(From a return perspective, Pfizer (PFE — Free Pfizer Stock Report) was the runt of the litter, as its shares inched ahead less than 1 % in price.)
And just as many female animals will let the runt of the litter die by refusing it nourishment, so also many human societies have survived for hundreds of years by exposing their unwanted and deformed babies.
David just went back to taking care of some sheep, being the runt of the litter in his family.
On the other hand, Scooba was invariably the runt of the litter.
With 30,000 members, HTC weighs in as the runt of the litter, but under Ward it punches above its weight.
Van der Waals forces are notoriously puny, but the helium - helium bond is the runt of the litter.
Its distance of 4,349,598 miles (7 million kilometers) from its star may seem tiny, at just one - fifth the distance between Mercury and the Sun, but Proxima Centauri is the runt of the litter in the Alpha Centauri system.
He was just over a pound, the runt of the litter, and could easily snuggle into the palm of my hand.
Among talking - dog movies, Marmaduke is the runt of the litter.
Obviously displeased that his wife has chosen «the runt of the litter» and resenting the lad's intrusion into their private relationship, the quiet man deliberately keeps his distance from Thomas.
On a farm at the foot of Claw Mountain, Arlo and his brother Buck (Marcus Scribner) and his sister Libby (Maleah Padilla) are born from the same clutch of eggs, with Arlo being from the unusually big egg, but ending up being not only the runt of this litter, but most fearful.
Arlo, however, emerges from the nest as the runt of the litter, instantly picked on by his aggressive brother.
The runt of the litter in a month of excellent Australian posters.
Why is The Darjeeling Limited the runt of the litter?
He's the runt of the litter who is clumsy and scared of everything.
The runt of the litter, Arlo wants nothing more than to «make his mark» in the world and to make his Poppa proud.
It builds slowly but assuredly and spends quite a bit of time on character development; LaBeouf impresses with his, runt of the litter, leading role but the standout's among the cast are a brooding Hardy and an extremely corrupt and unsavoury Pearce.
Semiotically inclined Disneyologists may have a field day with this («The Post-Jurassic Self and the Search for Signature»), but for most of us, this payoff will feel unmomentous, and a little unpleasant — as if it's only by achieving a major feat that the runt of the litter can earn the right to belong to the family, or the outsider to society.
He was the runt of the litter who was constantly teased by his much larger brother named Scowler.
It will never be confused for the likes of a BMW 335i convertible, but when stacked against its Audi A5 cabriolet and Mercedes - Benz E350 cabriolet, it no longer seems like the runt of the litter in terms of performance.
That's One Small SUV Even in its undersized field, the Encore is the runt of the litter, with an overall length less than 169 inches.
Straddling classes as it does, either Caddy's carved out a unique niche for its flagship or it is making excuses for being the runt of the litter.
They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur's life when he was born the runt of his litter.
She was the runt of her litter and was born with several genetic mutations, causing her to face difficulty in being adopted.
Karen Pilcher, the shelter's rescue coordinator and Tumbles» rescue mother said that he was the runt of the litter and was having trouble competing for his mother's milk.
The pigs are allowed to roam freely and Roland suspected that little Paulinchen was abandoned because she was the runt of the litter.
Some who sell these «Teacups» uses the runt of the litter while some use questionable breeding methods that result in a very unhealthy puppy plagued by various illnesses.
I took the runt of the litter who became a skinny 85 lbs and 29 ″.
Some breeders of these «designer dogs» will sell a runt of a litter as a «teacup» at an exaggerated price.
A «teacup» dachshund that is the runt of a litter may have more health issues than its bigger littermates.
We believe they are small because of genetics and not because they are runts of the litter or have any genetic defects.
Dogs named Grace are seldom rambunctious and are more often than not the runt of the litter that has had to overcome a number of obstacles in her life.
I know Chica was the runt of the litter, but why is her skin so bad?»
If you're an old softie, you'll probably want to take the runt of the litter home, complete with all his frailties.
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