Wherein lies the appeal of the chihuahua?

[undeterred]

I met one tonight and it just doesn't seem like a dog. My dog's head is bigger than a chihuahua.

[Catshrink]

1. Not a lot of poop? Ask Skinner

he has the adorable Romeo.

[undeterred]

2. Does Skinner fear large piles and puddles of dogshit?

After running this messageboard, you'd think that kind of shit would seem easy to clean up!

[Catshrink]

4. Hm... I don't know about Skinner's feeling on dog shit.

But you make a good point -- he should be used to it after running DU for 5+ years. It seems that I combined two thoughts in my subject line leading one to deduce that Skinner is averse to dog poop. I really have no way of knowing that. But Romeo is a very cute dog!

[Solly Mack]

3. That chihuahua is adorable

my chinchillas (cause I don't have a chihuahua or a cat)

Sabine


Stilgar

[undeterred]

10. awwwwwww

they're cute!

[Deja Q]

5. The taste?

:9

[mopinko]

20. they probably are descended from dogs

that were raised to be eaten. lots of fat, little, red, bat eared things in precolumbian depictions of markets.

[NMDemDist2]

6. they are tiny and weird looking but have hearts like a lion

they are fearless, gregarious and love their people lots

I miss my chi mix girl to this day

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. My old cat once kicked the ass of a papillon,

which is sort of like a hairy chihauhua. They may be cute, but I don't think of them as actual dogs. A dog who gets his ass thoroughly kicked by a 16-year-old cat (who was much larger) seems sort of undogly, IMO.

[NMDemDist2]

8. my 3 pound kitten kicks my 35 pound sheltie's ass daily

and will back the 85 pound Border down too

never underestimate a cat

[Gormy Cuss]

15. When I was a kid our cat was the terror of the neighborhood.

Not a single dog would stand up to her (that was back in the days when free roaming dogs were common.) The only dog she tolerated was our Shepherd mix and that was because they were raised together. The cat liked to curl up and sleep on the dog's belly and the dog didn't mind.

[NMDemDist2]

18. we had a black and white tom like that when I was growing up too

and in a couple years, all the kittens in the neighborhood looked just like him!

:rofl:

[undeterred]

9. My dog sniffed it as though he were doing a species determination

Hmmmm looks like a cat, smells like a dog

[ForrestGump]

16. Cats will usually win, anyway

When I was a kid, a couple of our cats regularly defended themselves against dogs (big dogs, but dumb dogs who seem to have no memory of being vanquished before by plucky little felines) and one, a skinny little cat, had a skirmish with a very mean bull (all the humans thereabouts were scared of it and it had a railway bogey tied around its neck in vain effort to slow it down) that was a massive thing that weighed several hundred pounds...bull ran away, bellowing, its nose bleeding and railway wheels bouncing behind it, and cat coolly continued on its way as if nothing had happened. :D

Cats are cool.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. My cat's method of dog-thumping was a bit different.

Usually when cats go after dogs they'll try to scratch the dogs' nose or eyes. But when my cat took on the Papillon, he just walked up to the itsy-bitsy dog, growled, and SAT ON HIM. Funniest thing I'd ever seen.

[Merrick]

11. The way they crunch under your boot

after an 8 hour yapping marathon in the apartment next door.

[undeterred]

12. Yeah, yapping is worse than big dog barking

although silence is preferrable to both. That's why I picked a big mellow dog- he never barks inside except to welcome me home. Never bothers anyone.

[Merrick]

14. Little dogs are insecure, hence the constant barking

my family had an alaskan malamute (similar to a husky), and I think it barked once its entire life (maybe why they're called malaMUTES, I dont know), but it could snap the neck of a doberman in half a second if it was threatening anyone of us.

dont get the little dog thing unless you live in a place like I do now where there's no room for a larger animal. Big dogs have so much more personality, and you can't wrestle with a miniature poodle like you can a 90lb wolf-dog. man, me and my dog used to have fun beating the shit out of each other. good times.

[havocmom]

13. Figured they must be good as toe floss

tiny, short bristles and always under foot.

[jobycom]

19. Love comes in all shapes and sizes

Even ugly-ass, trembling sausage wrappers with bug eyes and moth wing ears.

[Kajsa]

22. Aww, man that's a cold description!

Some are downright cute.

We need more chihuahua lovers to post here.

[Kajsa]

21. There is one who lives down the street.

He is one of most intelligent animals I've ever met.
If he's out trotting around, way to far from home,
I just tell him " Paco, you've got to go home, now."

He stops, gives me a " Oh, crap!" look, turns
around and goes home! He understands everything I say.

He really turned me around to liking chihuahuas.
I talk to him almost everyday.

My cats are a bit leery of him, though.

[leftofthedial]

23. it is the accent

and the soft brown bedroom eyes




that and the duct tape is east to remove

[Kali]

24. oh its a great state

good beef, beautiful mountains, deserts, canyons and surprisingly culturally diverse.


B-)







note to self: try spell check

[Kat45]

25. I've often wondered the same thing.

:shrug:

[_testify_]

26. Deep fried and tossed in wing sauce.