I am glad that you have decided to keep them all, however I hope you get them all spayed and neutered, including the parents. Like Robin said there are thousands in the shelters and just as many being euthanized every day across the states shelters. Most of the ones that you find in the shelters are mostly from people who just want to breed their pet aren't even close to looking like what the standard chi should look like and with that also comes weak genes that produce all to many health and temperament problems. We don t need to bring more unwanted and problem type chis into this world. What we do need are quality chis bred to the standard so that there aren't any more health and temperament issues.
One of the biggest problems that chis has against them is that the general public views them as being yappy ankle biting handbag dogs, and they think it is funny and cute. Then when they acquire one and find out that it wants to bite everyone in the family and others except for one person in the family whom it wants to claim as it's own, or when they can't housebreak them, especially the males, they then drop them off in the streets or kill shelters. People really have to stop breeding the chi and think about what they are doing to the breed.....they are ruining it, just like people have ruined the Pit Bull breed and so many others because they didn't breed it to better the breed. That should be the goal of anyone who wants to breed any dog.....to better the breed back to it's standard and thus wipe out all of the generic issues, and not want to make more pet quality dogs that just get euthanized because there are too many of them. Peggy & The Girls -------Original Message------- From: chargeit2him Date: 5/22/2013 6:39:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Chihuahuas] Re: Just a quick question on pups Thanks for your reply."CC" is a luv bug. Each one has their own personality. Dakota" is the one in firsts...First to go up the steps, first to jump on the furniture. "Trouble" lived up to his name. He decided he wanted to go swimming. Swam right to me at the side of the pool (while my daughter was jumping in to get him ) And "Precious" is the dainty one. I plan on keeping all of them . Sandy --- In [email protected], GinbarMinPins <GinbarMinPins@...> wrote: > > If you breed 2 dogs of unknown pedigrees you can get anything. There is no way to know if a dashchund was a grandparent. Dogs can appear to be purebred and not be. A litter of pups whose dam is a lab and sire was a german shepherd is not half lab half shepherd. Some are 90% shepherd and 10% lab, some are 80% lab and 20% shepherd and so on. So just because 2 dogs look purebred doesn't mean they are. Many shelters in Fl have 8-10 dogs who look Chihuahua to more or less of a degree but since Backyard breeders and Puppymills breed anything to make pups many are less then purebred or poorly bred. And most die because there are no one wanting to adopt them and rescues are full. Monty is a great pet, typical brown deerhead who should be 5lbs when he gains his last half pound, housebroken, very outgoing, great with all dogs, not a barker and learning very quickly at class but he would have been dead in another day or two. No one wanted to adopt him or the other 6 Chis at the shelter and no rescue had room for any of the Chis. And his owners didn't want him obviously. > > > > Robin, the Dobe Axel CGC, TT, the German Pin Ranger CGC, TT, the Chihuahuas Alice CGC and Monte, the MinPins HoneyB, Brutus, and IMPS foster Jordan   >                                         www.minpinrescue.org >                       > > -------- Original message -------- > Subject: [Chihuahuas] Just a quick question on pups > From: chargeit2him <chargeit2him@...> > To: [email protected] > CC: > > How unusual is it that in a litter of chi's one pup has shorter legs than the others ? Nothing is wrong with her she just looks more like a 'hot dog" with her short legs. we love her no matter what . I was just wondering. > > Sandy >
