August 21, 2002
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Why do people like chihuahuas? Or any other toy dog, for that matter? I have never known a tiny dog that wasn't constantly hyper and suffering from a severe Napoleon complex.

Oh, wait.
posted by swift (8 comments total)

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Uh, um. I fail to make connection? Help Geoff.
posted by geoff. at 6:01 PM on August 21, 2002


Because they're cute (self-link). And they can fit in your bag while you go into a shop, and they can run around in the house without breaking stuff. (Also, small dog: small poop.) And Dos Pesos, who is here playing in the office as I speak, is perfectly quiet (no barking or whining).
posted by sylloge at 6:10 PM on August 21, 2002


(Also, what does the last link have to do with the first ones?)
posted by sylloge at 6:12 PM on August 21, 2002


No, I'm confused too. I'm all for toy dogs, but that last link has me baffled.
posted by paradigm at 6:13 PM on August 21, 2002


I think you gotta love em because they're just so darn puntable, i mean you see the cute little guy shaking as it attempts to climb a stair which is it's own hieght and you just want to pick it up and score the extra point.

And as for the last link....man your weird.
posted by NGnerd at 6:18 PM on August 21, 2002


because they're cute (self link) and it's been my experience that people who continue the stereotype have never spent any time with a chihuahua.
posted by heather at 6:18 PM on August 21, 2002


"One of these things is not like the others..."

But I gotta admit, that guy in the last link has a great scam going. If he lives until he's 90, he will have really made out on the deal. I gotta remember to use that myself when I'm over 70.
posted by msacheson at 6:18 PM on August 21, 2002


I don't know... most toy dogs are 'big dogs in small packages'. They can jump up/down things almost ten times their height, fearless (I've had to pull mine off of a mastif's neck before), and cute as &$%#.
As for the barking, it's all in how you raise it. The problem is that small dogs when they're puppies, have incredibly cute barks, so people usually giggle or clap or whatever when they do (positive reinforcement). It's all in the upbringing.. if you treat it like a weeny little small dog, it will act like one. I treat mine like they're regular big dogs, and that's what I get back. (yorkshire terrier, and toy poodle)
posted by imaswinger at 6:28 PM on August 21, 2002


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