| Health Care Facts for Your Chihuahua |
| Facts about Chihuahuas If you learn one fact about Chihuahuas, let it be this: YOU can NOT own a Chihuahua. However, IT can OWN you! This is not said because it is something cute to say. It is a fact! And it is one fact about Chihuahuas that you will come to love and cherish about this smallest breed of dogs in the world. They are fiercely loyal and protective of the person THEY choose to adopt as human care giver. This little package of tough love should weigh no more than 6 pounds, but one fact about Chihuahuas that we can all embrace is that they can gain weight just like a human. If you want to keep your Chi healthy, you will want to feed them a couple tiny meals a day and restrict the table scraps to truly special occasions. "Special occasions" does not mean once a day; it means maybe once a month! A convenient fact about Chihuahuas is their contentment with apartments and homebound living. They can get plenty of activity right in their own home. That characteristic makes them perfect for the elderly and health-challenged individuals. They also make super watch dogs, but since their size is diminutive, although they'd think nothing of challenging an intruder, they'd likely lose! Another fact about Chihuahuas is that they can get hypoglycemic. A Chihuahua would have a tendency to exhaust its blood sugar supply if run in large back yards or in forest settings. So be sure you watch your fur friend and get to know the signs of its "running out of steam". Do not let your desire for a cute pup sway you when it comes to pet shop Chihuahuas. A purebred Chihuahua will never be sold in a pet shop. That is about as true a fact about Chihuahuas as you can get! You get a purebred Chi from a breeder and it will cost you many hundreds of dollars. Be prepared to get very familiar with your Chi breeder. They will stand you in good stead all along the way of your chi's life, which is usually 13-15 years. Good breeders care--forever--about the progeny of all their pairings! There is another problem characteristic of the breed: fragile legs. A fact about Chihuahuas is that they must not be dropped or be allowed to jump down from your arms or any high place. Their legs are so fragile that they can severely strain the ligaments around the kneecap and fracture the bones in the lower leg. Operations for dogs are just as expensive as those for humans! Save yourself the pain in the wallet and the pain in the legs of your pet. cutepuppydog.com |