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| Hi, Welcome to our pages of this website. My husband and I breed chihuahuas. I fell in love with the little dogs when my daughter decided to adopt this abused little dog Tiger.. I was never thrilled with the little dogs as I had never given them a chance before. But now I cant imagine my life without a chihuahua. I decided to breed chihuahuas and attempt to breed a dog with a better personalty and still stay as close to the standard as possible. This is not my first experience with dog breeding as I bred collies back in Ohio. I have learned that breeding small dogs is a whole new experience and I am always learning new things. I try to read all I can on the internet and books. I also go to lectures when ever possible on dog breeding. Just when I think I know so much, something new will come up. Still I have had a pretty good success in my efforts to breed sound intelegent friendly companion dogs as chihuahuas are suppose to be. Although I do try to keep my chihuahuas in the standard size I do not try to breed them to small by using close line breeding methods or worce outright inbreeding. My puppies are usually around 3 to 6 pounds. Occasionally I get a very small puppy. This will happen when you try to keep them small even if you do not inbreed to make them this way. When I get one I try to find the best possible home for them with people who already know how to protect these small puppies or are willing to learn. You will never see me raise the price on one of these puppies as I believe that by doing so, I am encouraging people to use poor breeding methods to get these small dogs. Thus the future of chihuahuas will suffer. What a shame it will be to lose this breed due to greed. I hope you enjoy your visit to our pages and will come to visit us often. |
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| An obsevance about the chihuahua head. I don't want to encourage breeding the dear head type of chihuahua. I do have a few I breed because of some other redeeming qualities they have like color or temperament. I always breed to an apple head type to stick to the standard as close as possible. But of all the dogs I have, it is the dear head chihuahuas I have in my home who show superior intelligence and temperament. I don't want to be misunderstood. I still believe all chihuahuas to be a highly intelligent breed. But my dear head chihuahuas are calmer, seem to use reasoning ability and are more comical. I guess I am pretty unconventional in the way I chose to breed my dogs. After years of being in the dog world and seeing what is done in both the show dog and the rest of the breeder community, I have my way of doing things. Ive always loved the more intelligent, inquisitive dogs. My main goal is to breed more intelligence and better temperament in my puppies so this quality is what I look at first when I chose my breeders. Health is always the most important. Of course if you don't keep with standard you really don't have anything. It is my goal to combine the temperament, personality, and exceptional intelligence I have seen in my dear head chihuahuas with the apple head looks of my males. I know this can be done as I have seen standard looking chihuahuas show this intelligence also. I have just seen this more in the dear heads in my home. I think both looks are beautiful. But if we stray to far away from standard, we will lose the looks of the breed. Then what would be the point. I do hate to see the trend to breed a shorter nose on the chihuahua. This causes breathing problems in this breed. I don't think it makes them look better. If you have ever seen a small dog with a serious case of reverse sneezing going on, you would see what I mean. My heart aches for my little dogs when this goes on for 2 minuets or more. I would like to see this stopped and a more normal looking muzzle in this breed. We have enough pekingese and bulldogs. The short muzzle is part of the standard but why must it become pugged looking. The bulldog was bred that way for a purpose. He was originally bred to hold down the bulls and this type of muzzle made it easier for him to breath while doing his job. But I don't think we will see to many chihuahuas wrestling a bull to the ground. I personally am going to leave the nose alone and leave it healthy. The original chihuahuas, back when the standard started, had round dome shaped heads with a short muzzle. Not pugged muzzle! There were no terms like apple head or dear head back then. These terms were added by breeders. What is it in human nature that makes us go to the very edge in the things we create. I think my little Mini Paw has a perfect head. She is intelligent as all chihuahuas are and is surprisingly good natured. Ive never seen her reverse sneeze yet. I am so lucky to have found her. Still she lacks that comical happy go lucky personality I've seen in my dear heads like Tater Tot and Pinky or the not as rounded shaped head dogs like Sandy (she is considered to standard but not as apple head). So although not conventional there is still a method to my breeding stratedgy as I would like to see a happier, healthier chihuahua left by me when I retire. |
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