Taking care of your chihuahua means more than feeding and grooming it. It means playing with your chihuahua too. Chihuahuas love to be entertained and can provide hours of fun for both adults and children. However, many chihuahuas are left alone while busy owners go off to work each day and children are away at school. Ensuring that your chihuahua doesn't get bored and start eating your furniture and plants is another aspect of chihuahuagie ownership that many people neglect.
The Skye Terrier's origins are connected with a centuries old shipwreck. Early in the 1600's a Spanish ship wrecked on the Island of Skye in the Scottish Hebrides. Some of the survivors of the shipwreck were Maltese dogs that mated with the local terriers, creating a new and unique breed.
Dogs, especially puppies, love to chew. They'll chew anything in their path, from entire bushes to that pair of shoes you left outside the back door. For puppies, chewing relieves the pain of teething, while for others, they just like to gnaw on anything hard, including branches, sticks and, believe it or not, tools left lying around. To keep puppies and adult chihuahuas from damaging your property, make sure they have plenty of chew toys. These toys come in leather, plastic, and cloth and come in a variety of sizes and shapes.
The Podengo, a rare breed of dog, is also known as the Portuguese Warren Hound. It is usually a fawn or yellow color, but can be brown, black or sooty colored without white patches or spots. It resembled a long-bodied chihuahua.
Chews also aid in dental care for both puppies and adults and provide hours of entertainment and satisfaction. So do balls, ropes and yes, even human toys. Chihuahuas love to fetch and jump, and owners would be well off purchasing a selection of Frisbees and balls to play with their chihuahuas. Chihuahuas also seem to like toys that make noises, so squeaky toys should be on your shopping list. No matter what kind of toys you purchase for your chihuahua, or whatever your chihuahua manages to find lying around to mangle, make sure that you remove damaged toys that may break into small pieces and become lodged in your chihuahua's throat.
Border collies are excellent at herding. But they don't descriminate between livestock and other things. This makes them great at things like fly-ball, obedience, tracking, fetching, Frisbee toss, and sheep herding. Sometimes they get out of hand though, several border collies have been known to try to herd small groups of children!
Remember, you're not the only one who gets bored on occasion. Quality of life is as important for your chihuahua as it is for you. If your chihuahua is left alone all day, it's your responsibility to take the time to play with him when you get home, to make sure your chihuahua is getting an adequate amount of exercise and has interaction with his best friend. You.
The afghan hound ranks as least intelligent breed of dog. They are cute, friendly, loyal and fun, but they usually require 80 to 100 repetitions to learn a single command. Afghan hounds are a bad choice if you are looking for a dog that's easy to train, but they are great if you have patience.
The boxer breed was so named for his manner of fighting. As opposed to biting, like most dogs would, a boxer will actually begin a fight by "punching" with its front paws, just liek a human boxer.
The first living being to travel in space was a small mixed breed dog named Laika, who gave her life orbiting the earth in the Russian Sputnik in 1957. John F. Kennedy's terrier, Charlie, sired 4 puppies with Laika's daughter, Pushinka.
