slightly ot- who has the brindle chihuahua? - Page 1

i have seen the pic of the brindle chi twice - once with a gsd and once in a rin tin tin pose recently. for the life of me i cant find the threads. my husband is actually considering letting me have one for angus! and i want to jump while the jumping is good!! i have never seen a brindle chi before and would like to know where it was bred and how to introduce a teeeeny puppy to 2 large dogs. i'm still not entirely sure about it; i'm afraid i'll step on a teeeeny dog, but i'd like some info. anybody out there who has gsds and teeeeny dogs, it would be greatly appreciated if you'd post your suggestions and stories.

i'd love another gsd, but husband will not budge on that - he even asked how much a chi would eat (raw diet!).

that would be me - and my brindle chihuahua Tigger Too.  I have another chi-mix who is somewhat larger - Tigger is only 3.5 lbs.  In fact her breeder repeated the litter - puppies born two weeks ago!  All of them are brindles.  They are purebred but not registered.  Both parents have super nice temperaments for little dogs, Tigger is full of spirit and very social - of course I socialized her like a GSD!  Here are a couple more pictures of her, with her best friend, my Eagle v Eichenluft Schh3 (25X), FH2,KKl-1.  He really enjoys her. I am extremely careful of Tigger around any other dogs I am not sure about - she is so small it would only take one nip to seriously injure or kill her.  So, very very careful - but I really enjoy my chis!  They are great little dogs if they are raised like dogs!  You can always contact me privately eichenluft@aol.com

that's it!! haha - what a fabulous little beastie! i've met a couple of chis who were really neat and they were raised like DOGS not fashion accessories! i would love another dog and honestly, angus has a THING for teeeny dogs. he really loves them. claire loves puppies and is good with other dogs too. i will quite probably get in touch with you;hubby and i have to make sure we really want to do this (to be fair to all dogs involved - i don't work, so i get to be home with the dogs). thank you for posting the pics - they are a treat! great gsd and his puppy!

Our 14 year old Chihuahua X rules the roost here... and gives the big guys hell if they stay outside when she wasn't informed about it first hand.  She also feels it's her responsibility to wash all their eyes for some reason. Even my rather Alpha Aussie used to put up with being chewed out royally for some reason.  This is Cocoa on her favorite bed... Jonah, the 11 year old yellow lab!

How is it housebreaking these little guys?

fun pics and tough little dogs. and that was a good question hilehaus! how is the housebreaking?

i imagine house training could be alot easier with work starting from the puppy stage. my chihuahua was adopted at a year old and we have never been able to break his habbits. my GSD was house trained in a week.... its been almost nine years with my chihuahua and he is still working on it.

Molly..  great shots of Eagle and the little one!

Jody

Isn't it great when big and little dogs get along so well?

housebreaking is difficult.  Tigger screams (sounds like a smoke detector - really ear-piercing) when she needs to go out, when she's in her crate.  When she needs to go, she needs to GO.  No lag-time.  If she's loose in the house, you really have to watch them all the time - they need to "go" quite often (will only hold it when crated) and will go - they may show signs (go to the door, cry, act restless) but the signs are small and very brief.  Plus, they really do not handle the cold well.  I've been litter-training Tigger - have litter-boxes for the cats and if I stick her in one, she goes there.  She hasn't made the connection to go in the litterbox herself, yet.  She is good about going outside, just let her out with the GSD and she follows him out to the grass - if she were out alone (in the cold) she would just shiver by the door and bark to come back in :)

Probably the best way to "housebreak" a tiny dog is to crate-train it - leave it in the small crate whenever not supervised - and when supervised and not 100% watched, have a puppy pen or something with a bed and puppy pee-pads, or litter box inside - the chi will be pee-pad trained or litter box trained.  Still not 100% reliable loose in the house, though.  Bladder just too small.  The good news is - they pee about 1 teaspoons' worth, and poo looks like a ferret-poo.  Very easy to clean up accidents, if you can find them :)

she helps me drive too

molly