Your Chihuahua’s Golden Years: A Guide to Senior Care
My boy turned twelve last spring, and I watched him miss a step he has taken a thousand times. Just a small stumble off the porch, nothing dramatic. But I stood there with my coffee going cold in my hand…
The Dog Who Trained Me First My chihuahua, Fig, trained me before I trained her. She trained me to open the door when she stared at it. To hand over food when she pawed my leg. To pick her up…
The Myth That Will Not Die People love saying it. You cannot teach an old dog new tricks. They say it about dogs. They say it about themselves. They say it like it is carved into stone somewhere and the…
How to Find the Right Pet Sitter for Your Chihuahua
The First Time I Left Her I stood in the driveway for eleven minutes. Sat in the car. Got back out. Checked the lock twice. My chihuahua, Pepper, watched me through the window with those enormous eyes that say everything…
The day I picked up my chihuahua puppy Waffles from the breeder, I drove forty-five minutes on the highway with her on my lap, unsecured. I thought she would be calmer if she could feel me. She trembled the entire…
Three Chihuahua Emergencies I Lived Through and What I Did Right
I have been through three genuine emergencies with my chihuahuas over the past five years, and each one taught me something I should have already known. The first time, I froze. The second time, I reacted but made mistakes. The…
My chihuahua Olive hid a urinary infection from me for almost two weeks. Two weeks. She ate normally. She played normally. She greeted me at the door with the same manic energy she always had. The only clue was that…
The first time my chihuahua got sick, really sick, I called the emergency vet three times in one hour. I Googled symptoms until two in the morning. I slept on the floor next to her bed because I was afraid…
Why Your Chihuahua Keeps Digging and What Actually Works to Stop It
I came home to find my chihuahua Nacho standing in a crater. That is the only word for it. A crater. He had excavated a hole in the backyard that was wider than he was long and deep enough that…
I once bought my chihuahua a rope toy that was marketed for “small dogs.” She got her jaw tangled in it within the first five minutes and I spent the next ten minutes performing what I can only describe as…
March 2, 2026
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