Your Chihuahua’s Golden Years: A Guide to Senior Care

When the Zoomies Slow Down My chihuahua, Pico, used to launch himself off the couch like a rocket. Full speed, no hesitation, ears back, tiny legs spinning before he even hit the ground. He did this multiple times a day…

8 Training Tips That Actually Work for Chihuahuas

Chihuahua Training Tips: 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…

Can You Really Train an Older Chihuahua?

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

Chihuahua Pet Sitter: 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…

How I Got My Safely and What Could Have Gone

If you want to know about chihuahua puppy home, you are in the right place. 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.…

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…

How to Tell If Your Chihuahua Is Sick

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…

How to Care for a Sick Chihuahua at Home

The first time Taco got really sick, I did everything wrong. He had a stomach bug – vomiting, diarrhea, the whole miserable package. I panicked. I tried to force water into him with a syringe because I read somewhere that…

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…

How to Choose Safe Toys for Your Chihuahua

The truth is, iI almost killed my chihuahua with a squeaky toy. That sounds dramatic. It is not. Coco was chewing on a plush squeaky hedgehog – the kind every pet store sells, the kind that looks harmless – when…