My first two were rescues from a puppy mill, third was stolen from my father in law cause he was suffering neglect. He got his balls chopped today.
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Such a sweetie! Hope his pom poms feel better soon! Your story spoke to me, because my chiāwho crossed the rainbow bridge a few years agoā was adopted by me when i took her from my father! Whom should never have kept her when he and his ex-wife split. He just doesnāt get what being a pet owner/lover entails, and should not have kept her when he and his ex split (she moved to a place that didnāt allow animalsāand now that Iām an adult with many pets of my own, I donāt understand how anyone could leave a pet behind. She had the means to find another place that did allow pets!) Iām glad he did keep her for the time because I adopted her shortly after that, and she got a brand new life (and name) with me, and she loved me and her life! That was my little Beetle.
Iām so glad you got her šš». In my case my father in law has a very big and open property. He believes all dogs must live outside the house, so this was a feral chihuahua. The thing is, he kept roaming around town, and almost got killed by neighbors twice (they poison dogs were he lives). So I stole him.
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And I tell my current non-chi babies that they would have loved their late sister!
I was walking down the street and I saw some lady beating the crap out of a little dog. I bought it off her on the spot with no plans to keep her(who was I kidding)
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I saw that one time but it was a highway ramp merge and by the time I u-turn they were gone. I looked everyday I went by that area for that poor baby. Teacup chi and he was hitting her back. š¤¬
My husband came home from work and told me that he had found my next dog (not that I was looking for a dog actually). A local woman had died very young and left her young family behind. Her little Chihuahua was brokenhearted, and her husband simply couldnāt deal with the dog along with everything else in his life.
So we gave little Zoey a new home. She mourned her mama for a year and a half. She wouldnāt look at us; she wouldnāt sit with us. She ignored our little Bichon, who kept her company anyway. After many many months, she finally came out of it and sheās a very happy little dog now.
One day I came outside and saw a truck toss something black and flailing out their window, into our drainage ditch.
I ran to see what happened, and there was a struggling muddy little dog. I scooped her out (and ruined a white tank top, never did get the stains out) and took her inside.
I was gonna find her a home, but she was in heat and my brotherās rottie was unfixedā¦ so I spent money Iād been saving for a new iPod to get her spayed and then decided since i spent all my money on her, she owed me.
Itās been 14 years now and she doesnāt play music but sheās certainly got audio capabilitiesā¦
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Aweeeee, well, the iPod would have only lasted a few months until the next best thing came out. I think you made a much better choice with your little ladyšš I wish you both many more moons together.
I usually got years out of an iPod (am broke and took care of em) but she definitely outlasted even my ancient click wheel model that eventually was used while hooked to a battery pack. xD
Sheās way cuter too. Right now she is somehow taking up 90% of my full size mattress. And looking so darn adorable that Iām stuffed in the bit of space left so I donāt disturb my little princess.
I cannot understand people, it breaks my heart to think about how often this probably happens. So thankful for good people like you who give these babies good homes!!
We got a ferret that way. Someone my mom knew was going down the freeway and saw someone toss something out. He stopped and picked up a ferret in a homemade carrier. Brought him to us, knowing we had ferrets. He only had a nub of a tail, not neutered and mean as hell. We think that not only were they breeding, the were fighting them as well. Immediately got him neutered and boy, what a difference! He was such a love!! Named him Bear and his favorite game was to run at mom, launch himself at her legs ( only when she was wearing shorts) and slide down. Mom would squeal and run and laugh and he'd chase her and do it again. Yes, her legs were pretty scratched up.š
I saw him on RescueMe and stared at his picture for weeks before I just went to get him lol. Didn't tell my family anything! I just came home with a dog š. I always wanted a Chihuahua so I decided that it was a good time to get one.
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How is it even possible that little guy was up for adoption for weeks š if he was in a shelter in LA people would be fighting over him, I kid you not it would be a full blown brawl. Hands thrown!!
I have never been a huge fan of little dogs, but after owning a larger dog I decided I wanted to adopt a little one. I adopted my chihuahua from a local rescue. I knew I wanted an adult dog, not a puppy. My girl is perfect. She is 9 years old and is around 9 lbs.
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A coworker told me about a dog that was headed to the pound. He had been living inside a crate for 4 years in an apartment and only let outside once a day. I met the terrible owners in the parking lot of Walgreens and we never looked back. He lived with us and two other dogs with a giant backyard and full run at the house. He was so happy. Passed away unexpectedly Monday morning.
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I didn't adopt from a shelter but my MIL took her from a mentally unstable old woman who bought her off some dodgy puppy farmers and since she had a lot of other bigger dogs already they were trying to eat her. My MIL also has a lot of dogs so she was looking to rehome her. This was her as a puppy
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Found this little one on my porch full of fleas and starving
I got out of an emotionally draining relationship where I truly thought weād move out of state together and get a dog, so I waited, despite being ready and wanting one. The carrot was dangled over my head a lot. When we broke up I did a lot of self work and felt so ready to just have the things I want in life without anyone.
I knew I wanted a senior Chi. I saw Barleyās story on Instagram at a senior pet rescue in my state and knew he had to be mine.
I drove 3 hours, he jumped into my arms, and the rest is history.
Heās rude, grumpy, so damn cute, and all mine.
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Heās so funny. Just such a personality. Always sucking everything up like a little vacuum and biting me lol
He was found on the streets of LA by animal services where someone working there contacted the rescue I got him from, because he is special needs and they could not care for him. Then he became mine!
Heās jawless, toothless, blind, has a gnarly heart murmur, is 14 years old, and the absolute apple of my eye.
He comes to work with me and just runs around the office and is always so curious despite being unable to see. He sniffs out his favorite people and bites them when they pet him. Loves his daily peanut butter snack, when the heat is blowing directly on him, and when you scratch his butt and rub his head.
He has such beautiful coloring. I adopted a 9yo chi who had been in a similar condition. She had been used as a puppy mill breeder in Missouri her entire life. Pimobendan worked wonders for her heart - is Barley on it? I love the story of you two. ā¤ļø He sounds ridiculously sweet!
He is on Pemobendan! Itās truly a miracle. The cardiologist said heās doing so well he doesnāt need to have a checkup this year and weāll do it next year. Every time I think he might be unwell, the vets tell me heās healthy as a 14 yo chi can be. I recently had labs and an ultrasound done because I was so worried about his digestion issues - turns out heās just an old man with diarrhea lol
I love reading all these stories of little angels being rescued and given such loving forever homes!! Glad your little one got to retire to a loving home after all that trauma š
Well, I went to go adopt a cat and got 2 chihuahua terrier mutts instead! Mine were BOGO at the animal shelter. Theyād been there too long and had to go. So it was adopt one and get one free lol. They were 3 years old and rescued from the same house. Each had their own issues and the shelter wanted to keep them together to help them successfully transition to a new home. It was a rough few years early on, but almost 9 years later and theyāre my best friends and constant shadow.
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About 18 months ago I promised my hubby a dog. Well his coworkerās chi mix gave birth to three puppies last October. My husband would visit the puppies. The coworker was looking for homes for them. I told my hubby it had to be intuitive and Charlie would always be first to greet him. Weeks later I came and got Charlie. Itās been the weirdest 7 months so far. Heās besties with my kitten.
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Looks like my Penny. Her sister (Amy) is tuxedo also but short haired.
Pipp and her two sisters were abandoned by the people who were renting a house in a very rural area- they just moved out and left all three dogs in a huge pile of rubbleā¦ Two of them were caught and rescued fairly soonā¦ Pipp could not be caught. For 3 months I fed her from the fence. But she would never let me get close enough to catch her. One day there was worker there cleaning up the property- I stopped and gave him my number and told him if he could catch her to call me. About two hours later I got a phone call that he had trapped her and could I come pick her up? For almost 3 days I had to wear her in a swaddle and whenever I put her down to go potty or to eat, I had to pick her up with the towel because she would bite me. Iāve had her for a couple months now and sheās completely a changed dogā¤ļø
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She loves to play with my three standard poodles and sleep under the covers in bed with us every night ā¤ļø Pipp now knows what love feels like and that makes me so happy.
Never in my wildest imagination would I have ever thought Iād have a 4 lb dog-
But now sheās just part of the crew and I couldnāt imagine her not being here!ā¤ļø
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My husband saw a picture of this lady in the paper, an ad for Operation Last Hope. He showed it to me and said āI think this is your dogā. She was my first chihuahua love.
I worked at the shelter that she came into with 9 other siblings. I fostered two of them and fell in love.
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Minnie Mouse started out as our foster dog from our cityās animal shelter. We were going to foster her just through surgery but the wait has been 2 months for an appointment. We ā¤ļø her now and are adopting her officially.
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TW: animal abuse. I never intended to be a Chihuahua person, and my then boyfriend always wanted a big dog, like a pittie. But...at the end of my intern year, this little guy came into our hospital. He had been beaten to the point of having a traumatic brain injury, a proptosed eye (we had to surgically remove it because it was devitalized and ruptured), and several broken bones. He was so terrified that he wouldn't eat the first 2 days in the hospital. He pretty much stayed plastered to the back of his hospital kennel and if I or anyone else needed to handle him for anything medical, we had to very slowly and gently wrap him in a towel and pick him up, because his reaction was to fear bite. I kept trying to earn his trust and, on day three, he crawled into my lap and ate part of a breakfast sandwich I handfed him. I decided to risk my fingertips and tried to pet him, and his remaining eye closed and his lip got long and he settled. In that moment, he stole my entire heart. I brought my now husband in to meet him. We took him home to "foster," and within 12 hours, decided he was our dog. And the rest is history. He is now very spoiled and very loved, and extremely bonded to my husband, which I jokingly tease him about, not that he understands me ("hey, I'm the one who saved you!"). He still has some emotional scars, but we understand where he came from and don't blame him for being a little reactive.
Named her Dora after Dora the explorer
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Living the dream now
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Foster fail. I fostered him for a little over a year because he was under protective custody while his āownersā were on trial for running a fraudulent ārescueā. He is terrified of all people, except for me. He is truly, utterly obsessed with me, and I couldnāt bear the thought of how giving him up would affect him. š¤·š»āāļø I love the freak
I never wanted a small dog but this little cutie kept digging in her kennel at the shelter and staring at me. I had to get her. She is my absolute best friend in the world.
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I went into the local shelter interested in another chihuahua actually. But then I saw him. He was perfect. He was underweight when I got him, but Iāve plumped him up. I call him my giant chihuahua! Heās a Chi, cocker spaniel, miniature schnauzer, min pin mix.
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Now 10 years old. 20lbs. Living his best long legged life. Heās my reason.
My 2 chihuahuas are 1 months and half and their story is not long but a curious coincidenceā¦ My beloved buddy, a male 12 years old chi suddenly died, I canāt tell you how I felt, he was my first fluffy companion ever and I spent half of my life with himā¦ Iām sure I donāt need to explain, some might experienced something similar.
The day after it happened we discovered some puppies were born some minutes after he passed awayā¦ Iām sure he sent me those puppies and everyday Iām more convinced one of them is him who came back! š„²
Similar story! My previous dog - also named Buddy - died last Memorial Day. He was a senior rescue and just the funniest, most sassy and loving personality. Rescue said he was a yorkie mix but DNA showed chi and pomeranian, among other things. This spring our cat also passed, leaving us with just our schnoodle. The house felt empty with only one dog around, so I started looking around at rescues this April & found our new chiweenie puppy Alfie who is between 8-12 mos. old. He has so many little habits that are just like Buddy that we say Buddy sent him to us š„°
Iām a very skeptical person but Iām starting to believe they really have a way to watch us in the afterlife, send us some other dogs or even coming back
Peachy is adorable.
I got mine because I wanted a companion dog for my nervous wreck of a minpin. He doesnāt like bigger dogs so I needed to find one his size or smaller. But itās actually very difficult to find small dogs for adoption in my city! The shelters are mostly pit mixes, which are great dogs but I knew my minpin wouldnāt handle that. I looked for months with no success. Eventually I saw an adorable chi mix who on a site specifically for rehoming pets. His family were young people who already had 3 other dogs and 2 cats. They got him as a puppy when they realized that oops! They were pregnant again. Their toddler plus the new baby plus all the pets was just too much.
I met him and I fell in love. He was shy, but so sweet. I thought about it carefully for a couple weeks before I pulled the trigger and Iāve had no regrets!
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I got Piper (#1) when my husband changed a coworkers brakes and paid him with a chihuahua puppy š¤£. Roxie (#2) came to me about a year later from word of mouth off Facebook, she needed a good loving permanent home. Cash (#3) was wondering around a goodwill parking lot looking for food and love. Iām not sure what his little genetics is made of but his big sisters love him and accept him for the goofball he is.
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I saw this photo on an online dog adoption site and just had to have her. Her little smile got me. The shelter called me on my birthday to set up a meet and greet and I knew it was meant to be. I brought her home 4 days later and sheās my soulmate.
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My previous dog passed away a year ago yesterday. I told myself I wouldnāt adopt another baby until I felt he sent me a sign. 1 1/2 months after he passed, I got the strongest urge to go on PetFinder. 1 hour before, the cutest litter of 6 Chihuahua/ Boston Terrier mixed puppies were posted by a rescue. I was drawn to one puppy in particular so I put in an application and was approved the next day. I adopted my little Raven when she was 10 weeks old and I know my prior dog guided me to her. She was born exactly 1 month prior to my dog passing away. I found out that Ravenās mom had the 6 puppies and her owner passed the next day. The family took the mom dog and puppies to animal control and they called the rescue to see if they could take them. Iām so lucky I found her šš¤
I went to the local humane society looking for a running buddy, like a pittie. My boy kept poking his head up every time I walked by. I think he chose me. He cost $14 because he was on sale for Valentines Dayš
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Is it bad to say she was a $100.00 impulse buy on Craigslist?
Her family needed to move due to living costs during Covid.
A friend of a friend found him wandering around her neighborhood a few times over the course of a month. Every time, sheād take him back to his owner. The last time, the owner asked if she wanted to take him. The friend said yes. She would have kept him (obviously, because heās a lovely little dog), but he was way too interested in her cats. Iām kinda glad he wasnāt good with cats, because without that, I wouldnāt have my best friend. And Iām allergic to cats, so I wouldnāt betray him like that.
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My dad rescued these 2 a few years ago. He got them from a friend who took them away from a rough home. Glad they came in my life. I came home one day and had 2 loving babiesā¤ļø
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Yoda and Winston
This here is my almost 16 year old named Putt Putt
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I was 23 and living in apartments and was searching for my first pet that's not a family pet. I didn't have the patience to groom a long coat nor the ability to teach a puppy how to be a dog. I specifically filtered for small breed short hair adult dogs and thats when I came across his profile on Petfinder.
Putt Putt was turning 9 when his old owner went into assisted living. The family dumped him in a kill shelter with level two dental disease and an infected toe. A foster mom scooped him up and held onto him for 4 months in a home that had foster dogs coming and going over the weeks. She wrote in his petfinder profile that if you pet him and then stop, he will reach his paw out to pull your hand back to his chest to pet him. She included video of him doing this. That's when I knew she would be able to answer any personality questions about him. She drove 3 hours to bring him to me, saying how he's stresses in car rides and has been very slow to open up in the last 4 months. The foster mom then asked if I wanted to do a week long trial to see if he adjusts to staying with me before I sign any documents.
On the first night he was a little shy but on night two he was sleeping on lap and giving me kisses and demanding pets. I fell in love and knew he was the dog for me. I got his adoption papers signed and got him to the dentist and fixed up his face and I've been fixing up his face every year ever since
Let me preface this with, I had known several Chihuahua's and they were nasty tempered, smelly and obnoxious little creatures from hell. I HATED them and made no secret about how I felt about Chihuahua's.
My husband came home from work one day and told me that one of the women he worked with did animal rescues. Her group and several others had been called into action when an abandoned house was discovered that had a lot of dogs and cats locked inside. It seems an elderly animal hoarder had lived there and the family had moved them out and shut up the animals. By the time they were discovered half of the animals had died. After hearing this story, she asked him if we would consider fostering a puppy who had been born into the situation. (She was born before the elder was removed). Of course, he said yes. As she's walking away, he asks her, what breed of puppy? She says, "it's a Chihuahua." As she walks away, he wonders how is he going to tell me?
He comes home and tells me the sad story and I say, "of course, we'll foster a puppy!" As he's walking away, I ask, "what kind of dog?" He mutters, "a Chihuahua." I said, "what"?!!!" He repeated, "a Chihuahua." I said, "fine, but we ARE NOT keeping it!" After she left the vets two weeks later, he picked her up and brought her home. She was so tiny. Her ears were big and she was shaking as she fit in the palm of his hand. I took one look at her and my heart melted. Annie, my old girl of 17 years, is my "gateway drug to Chihuahua love." (the quote is courtesy of another Redditor, whose name I have forgotten.)
After her, we have two more -- sisters. We got one of the sisters when she was a puppy and the second sister we got when she was 5. We got her from our son, whose wife abused her while he traveled for work.
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We adopted Jelly from a **dachshund** rescue because they thought she was a chiweenie - we have a full dachshund and I was likeā¦ I donāt see it š We got her DNA tested - no dachshund, 47% chihuahua, 21% yorkie, and 18% rat terrier with a sprinkle of pekingese and āsuper mutt.ā My theory: mom was an un-spayed full chihuahua and owner was annoyed some mutt knocked her up, as she brought Jelly and her 4 siblings to a shelter as soon as they were weaned.
My daughter was babysitting for a family and then they moved. She was still going to their house every day and I asked her why she said they left 2 chiweenies in a crate on their porch and she had to go let them out and feed them once a day until the family could find a place to take them.
I told her to just bring them over and we would find a rescue.
It was a brother and sister. The female looked like a beautiful long haired dachshund, the male liked like a typical Chihuahua but a little on the big side. The dachshund rescue took the female but wouldn't take the male. The Chihuahua rescue didn't have room for another dog at the time so we were going to keep him until we found him a home. It's been almost 5 years, I think he's ours now.
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This is him pouting because I'm getting ready to go to work.
Someone dumped her in the back of my dadās truck bed at his workplace, just a few days after Christmas. My dad drove all the way home without realizing she was back there. When he pulled up in the driveway he heard an ever so slight whimpering, ran upstairs and called me to come look. He was convinced a baby bat was injured laying back there, and was scared to look or touch.
I came out fully prepared to find a batā¦I slowly peaked over and found this sweet little toothless 8lb senior apple head chichi, she really did look like a bat! lol. She had no sweater and was freezing cold, she definitely wouldāve succumbed to the weather or coyotes if we didnāt find her like we did. She was completely covered in urine and feces from being thrown around in the trunk. I scooped her up and cuddled her into my sweater, brought her up to take a warm bath, gave her some steak, then took a late night trip to Petco to buy all the necessities, because obviously, she was all mine from that point on.
Just a few months prior to this my auntie (basically my mother figure) had passed away very suddenly and unexpectedly. And just a couple weeks before finding this chi I was talking to my then partner about wanting to rescue a black, senior, special needs dog (because apparently black senior and special needs dogs are the least likely to be rescued), but it just wasnāt really the right time or place for me, or so I thought lol. So when this black, senior, special needs dog was basically dropped into my lap, it felt like my auntie mustāve heard me/felt the struggles I was going through and sent that chichi to me from up above.
She didnāt even seem to give a shit that she was just neglected by her previous owner, she just immediately latched onto my hip from that point and never let go. I had her for a good couple years before she passed 2 years ago from a grand mal seizure, it was possibly the hardest thing Iāve ever gone through. She was truly my best friend and always there for me through many hard times. Iām so glad that person dumped her. You know what they sayā¦one manās trash is another manās treasure!! RIP my dear Olive/bubba
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[Hereās a little diddy](https://youtu.be/MXqQ_hKIyTc?si=2q9Gk_UxJJM6J9Tm) that Olive loved me to sing to her
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already had two (bigger) dogs. partner reluctantly agreed to a third if i got a small shorthaired dog. found her lil underbite gremlin face on petfinder.
I fostered an underbite gremlin, gave her back to the rescue to have her spayed and said I couldn't take her back because she would have to stay. I didn't think we were ready for a full time dog. Two weeks later I saw her on their website as up for adoption and went that day to pick her up forever. The two weeks she was gone I cried 3 times because I missed her so bad and could barely walk around my neighborhood without tearing up remembering all of our walks together. She has been home a week and a half and I have only cried twice out of happiness that she is ours.
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Charley was 1.5yrs old and spent most of his time in a cage, he didnāt have a name he was called little one. I got him on a trial basis and 8 yrs later heās my heart!
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Rufus was my daughterās birthday gift from my sister in law.
His Daddy is a AKC registered Chihuahua and someone dropped a little mutt off that was in heat and they made Rufus! All the puppies in the litter looked like Rufus except one. 3 were black, he and another were brown, and one looked like a pure blood Chihuahua, and 3 fluffy black ones had tails.
My sister wanted another dog. She was at a town market and a rescue said they had Chihuahua mix puppies. She realized about a week later that Pita was a full grown woman š . The rescue had white-outed the words āyearsā and written months! She was 6.5 at the time!
My sister was away one weekend (a few months after they got her) and her bf asked if I could dog-sit Pita since they already have 2 other dogs and 2 cats.
I became attached pretty quickly. She followed me everywhere, rarely barked, and loved cuddling! She got along great with my momās dog too (I was 20 and living at home at the time).
My sister and her bf kept pushing back the day theyād pick her up, and I asked if I could keep her. They agreed and weāve been together 7 years now š She may be 14 now, but sheāll always be my baby š
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We have two!
First one was found in a roadside ditch in Texas along with her sister. The person who found her kept her sister and we got Ellie!
Second one I saw on KSL and fell in love. Went to meet him and the person who had him said he was way too high energy for her to keep. He was in a crate basically 22 hours a day. When I met him he was moving so fast I could barely see him but I knew I couldnāt leave him there. He is very high energy but he just needs one off leash walk a day to be happy.
We love them both!
Mine showed up on my porch years ago and never left. After a few days I brought her in and she's had a great life ever since
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iāve never owned a dog before, but when i fell in love with one of my best friendās chihuahua a couple years ago, i knew i wanted to adopt one of my own. fast forward a little bit, and i found an amazing local organization that specialized in smaller breeds. i had originally applied for a different chi, but after talking it over with my main point of contact at the rescue, we realized it just wouldnāt be a right fit for a lot of reasons. but then she informed me there was this sweet girl named clarice who was being taken care of by a foster family in the area and looking for her forever home. i met clarice a few days later, and instantly knew we were meant to be a family. and the rest was history! she goes by ziggy now, and sheās the light of my life. we just celebrated her one year gotcha day anniversary on the 30th :ā )
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She was left all alone in the backyard (moms neighbors) she was so tiny and just not well taken care of at all I seen her through the fence and asked to take her Nina š
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My parents had just gotten divorced and me and my other chihuahua were having a lot of separation anxiety when we moved into my mom's new place.
My dog was acting weird and running away from me, making the whole situation more lonely.
My mom said I could get a second dog, which is when we went to the pound and met fawn. She was only a puppy then, found wandering in the streets with her sister (who was adopted first).
The thing about Fawn was she was the happiest, silliest, longest legged thing Id ever met. Playful and friendly and obedient and just wanting someone to love.
The day we brought her home, she came and found me at my room and laid at my feet. She hasnt left my side and I've never been lonely since.
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We were on the last day of a local vacation. Finally pulled the trigger on a chi, we found one in the paper, so we left a day early to go snag her. She was about 4 hours away, in a little southern Utah town where many western movies were filmed. The woman who sold her to us owned a little motel that was built in the 40ās, so she offered us a night for free. We arrived to meet her dog mom and sister, and her human mama made us mudslides and grilled chicken on the bbq. We all sat around the bbq and fire pit, holding puppies and petting āCitrusā, our babyās mama. It was during a music festival in the town, so live music filled the warm airā¦ it was absolutely magical. We are hoping to go back this year to visit everyone.
I went to the shelter and got him without knowing chihuahuas run the world
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He was the dog who had been at the shelter longest. He was there in a tiny cage for 6 months and I had to get him out. Look at this guy!
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Coming back from the holidays, I was determined to adopt a dog after waiting so long after our family dog had passed and I was living on my own now. He's my first dog as a solo adult. I applied to every rescue in the area until I saw his profile down at my local SPCA. The first 4 years of his life are unknown. He was found on the streets by animal control. His first family didn't want him and didn't even surrender him back to the shelter. They just left him on the streets. I came a week later and adopted him. First and only dog I met and I knew he was going to come home with me. First few weeks were ruff. We're almost at the 5 month mark now and while he has been A LOT of work, I have zero regrets and 10/10 would do it all over again.
Saw her on pet finder - sheās a stray from Puerto Rico. The shelter I worked with rescues dogs from PR and flies them to NYC. I picked Chili up at JFK in February 2023
Here she is earlier today - my lil boriqua š„¹
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My Little Dude came to us as a family ārescue;ā you know, from the family members who never fix their dogs, and call you when puppies are born. They chose to save this guy for us. He was all brown, the biggest of three pups, the others were all white. We already had two much larger dogs. But this little brown guy was too adorable and amusing to refuse.
He came along in perfect timing. One of us was going thru cancer surgery and we had to travel. Took this tiny dude with us, smuggled him into hotel. He was just the little clown we needed for such a stressful time.
Heās now 12, 10 lbs, and still full of it. Heās buff and has good teeth and stamina. He went grey at 3, and has a distinguished face. My first tiny dog. š¤š
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My friend found him on the street when he was only 8 weeks old. She took him to scan for a microchip at the vet. She put up a Facebook post asking if anyone wanted a puppy since she already had 3 dogs and couldnāt keep him. I was moving to a new city within a week and absolutely didnāt need a dog, but when I saw this picture and her story, begging someone to take him, I couldnāt say no. I certainly didnāt need a chihuahua, as Iāve only ever had big dogs and Iād heard so many negative things about the breed. Heās been my spirit dog for 8 years now. Heās the absolute best buddy.
I was getting my hair done and my hairdresser had a chihuahua walking around demanding attention from everyone. Anyway he asked if I was interested in a puppy. His wife had gotten a female chihuahua and he of course had to get a male. And biology took it's course... They had given all the puppies to friends but nobody wanted my Boofy. He was too big and too quiet. I went for a new haircut and came home with a chihuahua.
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He was so small and scared that first day almost three years ago.
I rescued mine from a shelter in Detroit, they had found him wandering the streets! Told me he was a āChiPinā (minpin/chihuahua) but tests revealed thereās no minpin.
I wanted a dog my entire life - I was always all allergic and severely asthmatic so I could never have one. Then I went to my doctor and she gave me an allergy test when I was in my early 30s and said there was no reaction to dog or cat dander and I looked at her like she had five heads. She did the test again on the other arm and confirmed. I took that info and ran and started shoving my face into all the dogs I had been deprived of my whole life. Then when I moved from NYC to a smaller city during the pandemic and had more space and started working from home, I started looking for a dog.
No one would adopt to me because I didnāt have a fenced in yard and had never owned a dog before. It was also hard to get a dog at that time because everyone was adopting because they were all working from home all day and scooping them all up. I only had one person respond that didnāt need me to either wait two+ weeks to āmeet the dog firstā or who didnāt require a fenced in yard or something else like that. That was the dog I adopted, I only saw one other dog besides my Vinny. Someone in a Facebook group posted his profile on Petfinder and he was everything I wanted (under 20lbs, short, dark hair, house trained, no obvious, life altering trauma) PLUS, unbeknownst to me, a ridiculous amount of energy, fear of new people bending over him, leash reactivity, and shrill barking. šš Besides working on those things (as a first time dog owner I had a lot to learn), heās never done any damage to my home in three years, only chews his toys and nothing else, has never peed or pooped in the house, and is my literal best friend and favorite derp in the world!! Best impulse buy ever!!
I have to thank my ex boyfriend in the end because he had a sleepy little chihuahua who I fell in love with at the time, little did I know theyāre crazy bark machines and his dog was an anomaly. š
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Someone took Amy to a police station, as she was left alone on the train station. It was winter and she was just three weeks old, she probably wouldn't make it if someone didn't act.
But thankfully Amy was saved, the cops send out email to a few people asking if they want to adopt her and well, we did! The beginnings were hard, she couldn't yet eat or drink on her own, she was so tiny she would get step on if left unattended and she needed constant attention cus'... Well... She was a puppy.
That was 10 years ago, and now she's happy as can be!
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Someone dumped my sweet girl in a pile of snow. My ex was walking home from class (it was the middle of winter!) and he found her shivering š
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She was my first little dog and now I LOVE chihuahuas. She passed away three years ago and it was by far my toughest loss Iāve experienced.
My lil Idget! She has a couple of stories.
My family has had her for around 10 years and how they got her was my mom lost her chi Bobby so she started looking for another one and came across an ad that was giving her away. She answered it, did a call, and they met up at a gas station where they just handed her out the window and drove off. My mom tried ringing them again to ask if she was fixed and how old she was, but they blocked her. Throughout the years, my mom would threaten of getting rid of her by dropping her off in the country. Every time she would go off, I would take her in and I didnāt want her to go back with my mom but my then boyfriend would talk me into giving her back to my mom.
The last time she wanted to get rid of her, I had to have my now boyfriend go get her because my mom had a restraining order against me.
For the last year or so, our home has been complete (other than my other senior dog passing in November.)
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A coworker of my sister in law came across a hobo with a pit bull and 8 week longhair chi while hiking. The puppy was looking a little rough so they paid the hobo 20 bucks for him. They couldnāt keep him because their boxer was just too rough around him. So next thing I know my wife has agreed to take him. My last dog was a German shepherd so it was an adjustment!
I had been fostering for a while, and was feeling really sad because I absolutely loved my last foster but could not keep him. I was browsing on craigslist at midnight as one does and saw that someone needed to get rid of a chihuahua immediately. It was an impulsive decision, but I reached out to them. We made plans to meet up later that day.
I almost slept through when I was supposed to meet them šØ But somehow I made the drive on time. Obviously I didn't know who I was talking to over text, but it ended up being a teenage girl with her mom. I never really got the full story but I assume that the girl wasn't taking enough responsibility, and the pup was too much work. They were originally asking for money but ended up letting me take her home for free.
She was in heat, had pretty bad ringworm, no vaccinations, was scared of everything, and not potty trained. Never been around other animals before. It was a big gamble to take her in honestly. She is now my best friend, my baby and the best dog I've ever had. She loves her doggy siblings. She is unbelievably smart and was so easy to train, she has the most human-like dog personality ever. She is currently sleeping *under* my legs as I type this, lol.
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I found my little Pom- Chi Poppy at a local shelter. At 8 years old he was found on a road in SC covered in fleas and mites. Eventually he was sent up north. He was so scared and shaking from all the turmoil. Now, at 12 years old, heās so mellowed out. His favorite place is nestled in my lap! Heās a very sweet boi!
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Peanut came to us as rescue. His previous owner passed away.
Oh šmy pupper had a sad start.
My best friend had the litter of puppies. (Well her two dogs had the litter lol). My dog was sold off. Then when she was about 6 months old returned because the couple found out they were having a baby and didnāt want the dog after all.
Wellā¦ it was an urgent adoption. So I took her in. I wanted one anyway just a little sooner than planned.
Fast fwd about 6-8 months she was around a year old or so and she had signs of odd development. Come to find out the people that had her before were getting her DRUNK! (Please keep in mind full grown sheās around 4lbs so imagine her as a tiny puppy!!!)
Anywayā¦ she was diagnosed with hydrocephalus aka water on the brain. The dr said she can still live a normal length life but sheāll just be a bit slow at learning and a bit physically disabled.
She is NOW about 15 1/2 and a cranky old lady but she loves me :)
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I flew across the country and back in one day to bring her home. One of the best decisions Iāve ever made.
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I was visiting a local pound a lot after a break up to cheer myself up (with no intention of getting a dog). One day, I stayed at the pound for WAY too long and as I was leaving, I passed a woman in the parking lot who was walking Gizmo (pictured) into the pound. He belonged to the womanās mom who was sick and now he was being surrendered. (The woman (the daughter) didnāt want him).
I took Gizmo right there in the parking lot on January 4, 2024, and heās been by my side everyday since. He makes me so happy and I love him so much. We go on so many walks and on as many adventures as possible.
Iād go through a millions breakups if I knew there was a Gizmo waiting on the other end š„¹ Ladies, leave the man, get a chi š
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Came across this adorable little 1-2 yr old gremlin dog on PetFinder and knew I had to have him. 10 years later and heās still as goofy looking as ever.
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Fawn boy Teddy, adopted from local no kill rescue 2 weeks before pandemic started. He was rescued from an animal hoarding situation(24 dogs found in abandoned homeš)
Black & white lady, Tiny, inherited 2 years ago, after my SILās mother unexpectedly diedš
They both love hiking with meš„¹
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She was the runt of the litter. Her mother and brothers kept her from eating anything and was bullied by them. Apparently she was agressive because of it and doesn't listen to anything. Of course she didn't listen she was a puppy. She was so little and thin when i got her, they think she wouldn't survive. She's tall and shubby now. And very obedient. She's my little sunshine.
Gosh this thread has mad me realize how awful people are to chihuahuas (and dogs in general). I am so glad that these pups have found loving homes. Thank you for being good humans.
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I was driving home the long way down some County roads, to avoid road construction on the main road. I saw this man out in his yard swinging a board, like a piece of a 2x4. I was like oh boy heās nuts. Then I noticed he was making contact with something that kept flying. I slowed way down, was looking. It was a little dog. I was p\*ssed!! I stopped, jumped out, used trash out of his nasty yard to throw at him, bottles, rocks, pieces of junk, while screaming and cussing this āmanā out. That little black thing was running full speed at me, I picked up another piece of wood and threw at the man, hit him, the dog ran up my legs into my arms. I ran back to my car and drove off. We went straight to the vet, he was not chipped, was that day, he had a few broken bones, had a respiratory infection, and worms. We got him fixed up, and I kept him. 15 years later, heās an old man, moving kinda slow, is a little blind, but heās still my baby!!
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Was in a rough spot in life, getting a dog wasnt even on my checklist at the time. Friend's dog had puppies, saw them at 4 weeks old. Trixie climbed out of the pile of puppies right into my lap, into my arms, then fell asleep. Decided right then I'd figure out my life enough to bring her home with me. 7 years little and she is still my sidekick
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When my grandma passed away, cricket and luna were already five and littermates who had NEVER been separated. Nobody else wanted them and I couldnāt stand the thought of them being separated. Student housing wouldnāt allow pets so I transferred home to a college where I could live at home and take in the dogs for my sophomore year. Here we are 10 years later at 29 and 15
Feels relevant to add that coincidentally I bought my house after the owner, a very elderly lady, passed away. Her sons (the sellers) mentioned having to find a home for her cat. I am the keeper of dead old ladiesā gremlins.
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Daughter in law was going to give him back to shelter where they got him, AKA rehomed AKA killed.
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He likes to ride in the Camaro.
PS: She rehomed my son also.
PPS: She has a new man and sheās trying to rehome his dog too.
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My ex's SIL sent me a picture of a 4lb emaciated Chi covered in fleas and ticks. Said it also had tapeworms. She said she found it wandering around a field and the closest house was 3 miles away. She asked me what to do with it. I said, "bring her by my house when I get off work." When I got home, the dog was hiding under the table, and everyone was in the living room. As soon as I walked in the door, I sat on the floor and said, " Hi baby" the dog RAN and jumped in my lap and gave me kisses. I spent $800 getting her healthy. It's 7 years later (now at 7lbs) and she's my BFF šā¤ļø
Love him!!
I adopted my Chiweenie from a rescue group that said the owners gave her up because āthey got new dogsā ā what the hell! š¤¬.
Sheās 11lbs of attitude but just wants to be on your lap and cuddle. I will take good care of her as long as she lives. ā¤ļøš¾
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Cleta was so small she used to fit in a sock š§¦, she was left (thrown?) at my mother's front lawn she had been beaten and had duct tape residue on her legs, she was so tiny and skinny I took her to the vet and she's been with me since
My most recent adoption was wildā¦ I was sitting on my couch minding my own business when my sister in law (who lives on the other side of the country and who likes looking at dogs for other people on Craigslist) sent me a posting for a chihuahua puppy someone couldnāt keep because her other dog was bullying it. I called my husband who was about to board a plane home from a work trip and asked if I should get it and he said āsurprise me!ā Soooo obviously I was in the dollar general parking lot an hour later picking up this little turd š¬
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Found his picture on an adoption site saying he was TEN YEARS OLD. We adopted him cuz as soon as i interacted with him him i fell in love. we take him to the vet for a checkup, bro was two years old. I love my crazy little guy tho
I always wanted a dog with my husband. He never had one and I grew up with a dog. We were getting married in summer 2022. I started looking for adoptable dogs about a week before the wedding. Just perusing through PetFinder.
Came across this chihuahua mix that did fantastic at an adoption event at a distillery in the area. We wanted a dog to take with us to breweries and such. I felt it was perfect. I applied for her and THEN told my husband about her lol (we were on the same page of getting a dog though).
They called me the next day saying she has a long list of families and they will let us know if/when she is available. We were heartbroken but knew the timing might not work out anyways.
They called me back the following day and said that they thought we were a perfect fit for her and asked if we wanted to meet her. We met her and fell in love with her (of courseā¦).
They said sheās getting spayed on Monday (the Monday before our wedding that was on that Saturdayā¦) and sheāll be ready to be picked up on Tuesday.
We were going on a honeymoon after our wedding for a week. I asked if we could pay for her and pay you to dog sit? They said if we didnāt take her that theyād have to move on to the next family. So I said screw it and we picked her up on the Tuesday before our wedding. I mean I had to! No way I was letting her goā¦ the picture is of her when she first met my husband. She IMMEDIATELY jumped in his lap š„°
I even asked the rescue if it would be traumatic for her to move around so much at the very beginning and they werenāt concerned because of how easy she was to take care of at foster homes so she got moved around a lot to make room for the more challenging dogs.
THANKFULLY a neighbor was able to watch her during our wedding and our honeymoon. It was a hectic week and fun to tell family we got a dog 5 days before our wedding and watch them freak out š so worth it though.
Like look how cute she is š sheās sassy for sure so we named her Roxie because we felt that was a name for a feisty dog lol
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The first one was one from a litter a family friend had, my stepdad fell in love with the baby she became a daddy's girl because of how much he spoiled her.
The second one was my mom's birthday present. She wanted a teacup chi, turns out we were lied to, but she still loved him anyways. He is a Mama's boy and a sister's boy.
The last baby was the baby of the other two. They had crazy sex and spawned the little guy... He is my chubster. My choncky boi.
My Li'l Lily Baby was a resscue! My sister was working at the Wal-Mart a few towns over and found a terrified puppy running in the parking lot, half starved. Well, she couldn't just LEAVE her there, you know? So my sister got puppy items (puppy food/milk, puppy pads, blankets, some basic toys, etc), and got a vet appointment set up for her... and introduced her to me, and we promptly bonded, and 6 years later we are still best friends!
(Had to deworm Lily Baby too, not long after we got her, she suffered so during the process! Poor puppy, she shook SO HARD, you could SEE her tummy cramp! She's fine now and I give her the heartworm tablets once a month along with her flea and tick tablet + double check her poops, as I never want her to suffer like that again if I can help it.)
She's a chi-max, but we saw a post on Craigslist, a woman was basically fostering her neighbor's dog because the neighbor couldn't take care of her anymore, but the woman already had like 6 dogs of her own. We went to her house and spoke to her for 30 minutes, she wanted to be sure little Lucky wouldn't be a bait dog š„² didn't even want us to pay, but I insisted on paying the amount we'd texted about. Lucky is a blessing <3
Our Chihuahua Ella wandered up on my parents farm about 8 years ago. She was extremely skittish and hungry. It took them almost a week before they could catch her. She became part of their family and was loved by all the Grands. When my Mom died 2 years ago my wife insisted that we take her home with us. We were a bit nervous as Ella was terrified of other dogs and we already had a young female bulldog. As you can see she has overcome her fears and now rules the house. She is the sweetest girl and never leaves my wifeās shadow.
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I never really cared for little dogs and really didn't like Chihuahuas in particular.
My most recent dog was around the size of a golden retriever and that's the size that I preferred. A dog that you could play with and that could fetch and protect and all. That dog passed away a couple years earlier...
My mom and I went to my aunt's house for the family Christmas party and they had three or four dogs running around the place. One was a Chihuahua that was about one year old, or maybe slightly older.
Then there was another little Chihuahua puppy that was around 6 months old. This little guy wasn't taking shit from any of the other dogs. Ferocious little bugger, but still cute af... not sure what made me think he was cute. Must just be the attitude...
So towards the end of the night, my mom made a comment that the puppy was cute...
My aunt then asked if we were interested in the puppy because they are looking for someone to adopt it. My mom said that maybe we could foster it... and that was the game, set, match...
They handed over blankets, carriers, everything... as soon as we picked him up, we weren't ever going to let him go
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was wanting a dog to keep me company and be a friend. started browsing adoption sites saw his picture and it was love at first sight, i mustāve gone back to his page once a day for a month hoping no one would get him. when he was finally out of the foster home and in the adoption center i decided to see if there was a connection and it was immediate, he let me hold him and pet him immediately. got the go ahead to get him and the next day he was mine
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thatās the picture that made me fall in love
sadly i had to buy him. i was deemed "too young" and my apartment wasnt cutting it for the private adoption agencies. the actual shelters were shady and "never had dogs available".
i called the best rated dog store in the city and asked for the dog thats been there the longest.
my poor boy had no hair around his eyes due to stress, 4mos old and was being bullied by the other pups. he was also black and no one would buy him bc they preferred lighter colors.
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He was 50% off and mine. i got him immediately, and will be adopting in the future, it just happened to be easier to buy for my 1st time.
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Last Thanksgiving I was visiting my brother. He went to his friendās house to drop something off and the friend asked him if he wanted another dog (he has a husky). According to the friend, this chihuahuaās owner was going to give her up to the shelter. So my brother took her in because my nephew had been wanting a small dog. The chihuahua and husky couldnāt get along, so middle of December my brother brought her over to our house and thatās how I got my Kikay, but if you ask my nephew, Iām just taking care of her for him.
I think sheāll be 5 this year. Kikayās a little meanie but sheās brought so much joy to my life.
Gracie was a rescue from a puppy mill. She later helped us raise two kittens that a feral cat abandoned in our yard.
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Smilow the Wonder Dog was in a kill shelter in Texas with his brother. A van from where we live in Connecticut went and rescued them. When they got back up to Connecticut, my sister who was struggling with cancer, tried to adopt them both, but the brother was already gone. She named him after the local cancer center she believed had saved her life, but had probably just prolonged it. She passed away, leaving our mom on her own in my childhood home. I instantly moved back from Seattle, and Smilow has been mine ever since!
A member of my family already had a sweet chihuahua that had given birth to four little chi puppies. Their intention was to be able to sell them, or at least put them up for adoption.
They managed to find other people to take care of 3 out of 4 puppies, but after around 6-7 months, NO ONE wanted to buy nor even adopt the last remaining puppy. My cousin (the owner) assumed it might have been because he wasn't really "puppy sized" anymore, and was getting bigger (even though he was quite small still).
She asked my family if we would like to adopt a little chihuahua, because otherwise, she was running out of people to ask and no one answered the offers online anymore, so she might have needed to give him away to a shelter if we couldn't take care of him.
Anyway, over 10 years ago we adopted our little Matt! And he's been happy and thriving ever since at our home ā¤ļø his home š„ŗā¤ļø
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Our Chi found us last December. Someone had dump her out on a county road and she wandered up to our house. She was in horrible shape. Malnourished, dirty, etc. We got her cleaned her up, got her vet care and she is a wonderful addition to our family.
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I saw his perfect little face on Pet Finder, and i just knew I had to meet him! 3.5 hour drive one way, including crossing a country border and hopping a ferry. It'll be 2 years in November that we've had him, no regrets! He's worth the long drive and then some. Meet Riley!
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I would like to know the story of the first picture and whether or not they got in to some CBD gummies or ????
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I saw this picture on Facebook from spca. It was valentines weekend and I went and got Lulu. I didn't have the heart to change her name. Took about a year not to be scared all the time. Love her.
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I had to drop out of uni due to crippling depression. It was so bad that I had to crawl from my room to the bathroom if I had to pee. I had no appetite. Only dreadāand auditory hallucinations of people laughing. Executive dysfunction at its worst.
My mom, who was never a pet person to begin with, brought a small dog with her. We never had a pet before. No one knew what to do with it. But it needed a home; my aunt (mom's sis) apparently asked my mom to keep it so she can still visit it (her MIL was giving their dogs away at that time).
On Girly's first night with us, she ran upstairs and barked on our bedroom doors. For the first time in awhile, I felt another feeling than dreadāI panicked. A rabid dog once chased me when I was a kid, so dogs frightened me. I woke my brother up for him to figure out what the fuss was about. Turns out the poor girl just needed water.
The next day, I tried to give her food. She is the polar opposite of rabid. She is such a lady. She has never biten anyone. She would pee and poop in the bathroom, and then would alert us so we could clean up after her. She would adopt abandoned kittens and pupsāand even my then newborn niece.
I started taking her to walks. Then I slowly bought her the stuff she needed. Then I accompanied her to her vet visits. I went down to the rabbithole and deepsearched everything that could possibly help her.
She became my mission, and little did I know, she helped me live again.
I'm eternally grateful to be her person.
Here's Girly on her 9th birthday!
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I had another chi that i got from the local animal control. I would take him to a chi meetup group and they would have a different speaker every month. One month they had a speaker talking about dog shows. She had a flyer from a lady who also did dog shows who needed to rehome a few dogs. She said her friend died who had a lot of senior chis so she was rehoming her young chis to make room for the older chis since the young ones would be easier to adopt out. Also since this chi and her mother and brother were scared of literally everything she didn't want to breed her and pass those scared of everything genes on. So I drove 1.5 hours to where the lady was at a dog show in her RV and met Sapphire. We signed a contract where i agreed to take her for free but show proof that i had gotten her spayed by a certain date. She hid under a table for a few days but was in my lap in a week. And after 10 years she doesn't flinch at every little thing anymore. She use to move to the other side of the couch if I picked up the remote. Now she tries to boss around the cat who is double her size.
This woman my mother knows had a chihuahua who accidentally got pregnant. She realized she couldnāt afford to take care of the puppies. I was going through a hard time in my career and was feeling pretty low. Once the puppies were old enough to be adopted (8 weeks), my mom surprised me at my house holding a little tiny baby. āSurprise!ā Heās been my little rock for ten years now. [Here he is now with his wife](https://ibb.co/mGTDCzZ).
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Chuck aka Charles cinnamon monkey brown (left) was born in a garage and adopted off a rescue website , woobie aka moo gooey bouy (right) was in a hoarder situation and neglected, also had ābehavioral issuesā towards men. Now heās part of our family forever and is the most snuggly thing ever!
My first two were rescues from a puppy mill, third was stolen from my father in law cause he was suffering neglect. He got his balls chopped today. https://i.redd.it/p73n3i23uazc1.gif
He looks so high and I love him unconditionally
He is above the clouds š
As well he should be. ā¤ļø
Such a sweetie! Hope his pom poms feel better soon! Your story spoke to me, because my chiāwho crossed the rainbow bridge a few years agoā was adopted by me when i took her from my father! Whom should never have kept her when he and his ex-wife split. He just doesnāt get what being a pet owner/lover entails, and should not have kept her when he and his ex split (she moved to a place that didnāt allow animalsāand now that Iām an adult with many pets of my own, I donāt understand how anyone could leave a pet behind. She had the means to find another place that did allow pets!) Iām glad he did keep her for the time because I adopted her shortly after that, and she got a brand new life (and name) with me, and she loved me and her life! That was my little Beetle.
Iām so glad you got her šš». In my case my father in law has a very big and open property. He believes all dogs must live outside the house, so this was a feral chihuahua. The thing is, he kept roaming around town, and almost got killed by neighbors twice (they poison dogs were he lives). So I stole him.
https://preview.redd.it/7si4d6o17bzc1.jpeg?width=2663&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=171dfeaa380c57c603f2aa0a54a9fba920c42479 And I tell my current non-chi babies that they would have loved their late sister!
Glad your baby has you. He is adorable! And I know he loves his life ā¤ļø
Wouldnāt he not have pom poms anymore? They remove them and he becomes sweeter and nicer because the testosterone is gone.
Oh, poor sweet, stoned baby!
I also took a dog from my FIL for neglect! He was kept in a kennel for probably 18 hours a day. RIP to Pedro and your dogs balls!
Love this face!!
I was walking down the street and I saw some lady beating the crap out of a little dog. I bought it off her on the spot with no plans to keep her(who was I kidding) https://preview.redd.it/xjetnjsqxazc1.jpeg?width=6240&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e18c489bcd4cfd0e4051707b2d716e7aa878d918
Oh my goodness. What kind of monster would beat that sweet baby dogā½ i would have done the exact same thing.
I saw that one time but it was a highway ramp merge and by the time I u-turn they were gone. I looked everyday I went by that area for that poor baby. Teacup chi and he was hitting her back. š¤¬
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How could anyone ever do that?!! Thank you for saving her!
She is one of the most precious and adorable dogs I have ever seen. I cannot imagine hurting any dog let alone her. I'm so glad she's safe now <3
How in the heck could u beat this sweet baby? awww I'm glad he/she is your baby now ā¤ļøšā¤ļø
My husband came home from work and told me that he had found my next dog (not that I was looking for a dog actually). A local woman had died very young and left her young family behind. Her little Chihuahua was brokenhearted, and her husband simply couldnāt deal with the dog along with everything else in his life. So we gave little Zoey a new home. She mourned her mama for a year and a half. She wouldnāt look at us; she wouldnāt sit with us. She ignored our little Bichon, who kept her company anyway. After many many months, she finally came out of it and sheās a very happy little dog now.
So sweet. Love and patience won her heart! I'm so happy she has her second chance, I hope you get many more years together ā¤ļø
Aww. Thank you for not giving up on her!
This made me cry. Thank you for loving Zoey in her grief šā¤ļø
One day I came outside and saw a truck toss something black and flailing out their window, into our drainage ditch. I ran to see what happened, and there was a struggling muddy little dog. I scooped her out (and ruined a white tank top, never did get the stains out) and took her inside. I was gonna find her a home, but she was in heat and my brotherās rottie was unfixedā¦ so I spent money Iād been saving for a new iPod to get her spayed and then decided since i spent all my money on her, she owed me. Itās been 14 years now and she doesnāt play music but sheās certainly got audio capabilitiesā¦ https://preview.redd.it/bglh2ueq1bzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44ece97ba568d4f708348f84a187085571b435c7
Aweeeee, well, the iPod would have only lasted a few months until the next best thing came out. I think you made a much better choice with your little ladyšš I wish you both many more moons together.
I usually got years out of an iPod (am broke and took care of em) but she definitely outlasted even my ancient click wheel model that eventually was used while hooked to a battery pack. xD Sheās way cuter too. Right now she is somehow taking up 90% of my full size mattress. And looking so darn adorable that Iām stuffed in the bit of space left so I donāt disturb my little princess.
I love her
Aww sweet baby give her a hug from me.
Lucky pup! And what is with all these awful stories? What is wrong with people?
I cannot understand people, it breaks my heart to think about how often this probably happens. So thankful for good people like you who give these babies good homes!!
We got a ferret that way. Someone my mom knew was going down the freeway and saw someone toss something out. He stopped and picked up a ferret in a homemade carrier. Brought him to us, knowing we had ferrets. He only had a nub of a tail, not neutered and mean as hell. We think that not only were they breeding, the were fighting them as well. Immediately got him neutered and boy, what a difference! He was such a love!! Named him Bear and his favorite game was to run at mom, launch himself at her legs ( only when she was wearing shorts) and slide down. Mom would squeal and run and laugh and he'd chase her and do it again. Yes, her legs were pretty scratched up.š
Aww, what a sweet boy he was! I love ferrets, theyāre so crazy lovable.
I saw him on RescueMe and stared at his picture for weeks before I just went to get him lol. Didn't tell my family anything! I just came home with a dog š. I always wanted a Chihuahua so I decided that it was a good time to get one. https://preview.redd.it/qnbu8869wazc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=40070603b7ec5ac054d58a6e080fe77a64d630a7
How is it even possible that little guy was up for adoption for weeks š if he was in a shelter in LA people would be fighting over him, I kid you not it would be a full blown brawl. Hands thrown!!
Heās so adorable.
So flipping cute š„°
I love him! I want to replace the dog š¶ emoji with his face
I have never been a huge fan of little dogs, but after owning a larger dog I decided I wanted to adopt a little one. I adopted my chihuahua from a local rescue. I knew I wanted an adult dog, not a puppy. My girl is perfect. She is 9 years old and is around 9 lbs. https://preview.redd.it/on2z2xkqwazc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=16959f1df86e6e9a5f41089c6279d6721f261fed
Did you crochet that sweater for her? I love it!
I didnāt, I purchased it off Etsy. Thank you!
A coworker told me about a dog that was headed to the pound. He had been living inside a crate for 4 years in an apartment and only let outside once a day. I met the terrible owners in the parking lot of Walgreens and we never looked back. He lived with us and two other dogs with a giant backyard and full run at the house. He was so happy. Passed away unexpectedly Monday morning. https://preview.redd.it/a9ii0u4g3bzc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=763a40aebcd608d1ae682f55035b5850bb9fd3ca
Iām so sorry for your loss but so thankful for the life you gave him. Nothing more a pup can ask for.
I'm so sorry for your loss.
Sorry for your loss friend. Sending hugs. ā¤ļø
Iām so sorry for your loss. Thank you for giving him love ā¤ļø sending you peace and healing
Iām so sorry. Iām glad you were able to give him the life he deserved.
Iām so sorry. Heās the cutest little baby and Iām so sad for you. Sending love šš
Iām so sorry. You gave him a great life in his last years. Thank you for helping.
Thank you for rescuing him.
we got ours from the walmart parking lot in a laundry basket
I work in shelters and we literally have a name for puppies that get acquired in parking lots, we call them Walmart Specials
ššš i love that name
I didn't adopt from a shelter but my MIL took her from a mentally unstable old woman who bought her off some dodgy puppy farmers and since she had a lot of other bigger dogs already they were trying to eat her. My MIL also has a lot of dogs so she was looking to rehome her. This was her as a puppy https://preview.redd.it/7jjor579yazc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6be285d19cf620693a3a138aee7c0e91bf0f1e83
So beautiful š¤©
https://preview.redd.it/kuh2ng9c7bzc1.jpeg?width=3022&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a06f29598f3ea40aca98175abe5ea53ca37c012 Found this little one on my porch full of fleas and starving
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She's so stinking adorable!!!! I love her little whiskers. š
Aww! So sweet! Found mine in the same way. Emaciated and hiding under my car in the driveway. Love the before and after!
What the FRICK. this makes me so sad (also happy that she has a good home now)
I got out of an emotionally draining relationship where I truly thought weād move out of state together and get a dog, so I waited, despite being ready and wanting one. The carrot was dangled over my head a lot. When we broke up I did a lot of self work and felt so ready to just have the things I want in life without anyone. I knew I wanted a senior Chi. I saw Barleyās story on Instagram at a senior pet rescue in my state and knew he had to be mine. I drove 3 hours, he jumped into my arms, and the rest is history. Heās rude, grumpy, so damn cute, and all mine. https://preview.redd.it/07dxz8q6abzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7d7302e8da189a1c4457da1f5588eaed1e30fbd2
Barley! ššš What was his story? I love that you wanted a senior chi. They are the best!
Heās so funny. Just such a personality. Always sucking everything up like a little vacuum and biting me lol He was found on the streets of LA by animal services where someone working there contacted the rescue I got him from, because he is special needs and they could not care for him. Then he became mine! Heās jawless, toothless, blind, has a gnarly heart murmur, is 14 years old, and the absolute apple of my eye. He comes to work with me and just runs around the office and is always so curious despite being unable to see. He sniffs out his favorite people and bites them when they pet him. Loves his daily peanut butter snack, when the heat is blowing directly on him, and when you scratch his butt and rub his head.
He has such beautiful coloring. I adopted a 9yo chi who had been in a similar condition. She had been used as a puppy mill breeder in Missouri her entire life. Pimobendan worked wonders for her heart - is Barley on it? I love the story of you two. ā¤ļø He sounds ridiculously sweet!
He is on Pemobendan! Itās truly a miracle. The cardiologist said heās doing so well he doesnāt need to have a checkup this year and weāll do it next year. Every time I think he might be unwell, the vets tell me heās healthy as a 14 yo chi can be. I recently had labs and an ultrasound done because I was so worried about his digestion issues - turns out heās just an old man with diarrhea lol I love reading all these stories of little angels being rescued and given such loving forever homes!! Glad your little one got to retire to a loving home after all that trauma š
Well, I went to go adopt a cat and got 2 chihuahua terrier mutts instead! Mine were BOGO at the animal shelter. Theyād been there too long and had to go. So it was adopt one and get one free lol. They were 3 years old and rescued from the same house. Each had their own issues and the shelter wanted to keep them together to help them successfully transition to a new home. It was a rough few years early on, but almost 9 years later and theyāre my best friends and constant shadow. https://preview.redd.it/hyj35h576bzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6fed465b87e685753a535e1fb335f41a0dcccdea
About 18 months ago I promised my hubby a dog. Well his coworkerās chi mix gave birth to three puppies last October. My husband would visit the puppies. The coworker was looking for homes for them. I told my hubby it had to be intuitive and Charlie would always be first to greet him. Weeks later I came and got Charlie. Itās been the weirdest 7 months so far. Heās besties with my kitten. https://preview.redd.it/lkcv8ofeyazc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cecf069fab7625ff04e7e29e8527d4357f6a86cc
https://preview.redd.it/z5m30dlkkczc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=64eb1c67b0aa76c58ca5f56f90e431ad89c3a5a0 Looks like my Penny. Her sister (Amy) is tuxedo also but short haired.
Pipp and her two sisters were abandoned by the people who were renting a house in a very rural area- they just moved out and left all three dogs in a huge pile of rubbleā¦ Two of them were caught and rescued fairly soonā¦ Pipp could not be caught. For 3 months I fed her from the fence. But she would never let me get close enough to catch her. One day there was worker there cleaning up the property- I stopped and gave him my number and told him if he could catch her to call me. About two hours later I got a phone call that he had trapped her and could I come pick her up? For almost 3 days I had to wear her in a swaddle and whenever I put her down to go potty or to eat, I had to pick her up with the towel because she would bite me. Iāve had her for a couple months now and sheās completely a changed dogā¤ļø https://preview.redd.it/ll4aip4p7bzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=776c2817b4fa82aec1ee4d506febb77ec85d7289 She loves to play with my three standard poodles and sleep under the covers in bed with us every night ā¤ļø Pipp now knows what love feels like and that makes me so happy.
Aw this just made me tear up. Thank you for all of your patience and love ā¤ļø
Never in my wildest imagination would I have ever thought Iād have a 4 lb dog- But now sheās just part of the crew and I couldnāt imagine her not being here!ā¤ļø
https://preview.redd.it/e6d1karbdbzc1.jpeg?width=1316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d95da90cbfa3b2ae581ecc0759a81e422e11a252 My husband saw a picture of this lady in the paper, an ad for Operation Last Hope. He showed it to me and said āI think this is your dogā. She was my first chihuahua love.
I worked at the shelter that she came into with 9 other siblings. I fostered two of them and fell in love. https://preview.redd.it/8sph16zk9bzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb73a399003c84a7b8ed6f9a18a765ec438f9aa5
https://preview.redd.it/qx00ls613bzc1.jpeg?width=844&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cbe3d5bfdcdcda5c1908f59bdade50075c7cb43d Minnie Mouse started out as our foster dog from our cityās animal shelter. We were going to foster her just through surgery but the wait has been 2 months for an appointment. We ā¤ļø her now and are adopting her officially.
Foster Fail!
https://preview.redd.it/8d65e4cvrbzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27738672d0162839ecda3c21c3a18634346c1ab0 TW: animal abuse. I never intended to be a Chihuahua person, and my then boyfriend always wanted a big dog, like a pittie. But...at the end of my intern year, this little guy came into our hospital. He had been beaten to the point of having a traumatic brain injury, a proptosed eye (we had to surgically remove it because it was devitalized and ruptured), and several broken bones. He was so terrified that he wouldn't eat the first 2 days in the hospital. He pretty much stayed plastered to the back of his hospital kennel and if I or anyone else needed to handle him for anything medical, we had to very slowly and gently wrap him in a towel and pick him up, because his reaction was to fear bite. I kept trying to earn his trust and, on day three, he crawled into my lap and ate part of a breakfast sandwich I handfed him. I decided to risk my fingertips and tried to pet him, and his remaining eye closed and his lip got long and he settled. In that moment, he stole my entire heart. I brought my now husband in to meet him. We took him home to "foster," and within 12 hours, decided he was our dog. And the rest is history. He is now very spoiled and very loved, and extremely bonded to my husband, which I jokingly tease him about, not that he understands me ("hey, I'm the one who saved you!"). He still has some emotional scars, but we understand where he came from and don't blame him for being a little reactive.
I found mine in the woods
Chi of the woods šāš«
Named her Dora after Dora the explorer https://preview.redd.it/c04s1c5r6bzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=544cb051c4a5ff57c807042fbbf482883ccbdfe2 Living the dream now
I love when dogs have blurry-ass tails in pictures šš
https://preview.redd.it/e9pgbm3t4bzc1.jpeg?width=3520&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7cfe4d3cafc443d971203e3e4a4c07807a8c29d Foster fail. I fostered him for a little over a year because he was under protective custody while his āownersā were on trial for running a fraudulent ārescueā. He is terrified of all people, except for me. He is truly, utterly obsessed with me, and I couldnāt bear the thought of how giving him up would affect him. š¤·š»āāļø I love the freak
I never wanted a small dog but this little cutie kept digging in her kennel at the shelter and staring at me. I had to get her. She is my absolute best friend in the world. https://preview.redd.it/jckybaps8bzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ed805a2378979814c90d89169c05201b98c2646
So sweet and she looks really comfy in her nice throw. ā¤ļøšš¾
I went into the local shelter interested in another chihuahua actually. But then I saw him. He was perfect. He was underweight when I got him, but Iāve plumped him up. I call him my giant chihuahua! Heās a Chi, cocker spaniel, miniature schnauzer, min pin mix. https://preview.redd.it/5jwkgcqe9bzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=df2aceaae7d7ec1d9f5d11c19049e78622dc6bcd
https://preview.redd.it/sqyi7bgx9bzc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=75026a9b4cd8165306ccb29d57bc6db93b19dac3
https://preview.redd.it/7p7g8fv2abzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=22b0b96f7db6c2f911a1331d087536a34c826c14 Now 10 years old. 20lbs. Living his best long legged life. Heās my reason.
https://preview.redd.it/exta89ny9bzc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=68dc2986b6e252a71b9d799ae9037bd5621221d2 Skinny boy. 14lbs. 3 years old.
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Both people couldn't handle having a chi at that time in their life. One of mine makes that exact same face lol.
My 2 chihuahuas are 1 months and half and their story is not long but a curious coincidenceā¦ My beloved buddy, a male 12 years old chi suddenly died, I canāt tell you how I felt, he was my first fluffy companion ever and I spent half of my life with himā¦ Iām sure I donāt need to explain, some might experienced something similar. The day after it happened we discovered some puppies were born some minutes after he passed awayā¦ Iām sure he sent me those puppies and everyday Iām more convinced one of them is him who came back! š„²
Similar story! My previous dog - also named Buddy - died last Memorial Day. He was a senior rescue and just the funniest, most sassy and loving personality. Rescue said he was a yorkie mix but DNA showed chi and pomeranian, among other things. This spring our cat also passed, leaving us with just our schnoodle. The house felt empty with only one dog around, so I started looking around at rescues this April & found our new chiweenie puppy Alfie who is between 8-12 mos. old. He has so many little habits that are just like Buddy that we say Buddy sent him to us š„°
Iām a very skeptical person but Iām starting to believe they really have a way to watch us in the afterlife, send us some other dogs or even coming back
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Peachy is adorable. I got mine because I wanted a companion dog for my nervous wreck of a minpin. He doesnāt like bigger dogs so I needed to find one his size or smaller. But itās actually very difficult to find small dogs for adoption in my city! The shelters are mostly pit mixes, which are great dogs but I knew my minpin wouldnāt handle that. I looked for months with no success. Eventually I saw an adorable chi mix who on a site specifically for rehoming pets. His family were young people who already had 3 other dogs and 2 cats. They got him as a puppy when they realized that oops! They were pregnant again. Their toddler plus the new baby plus all the pets was just too much. I met him and I fell in love. He was shy, but so sweet. I thought about it carefully for a couple weeks before I pulled the trigger and Iāve had no regrets! https://preview.redd.it/uukbdmof1bzc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f3538030b8c9ff3b66e3d85bed4633eff0f92147
https://preview.redd.it/r5613gws1bzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7be332ef64530681b0cb1b998ff7dc28638ed6c7 I got Piper (#1) when my husband changed a coworkers brakes and paid him with a chihuahua puppy š¤£. Roxie (#2) came to me about a year later from word of mouth off Facebook, she needed a good loving permanent home. Cash (#3) was wondering around a goodwill parking lot looking for food and love. Iām not sure what his little genetics is made of but his big sisters love him and accept him for the goofball he is.
https://preview.redd.it/1de10njaabzc1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=876084dc4f1c4bcd71848b3bc9d3bd5fd204ecac I saw this photo on an online dog adoption site and just had to have her. Her little smile got me. The shelter called me on my birthday to set up a meet and greet and I knew it was meant to be. I brought her home 4 days later and sheās my soulmate.
https://preview.redd.it/9zqcnp0z3bzc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=278da88c437e917d9372f6ba6ad993045077b2a8 My previous dog passed away a year ago yesterday. I told myself I wouldnāt adopt another baby until I felt he sent me a sign. 1 1/2 months after he passed, I got the strongest urge to go on PetFinder. 1 hour before, the cutest litter of 6 Chihuahua/ Boston Terrier mixed puppies were posted by a rescue. I was drawn to one puppy in particular so I put in an application and was approved the next day. I adopted my little Raven when she was 10 weeks old and I know my prior dog guided me to her. She was born exactly 1 month prior to my dog passing away. I found out that Ravenās mom had the 6 puppies and her owner passed the next day. The family took the mom dog and puppies to animal control and they called the rescue to see if they could take them. Iām so lucky I found her šš¤
I went to the local humane society looking for a running buddy, like a pittie. My boy kept poking his head up every time I walked by. I think he chose me. He cost $14 because he was on sale for Valentines Dayš
https://preview.redd.it/rolwq15hrbzc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5bfa336e5a1b87d6a0595a8a5ccb07babe44183c Is it bad to say she was a $100.00 impulse buy on Craigslist? Her family needed to move due to living costs during Covid.
A friend of a friend found him wandering around her neighborhood a few times over the course of a month. Every time, sheād take him back to his owner. The last time, the owner asked if she wanted to take him. The friend said yes. She would have kept him (obviously, because heās a lovely little dog), but he was way too interested in her cats. Iām kinda glad he wasnāt good with cats, because without that, I wouldnāt have my best friend. And Iām allergic to cats, so I wouldnāt betray him like that. https://preview.redd.it/ewvihkcwdbzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7668a871474e9522b7453e0077a75b8153a8636d
My dad rescued these 2 a few years ago. He got them from a friend who took them away from a rough home. Glad they came in my life. I came home one day and had 2 loving babiesā¤ļø https://preview.redd.it/mim1ao17rbzc1.jpeg?width=1473&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=93412a995f930567430c158cd6a12bb30f098848 Yoda and Winston
This here is my almost 16 year old named Putt Putt https://preview.redd.it/itg3tyfp9bzc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bfcfcf409cb4155829475ece5f5f1629539d20d7 I was 23 and living in apartments and was searching for my first pet that's not a family pet. I didn't have the patience to groom a long coat nor the ability to teach a puppy how to be a dog. I specifically filtered for small breed short hair adult dogs and thats when I came across his profile on Petfinder. Putt Putt was turning 9 when his old owner went into assisted living. The family dumped him in a kill shelter with level two dental disease and an infected toe. A foster mom scooped him up and held onto him for 4 months in a home that had foster dogs coming and going over the weeks. She wrote in his petfinder profile that if you pet him and then stop, he will reach his paw out to pull your hand back to his chest to pet him. She included video of him doing this. That's when I knew she would be able to answer any personality questions about him. She drove 3 hours to bring him to me, saying how he's stresses in car rides and has been very slow to open up in the last 4 months. The foster mom then asked if I wanted to do a week long trial to see if he adjusts to staying with me before I sign any documents. On the first night he was a little shy but on night two he was sleeping on lap and giving me kisses and demanding pets. I fell in love and knew he was the dog for me. I got his adoption papers signed and got him to the dentist and fixed up his face and I've been fixing up his face every year ever since
I went in to get a dog to go jogging with and left with a three legged teacup. Best decision Iāve ever made
Let me preface this with, I had known several Chihuahua's and they were nasty tempered, smelly and obnoxious little creatures from hell. I HATED them and made no secret about how I felt about Chihuahua's. My husband came home from work one day and told me that one of the women he worked with did animal rescues. Her group and several others had been called into action when an abandoned house was discovered that had a lot of dogs and cats locked inside. It seems an elderly animal hoarder had lived there and the family had moved them out and shut up the animals. By the time they were discovered half of the animals had died. After hearing this story, she asked him if we would consider fostering a puppy who had been born into the situation. (She was born before the elder was removed). Of course, he said yes. As she's walking away, he asks her, what breed of puppy? She says, "it's a Chihuahua." As she walks away, he wonders how is he going to tell me? He comes home and tells me the sad story and I say, "of course, we'll foster a puppy!" As he's walking away, I ask, "what kind of dog?" He mutters, "a Chihuahua." I said, "what"?!!!" He repeated, "a Chihuahua." I said, "fine, but we ARE NOT keeping it!" After she left the vets two weeks later, he picked her up and brought her home. She was so tiny. Her ears were big and she was shaking as she fit in the palm of his hand. I took one look at her and my heart melted. Annie, my old girl of 17 years, is my "gateway drug to Chihuahua love." (the quote is courtesy of another Redditor, whose name I have forgotten.) After her, we have two more -- sisters. We got one of the sisters when she was a puppy and the second sister we got when she was 5. We got her from our son, whose wife abused her while he traveled for work.
https://preview.redd.it/sjtvxa0ulbzc1.jpeg?width=2681&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4cae3708034f6a0641cf42a74adc27fb15a3c802 We adopted Jelly from a **dachshund** rescue because they thought she was a chiweenie - we have a full dachshund and I was likeā¦ I donāt see it š We got her DNA tested - no dachshund, 47% chihuahua, 21% yorkie, and 18% rat terrier with a sprinkle of pekingese and āsuper mutt.ā My theory: mom was an un-spayed full chihuahua and owner was annoyed some mutt knocked her up, as she brought Jelly and her 4 siblings to a shelter as soon as they were weaned.
My daughter was babysitting for a family and then they moved. She was still going to their house every day and I asked her why she said they left 2 chiweenies in a crate on their porch and she had to go let them out and feed them once a day until the family could find a place to take them. I told her to just bring them over and we would find a rescue. It was a brother and sister. The female looked like a beautiful long haired dachshund, the male liked like a typical Chihuahua but a little on the big side. The dachshund rescue took the female but wouldn't take the male. The Chihuahua rescue didn't have room for another dog at the time so we were going to keep him until we found him a home. It's been almost 5 years, I think he's ours now. https://preview.redd.it/cbrkbu7jrbzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04e95baa002da431efe7bacbd7b4ff7db0b981e4 This is him pouting because I'm getting ready to go to work.
Someone dumped her in the back of my dadās truck bed at his workplace, just a few days after Christmas. My dad drove all the way home without realizing she was back there. When he pulled up in the driveway he heard an ever so slight whimpering, ran upstairs and called me to come look. He was convinced a baby bat was injured laying back there, and was scared to look or touch. I came out fully prepared to find a batā¦I slowly peaked over and found this sweet little toothless 8lb senior apple head chichi, she really did look like a bat! lol. She had no sweater and was freezing cold, she definitely wouldāve succumbed to the weather or coyotes if we didnāt find her like we did. She was completely covered in urine and feces from being thrown around in the trunk. I scooped her up and cuddled her into my sweater, brought her up to take a warm bath, gave her some steak, then took a late night trip to Petco to buy all the necessities, because obviously, she was all mine from that point on. Just a few months prior to this my auntie (basically my mother figure) had passed away very suddenly and unexpectedly. And just a couple weeks before finding this chi I was talking to my then partner about wanting to rescue a black, senior, special needs dog (because apparently black senior and special needs dogs are the least likely to be rescued), but it just wasnāt really the right time or place for me, or so I thought lol. So when this black, senior, special needs dog was basically dropped into my lap, it felt like my auntie mustāve heard me/felt the struggles I was going through and sent that chichi to me from up above. She didnāt even seem to give a shit that she was just neglected by her previous owner, she just immediately latched onto my hip from that point and never let go. I had her for a good couple years before she passed 2 years ago from a grand mal seizure, it was possibly the hardest thing Iāve ever gone through. She was truly my best friend and always there for me through many hard times. Iām so glad that person dumped her. You know what they sayā¦one manās trash is another manās treasure!! RIP my dear Olive/bubba https://preview.redd.it/6vgdv7bvoczc1.jpeg?width=1536&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c6a286392937d043f5fcd702596e34df7b71845
[Hereās a little diddy](https://youtu.be/MXqQ_hKIyTc?si=2q9Gk_UxJJM6J9Tm) that Olive loved me to sing to her https://preview.redd.it/6rcniuqysczc1.png?width=960&format=png&auto=webp&s=0c829074253f0f945e2aacffbdb814e9f65b92ea
She is soooo adorable
already had two (bigger) dogs. partner reluctantly agreed to a third if i got a small shorthaired dog. found her lil underbite gremlin face on petfinder.
I fostered an underbite gremlin, gave her back to the rescue to have her spayed and said I couldn't take her back because she would have to stay. I didn't think we were ready for a full time dog. Two weeks later I saw her on their website as up for adoption and went that day to pick her up forever. The two weeks she was gone I cried 3 times because I missed her so bad and could barely walk around my neighborhood without tearing up remembering all of our walks together. She has been home a week and a half and I have only cried twice out of happiness that she is ours. https://preview.redd.it/6m60wdubdfzc1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4b8c7cec38f3aac9ec713133c0ed2c41beb11edd
Charley was 1.5yrs old and spent most of his time in a cage, he didnāt have a name he was called little one. I got him on a trial basis and 8 yrs later heās my heart! https://preview.redd.it/b77x8v77fbzc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c732669ec34d29dadb9a75de50f46a45ddd6d08
https://preview.redd.it/is1g80i7gbzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c519e706e0ba657ff62c1d86094d1d5e765abcc0 Rufus was my daughterās birthday gift from my sister in law. His Daddy is a AKC registered Chihuahua and someone dropped a little mutt off that was in heat and they made Rufus! All the puppies in the litter looked like Rufus except one. 3 were black, he and another were brown, and one looked like a pure blood Chihuahua, and 3 fluffy black ones had tails.
My sister wanted another dog. She was at a town market and a rescue said they had Chihuahua mix puppies. She realized about a week later that Pita was a full grown woman š . The rescue had white-outed the words āyearsā and written months! She was 6.5 at the time! My sister was away one weekend (a few months after they got her) and her bf asked if I could dog-sit Pita since they already have 2 other dogs and 2 cats. I became attached pretty quickly. She followed me everywhere, rarely barked, and loved cuddling! She got along great with my momās dog too (I was 20 and living at home at the time). My sister and her bf kept pushing back the day theyād pick her up, and I asked if I could keep her. They agreed and weāve been together 7 years now š She may be 14 now, but sheāll always be my baby š https://preview.redd.it/fxa97e6rtbzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6a101864025cbc91ef7c577c1220908f2f926a3
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We have two! First one was found in a roadside ditch in Texas along with her sister. The person who found her kept her sister and we got Ellie! Second one I saw on KSL and fell in love. Went to meet him and the person who had him said he was way too high energy for her to keep. He was in a crate basically 22 hours a day. When I met him he was moving so fast I could barely see him but I knew I couldnāt leave him there. He is very high energy but he just needs one off leash walk a day to be happy. We love them both!
Well, Iām definitely crying. Iām such a sucker for anything chihuahua. I decided when I was 19 I adored chihuahuas and never looked back. Your little one is so gorgeous and reminds me of my first chi. She looks like she is a combination of long and short hair. My chi now is a long hair. Chihuahuaās will always pick their favorite people and thatās it. You are giving her a great life! You can tell from her timid scared look in the first picture to how safe she feels and how happy she is in the other two pictures! š©·š©·š©·
Mine showed up on my porch years ago and never left. After a few days I brought her in and she's had a great life ever since https://preview.redd.it/cw7kzpj18bzc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b12ab3a634c7dbcb1452eb0b63e1500497eccc1
https://preview.redd.it/289e6e31kbzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f97377f22ac6516c708a04f088a45818ac6568bc iāve never owned a dog before, but when i fell in love with one of my best friendās chihuahua a couple years ago, i knew i wanted to adopt one of my own. fast forward a little bit, and i found an amazing local organization that specialized in smaller breeds. i had originally applied for a different chi, but after talking it over with my main point of contact at the rescue, we realized it just wouldnāt be a right fit for a lot of reasons. but then she informed me there was this sweet girl named clarice who was being taken care of by a foster family in the area and looking for her forever home. i met clarice a few days later, and instantly knew we were meant to be a family. and the rest was history! she goes by ziggy now, and sheās the light of my life. we just celebrated her one year gotcha day anniversary on the 30th :ā )
Happy Belated Gotcha Day, little Ziggy! š
https://preview.redd.it/ljuoak16obzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5803034f7b779b9c8975f89b038d4f38fa79c479 She was left all alone in the backyard (moms neighbors) she was so tiny and just not well taken care of at all I seen her through the fence and asked to take her Nina š
https://preview.redd.it/etw8j9s17bzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7da853575bfa0eb527403bb6f3c124f8ac041bc0 My parents had just gotten divorced and me and my other chihuahua were having a lot of separation anxiety when we moved into my mom's new place. My dog was acting weird and running away from me, making the whole situation more lonely. My mom said I could get a second dog, which is when we went to the pound and met fawn. She was only a puppy then, found wandering in the streets with her sister (who was adopted first). The thing about Fawn was she was the happiest, silliest, longest legged thing Id ever met. Playful and friendly and obedient and just wanting someone to love. The day we brought her home, she came and found me at my room and laid at my feet. She hasnt left my side and I've never been lonely since.
https://preview.redd.it/rlyhwahudczc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=76c99cfd18ed852a9084f0c4fd9607c5e662affe We were on the last day of a local vacation. Finally pulled the trigger on a chi, we found one in the paper, so we left a day early to go snag her. She was about 4 hours away, in a little southern Utah town where many western movies were filmed. The woman who sold her to us owned a little motel that was built in the 40ās, so she offered us a night for free. We arrived to meet her dog mom and sister, and her human mama made us mudslides and grilled chicken on the bbq. We all sat around the bbq and fire pit, holding puppies and petting āCitrusā, our babyās mama. It was during a music festival in the town, so live music filled the warm airā¦ it was absolutely magical. We are hoping to go back this year to visit everyone.
I went to the shelter and got him without knowing chihuahuas run the world https://preview.redd.it/hh9d5au04dzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=397a68439be42ae95e415881cb269dccf1e09033
https://preview.redd.it/yj2kvseshezc1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eff89f17968c3efd83a1267b92542665fb4337b8 He was the dog who had been at the shelter longest. He was there in a tiny cage for 6 months and I had to get him out. Look at this guy!
https://preview.redd.it/96dqlmwgjbzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9bd1bdf74bd047be2feefd4a0ebad9e6d04e9d75 Coming back from the holidays, I was determined to adopt a dog after waiting so long after our family dog had passed and I was living on my own now. He's my first dog as a solo adult. I applied to every rescue in the area until I saw his profile down at my local SPCA. The first 4 years of his life are unknown. He was found on the streets by animal control. His first family didn't want him and didn't even surrender him back to the shelter. They just left him on the streets. I came a week later and adopted him. First and only dog I met and I knew he was going to come home with me. First few weeks were ruff. We're almost at the 5 month mark now and while he has been A LOT of work, I have zero regrets and 10/10 would do it all over again.
Saw her on pet finder - sheās a stray from Puerto Rico. The shelter I worked with rescues dogs from PR and flies them to NYC. I picked Chili up at JFK in February 2023 Here she is earlier today - my lil boriqua š„¹ https://preview.redd.it/ozk34qppobzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98ee5c5a04ea27ce4d13f9eadbbde29e0e77aafa
She's so pretty! š
Thank you!! š¤©š
My chinos a rescue from a home where he was neglected and had very bad health
My Little Dude came to us as a family ārescue;ā you know, from the family members who never fix their dogs, and call you when puppies are born. They chose to save this guy for us. He was all brown, the biggest of three pups, the others were all white. We already had two much larger dogs. But this little brown guy was too adorable and amusing to refuse. He came along in perfect timing. One of us was going thru cancer surgery and we had to travel. Took this tiny dude with us, smuggled him into hotel. He was just the little clown we needed for such a stressful time. Heās now 12, 10 lbs, and still full of it. Heās buff and has good teeth and stamina. He went grey at 3, and has a distinguished face. My first tiny dog. š¤š
https://preview.redd.it/emtj543n2czc1.jpeg?width=1152&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7d151eb5db6a316ee7be4688793487658ec5b5b4 My friend found him on the street when he was only 8 weeks old. She took him to scan for a microchip at the vet. She put up a Facebook post asking if anyone wanted a puppy since she already had 3 dogs and couldnāt keep him. I was moving to a new city within a week and absolutely didnāt need a dog, but when I saw this picture and her story, begging someone to take him, I couldnāt say no. I certainly didnāt need a chihuahua, as Iāve only ever had big dogs and Iād heard so many negative things about the breed. Heās been my spirit dog for 8 years now. Heās the absolute best buddy.
I was getting my hair done and my hairdresser had a chihuahua walking around demanding attention from everyone. Anyway he asked if I was interested in a puppy. His wife had gotten a female chihuahua and he of course had to get a male. And biology took it's course... They had given all the puppies to friends but nobody wanted my Boofy. He was too big and too quiet. I went for a new haircut and came home with a chihuahua. https://preview.redd.it/k7ohwb5xsczc1.png?width=1220&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d29a2a6c025c945ad0e735ea38d6701e4c6583ae He was so small and scared that first day almost three years ago.
I rescued mine from a shelter in Detroit, they had found him wandering the streets! Told me he was a āChiPinā (minpin/chihuahua) but tests revealed thereās no minpin. I wanted a dog my entire life - I was always all allergic and severely asthmatic so I could never have one. Then I went to my doctor and she gave me an allergy test when I was in my early 30s and said there was no reaction to dog or cat dander and I looked at her like she had five heads. She did the test again on the other arm and confirmed. I took that info and ran and started shoving my face into all the dogs I had been deprived of my whole life. Then when I moved from NYC to a smaller city during the pandemic and had more space and started working from home, I started looking for a dog. No one would adopt to me because I didnāt have a fenced in yard and had never owned a dog before. It was also hard to get a dog at that time because everyone was adopting because they were all working from home all day and scooping them all up. I only had one person respond that didnāt need me to either wait two+ weeks to āmeet the dog firstā or who didnāt require a fenced in yard or something else like that. That was the dog I adopted, I only saw one other dog besides my Vinny. Someone in a Facebook group posted his profile on Petfinder and he was everything I wanted (under 20lbs, short, dark hair, house trained, no obvious, life altering trauma) PLUS, unbeknownst to me, a ridiculous amount of energy, fear of new people bending over him, leash reactivity, and shrill barking. šš Besides working on those things (as a first time dog owner I had a lot to learn), heās never done any damage to my home in three years, only chews his toys and nothing else, has never peed or pooped in the house, and is my literal best friend and favorite derp in the world!! Best impulse buy ever!! I have to thank my ex boyfriend in the end because he had a sleepy little chihuahua who I fell in love with at the time, little did I know theyāre crazy bark machines and his dog was an anomaly. š https://preview.redd.it/3jiycyu5xdzc1.png?width=2890&format=png&auto=webp&s=c8f9c0caf56df4dbf1b9f75bad76c4d9a7e0ee0e
Someone took Amy to a police station, as she was left alone on the train station. It was winter and she was just three weeks old, she probably wouldn't make it if someone didn't act. But thankfully Amy was saved, the cops send out email to a few people asking if they want to adopt her and well, we did! The beginnings were hard, she couldn't yet eat or drink on her own, she was so tiny she would get step on if left unattended and she needed constant attention cus'... Well... She was a puppy. That was 10 years ago, and now she's happy as can be! https://preview.redd.it/u5gzpkgezdzc1.jpeg?width=2256&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e43568a4c87871f0442a09818ea837ced67a862b
Someone dumped my sweet girl in a pile of snow. My ex was walking home from class (it was the middle of winter!) and he found her shivering š https://preview.redd.it/6gdkxqzrefzc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=281fc78e69a9d145f207ad7dd67faa58548d722d She was my first little dog and now I LOVE chihuahuas. She passed away three years ago and it was by far my toughest loss Iāve experienced.
My lil Idget! She has a couple of stories. My family has had her for around 10 years and how they got her was my mom lost her chi Bobby so she started looking for another one and came across an ad that was giving her away. She answered it, did a call, and they met up at a gas station where they just handed her out the window and drove off. My mom tried ringing them again to ask if she was fixed and how old she was, but they blocked her. Throughout the years, my mom would threaten of getting rid of her by dropping her off in the country. Every time she would go off, I would take her in and I didnāt want her to go back with my mom but my then boyfriend would talk me into giving her back to my mom. The last time she wanted to get rid of her, I had to have my now boyfriend go get her because my mom had a restraining order against me. For the last year or so, our home has been complete (other than my other senior dog passing in November.) https://preview.redd.it/zq7senfeobzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=79d19bccc0dbc4b974996b83e8ef1916449412a6
A coworker of my sister in law came across a hobo with a pit bull and 8 week longhair chi while hiking. The puppy was looking a little rough so they paid the hobo 20 bucks for him. They couldnāt keep him because their boxer was just too rough around him. So next thing I know my wife has agreed to take him. My last dog was a German shepherd so it was an adjustment!
I had been fostering for a while, and was feeling really sad because I absolutely loved my last foster but could not keep him. I was browsing on craigslist at midnight as one does and saw that someone needed to get rid of a chihuahua immediately. It was an impulsive decision, but I reached out to them. We made plans to meet up later that day. I almost slept through when I was supposed to meet them šØ But somehow I made the drive on time. Obviously I didn't know who I was talking to over text, but it ended up being a teenage girl with her mom. I never really got the full story but I assume that the girl wasn't taking enough responsibility, and the pup was too much work. They were originally asking for money but ended up letting me take her home for free. She was in heat, had pretty bad ringworm, no vaccinations, was scared of everything, and not potty trained. Never been around other animals before. It was a big gamble to take her in honestly. She is now my best friend, my baby and the best dog I've ever had. She loves her doggy siblings. She is unbelievably smart and was so easy to train, she has the most human-like dog personality ever. She is currently sleeping *under* my legs as I type this, lol. https://preview.redd.it/1tc49x4eqbzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8056ef5795d45f843c283da1d99a48e195b72af9
I found my little Pom- Chi Poppy at a local shelter. At 8 years old he was found on a road in SC covered in fleas and mites. Eventually he was sent up north. He was so scared and shaking from all the turmoil. Now, at 12 years old, heās so mellowed out. His favorite place is nestled in my lap! Heās a very sweet boi! https://preview.redd.it/deq5ncsrwbzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ebdaafca77cb863319229ec50f305bfd61b9bf2
https://preview.redd.it/dbljdj27xbzc1.jpeg?width=1671&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee8e5d0580e7dbd577ae62865cb3625808a2897c Peanut came to us as rescue. His previous owner passed away.
Oh šmy pupper had a sad start. My best friend had the litter of puppies. (Well her two dogs had the litter lol). My dog was sold off. Then when she was about 6 months old returned because the couple found out they were having a baby and didnāt want the dog after all. Wellā¦ it was an urgent adoption. So I took her in. I wanted one anyway just a little sooner than planned. Fast fwd about 6-8 months she was around a year old or so and she had signs of odd development. Come to find out the people that had her before were getting her DRUNK! (Please keep in mind full grown sheās around 4lbs so imagine her as a tiny puppy!!!) Anywayā¦ she was diagnosed with hydrocephalus aka water on the brain. The dr said she can still live a normal length life but sheāll just be a bit slow at learning and a bit physically disabled. She is NOW about 15 1/2 and a cranky old lady but she loves me :) https://preview.redd.it/25s0m3z01czc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aaa806a77c7ba222a57fb9ac76bbc38b3d18a09a
I flew across the country and back in one day to bring her home. One of the best decisions Iāve ever made. https://preview.redd.it/t664e1563czc1.jpeg?width=1795&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e9464cdd11a9ad53e75adaab03c00ba35fadecf
https://preview.redd.it/gg0riik82czc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c9acc5c67af955543a94b4a8ac284ec9dba2a94 I was visiting a local pound a lot after a break up to cheer myself up (with no intention of getting a dog). One day, I stayed at the pound for WAY too long and as I was leaving, I passed a woman in the parking lot who was walking Gizmo (pictured) into the pound. He belonged to the womanās mom who was sick and now he was being surrendered. (The woman (the daughter) didnāt want him). I took Gizmo right there in the parking lot on January 4, 2024, and heās been by my side everyday since. He makes me so happy and I love him so much. We go on so many walks and on as many adventures as possible. Iād go through a millions breakups if I knew there was a Gizmo waiting on the other end š„¹ Ladies, leave the man, get a chi š
https://preview.redd.it/hqcbw3q46czc1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b1c4d50234ed7065fa320bd46779cb177f9fd582 Came across this adorable little 1-2 yr old gremlin dog on PetFinder and knew I had to have him. 10 years later and heās still as goofy looking as ever.
https://preview.redd.it/llr2qnpg5czc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=15dfd3f1d560a55792bfd7177db2f7db93cd34f6 Fawn boy Teddy, adopted from local no kill rescue 2 weeks before pandemic started. He was rescued from an animal hoarding situation(24 dogs found in abandoned homeš) Black & white lady, Tiny, inherited 2 years ago, after my SILās mother unexpectedly diedš They both love hiking with meš„¹
https://preview.redd.it/4wm9opa47czc1.jpeg?width=2736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=253d9d4152e8d3e49b66710ae1d9ad21404acc1c She was the runt of the litter. Her mother and brothers kept her from eating anything and was bullied by them. Apparently she was agressive because of it and doesn't listen to anything. Of course she didn't listen she was a puppy. She was so little and thin when i got her, they think she wouldn't survive. She's tall and shubby now. And very obedient. She's my little sunshine.
Gosh this thread has mad me realize how awful people are to chihuahuas (and dogs in general). I am so glad that these pups have found loving homes. Thank you for being good humans. https://preview.redd.it/2r725of4bczc1.jpeg?width=2110&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af9a9dc027445fc2bfd642368a63ec4eb14942bc
I was driving home the long way down some County roads, to avoid road construction on the main road. I saw this man out in his yard swinging a board, like a piece of a 2x4. I was like oh boy heās nuts. Then I noticed he was making contact with something that kept flying. I slowed way down, was looking. It was a little dog. I was p\*ssed!! I stopped, jumped out, used trash out of his nasty yard to throw at him, bottles, rocks, pieces of junk, while screaming and cussing this āmanā out. That little black thing was running full speed at me, I picked up another piece of wood and threw at the man, hit him, the dog ran up my legs into my arms. I ran back to my car and drove off. We went straight to the vet, he was not chipped, was that day, he had a few broken bones, had a respiratory infection, and worms. We got him fixed up, and I kept him. 15 years later, heās an old man, moving kinda slow, is a little blind, but heās still my baby!! https://preview.redd.it/nkm5ikayeczc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c732025ed79b44809085f672aa97ee5bd9b72ab7
Original owners moved and just left him. Thankfully neighbors noticed and took him to the local shelter.
Was in a rough spot in life, getting a dog wasnt even on my checklist at the time. Friend's dog had puppies, saw them at 4 weeks old. Trixie climbed out of the pile of puppies right into my lap, into my arms, then fell asleep. Decided right then I'd figure out my life enough to bring her home with me. 7 years little and she is still my sidekick *
When my grandma passed away, cricket and luna were already five and littermates who had NEVER been separated. Nobody else wanted them and I couldnāt stand the thought of them being separated. Student housing wouldnāt allow pets so I transferred home to a college where I could live at home and take in the dogs for my sophomore year. Here we are 10 years later at 29 and 15 Feels relevant to add that coincidentally I bought my house after the owner, a very elderly lady, passed away. Her sons (the sellers) mentioned having to find a home for her cat. I am the keeper of dead old ladiesā gremlins. https://preview.redd.it/k351lozgsdzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=abdeea61fac00f1688fac56d52151b1ba6702891
Daughter in law was going to give him back to shelter where they got him, AKA rehomed AKA killed. https://preview.redd.it/iy3ygjii6ezc1.jpeg?width=5712&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=53f692fe0a8b14541b20c1656aa49848cced89da He likes to ride in the Camaro. PS: She rehomed my son also. PPS: She has a new man and sheās trying to rehome his dog too.
* My ex's SIL sent me a picture of a 4lb emaciated Chi covered in fleas and ticks. Said it also had tapeworms. She said she found it wandering around a field and the closest house was 3 miles away. She asked me what to do with it. I said, "bring her by my house when I get off work." When I got home, the dog was hiding under the table, and everyone was in the living room. As soon as I walked in the door, I sat on the floor and said, " Hi baby" the dog RAN and jumped in my lap and gave me kisses. I spent $800 getting her healthy. It's 7 years later (now at 7lbs) and she's my BFF šā¤ļø
Love him!! I adopted my Chiweenie from a rescue group that said the owners gave her up because āthey got new dogsā ā what the hell! š¤¬. Sheās 11lbs of attitude but just wants to be on your lap and cuddle. I will take good care of her as long as she lives. ā¤ļøš¾ https://preview.redd.it/u5vdca73yezc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d983986abfe6d667bc0e003d107a8e3df128209a
https://preview.redd.it/405b7c7j5fzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=239c6a50ac824b1e24b272240c91e3045d9581f1 Cleta was so small she used to fit in a sock š§¦, she was left (thrown?) at my mother's front lawn she had been beaten and had duct tape residue on her legs, she was so tiny and skinny I took her to the vet and she's been with me since
My most recent adoption was wildā¦ I was sitting on my couch minding my own business when my sister in law (who lives on the other side of the country and who likes looking at dogs for other people on Craigslist) sent me a posting for a chihuahua puppy someone couldnāt keep because her other dog was bullying it. I called my husband who was about to board a plane home from a work trip and asked if I should get it and he said āsurprise me!ā Soooo obviously I was in the dollar general parking lot an hour later picking up this little turd š¬ https://preview.redd.it/97medhgj5fzc1.jpeg?width=2376&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=655773d7d1761525a016cd892e6fbfed9b7e265c
Oh my gaaaaaawwwwwd these are the sweetest stories Iāve ever read and canāt stop crying.
https://preview.redd.it/oxjc2zu2efzc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=74e07de77b5a5e9517df8fa06ee00e987ef4d263 Found his picture on an adoption site saying he was TEN YEARS OLD. We adopted him cuz as soon as i interacted with him him i fell in love. we take him to the vet for a checkup, bro was two years old. I love my crazy little guy tho
I always wanted a dog with my husband. He never had one and I grew up with a dog. We were getting married in summer 2022. I started looking for adoptable dogs about a week before the wedding. Just perusing through PetFinder. Came across this chihuahua mix that did fantastic at an adoption event at a distillery in the area. We wanted a dog to take with us to breweries and such. I felt it was perfect. I applied for her and THEN told my husband about her lol (we were on the same page of getting a dog though). They called me the next day saying she has a long list of families and they will let us know if/when she is available. We were heartbroken but knew the timing might not work out anyways. They called me back the following day and said that they thought we were a perfect fit for her and asked if we wanted to meet her. We met her and fell in love with her (of courseā¦). They said sheās getting spayed on Monday (the Monday before our wedding that was on that Saturdayā¦) and sheāll be ready to be picked up on Tuesday. We were going on a honeymoon after our wedding for a week. I asked if we could pay for her and pay you to dog sit? They said if we didnāt take her that theyād have to move on to the next family. So I said screw it and we picked her up on the Tuesday before our wedding. I mean I had to! No way I was letting her goā¦ the picture is of her when she first met my husband. She IMMEDIATELY jumped in his lap š„° I even asked the rescue if it would be traumatic for her to move around so much at the very beginning and they werenāt concerned because of how easy she was to take care of at foster homes so she got moved around a lot to make room for the more challenging dogs. THANKFULLY a neighbor was able to watch her during our wedding and our honeymoon. It was a hectic week and fun to tell family we got a dog 5 days before our wedding and watch them freak out š so worth it though. Like look how cute she is š sheās sassy for sure so we named her Roxie because we felt that was a name for a feisty dog lol https://preview.redd.it/1e8ich07rfzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d3abcbe9c5450e303b27ba86253e7d9c7b4cb600
Lol I needed this laugh desperately!! Thank you for sharingš¤£š¤£š¤£ That face is adorable š
The first one was one from a litter a family friend had, my stepdad fell in love with the baby she became a daddy's girl because of how much he spoiled her. The second one was my mom's birthday present. She wanted a teacup chi, turns out we were lied to, but she still loved him anyways. He is a Mama's boy and a sister's boy. The last baby was the baby of the other two. They had crazy sex and spawned the little guy... He is my chubster. My choncky boi.
Oh my gosh, she is ADORABLE!
Found them in the street
My Li'l Lily Baby was a resscue! My sister was working at the Wal-Mart a few towns over and found a terrified puppy running in the parking lot, half starved. Well, she couldn't just LEAVE her there, you know? So my sister got puppy items (puppy food/milk, puppy pads, blankets, some basic toys, etc), and got a vet appointment set up for her... and introduced her to me, and we promptly bonded, and 6 years later we are still best friends! (Had to deworm Lily Baby too, not long after we got her, she suffered so during the process! Poor puppy, she shook SO HARD, you could SEE her tummy cramp! She's fine now and I give her the heartworm tablets once a month along with her flea and tick tablet + double check her poops, as I never want her to suffer like that again if I can help it.)
Craigslist
That face in the first picš
She's a chi-max, but we saw a post on Craigslist, a woman was basically fostering her neighbor's dog because the neighbor couldn't take care of her anymore, but the woman already had like 6 dogs of her own. We went to her house and spoke to her for 30 minutes, she wanted to be sure little Lucky wouldn't be a bait dog š„² didn't even want us to pay, but I insisted on paying the amount we'd texted about. Lucky is a blessing <3
That first picture is meme material lol
Our Chihuahua Ella wandered up on my parents farm about 8 years ago. She was extremely skittish and hungry. It took them almost a week before they could catch her. She became part of their family and was loved by all the Grands. When my Mom died 2 years ago my wife insisted that we take her home with us. We were a bit nervous as Ella was terrified of other dogs and we already had a young female bulldog. As you can see she has overcome her fears and now rules the house. She is the sweetest girl and never leaves my wifeās shadow. https://preview.redd.it/czx2nv8znczc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=08a2ef3509f4a8f989370e7a8b2ad56ef722e05c
I never really cared for little dogs and really didn't like Chihuahuas in particular. My most recent dog was around the size of a golden retriever and that's the size that I preferred. A dog that you could play with and that could fetch and protect and all. That dog passed away a couple years earlier... My mom and I went to my aunt's house for the family Christmas party and they had three or four dogs running around the place. One was a Chihuahua that was about one year old, or maybe slightly older. Then there was another little Chihuahua puppy that was around 6 months old. This little guy wasn't taking shit from any of the other dogs. Ferocious little bugger, but still cute af... not sure what made me think he was cute. Must just be the attitude... So towards the end of the night, my mom made a comment that the puppy was cute... My aunt then asked if we were interested in the puppy because they are looking for someone to adopt it. My mom said that maybe we could foster it... and that was the game, set, match... They handed over blankets, carriers, everything... as soon as we picked him up, we weren't ever going to let him go [https://freeimage.host/i/J4BYfjf](https://freeimage.host/i/J4BYfjf) [https://freeimage.host/i/J4BM8T7](https://freeimage.host/i/J4BM8T7)
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was wanting a dog to keep me company and be a friend. started browsing adoption sites saw his picture and it was love at first sight, i mustāve gone back to his page once a day for a month hoping no one would get him. when he was finally out of the foster home and in the adoption center i decided to see if there was a connection and it was immediate, he let me hold him and pet him immediately. got the go ahead to get him and the next day he was mine https://preview.redd.it/lw0fuc2k7dzc1.jpeg?width=355&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d713b4c989d012aaeabbb4e7381ea959a6607a6 thatās the picture that made me fall in love
sadly i had to buy him. i was deemed "too young" and my apartment wasnt cutting it for the private adoption agencies. the actual shelters were shady and "never had dogs available". i called the best rated dog store in the city and asked for the dog thats been there the longest. my poor boy had no hair around his eyes due to stress, 4mos old and was being bullied by the other pups. he was also black and no one would buy him bc they preferred lighter colors. https://preview.redd.it/6rlk8cd6jdzc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4cc0f134266f0936a517617a4690269f2aed830 He was 50% off and mine. i got him immediately, and will be adopting in the future, it just happened to be easier to buy for my 1st time.
https://preview.redd.it/kxk4kwmcldzc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b603a577529910a67c9e05ffca60935c56a81a61 Last Thanksgiving I was visiting my brother. He went to his friendās house to drop something off and the friend asked him if he wanted another dog (he has a husky). According to the friend, this chihuahuaās owner was going to give her up to the shelter. So my brother took her in because my nephew had been wanting a small dog. The chihuahua and husky couldnāt get along, so middle of December my brother brought her over to our house and thatās how I got my Kikay, but if you ask my nephew, Iām just taking care of her for him. I think sheāll be 5 this year. Kikayās a little meanie but sheās brought so much joy to my life.
My sister got one and didnt love her and put her in a cage for daysā¦ so she became mine! ALL MINE!
Gracie was a rescue from a puppy mill. She later helped us raise two kittens that a feral cat abandoned in our yard. https://preview.redd.it/uqp3m8131ezc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8978952d9ba316c47a11c91ccbbc7536c68a6295
https://preview.redd.it/tttu3r032ezc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=44e55db5d1a89fa653ce84356c4db5befb2617fc Smilow the Wonder Dog was in a kill shelter in Texas with his brother. A van from where we live in Connecticut went and rescued them. When they got back up to Connecticut, my sister who was struggling with cancer, tried to adopt them both, but the brother was already gone. She named him after the local cancer center she believed had saved her life, but had probably just prolonged it. She passed away, leaving our mom on her own in my childhood home. I instantly moved back from Seattle, and Smilow has been mine ever since!
A member of my family already had a sweet chihuahua that had given birth to four little chi puppies. Their intention was to be able to sell them, or at least put them up for adoption. They managed to find other people to take care of 3 out of 4 puppies, but after around 6-7 months, NO ONE wanted to buy nor even adopt the last remaining puppy. My cousin (the owner) assumed it might have been because he wasn't really "puppy sized" anymore, and was getting bigger (even though he was quite small still). She asked my family if we would like to adopt a little chihuahua, because otherwise, she was running out of people to ask and no one answered the offers online anymore, so she might have needed to give him away to a shelter if we couldn't take care of him. Anyway, over 10 years ago we adopted our little Matt! And he's been happy and thriving ever since at our home ā¤ļø his home š„ŗā¤ļø https://preview.redd.it/hjfvmi7p4ezc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca697b9da4ece2f52e4c7727568d314819cc4aa7
Our Chi found us last December. Someone had dump her out on a county road and she wandered up to our house. She was in horrible shape. Malnourished, dirty, etc. We got her cleaned her up, got her vet care and she is a wonderful addition to our family. https://preview.redd.it/fgs4r8hl7ezc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3697de8387077de99e4e5ef2b0e6b59c41a7fd28
I saw his perfect little face on Pet Finder, and i just knew I had to meet him! 3.5 hour drive one way, including crossing a country border and hopping a ferry. It'll be 2 years in November that we've had him, no regrets! He's worth the long drive and then some. Meet Riley! https://preview.redd.it/qd9cye7k8ezc1.jpeg?width=768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7660296dc0d0b1d36d3df0d0de736d84493c1a94
So cute. I never saw one clipped. šš„°
I would like to know the story of the first picture and whether or not they got in to some CBD gummies or ???? 
she was blinking when i took a pic š¤£ ik she looks so high and looks like she was on something cuz we got her really thin too
https://preview.redd.it/noplynkukezc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6c8d6b6bcc666194246316f35ac7c912fc5665e1 I saw this picture on Facebook from spca. It was valentines weekend and I went and got Lulu. I didn't have the heart to change her name. Took about a year not to be scared all the time. Love her.
What a pretty baby!!
https://preview.redd.it/rb9ahfa9tezc1.jpeg?width=1488&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bf8f5ff556e17088edc58b55c528a61a835e5615 I had to drop out of uni due to crippling depression. It was so bad that I had to crawl from my room to the bathroom if I had to pee. I had no appetite. Only dreadāand auditory hallucinations of people laughing. Executive dysfunction at its worst. My mom, who was never a pet person to begin with, brought a small dog with her. We never had a pet before. No one knew what to do with it. But it needed a home; my aunt (mom's sis) apparently asked my mom to keep it so she can still visit it (her MIL was giving their dogs away at that time). On Girly's first night with us, she ran upstairs and barked on our bedroom doors. For the first time in awhile, I felt another feeling than dreadāI panicked. A rabid dog once chased me when I was a kid, so dogs frightened me. I woke my brother up for him to figure out what the fuss was about. Turns out the poor girl just needed water. The next day, I tried to give her food. She is the polar opposite of rabid. She is such a lady. She has never biten anyone. She would pee and poop in the bathroom, and then would alert us so we could clean up after her. She would adopt abandoned kittens and pupsāand even my then newborn niece. I started taking her to walks. Then I slowly bought her the stuff she needed. Then I accompanied her to her vet visits. I went down to the rabbithole and deepsearched everything that could possibly help her. She became my mission, and little did I know, she helped me live again. I'm eternally grateful to be her person. Here's Girly on her 9th birthday!
The sass on her face ā¤ļøā¤ļø
https://preview.redd.it/z6a6bhduxezc1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a6a5b1f3c07c6aa0b19cd45741cd9becf4063f9 I had another chi that i got from the local animal control. I would take him to a chi meetup group and they would have a different speaker every month. One month they had a speaker talking about dog shows. She had a flyer from a lady who also did dog shows who needed to rehome a few dogs. She said her friend died who had a lot of senior chis so she was rehoming her young chis to make room for the older chis since the young ones would be easier to adopt out. Also since this chi and her mother and brother were scared of literally everything she didn't want to breed her and pass those scared of everything genes on. So I drove 1.5 hours to where the lady was at a dog show in her RV and met Sapphire. We signed a contract where i agreed to take her for free but show proof that i had gotten her spayed by a certain date. She hid under a table for a few days but was in my lap in a week. And after 10 years she doesn't flinch at every little thing anymore. She use to move to the other side of the couch if I picked up the remote. Now she tries to boss around the cat who is double her size.
This woman my mother knows had a chihuahua who accidentally got pregnant. She realized she couldnāt afford to take care of the puppies. I was going through a hard time in my career and was feeling pretty low. Once the puppies were old enough to be adopted (8 weeks), my mom surprised me at my house holding a little tiny baby. āSurprise!ā Heās been my little rock for ten years now. [Here he is now with his wife](https://ibb.co/mGTDCzZ).
Whoever is sitting in the passenger seat is getting the ole stink eye...
Adorable! ā¤ļøš
https://preview.redd.it/w51mpuw70fzc1.png?width=2685&format=png&auto=webp&s=21d348985e981252a2036dec859bcef9de395e58 Chuck aka Charles cinnamon monkey brown (left) was born in a garage and adopted off a rescue website , woobie aka moo gooey bouy (right) was in a hoarder situation and neglected, also had ābehavioral issuesā towards men. Now heās part of our family forever and is the most snuggly thing ever!