Comment on Ay, chihuahua!
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 1 day agoI’ve always more or less seen it as mostly just a training issue as a lot of people think their small size makes it unneeded.
Having had five of them from puppies, one having a litter that we kept two from, (Sister’s idea, I prefer cats) none of them were ever really aggressive unless antagonized. Maybe a bit yippey when the doorbell rang or a stranger was in the house, but after about a minute, they calmed down when they saw there was no threat.
Roidecoeur@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve definitely noticed a difference in temperament between long haired chihuahuas abd their standard breed short-haired counterparts. That difference being the short-haired are a bit more high strung from the centuries of inbreeding (just like Germans have higher blood pressure/hypertension issues).
Maybe the long hair gene mutation came from an infusion of less anxious genetics into the breed, or allowed for some benificial physiological changes to the nervous system. Who knows. But seeing your pic made me wonder if long-haired chihuahuas came from mixing the line with papillons, because they look like mini-papillons