Originally Posted by docputer

We have had chihuahuas over the last 25 years or so. My best one lived 14 years and she was my constant companion. She died last year. People always found it funny because I am a huge guy, and i had this tiny chihuahua that was my shadow.

About a year before that chi died, my daughter got me another one with the idea he would learn from the other. He had been in a home with small kids, and they were abusing him, and my daughter offered to take him.
He still doesn't like kids, and for the longest time he didn't want any attention. In the last couple months he has been wanting to be petted, and has mellowed quite a bit. He adores my wife, and every night when she takes off her socks, he takes them plays with them for a while, and eventually takes them to the laundry basket. He also insists on getting on my desk, standing on the keyboard and watches the screen. The other day I came home and had several hundred windows open.
In January, we got a female, and she is quite a bit like the one who was my shadow. We have bigger dogs also, and she does not back down from them. As a puppy, she is into chewing. After leaving the house for a couple hours, I came home and found she had somehow got up on the bathroom cabinet and got out 8 rolls of toilet paper. She took them in the middle of our bed and shredded them for us. She also has a bad habit of getting in my wife's purse and rooting for treasure. Her name is Fancy, but she is often referred to as Shithead.