by Louise Kirby | Jan 31, 2022 | Behaviour, chihuahua agression
What is your chihuahua’s emotional bucket? Why is it important? What pays into it? Can we manipulate it? What is your chihuahua’s emotional bucket? Some of you may be familiar with the term ‘emotional bucket’ and how it fills and empties over time, affecting our...
by Louise Kirby | Dec 13, 2021 | Characteristics, chihuahua agression, Socialisation, Training
How to deal with chihuahua aggression is something I get asked a lot. They have a reputation for being yappy and aggressive. If you are a chihuahua parent, then you may be familiar with the ‘curled lip of doom’ and the growl of disapproval towards strangers and the...
by Louise Kirby | Nov 10, 2021 | chihuahua agression, Feeding, nutrition, Training
What is scatter feeding? If you have never heard of scatter feeding it’s a very simple process of throwing a proportion of your dog’s daily food allowance over the grass. They then must root about for it. It really is as simple as that. Why is scatter feeding a good...
by Louise Kirby | Sep 30, 2021 | Feeding, Health, Recipes
If you want to home cook for your chihuahua, you are going to need to be brave. Without a doubt, you will get criticism from your vet and from people who prefer processed dog food. Home cooking can be a viable alternative to buying processed food and surly, using...
by Louise Kirby | Sep 28, 2021 | barking, Behaviour, Feeding, possessive behaviour
If your chihuahua nudges you, paws you or barks at you to keep doing something they want this is called action-prompting. On the face of it, giving you a little nudge with their nose to keep to stoking them seems harmless enough but this behaviour can escalate into...
