Welcome to my Web site!

My name is Charlie and my family and I own Chihuahuas. 

I bought my first Chi from Malaga about three years ago.  His name is Paco and he is tiny; too tiny and although he is adorable and my special little man, unfortunately he has birth defects from excessive interbreeding.  His teeth never developed properly and his testicles never did appear!  So no puppies from him.  Of course you don't know this when you see a cute bundle in a pet shop.  

A year later my eldest daughter decided she wanted her own little Chi; we met with a breeder who showed us a 7 week old male, with pedigree papers, who was a blue with white socks and white on the tip of his tail.  We were delighted, so we paid a deposit and waited the further weeks until he was ready to leave his mum.  Unfortunately we had been conned, the breeder "moved" taking our deposit and when we did finally track her down she claimed she had never had a blue for sale and couldn't refund the deposit!  This is a common case of fraud I have since found out.

Our hearts were broken, so my husband, in a spontaneous moment, bought us a little white fluffy Chi from the local pet shop.  He was from Russia and we named him Oliver.  Now poor Oliver was decidedly put in his place by Paco, despite being bigger than Paco and he took almost a year to house train (so nobody wanted him to sleep with them!).  But he turned out to have the most placid temper, friendly with everyone and he is a real gem.

A year later and friend told us she knew someone who had Chihuahuas and their female had puppies.  Then one day she turned up at the door with a beautiful little female Chi as a gift to us.  She had been homed once already but the small daughter of the family had been a little rough so the puppy had taken to growling and snapping all the time.  Now anyone with young children knows you do not want even the threat of harm to come to your babies, so the puppy was given to my friend who in turn gave her to us.  My youngest daughter claimed her and named her Princess Tinkerbelle (Tinx).

This year we allowed Oliver and Tinx to mate.  This was a planned litter, with one puppy having a definite home (especially if it was "anything like Oliver" we were told).  My husband has told me that we prepared more for this litter than we did for any of our three children!  All credit during the pregnancy and birth and aftercare has to go to our local vets.  They were fabulous and we now have three lovely puppies born on 9 June 2006.

The male (aka The Dude) was born practically to order being almost a replica of Oliver except for the brown markings - the prospective buyer is delighted and visits every weekend to see her little boy grow.  The two females are lovely colours and although we have been tempted to keep one of them.  However, we have a lovely home for the dark female (aka Twinkle Toes) and are looking for a home for the silvery female (aka Bluebelle or Tiger Lily).

This is just a little web site for all my family and friends to look at the recent piccies of the puppies, but I hope everyone else enjoys it too!