Dog Training: A Myth Buster Guide To Dog Training Chihuahuas -Part 1

Dog Training Chihuahua

Just take a look at that cutie...and ya heart melts.

When you first see a Chihuahua that weighs less than two pounds full grown, it's hard to imagine that it’s actually a dog!

Chihuahuas are small and seem to be so different from other dog breeds, a number of old wives tales exist about these tiny dogs.

Hi Dog Loving Friend,

This isn't the only places where tale tales about Chihuahuas are spread, lol. So, I guess it's time to sort the facts from fiction, because some are true, others are myths spread by ignorance...but no one really knows the exact origin of the Chihuahua.

Once upon a time, many people believed the rumor that Chihuahuas come from outer space?

In the late 1800’s, as interest in ghosts, Atlantis and space beings first became popular, many people adopted the idea that Chihuahuas must have been brought to Earth by visitors from outer space...

Some Natives of North and South America have traditions that indicate their ancestors may have come from the stars, however researchers believe that’s an incorrect interpretation of the native people’s belief that their ancestors come from a higher spiritual existence.

Either way, early scholars who took an interest in the origin of Chihuahuas showed that they had not been able to discover how, when or where the breed originated.

Needless to say, this is probably not true and likely came from the same people who believe that Corn is an Alien invention unfit for human consumption. Chihuahuas were some kind of weird alien, a mix between a rodent and dog.

As silly as it sounds, the rumor began over one hundred and fifty years ago after people who traveled along the Mexican Border from Texas and Arizona noticed the strange breed.

Early Wild West novels and storybooks expanded on the rumor and tried to explain the small size of the Chihuahua by claiming that the animals were created through a secret process used by native medicine men or pagan priests in Mexico or South America...

Early descriptions of the dogs by Missionaries and Conquistadors traveling throughout South America told the story of mystical dogs being used in worship ceremonies.

They said they were even eaten by faithful followers of the Aztec religion.

Who knows if these descriptions were often exaggerated to make the Aztec People seem more powerful and completely pagan to Christians and to somehow justify their attacks, conquest and conversion.

While some documentation makes it certain that Chihuahuas were used in some form of Aztec worship ceremonies, there's no evidence to date that any were eaten.

However, many Chihuahuas have been found buried with people, so it’s possible they were also killed to join their owners in death...well, I've always said dogs are loyal.

Anyway, did you hear the one about Chihuahuas originated form China or Egypt?

Funny enought, there is some evidence that Chihuahuas may have already existed in Africa and Asia before they were discovered in America, but nothing in solid hard evidence to say that they originated in any of those places.

The are strong reasons to believe that seafarers visited our shores long before Columbus or even the Vikings. This may be powerful information as to why Chihuahuas are in other parts of the world.

Just when you thought it was safe to venture out again, here comes another crazy Chihuahua story straight from our friends at the tabloids.

An ancient Chihuahua was discovered perfectly preserved in a South American Pyramid. This one appeared in an early 1970’s tabloid article. A perfectly preserved Chihuahua was said to have been discovered in a South American pyramid amongst a king's ransom in gold and jewels.

The article claimed that the animal was so perfectly preserved that the dog’s flesh was still edible, blood samples could be extracted from the dog’s body and the animal’s eyes were a color never before seen in animals.

The craziest thing about all the tale tales that surround the Chihuahua Breed is that some may actually be true.

Stay tuned for Part 2, thanks for reading...

I hope you can join me for the next exciting adventure in the day and life of a Chihuahua.

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