I've seen this debate go on and on. People saying bigger dogs are better than little dogs. The fact of the matter is no matter how small or how big a dog is, they are all just dogs. Just because a dog is smaller, people think they are not even dogs, and refer to them as 'rodents'. I used to see it all the time in the PETA Sucks forum. Analogy or not, I don't care. I am here today to say that little dogs are NOT rodents!! Quit fooling yourselves! But then the people on PETA Sucks also think anything that is not a lion, tiger or bear is a rodent too. And then they shit their pants if you disagree with that. So, they are not the most reliable sources on the internet. But then this morning on YouTube, I got someone saying that purse dogs are for fags and cunts. I very calmly stated to the guy "What makes you say that? Because we are more in tune with ourselves? Because we are friendlier and more empathetic with other people? Because we don't see dogs as some kind of "status symbol", but as living things to be loved? Or maybe all of those things! Hey! If that makes me a "cunt" then bring it on! I'm proud of it!! :) Better to be that than be a total-ass-jerk to everyone, dustingrey! LOL! "
There is apparently a typical stereotype going on that people who own "purse dogs", or little dogs, dress the dogs up and carry them around in their purses. Well, as anyone who has read my blogs in the past would know, I am not a typical person. I love being an eccentric. Or different, or kooky, crazy, call it what you will! I love it that I am not like everyone else. I have never dressed my dogs up. Occasionally I have put a Santa hat on our dogs, but it doesn't stay there. I used to put Vegas in a little jacket to keep him warm when it's cold out, but then I found out that if you do that, it messes up the natural development of their undercoat during the cold months. Vegas has a very nice plush coat, and I want to keep it that way. Odessa has a lovely full coat and I don't want to ruin that either. Minnie, I don't know yet. When I first got her, she was shedding like crazy!! I want her to grow a nice, full coat. So I'm leaving her hair alone to see what it does.
As for carrying my dogs in purses, well, I don't do that either. The only dog I have that would fit in a purse is Vegas. And I'd be scared to carry him like that!! I'd be afraid he would jump out! So that is why I don't do those typical things. I remember a long time ago when I had my chihuahua forum, there was a man who joined and he was this big, tough, motorcycle guy, and his main companions were his little chihuahua dogs. I thought it was so cute!! And he seemed like a very nice guy. I've seen it happen over and over again, people who like smaller dogs are indeed nicer folks. I think it may be because we don't see dogs as "status symbols". Don't get me wrong now, I'm not dissing the bigger dogs! When I was younger, skinnier and had more energy, I prefered the big dogs too. I used to raise Australian Shepherds. And I had a collie and a blue heeler that I was very fond of! But now that I am getting older and have less energy, smaller dogs are my thing. I can say though that I've never owned any dog because it was a status symbol for me. I never looked at bigger dogs as being more "macho". I am actually more impressed by little dogs that think they're bigger than they are! Just like my chihuahuas! Kinda like my comparison of larger wild animals. A leopard can kill a female baboon. Big friken deal!!! They won't touch the males, and females are a lot smaller than the leopards are, and a lot less aggressive than the males. But when I saw this video of baboons facing off against a 6-foot long crocodile, THAT was impressive to me!!
Well the one thing that clinches the debate about big dogs vs. little dogs with me, the one and only thing I completely despise about dogs is the fact they like to sniff our butts!! I hate that!! Even though to dogs it's their only way of identifying who is top dog, I still hate it! And that is the main reason why I like the smallest dogs, because they're too small to just reach up and poke their nose in anyone's butt. You can surely train a bigger dog not to do that, it takes a while though for them to get the message. My bigger dogs always learned never to do that with me! They always went to Anna and did it. LOL! Anna never learned how to completely keep a dog from doing that to her. She's too slow on the draw! Anyway, that is the main reason why I always keep the smallest dogs. Don't be fooled though, there are some dogs that are just about big enough to reach that high. Like miniature poodles, and poodles are very notorious butt-sniffers!!! I'm not saying chihuahuas don't do that, it seems to be rare though! My chihuahuas don't do that at all. Even when I am lying in bed with them. I never even trained them not to do that. Minnie doesn't seem interested in that at all either. My other papillon, Andy, used to do it all the time however.
Well, I truly believe that most people who have bigger dogs have them as some kind of status symbol and I don't think that's a good thing. Dogs are not status symbols. They were not bred to make the owners feel "macho". And any dog will defend it's master, no matter what size it is. Cats on the other hand are different. Most of them will save themselves before they'd save their owners from any intruders. I've met some nice cats, I don't completely hate cats. But those cats are few and far between.
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