Robert and Minnie, welcome to the group! I am Gloria and I live in Central Texas with Emiliano, my 3 yr old, long coat and a 10 yr old parrot named Beau. I enjoyed hearing how you and Minnie met, I am so glad that you found each other. I look forward to more stories and some photos.
Gloria -----Original Message----- From: Robert <dabears233...@yahoo.com> To: Chihuahuas <Chihuahuas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wed, Jun 27, 2012 1:37 pm Subject: [Chihuahuas] New Member Sayin' Hi Hello all, new member here. I wanted to introduce myself (Robert) and the real star attraction my loving Chihuahua named Minnie. You can see a picture of her taking a look out of the window of my '69 VW Bug in the album titled "Minnie". A condensed story of how she and I met follows. A couple of years ago I was living in a guest house in a backyard in the San Fernando Valley. Both the front and backyards were completely fenced off with wrought iron gates and my landlord had two sibling dogs (Chi/Poodle mix) that lived in the backyard. One day he came home and found a Chihuahua puppy sitting at his front doorstep and there were no breaks in the fencing, which led us to believe that the puppy was either placed or thrown over the fence into the front yard, perhaps when the perpetrator saw the two dogs in the backyard. Living in the San Fernando Valley, where the prevalent dogs found at shelters are Chihuahuas and Pit Bulls, this seemed like a reasonable conclusion. Our theory goes like this - Mother Chihuahua had puppies, puppies were raised to 3 months old, puppies were distributed in the neighborhood to homes that seemed like they would be able to raise the puppy. In any event, the puppy was placed into the backyard with the other two dogs and she began to socialize and play with them. I found out about the puppy later from my landlord, and since he already had two dogs I told him that I would adopt the Chihuahua. My girlfriend brought her into the house in her arms and she looked so tiny I said she looked like a miniature dog and thus her name, Minnie was given. Now that I've had her for two years in order to avoid telling that story I just say that the stork brought her and that's how she ended up on the doorstep. For the past two years she has been an absolute joy and a great companion for me. I look forward to sharing more stories about her and learning more as an owner through others in this group.
