I just wanted to post something about my experience with our new addition. It has been four weeks since we got Achilles from Marlene and we have nothing but a great experience caring for our new puppy! My fiance and I had been looking for months for the perfect puppy. Pet stores we went to had too many dogs, some super small and sick looking. We were going to buy one from a private owner but upon closer examination we learned the dog was not a purebred! We were thinking of putting off the whole search until we came across Marlene's site! We spent 2 hours deciding on which puppy to bring home because we truly fell in love with them all! Marlene really knows what she is doing and all her puppies are healthy alert and gorgeous! I can not even walk my puppy around the block without people stopping me to say how cute he is!
The first night was tough. He cried all night. He wouldn't eat for two days. I panicked. I called Marlene. Upon her suggestion we got him a warm fluffy bed and left the food for him to take when he came around. ... And he did. After three days he was paper trained, eating on schedule three times a day and sleeping all night in his crate with no complaints!! This week he actually started to hold in his business and wait until we take him outside!!! People couldn't believe that he was so well behaved. I believe it was due to the breeder! Thanks again Marlene .... and for all those on the fence about getting a Chihuahua ... I highly recommend it!
Warmest Regards,
Lisa, Lukas and Achilles
p.s. please send me information on any new litters ... I might have some customers for you!
-- Edited by achilles01 at 07:22, 2008-04-27 -- Edited by mylittlechi for pic rotation
Thank you Lisa for your very kind words. You are now one of the 99.9% of the people that have bought a Chi from me over what seems to be a lifetime for me. I hope your Chihuahua will grow up to be a fine terrier type, and I hope a credit to his kind. Your story is a very familiar one for me and like I stated many times before I think it's due to the fact that my puppies are touched with much love before going to their new homes....which makes a world of difference how they will react to people for the rest of their life's. I wish all my pups could move into their new life with such a smooth landing as Achilles has. There's always that one exception that doesn't follow the rules.
Last week I delivered a female Chihuahua to a very nice young lady who's name is Kate, who lives in Brooklyn. She is a student studying here from Poland. All her life she dreamed of having a little Chihuahua someday....Boy do I know the feeling, and that is why I'm compelled to giving a family with children a Chihuahua puppy free of charge from time to time..... Anyway her baby is not behaving in such a good manor as your little guy. Even thought I've given her most of the pointers that I've learned over the years doesn't seem to be working for her. But I know all of this nonsense will subside in time. Just like a new baby there's usually some growing pains we all have to go though with a new puppy in the first few weeks until the puppy get over the new home stress which could take up to a week or so. Patients is the key ingredient here.
Kate did tell me of a cute story of the puppy and the first night in her new home with her.....Kate put the puppy in her blouse, tied a belt around her waste so the baby couldn't slip out, and she slept there so content for a long period of time while she studied for her exam. Something I would have highly not recommend for the first night with a new puppy. That gold road that we all are guilty of traveling on from time to time in our lives can be a bumpy on for all of us. Yes that fist night can be a little hellish . Because a new puppy on the first night will make sure that no good deed will go unpunished.
Well to you Lise, I wish you and your little baby boy all the best to a long life of happyness and love Take Care, Lots of hugs and Chi Chi kisses to ya darling, Marlene and Bethany
-- Edited by mylittlechi at 15:57, 2008-04-27
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" Love what you're doing, and you'll never have to work a day of your life"
Yes that fist night can be a little hellish 
. Because a new puppy on the first night will make sure that no good deed will go unpunished.
