Results tagged “chihuahua” from South Bay Pets

She charmed millions without ever saying a word, and managed to make fast food tacos adorable. Gidget, the Chihuahua best known for her Taco Bell ad campaign, died from a stroke on Tuesday night at age 15. 

Here's our latest installment of animals wearing funny Halloween costumes. This one features South Bay Pets regular Carmen, a chihuaha that belongs to my colleague Sandy Gerety. Her other dog Desi is strangely absent from the photo.

We still got a couple of days to go till Halloween. Feel free to send pics to me or Donna.

My co-worker Sandy Gerety always gets mad at me when I make fun of little dogs. She thinks it's because I have some sort of size complex, if you know what I mean.

Well, my dog isn't all that big (Rocket weighs 72 pounds, which is bigger than a rat, but smaller than, say, his friend Riley, a German shepherd who weighs at least 1,200 pounds.

But I like small dogs just fine. I espcially like it when my cat chases them down the street.

Anyway, this was a few weeks ago, but Sandy took her two pups Desi and Carmen to be blessed.

Here's how Sandy described the event, along with a few pictures of her dogs.

The one photo has Rachel holding Desi so she can get blessed - we asked for a special blessing on her tummy (since she has a weak tummy). She took umbrage at this strange man in a white dress trying to touch her tummy. The other pic is of a freezing Carmen, who was looking around for a blanket to crawl under. 

There are 1,263 chihuahuas named Princess living in Los Angeles County, making it the most common name-breed combination of all dogs.

What's particularly amusing to me about that is that while I was between dogs, my landlord parked his dog in my backyard for about a year. Yes, she was a chihuahua named Princess -- not exactly the kind of dog you want living in your house when you're a single, middle-aged man, if you know what I mean.

Here are some other fun things I learned on this really cool database the LA Times put togehter:

•  There are 164 dogs named Rocket
• There are 56 bluetick coonhounds.
• There are 1,985 dogs living in my zip code (one of which is a bluetick coonhound named Rocket.

There are plenty of other fascinating things you can find on the database, which has really   clever categories like spaced-themed names (Rocket, Comet, Cosmo), dogs named after celebrities (there's an Alec Baldwin out there somewhere) and dogs named after food (Hello, Spaghetti!)

You can mix and match your searches. You can see how many of your favorite  breed live in your neighborhood, stuff like that.

But I should warn you: It's addictive.

Today's entry comes from my colleague Sandy Gerety. Sandy owns two dogs that together weigh less than a real dog's foot.

Just kidding. Carmen and Desi are real dogs, albeit tiny ones. And like other owners of small dogs, Sandy likes to dress them up in fancy clothes, although in this picture, they're dressed casually in T-shirts.

 That's Carmen on the right.  

Here's what Sandy has to say about it:

Desilu is 2 1/2 and still very puppy-like in her behavior. Carmen is an older, wiser 4-year-old.

Desi only understands words that describe food, e.g., snack, treat, cookie, dinner. Everything else - like sit or stay - she more or less plays dumb.  Carmen is a little diva who likes to sit in your lap and is a shameless flirt when around men.

Sometimes Desi  wants Carmen to play, but Carmen wants to watch Clean House reruns, so Desi has come up with a little trick that works every time. She goes over to the toy box, retrieves one of their favorite toys and then parades back and forth in front of her until she engages her in a tug of war over the toy. This tells me one thing - I guess she's not as dumb as she would like me to think she is.