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Chihuahua Dog Clothes

As someone who loves chihuahua dog clothes, I get fairly excited over almost any opportunity to dress my chihuahua dog, Namaste, up in her chihuahua dog clothes, and so when my neighbor calls me up and asks if Namaste can come over for a chihuahua play date with her doggies, I freaking jump at the chance! I grab a few of her dog clothes for chihuahua outfits, my laptop, and we’re off out the door to the neighbor’s house so our chihuahuas can play together while we visit and do some work in the same space.

A few years ago, if someone told me I’d be taking my chihuahua to go to a chihuahua dog clothing play date, I would have told them they were on crack. Nothing could have been further from my mind. But after inadvertently adopting a few chihuahuas and spending some time with them, I’ve become big softy for these little dogs and their small dog clothes, and the entire chihuahua dog fashion scene!

So anyway, this past time I took Namaste over to her chihuahua dog friend’s house to play, I dressed her up in her favorite toy dog clothes, and off she went to play while I had coffee with the other chihuahua’s owner: my friend. We got to talking about chihuahua dog clothes while our chihuahuas were there, in front of us, wearing their chihuahua clothing, and I started to wonder if we would go blind or something from doing this 😉 Luckily for us, the answer was no, and it’s a good thing because once two chihuahua dog fashion fanatics get into a conversation about small dog clothes, it takes an eternity or, in this case, the threat of some sort of natural disaster, to bring an end to that conversation.

And I kid you not: that is what it came to. I was working on my laptop while my friend was working on hers at the same table, and our chihuahua dogs were off playing together, dressed in their chihuahua dog clothing, when the tropical storm that had just been upgraded to hurricane status rolled into town with a furry, and the windows and everything started to really shake like crazy with the intense wind gust blasting against them. With all the commotion, our little pets in their dog clothes for chihuahuas started to FREAK out a bit and were coming up to us and looking at us for direction, with that “what should I do?”-look.

So, of course, being the chihuahua puppy clothes freaks that we are, we broke out their chihuahua dog thunder jackets and put them on them. I’m not sure if these chihuahua clothes actually have any magical powers anything strange like that or if it’s just some kind of placebo effect it has on our chihuahuas’ mind, but these outfits really do help our little dogs to stay more calm when the weather turns downright hostile outside. And so for them, their chihuahua doggie clothes inspired play date could continue, and they went back off into the living room to roughhouse and play and wrestle and rip around in their chihuahua clothing, having their chihuahua fun.

And that made me happy because I was able to get back to my work on the Chihuahua Shop, where we carry only very high quality chihuahua dog clothes that I would invite you to check out yourself if you love dressing up your dog in cute chihuahua clothes, and everything turned out great! Speak soon, -Mikey

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Doggie Boutique for Chihuahuas

When you own chihuahuas and you enjoy dressing them up in chihuahua clothes, you tend to visit a lot of doggie boutique shops. What I’ve been noticing lately is that these dog boutiques area really focusing on the banal and boring segment of dog supplies and would do so much better, I think, if they focused on selling the fun goods that people seem to love buying at the Chihuahua Shop and a few of the other chihuahua clothing store business I’ve been keeping tabs on.

I mean, I walk into these doggy boutique shops and what do I see? I see a miniature version of a major pet store: dog food, hair brushes, leashes and leads to fit every breed known to man, and even huge dog houses for bigger dogs. They have no focus. These doggie boutiques are trying to cater to everyone and, in doing so, they’re catering to no one. I walk into these dog clothing shops that, from their name and advertising on the outside of their store front, lead you to believe are going to be an entire store full of chihuahua clothes but are instead a small section of designer chihuahua clothes surrounded by many more generic pet supplies, again, these doggie boutiques trying to be copy the approach of the major doggie shops, just without the money to afford enough space to be one of those major pet store places.

And I think it’s a mistake. These doggie boutique shops have such an advantage over the huge dog stores because they are small and because they can choose to focus in on just one area of the dog clothing world. If you ask me, a little doggie clothing store that specializes and only sells the best small dog clothing is far more valuable than a store of the same size that is essentially trying to be a jack of all doggie trades. A small doggie boutique that focuses in on the realm of small dog clothing and sticks to selling those chihuahua clothes and yorkie outfits and Maltese costumes and shih tzu dresses, and very little else, will draw the crowds because they’ll become an authority on small doggie clothes over time and people will know them for being that way and as the place to go when you want to pick up some chihuahua clothes for your little dog.

Again, I think it’s far more valuable to the customer to have a niche chihuahua boutique that JUST sells chihuahua clothes and chihuahua accessories and things for chihuahuas than for that same person to have access to yet another pet store, but simply crammed into a smaller space and with less selection.

But that’s my opinion, and I can’t speak for all dog owners. But that is why I made the Chihuahua Shop into the kind of dog boutique that just focuses on small dog clothing for chihuahuas and the other small breeds out there. If you have a chihuahua and you’d like to shop for him or her, then head over to the Chihuahua Shop doggie boutique and have a look for yourself: I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised! -Mikey

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Dog Pants for Chihuahuas

I never knew much about dog pants until I started the Chihuahua Shop, even as a chihuahua clothes fanatic. Chihuahua pants were never part of the chihuahua dog fashion outfits my dogs wore. But as my chihuahua costume expert friend here in town informs me, pants for small dogs are very important in completing the look of your chihuahua and making the outfit look how it’s “supposed to.”

I told my friend that if my “supposed to,” he means that these dog pants and dog shorts are supposed to make my chihuahuas look hilarious, that I completely agree with her! When I dress Namaste the chihuahua in chihuahua shorts, I have to hold back from bursting out laughing because when she wears these little shorts for small dogs, it makes her look like a chihuahua carnival worker! Haha, it’s too much for me!

But even in the face of my ridicule, my friend asserts that pants for dogs are very in vogue right now in the chihuahua clothes world, and that chihuahua doggie pants now have designer labels making different cuts of designer dog pants and doggie shorts for the super upscale dogs in Beverly Hills that are living the life of luxury and complete pampering.

I’ve discussed this issue of doggie pants with a few other friends who have chihuahuas and types of toy breed dogs, and they agree that the chihuahua dog jeans and chihuahua skirts can look pretty ridiculous when they’re paired with the wrong small dog outfit, but that some chihuahua costumes really do call for a pair of chihuahua dog pants to make them look proper and not like your little dog is naked and running around streaking, with a formal looking shirt on and no pants.

To that, I have to concede the point, because they have one there. And so if you’re dog is running around without his chihuahua pants on and he looks like he’s streaking, lol, then you can solve this problem by heading over to the Chihuahua Shop and having a look at the new very high quality dog pants we are now selling. I’ll speak to you again soon! -Mikey

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Chihuahua Fashion Dogs In The Heat

If you pay attention to the fashion dogs you see all over the place in the dog fashion magazines and the fashion TV shows for dogs, you’ll probably notice as I have that the number of chihuahua and small breed dog owners who want their little chihuahuas to look like devilishly cute fashion divas in their fancy chihuahua clothing is exploding right now.

It’s a major emerging trend, having a chihuahua fashion dog walking beside you on a leash or tucked under your arm as you walk through the busy mall of a major cosmopolitan city, today, and it’s probably due in part to the ever-increasing popularity of the chihuahua clothes that owners of these little guys are flocking to in droves right now. These little fashion chihuahua doggies seem to be coming out of the woodwork where I live, and it’s almost freaking me out a bit!

Now, the Chihuahua Shop carries a lot of small dog fashion clothes for giving your chihuahua pup that injection of extra chihuahua style. Whereas some owners will be watching those fashion show dogs strutting their stuff in their chihuahua clothes down the runway on television, others will have their chihuahua dogs all spiffed up in chihuahua fashion dogs outfits there, right in front of them, with their little chi prancing around and ready to make it big in the Broadway spotlight with the right training. These are the people who take fashionable dogs seriously and buy all the fashion dog accessories they can find for their chihuahuas and their yorkies and their Maltese pups, and if anyone is going to be famous in the land of chihuahuas and these other small breed dogs, it’s them.

But lately, I’ve been spotting a few chihuahua clothes fashion fanatics who could almost be said to be taking the whole fashionable dogs thing a little too far. Down here in the Puerto Vallarta area of Mexico where I’m living right now, it’s bloody hot, and it’s not usually the type of climate you’ll want to dress your chihuahua up in any sort of seriously heavy chihuahua clothing if you can help it. Where you’ll see a lot of people getting their chihuahua fashion dogs fix is indoors, in the heavily air conditioned rooms where their chihuahuas are down on the floor, in their little chihuahua dog beds, resting and inactive, and otherwise shivering and shaking to death without their little dog fashion outfits on their back. You don’t see a lot a chihuahuas wearing their chihuahua sweaters outside in the heat, and thank god!–except for lately, perhaps with the increasing popularity of the Beverly Hills Chihuahua scene in Puerto Vallarta, I’m seeing chihuahuas dressed up in layers of fashion forward chihuahuas clothing, and it’s crazy!

I’ve seen at least five different chihuahuas dressed up in three or more layers of chihuahua clothes in the past week alone, and while I am fully a fan of dog fashion, when you’re layering clothes over clothes with chihuahua accessories on your little dog like this in the heat, when it’s an oven outside right now, this August of 2011, that’s really pushing the boundaries of what’s considered humane treatment of an animal if you ask me! I know they mean well, but these little hairy chihuahua buggers have it rough in the heat like this without all that insulating fashion dogs clothing covering them up!

So please, if you’re going to make your chihuahua into a fashion dog with his little chihuahua clothes, do so responsibly! I know you, as someone who reads this chihuahua fashion blog, would not make this mistake, but if you see anyone who’s really pushing it with too much fashion dog accessories and clothing on their dogs this summer, ask them what on Earth they’re doing 🙂

The Chihuahua Shop carries these fashion dogs clothes for chihuahuas and the other small breeds, so if you need to get your dog fashion freak on, you know where to go to gear up for it!

Speak soon, -Mikey

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Socks for Dogs Like Chihuahuas

If you’re a chihuahua owner or you have another breed of small dog, you’ve probably noticed the little socks for dogs at the various chihuahua shops online–especially if you like dressing your chihuahuas in clothes. I’ve been seeing these chihuahua socks everywhere lately, with the online pet shops selling socks for small dogs and this whole array of chihuahua dog footwear. It seemed a little crazy to me at first, but thinking about it changed my mind, and I decided to see if we could find some quality ones for the Chihuahua Clothes Shop, and we now have some pretty freaking cool little chihuahua socks for dogs you can check out at the Shop.

Like I said, I thought it was a bit ridiculous at first: “socks for chihuahua doggies? What the heck? Why?” But thinking back about all the times my chihuahuas has gotten something stuck in their paw pads and been licking away at their paws to heal a small wound or a scratch to the pad, after walking on the paved sidewalks for too long, or across the gravel roads with all those tiny little pebbles that get stuck in their little chihuahua paws, it became obvious: these little chihuahua dog socks I’m seeing everywhere in the boutiques today could actually be useful.

Even living here in this heavily chihuahua populated beach town on the Pacific coast, I like to get up early and walk my little dogs along the beach and enjoy the gorgeous morning view of the bay, but often at the end of the walk, when the sun is out in force and its rays are beating down on the sand, those little grains of sand can get scorching hot and it isn’t too comfortable to walk on bare foot, like my dogs do.

visit the chihuahua clothes shopLuckily for us, the water is right there, so we can just walk through the shallow surf for a minute to cool our feet off, but with a pair of chihuahua puppy socks, this wouldn’t even be necessary: to clothe chihuahuas in their socks would eliminate the need to do this and would keep their little paws protected from the extreme heat, and I’m sure they’d like that!

I’ve even run into yorkies wearing socks on their walks with their owners, recently. Talking to their owners, they use this little dog socks to to keep their pet’s paws clean, so they don’t have to wash them extensively after each excursion into the jungle here in our back yard. Especially when you live in a rainforest jungle and it’s the rainy season and it rains almost every single day for hours, things can get rather muddy around here, and it can really be a pain in the ass to have constantly wash your dogs feet after every walk so you don’t end up with little black and brown paw marks all over your floor and your sofa and on the bed! So I can totally see using chihuahua socks on my little dogs along with their chihuahua clothes.

And having lived in Canada with my chihuahuas, I’ve noticed that most of the pets like the chihuahua rescue dogs we’ve brought up from Mexico do well in the cold, with the exception of their feet: they start walking on the ice and visit the chihuahua clothes shopthrough the snow and their reaction is like “aaa-ughh. No way; this is too freaking cold! ouch!” and it takes them months to adapt with the chihuahua booties and the little dog socks that you have to use in order to get them used to the cooler weather. Over time, their bodies adapt and you’ll see their paws grow this hair in between each pad to keep their feet warm and keep the snow from getting in between each of their paw pads. But in the beginning, the chihuahuas definitely were in need of their warm chihuahua socks!

So at the Chihuahua Shop, we now have some very cute socks for dogs, like the tiny chihuahua dog socks you’ll find here, and the other adorable doggy socks for chihuahuas, each pair with their own design patter that makes them unique!

So now, in addition to the quality chihuahua clothes you can find at the Chihuahua Shop, you have an entire selection of protective socks for dogs that have anti-slip grip pads on the bottom and that are thick enough to protect and fashionable enough to be your chihuahua’s pair of stylish socks for dogs that all the other little dog owners will be squealing over with delight the next time they see the two of you on your walk! So go check them out at the store right now, and I’ll be back later with the latest news from the ever changing world of chihuahua clothes and socks for dogs!

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