Don't laugh you bounder! I have recently become the owner of a "chihuahua", and in your sheltered life you have never come across a species like this, No discernible reason for them to survive in the evolutionary climb to the top. They serve no discernable purpose on the earth, they are afraid of everything (the remote! for crying out loud, the stupid dog is afraid of the tv remote, of course the fact that I accidently dropped the remote on its head twice might actually be an indication of intelligence), without humans, chihuahua's would have disappeared milleniums ago. They are our pampered mice, the cute, sometimes shreaky, occasionally trainable to do some minor tricks. I personally want to open a restaurant called "
The Exploding Chihuahua", and have a rather porky chihuahua called Les Nessmen as a door man.

They are herding dogs for cows, and these two will herd humans if given the chance, plus catch mice and rats. They are also very smart and fun to have around, being smaller dogs (30 pounds or so) they are easy to deal with.

The owners squirt some canned cheese in his mouth before leaving the house to distract him, in case you ever feel that coming on.

He picks his battles - two against one and they want him to play with them. There is another dog who visits sometimes who ignores Buddy, so Bud spends a lot of time staring at her trying to figure out what's going on.

We were having a thunder storm and that was part of it, but the part was them just wanting to sit next to us while we talked.