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vancouver’s pet fashion week is being held at the roundhouse in yaletown this weekend and admission is free! catch the barking babies™ fashion shows at 12:30 and 2:30 pm on sunday, may 31st and watch designer-dressed model dogs strut their stuff on the ‘cat’ walk in the latest fashion collections!

a fun pet competition for the best dressed dog in a pet parade will follow the fashion shows, so bring your pack and meet all the neighborhood pooches while enjoying treats, displays and giveaways!

if you live in vancouver, british columbia and you have a pet, then join us for this unique family event for people and their pets!

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a 3-week-old chihuahua puppy from renton, scotland named tom thumb could be the world’s smallest and cutest puppy. at a mere 8 inches long, it is thought to be one of the smallest dogs born in the u.k.

photo: jeff j mitchell/getty images from life.com

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the number of chihuahuas in dog shelters nationwide is growing daily. the following article was written in an attempt to make people aware of this. the message is simple; if you love chihuahuas, adopt one.

article by joe eskenazi, sfweekly.com, published: april 15, 2009

if ever you needed another reason to despise paris hilton — utter vapidity, being famous despite having no discernible talent, overuse of the teeth in her sole legitimate screen role — the folks at san francisco animal care and control (acc) have found one. they are up to their ankles — literally — in chihuahuas, a condition they blame on “paris hilton syndrome.”

rebecca katz, animal control’s aptly named acting director, confirms that a couple of chihuahuas a day are showing up on her doorstep; she currently has enough teacup dogs to start her own miniature iditarod team. chihuahuas make up about 20 percent of all the dogs at the shelter. it’s a condition staff blame on the confluence of a lousy economy with “cultural” figures like hilton as well as films like legally blonde or beverly hills chihuahua, in which the purse dogs were feted as fashion accessories.

the number of owner-surrendered pets has jumped 13 percent in the last six months, and chihuahuas are disproportionately represented. katz additionally suspects that the city’s spay-and-neuter message has not penetrated the chihuahua-in-purse community. this prompts two questions: 1. what’s going on in those purses? and 2. can we blame paris hilton for this, too?

on a recent trip to the shelter, visitors were greeted with a multipart harmony of chihuahuas yodeling. one of the feistiest of the musical little dogs, sonny, had inexplicably languished in a holding pen. with time running low, shelter employee christine scanlon finally relented and adopted the critter. and since he’s actually named after the famously well-equipped godfather character sonny corleone, it’s apt that sonny is too big to fit in a purse.

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a pet chihuahua dog has adopted a baby chick in china.

huahua the chihuahua took charge of the baby chick as soon as owner liu bangyang’s daughter brought it home.

she regards the chick as her baby and stands guard to make sure it comes to no harm, reports the chongqing morning news.

and, whenever the chick strays too far, huahua picks it up gently in her mouth and puts it back in its cot.

liu, from guiyang city, guizhou province, said: “we’ll try our best to raise the little chicken, if that’s what huahua wants.”

source: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1313593.html

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