Hello everyone, I registered about two seconds ago so please don't mind the barren account.

I worked at a vet and one day a family turned over this absolutely adorable puppy, saying they'd bought two from a breeder in Florida but just couldn't handle both at once. I was one of those "oh they're just little yappy lap dog" people until I started interacting with Lucy. I played with her for a few hours and paid her adoption fee at the end of my shift, I could NOT bear to leave her. She's so strangely intelligent and I adore watching her hold bones with her paws! If she had opposable thumbs I think she'd be some real trouble.

But anyway, she looked like a pretty standard chihuahua as a puppy, she has a deer head (she's spayed), I never thought anything much of it. But she's a little over a year now and she's quite big, almost ten pounds, and she doesn't resemble a chi very much at all anymore! I suspect she might be a mix, but the family that bought her originally still brings the other dog in and she's a straight up apple head chi, no doubt about it!

So I was wondering if some experienced people would take a look at Lucy's pics. Maybe chis look like this sometimes? I don't personally care what she is but I am a curious person.

This, hilariously, is the youngest picture I have of her. She was six or seven months here.




I'm pretty sure she's smooth coated, sometimes she looks a little wiry when her beard grows in but as far as I'm aware there's no such thing as a wire haired chihuahua.

& here's a profile/back pic:

She's beautiful ,i think she has wire coated Jack Russell in her

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You work ata vets right why not get adna test done?

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Defo jack russle cross chi.
She is a beauty really is cute.
Her fur on her face is that of a jack
Her size is that of a jack
Her fur being wiery is that of a jack.

But those ears are chi
Her eyes are chi
And that look in her eye says she is defo a cheeky chihuahua.
Ow and her tail is chi jacks have shorter and fatter tails
She really is so cute

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Thank you Charlotte for my Siggy mwah xxx

There is no psychiatrist in the world,
Like a chihuahua licking your face.

what other dogs did the Breeder have on the property?
whatever she is, Lucy is a sweetheart
Welcome to Chi Ppl!

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"My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet." - Edith Wharton

She looks a terrier mix to me.

It is possible for a female to mate with more than one male during her cycle and have puppies sired by different dads. That could be the case if the littermate looks really different.

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"Having heard all of this, you may choose to look the other way.....
but you can never say again that you did not know." William Wilberforce 1759-1833

She does look to be jrt x chi.

My LeStat is a jrt x chi but I've had chi breeders say he looks pure chi.
His mother is definitely a mini jrt though...his sister looks like a jrt and weighs 14lbs...he looks like a chi and weighs 2.5lbs but the mother was only ever mated once by a 5lb chi!

I've known breeders, with a few different breeds, sell puppies 'as what they look like' rather than admit to a mismate after a planned mating!

Oh wow! In all my picture searching online I never even thought about a jrt mix! She DOES look like a jrt! As of recently I no longer work at the vet, or I would use that employee discount and get the DNA test done. It was something like $170 with the discount so I can't imagine what they'd charge without one, and I'm just not THAT curious. x]

Is a litter by two different dads a common thing to have happen? Her littermate has the exact same coloring and markings, but longer very soft fur and she was only two or three pounds last time I saw her.