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Do chihuahua dogs originally come from the state of chihuahua of mexico?

Sep 20, 2009 by Arturo | Posted in Dogs

I've always wanted to know why chihuahua dogs where given the name chihuahua when in fact the state of chihuahua of mexico is a very big state of mexico and i am not 100% sure but i believe that in fact the state of chihuahua of mexico is the #1 largest state of all of the 28 or 29 states that the country known as mexico has, and as we all know chihuahua dogs are not very big on the contrary they are pretty small.

there have been a lot of theories as to the origin of the chihuahua. Some say they came from China, some say egypt. I believe they originated in Mexico. the reason they were given the name chihuahua is because that is where they were found and then brought into the US. They were named after the part of Mexico they came from.

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A passenger in Seat 20E took a two-hour nap. A fellow traveler nearby named Malibu had trouble relaxing, and was given a mild sedative. A cross-country plane ride from San Francisco to New York City will do that to you — especially if you happen to be an eight-pound dog.

On Virgin America’s Flight 12, which arrived on Wednesday at Kennedy International Airport, there were 108 human passengers, three flight attendants, two pilots and nine Chihuahuas.

The dogs, joined later by six other Chihuahuas who made it to New York on another flight, sped down the Van Wyck Expressway that evening in two vans to their new temporary home on the East Side of Manhattan — the Adoption Center of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, at 424 East 92nd Street.

Northern California it is not. The center is across from a few of the city’s public housing towers, where pit bulls and other large dogs have posed such a problem that officials made the controversial decision last year to ban them from similar complexes. Down the block, construction workers tore up the road with heavy machinery, Chinese-takeout deliverymen raced through red lights on their bicycles, and a man had transformed his white Volvo into a four-wheeled billboard, scrawling messages all over the car in black marker (“Support Your Local Nut,” one read).

Yet since arriving at the East Side shelter, the 15 Chihuahuas — Jeb, Orlando, Bella, Colette, the aforementioned Malibu, Annie, Bebop, C. J., Nala, Sherlock, Hancock, Honey, Tina, Holly and Maximus — have been adjusting to life in the big city. Some of them are living in fourth-floor condos (that’s what the A.S.P.C.A. calls its deluxe, glass-walled rooms), listening to classical music that is piped in and enjoying three walks outside and two feedings a day.

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