Lap Dogs On The Loose (Shih Tzu's on a Rampage)

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 19 Jan 2007 | Tucker McQueen

[Slings and Arrows]

Shih-Tzu's Terrorize Neighborhood!-ping.

[toddlintown]

I have 2 Shih Tzus. Of all the dogs I've ever owned, they are the gentlest, most lovable dogs I've ever had.

Those 2 free-rangers look like they could use a bit of a grooming. Poor things.

[toddlintown]

"very territorial and ready to attack when someone comes to the door.........."

It's a dog. Do you think it's going to set another place at the table when someone comes to the door?

[CholeraJoe]

Real dogs weigh 85 lbs, slobber alot and retrieve ducks or sniff out dead bodies.

Signed, Proud Lab Owner (my black has killed cats bigger than them.)

[Ditter]

Wild out of control Schitzus? Have they mauled any children yet, chew up any old ladies? Oh they aren't pittschzus so I guess they haven't.

I have a Jack Russell Terrier that looks just like these dogs except his color and markings are JRT. Everyone thinks he is a Schitzu (sp?) but he is full JRT, a throwback to something bred into the breed long ago. Cutest sweetest dog I have ever owned.

[Red Badger]

It's a dog. Do you think it's going to set another place at the table when someone comes to the door?

My Lab would..........

[Red Badger]

Real dogs weigh 85 lbs, slobber alot and retrieve ducks or sniff out dead bodies.

I have PitLab.....At the first sign of trouble he goes and digs a pit...........and hides in it........

[HairOfTheDog]

Ping!

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[Xenalyte]

And SMELLY. Those little things smell wet even when they're dry. (Yet another reason to love my Boston!)

[the OlLine Rebel]

Yup, it is pretty funny-sounding!

"Wild Shih-tzus" or "Untamed" is even funnier.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Feral Shih Tzus. Now I've heard everything."

I thought Gary Larson was releasing his first movie.

[Darnright]

Awwww, what cute l'il mops.

As for the concerned woman in the story that's feeding the beasts. If she would stop providing easy pickins, animal control might have better luck trapping the little furballs.

[Shimmer128]

Yes dear, and what did you do to hasten that day, hmmmmmm????????? :D

[ishabibble]

The pooch in the back is the identical twin of my own dog.
He's a rescue dog, and spoiled rotten! I had a second one also, but he was ripped in half by a pit bull. So my little Schnookie is the King of the castle around here.

I was told by the VSA lady who gave them to me that many times, in the case of little dogs like this, it is usually a case of a career woman buying a cute little dog for companionship, then getting married and having kids. These little breeds are one person dogs, and can't take the competition of a baby. After nine years experience, I tend to agree. The cops found my little guy thrown in a dumpster behind a store, so badly beaten that they took him to a vet to be put down. As if...Shih Tzu has to be Chinese for "ME AND ONLY ME". I sure hope that Miss Toth gets to keep and love them, but she's going to need to find a good groomer first!

[Shimmer128]

"Toth built an insulated doghouse on a covered bridge at the rear of the neighborhood and filled it with stuffed animals and warm blankets. She provides distilled water so they won't drink out of a nearby creek."


Singing "someone needs to get a liiiiiiife!!!!!!!!!"

[Hoodlum91]

LOL!!!!!

[RepoGirl]

You know... I can't tell you how the sound of a roaming pack of Shitzy Yappies fills me with terror.

I can rough house with a 100 lb rott, a barking pit bull makes me sniff with derision and a German Shepherd is a piece of cake...

But a gaggle of snarling ankle biting toys? Get me a shotgun. As G-d is my witness, these manic little potroasts send me for the hills.

[motormouth]

ROFL... Absolutely nuthin'. I swear. Im innocent. ;o)

MM


Nice to see ya Shimmer.

[AnAmericanMother]

I know some people say they have smart ones, but I've never met a Shih Tzu with more than three brain cells -- and those were all used for snarling, biting, and inappropriate elimination.

Guy I used to work for bought one for his kids. They never could even get the little monster housebroken - and it bit EVERYbody. I have no idea what happened to it, but in the words of Dorothy Parker, I hope it wasn't trivial . . .

I gotta agree that real dogs DO something -- and I vote for finding ducks (I can take or leave the dead bodies thing, although I know it's a public service.) My Lab is a first class duck finder -- but she weighs almost exactly half of 85 pounds. She's unusually petite, though. We were at a hunt test with around 200 dogs, and she was the smallest Lab by at least 15 or 20 pounds. More the size of a largish Boykin.

[Sue Perkick]

They absolutely are. Just the sweetest things I've ever seen. Nothing against other breeds but they're the only one for me.