Chihuahuas-Bloodlines ~ Blog

JacquiBeth@Johnson, bred for brilliant colors and markings, so when someone acquired an  Chihuahua-Bloodlines-Anikas , it was a real eye catcher, not the plain washed out fawn look I see almost in every plain Chihuahua. I also got alot of rich mahoghany color fawns and butterscotch blondes(dilute fawn), and my Champion Gi Gi was a beauitful honey cream blonde with an almost rabbit-like textured soft plush short coat.(In comparison to this type of coat have seen wire coats). Most Anika's-Chihuahuas had a very light undercoat. They were not much on shedding. A few had  a sparse coat but rarely as this would not be shown. My Blue Chihuahuas were a very deep indigo Some Anikas faded from blue at birth to Lilac shades, as for example my lovely Madison. A wonderful combination is Lilac with the Irish spotted flashy marked colors. When you search the web for our Chihuahuas plus the word "results" + show, you get many dog show records on Anika-s-Chihuahuas Bloodlines and you will see that the dogs with "Matrix" or "Tazmaninan" behind them  appear very very flashy in color, that is well marked with definition and very evenly.On a teacup-sized dog this is strikingly beautiful...... I didn't have  visible merles in my line but I always wondered if the Featherston bloodlines had it(1970's) because there was a white merle like spotting on my white tri colored bitch and I had mixed eye colors on some of the  dogs that were blue from these lines... I have since been told this is not a merle. Personally, I have no opinion on MERLES. Some of them pretty nice looking, but I do not care what other people do. I am not here to control other people...I do care about what I do. I do care about my bloodlines and what they offer future dog breedings. If it is any comfort to fellow breeders who particularly hate the merle marking pattern, my own personal Chihuahua-Bloodlines do NOT have any merles in their pedigree that were not there before the recent  surge of merle breedings. Merles are a marking pattern not a color. Now back to my Tri's.....
My Blue-Tri-colored Chihuahuas, were indeed, one of my very favorites.....one in one of the first litters I ever had from my beautiful Ch-Anika's-Sassy-Cha-Cha-Cha-, her son was nick-named "First Buttons".