Only You Can Prevent Chihuahua Attacks

My girlfriend told me yesterday that Chihuahua’s were bred to kill bears.

Yeah, picture that. Picture a pack of Chihuahua’s taking down a bear. That’s apparently what they were bred for. That makes about as much sense as virgin college girls. I mean, it’s INSANE. I hope whoever came up with THAT idea got fired pretty quickly afterwards. Who was sittin’ around goin’, “You know, we have a bear problem in Mexico…”-WHICH IS A WEIRD ENOUGH STATEMENT TO FUCKING BEGIN WITH-”so we’re going to have to breed something that can kill bears. Guns wouldn’t do that, guns wouldn’t kill bears, that would just piss them off, and we can’t set the forests on fire because the stupid firefighters and animal activists would put it out, hmmm, let’s breed dogs! Tiny little vicious dogs that could take down a full grown bear!”

Let me just say it right now, just to get it out of the way: THIS GUY IS A FUCKING IDIOT.

I mean that’s like breeding shrimp to fight sharks. It’s just a stupid fucking idea. So how’d this get going anyway? Who decided that tiny little dogs would be able to take on large grizzly bears? I’d say…TIME FOR RESEARCH! From what I could find on the internet (granted it’s from someone on a yahoo message board, but hey, sometimes civilians are more intelligent than the people working in those fields) someone said this:

From what I have read, before they were domesticated and bred down to such a small size, they were a naturally occurring breed of wild dog. They hunted small mammals and would form up into longtime mated pairs. They are from Mexico, and were domesticated by the Aztecs, I think. Normally they only get along well with other chihuahuas, but they make exceptions. It has been determined that the Chihuahua was originally bred for hunting small game. A family who could not afford the expenses of a large dog, cared for a Chihuahua pack.

So whether this theory is actually TRUE or not is still undetermined.

But come on, it’s at least a hilarious image to picture in your mind when you think about a 300 pound black bear being taken down by a pack of vicious little chihuahuas. Even YOU can’t deny THAT.

m@rk