Karen's Site » chorkie http://www.karen-heslop.co.uk Welcome to karen-heslop.co.uk Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:32:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Xena our new puppy http://www.karen-heslop.co.uk/2009/05/xena-our-new-puppy/ http://www.karen-heslop.co.uk/2009/05/xena-our-new-puppy/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 08:07:19 +0000 Karen http://www.karen-heslop.co.uk/?p=152 After the sad and sudden departure of Buffy our beloved house rabbit we have adopted a new addition to the family. Xena is an 8 week old Chorkie puppy! A Chorkie is not a purebred dog. It is a cross between the Chihuahua and the Yorkshire Terrier so as you can imagine she is very tiny and very very cute.

This doesn’t mean that she isn’t a monster and has a diva style strop when she isn’t the centre of attention. All of which seems to be forgotten very quickly with one flash of her big brown eyes!

Technically she is a “designer breed” but I loath that term, makes her sound like some kind of genetically modified Frankenstein experiment. She is the happy product of a mummy Yorkie and a daddy Chihuahua.

However Chorkies are a robust breed with a life expectancy of 15 years but due to their appeal we have decided to get her micro chipped and insured as believe it or not people actually try to steal them!

She is very comical and loves to fight with toilet roll holders…random!!

Bradders, our other house rabbit, is a little unsure as he knows he is a lot bigger and more powerful then the puppy so he tends to keep out of her way for now. She is very bouncy and playful so he doesn’t really know what to make of her yet, he will never have as much of a bond with Xena as he did with Buffy but we are hoping they learn to get along once Xena has settled down.

I can sense another “Marley and Me” type book with anecdotes of her hilarious antics!

Check out the photos of Xena in my gallery.

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