Sparky:
Sparky was born on July 12, 2000, and currently weights 3 pounds 2 ounces.
Peter and I brought him home in September of 2000 and he's had us completely under his spell ever since.
He is a pure bred chihuahua, and has his AKC paperwork. We had him fixed so even though he's beautiful he'll never see a show or have puppies.
Growing up, both Pete and I had large dogs (retriever's & collie's) and I never thought I'd ever enjoy having a smaller dog.
Chihuahua's certainly aren't for everyone. They are very energetic and affectionate as well as very family (it's owner, close friends) orientated. I haven't found them to be very good with small children though.
These pictures were taken when he was about a year old.
Unfortunately these were scanned with a pretty old scanner and didn't come out very well (bands of light and dark from the scan and the one is just really light...) hopefully I can get some better ones done soon.