[Xaleia]

Babz girl, you are an exceptional mom to those babies. It fairly glows right here in type. Don't think I'm always smiling and cheerful my own self, because like you, if someone is mean or hateful, my first response is to BITE back and tell em off. I can be a sarcastic biatch if pushed when it comes to my babies or my children. Hell.. to anyone I care about, I become a tigress..claws and all.
But I do know and have experiented a lot with the power of positive thinking and catching others off guard with the smile and the willingness to share information or my babies. I agree with a lot of other posters. Either these people are plain ass ignorant or they are jealous in many cases.

Let me share something with you. I am a very average looking woman and a bit overweight. My best friend Laurie (I call her Lauriebelle..haha) was sharing with me how lots of women she meets are very mean and snide to her. I used to think...wtf ..are you talking about woman? It must be how You are coming off to them, because I'm friends with many of these women and they have NEVER from the first, acted that way.
Well after a while, I would notice from a distance her interaction with the women and found that they DID treat her much differently than they did me. From the very first introduction! What???? Well, here ya go. It really is true. Laurie is a very loving, but very attractive tiny blonde. Gorgeous, built just the way we would all like to be built..LOL ( I secretly hate her too.. haha). But these women were intimated or jealous of her because she was so attractive. Since I'm not any of those things, I was AMAZED to witness that. I treat any person the way I want to be treated when I meet them..no matter size shape color..whatever. People are people. BUT for many women, that is not possible I guess.
So what I'm trying to get at, is that the other posters may have touched on a really valid point as well. These people may have underlying jealousy issues, because your dogs are so well cared for and obviously beautiful.
With the men, they may have had bad experiences with small biting dogs or aggressive small ones, so they instantly are annoyed and say stupid "rat comments" grrrrr. That is where we can educate and show them, that a well behaved little baby, such as yours, can be had and enjoyed. We can't change the minds of all, but who cares? You know damn well in your own heart what treasures you have in them, so maybe feel sorry for the angry rude jerks! lol

You are open to other ideas and possibilities with the struggles you are encountering. I say ..YOU ROCK. Envy is probably pouring out of those poor silly jerks.
Children can be the sweetest and with out training, just like our dogs can be annoying rude little beings that you want to take over your knee and teach some manners!
You'll do fine. Keep those pictures coming. I am going to post a story I wrote recently about a s**t zu I baby sat last Christmas....LOL I loved that dog, but oh boy he drove me to distraction.......haha
Look for my story.............. How not to make money for Christmas! :-)