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Originally Posted by mimimomo  'Apple Head', I thought it was a word that breeders made up to describe their head shape. Obviously, if you breed for that 'look', you're over looking the fact that they have open fontenelles...which I always thought were not supposed to be bred. So I read a little online & it's a controversial subject. Some argue that if they 'culled' (yes, they used that word!) all the carriers of that gene, Chi's would not be in existence. |
The term applehead or deer chihuahua, is not a breed subset that you register separately, under Chihuahua, with AKC. They are absolutely two different body styles and are not considered with the same hatred as the phrase teacup.....(and yes teacup is widely used in the Chihuahua world, and it is not looked upon with such disdain in those circles, unless things have changed since 1973, as it is mearly considered a term used by the general public, as they try to find the tiny little "pocket pups".) Chis would not be in existance if they culled out the open font gene, because it is so common and accepted in that breed, unlike Yorkies.