Help I gotta a question about my longcoat chihuahua

I can't help with the long coat thing, but about the feces eating, you can give him digestive enzymes (found at most pet stores). The biggest reason dogs eat their own feces is because it still smells like food to them because it hasn't been broken down completely. The digestive enzymes help their stomachs break down the food completely and therefore they stop eating their feces. It is completely safe. You can ask your vet or trainer about it. It works great!

It may be that his full coat hasn't yet come through. Sometimes they're 3 years old before they have really thick, long coats. Just depends on his breeding, did his parents have long coats?

I have three (AKC) pedigreed long-haired chihuahuas and if you look at the photos I have submitted they all have different amounts of hair. Even just looking around the internet I seen some with tons of hair and some like one of mine not a lot, but more than a short-haired. Your other issue of eating the feces, sometimes they do not grow out of. There is medication for this, that I found on www.dog.com. It's a pill and works very well. You don't have to give it forever. It works! C

hi, i also have a chihuahua. his siblings have short coats but he is considered being "double-coated" meaning compared to short coats, his is longer and thicker but not long enough to be called a long coat. I beleieve that there is no problem with your chi. probably the length of its coat is just normal like that. about him eating his feaces, i think that most of us may also have experienced our pets doing that and it would mostly be during their 1st few mos. but at his age, you may want to watch him closely most especially after eating. wait until he poops and take it away as soon as posible. if he attempts to eat it, just warn him and take it away as soon as possible. after you remove it, make sure to praise him. reward system works very well with pets and he will understand eventually. =)

Finally some wholesome advice, digestive enzymes you say. Our female Taffy picked up this nasty little habit of eatin crap following her first whelp. We thought "wow" what a mother. Stimulating their little bowels didn't come as a shock but munchin right down on the stool sure did. But here's the prob, she just kept right on munchin her own dung then our males ( Trump )looked good and of course dumb him pulls the " monkey see monkey doo" routine. So now I've got 2 Turd Burglars we call them. Taffy's breath is like toxic and we have tried everything. To make matters worse their both particuar, it's gotta be fresh, just fallen with steam rolling off it. The aged hard crispy noogies just don't work. When we asked the vet he claimed it was just a bad habit and she'd grow out of it. Well no luck and she's just delivered her second litter of three males and guess what? Yup you got it their all Turd burglars. We always believed, because we had read or heard this vice was the result of a vitamin deficiency in their diet. I have heard just a way too many similar stories for there not to be something up. It's got to be a genetic disposition or mutant chromosone thing or something. But for me I'm trying this Digestive Enzyme product and with any luck I'll be back cuddlin with my little darlins again. thanx Grampa Grumpy