Chihuahuas help with asthma because of their small size.
Elizarios de El Rancho (aka My Dog) is a 10 pound, six-year-old rescue dog I rescued from the California Save-a-Bulldogs and Burros pet adoption center in San Diego County. She was about four years old when we met and for all those early years she was never known as anything but My Dog. Her name didn’t seem to matter and nobody really voiced an opinion either way except me who always used her full name with “de El Rancho”. It only became important suddenly, during one of my occasional bouts with airway constriction brought on by allergies…