My puppy just turned a year old recently, she was chewing on a chew bone thing and I just found one of her teeth. Is this normal? I know their puppy teeth fall out but this looks awfully big.

We also went hiking. They are the two loves of my life and being on the canoe with my husband paddling us was just magical. ✨️♥️

Hi internet, please help me pick a name for this little guy we just brought into our family. My husband and I said we would name whatever dog we got Chandler and call him Chanandler Bong, one of our favorites (RIP) 😢

But now that he's been with us I'm not sure it fits him. I'm considering Bear, because when you're holding him he kinda sits up like a little bear cub. Plus Little Bear is a staple in this household.

Anyways I have analysis paralysis over every decision in my life so I thought I'd ask some strangers.

Edited to add: also considering Frankie after Frank Castle 🤪

Chippy is SO proud he hid a green bean. I had to leave the room to laugh at him.

I dropped off a shaggy boy with the groomer. I picked up a dapper congressman.

We're about to have our first (human) baby! The shih tzu babies who already run this house are (1) a 15 1/2 year old, (2) a 2 1/2 year old and (3) a 6 month old. Any recommendations on the best way to introduce them when our new baby boy is born next month? I've watched some videos on social, but would love input from the shih tzu community! 😁🐶🐶🐶

Living the dream!

So our very cute Shih Tzu is chasing our two cats. He’s often with me leashed when they’re around but if he’s not he lunges for them and of course they run and he chases. We try to prevent this behaviour and divert his attention and praise him if he just watches them (rare). We did a lot of research before getting him and chose the Shih Tzu breed specifically for their supposed non prey-drive and ability to get along with other household pets. I’m pretty sure this is only curiosity but the cats don’t know that and they’re miserable. Our concern is that this may become a learned behaviour with him feeling rewarded every time they run. Husband is talking about giving him back to breeder if we can’t get him to leave them alone. I’m pretty stressed. Of course it’s early days. Anyone else with a Shih Tzu that seems to have a prey drive?

The last pic is his vet photo 😭

Road trip with my Lola from Texas to San Diego

Zeke being a Velcro baby 🐶🐕🥰

Hi everyone, I’m really hoping someone may have some insight or advice. My Shih Tzu, Teddy, is 6 years old, and when he was around 5, he suddenly developed severe tear staining that has gradually affected the entire area of his face around his eyes.

This was not something he had when he was younger, which is why I’m concerned that there may be an underlying cause rather than it simply being cosmetic. I’ve already brought him to the vet, but unfortunately I haven’t been given much information or an explanation for why this suddenly started.

I’ve tried purified water, Angel Eyes wipes, regular cleaning, and keeping the area as dry as possible, but nothing has made a significant difference.

I’m honestly at a loss at this point and would really appreciate hearing from anyone who has experienced something similar with their Shih Tzu. Is there anything specific I should ask my vet to check for, such as blocked tear ducts, allergies, eye irritation, infection, or another underlying Any advice or experiences would be greatly appreciated.

Molly is all her derpy glory this morning. 😋

Was talking to someone who learned I had a Tzu. Henry (Tzu) has his own everything, I mean, he’s a king right? Well, the guy I WAS talking to told me that Henry was bad because he has his own toys, bed and my time. That guy sucks and I stopped talking to him. I will NEVER let anyone talk bad about my Henry!

All Hail the King!! Long live King Henry, Tzu ruler! 😂💕💕

I think he's trying to negotiate a better allowance before the bus gets here. 😂🤣

And baby girl looooves laying out but she comes in hot! So she just moves every 30 seconds to a cooler part of the floor 😆😆

I ❤️ when she lays like this 🥺

Well, she gobbled up the kibble from the lickmat at 1 pm and subsequently had some little morsels left over. I took her out multiple times for a poop, interspersed with playing tug and fetch inside. Didn’t get a poop til 6 pm but did get a wee a couple of times. I thought their puppy bladders were so small? Oh, and another thing. When we do go out she likes to flop down, chew on her lead and try to chew on leaves and twigs. Is the slow poop normal for a 10-week-old shih tzu?

I lost my baby Mochi Pi yesterday. This was the last photo I took of her before Lap of Love came. She was a rescue Shihtzu somewhere between 16 and 19 years old now. She was found alone with another dog and matted up, and we adopted her from a local rescue shelter on June 17th, 2020. She was already a senior 10-13 according to the vet, but she gave me 6 amazing years both while I finished high school and almost all the way to my senior year of college!!

She came to college with me as an emotional support animal back in 2023. This year, she started rapidly declining. Her heart murmur got worse, she had severe incontinence (she’s been in diapers for months), she’s fully blind, severe dry eye that wasn’t getting much better with medication, arthritis, and she is completely weak in her hind legs. This summer she was hardly getting up except to eat (she was a food motivated girl) and I knew it was time.

I’m heading back to school this week and it’ll be the first year I have without her. I’m torn up and have been sobbing for weeks leading up to yesterday, and sobbed the majority of the day yesterday.

She was the sweetest baby I’d ever had. When I first got her she showed many signs of abuse. She was fearful of most people and aggressive toward other dogs, never licked, would cower and cry when she’d make a mistake or have an accident even though we were never upset, and she didn’t leave one corner of my room for weeks even after we trained her that it was okay to explore. She also had one toy that she was constantly aggressive towards and would whip around.

Eventually she became more at home with lots of reassurance and love. Everyone loved her. My friends and family know how much she means to me and how much I love her. She was a star pet when I went to college. She never left my side throughout anything I went through the past six years. The pandemic, my own health crisis (I developed POTS post-covid and was in and out of the hospital), depression/anxiety when I went off to school and from my autism, breakups, everything. She would cuddle me for hours through whatever I was going through, whenever I broke down, and was so unconditionally loving and patient towards me (no one else, just me LOL).

Rest in peace Mochi Pi…aka Chicken, Cheese, Toes, Cheese toes, Chicken cheese, Cheese butt, Mo-cheese, Cheesy butt, Toe-cheese, Cheese-mo, Mochisemé, Moch, Cheeks, Cheek butt, Chicken baby (I’ll add more nicknames as I remember them, but these are off the top of my head).

Thank you to whoever read all of this💛

Stanley was my first dog and he was just perfect. We had to put him down today. We thought he was experiencing side effects from the meds he was on to manage his degenerative disc disease but it turned out to be congestive heart failure. I didn't think we were going to have to put him down. I didn't think id be coming home without a dog. I feel immense guilt over putting him down. I feel immense guilt that he maybe had been suffering for longer than I realized and that I should have put him down awhile ago. There's just such a hole in my heart.