When choosing between two evils...

I feel your pain. I adore the little ankle biters, not that we can afford one, so we tend to go the mutt route. I have had 2 chihuahua mixes. We had the first one (Chihuahua/Pomeranian) for 11 years until she got sick . . . it took almost seven more years to talk my father into another. My baby now is a Chihuahua/Shih Tzu mix named . . . Spike (courtesy of my mother -- my vote was for William the Bloody).