Chizer

The chizer is a mixed dog breed originating in the United States of America. Chizers are a mix of the Chihuahua and the miniature schnauzer. This breed is not recognized by the American Kennel Club. The chizer has a combination of looks from both breeds of dogs, and can vary depending upon the breakdown of the breed. General sizes of a chizer range between 6-14 inches in height and approximately 4-15-lbs in weight. The chizer is a small breed dog, and works great in smaller areas, such as apartments, condos, and townhomes. The chizer comes in a typical variety of colours, usually grey, black, brown or white. This breed has a smooth, short haired coat that needs general grooming, trimming around the eyes, ears and nose. Longer hair needs more grooming than shorter fur. They are usually low shedding dogs, and typically most groomers leave their facial hair to mimic a schnauzer beard. The ears of a chizer are medium in length and can stand erect when at attention. The Chizer can have either an apple shaped head, or round head, with either a long or short snout, giving it either the appearance of a Chihuahua or Miniature Schnauzer. The body of the chizer is generally long and lean, with slender legs, and a square, robust back end. This back end tends to make the dog sturdier, and gives them surprising jumping abilities to reach great heights.
Character
The chizer mixes the highly active personality of a miniature schnauzer with the big, bold attitude of a Chihuahua, making them sturdy and seemingly tough dogs. However, the chizer is a fiercely loyal companion to its owner, and is protective of their owner. Chizer’s are seen as sweet, gentle, loving dogs, which tend to be great lap dogs for their owners, and tend to shower affection upon their owners with cuddling lots and many kisses. It is a generally playful breed, and will play for a long time before tiring out and eventually taking a nap. This breed needs daily walks, and constant activity time in order to keep the breed on its best behaviour. The chizer is a good breed for single people or families that also teach their children to take serious socialization towards the chizer to be comfortable, with gentleness and respect. This breed has been known to nip when aggressive actions are against it, or when forcefully playing with it outside of its comfort level; although Chizers do generally love to play. They train well if they know they are not the boss, although they have a stubbornness at first that must be overcome with perseverance and patience. The chizer is a breed that is generally fairly shy, and tends to be scared when meeting new people or other dogs, except where they are trained to accept outsiders, and again socialization at a young age can alleviate this issue. Chizers tend to adopt the personality and attitude of their human companions.
The chizer is an extremely intelligent dog, and are easy to train due to their intelligence. However, they need a good amount of training to prevent from nipping, and chewing; as they are a breed that loves to chew anything they can find. But, by their adolescence they drop those habits due to their close relationship with people. They have the ability to pick up things very fast, and learn all sorts of commands. However, it is a little tough to train the chizer to stop barking, as due to their innate sense of hearing, they hear the slightest noise and will bark at anything foreign to their environment; they make perfect guard dogs that way. They usually, though, only bark when visitors come to the door.
Also, the chizer breed does not like the cold, and does not cope well in cold temperatures, mostly due to its small stature; therefore, this makes it difficult to train these dogs to go to the bathroom outside, as most chizer’s tend to be paper or pad trained. This can also make it difficult in winter climates to take the breed for the daily walk required, as most chizer’s will not go outside in anything past -10 Celsius.
Health
The Chizer is very healthy and suffers from very few, if any, health problems. This is due to hybrid vigor.
The average chizer life expectancy is anywhere between 12-18 years of age, which is above average for a small breed dog.

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