A Chihuahua became a local spectacle at a Japanese temple, after the dog began to imitate the worshipers by clasping his front paws together, a position similar to hands placed together in prayer. The dog, a two-year old long-haired Chihuahua named Conan, would reportedly assume the praying position taken by temple worshipers, as a way of asking for doggie treats.

52-year-old man, identified only as Park, was caught for attempting to cook his landlady's pet Chihuahua. The incident happened in a boarding house in Jongno in the capital Seoul. The man reportedly took the pet Chihuahua inside his room in the boarding house which his 69-year-old landlady was in the bathroom. He killed the dog and attempted to cook it, unfortunately his clothes caught fire and emitted smoke.

The California Highway Patrol managed to catch one of four minivan thieves, thanks to a three-pound Pomeranian-Chihuahua mix named Tink. Police were responding to a call of a stolen minivan, with three juveniles and an adult as the suspects. The four fugitives then crashed the vehicle into a hillside near the home of Wendy Anderson.

U. S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers have detained a driver and a man they found hiding in a suitcase. A CBP officer made the discovery at the Paso Del Norte port of entry in El Paso a little after midnight. The huge suitcase was in the back seat of a 1997 Ford Escort that entered the port from Mexico.

A pet Chihuahua is enjoying a host of praises from everyone after his recent heroic deed. Tiny Zoey risked its own life by saving a baby from a rattlesnake, which tried to attack the kid. Acting like a real bulldog, five-pound Zoey barked as ferociously as she could and stood in the snake's path and was herself bitten. The child Booker West was splashing his hands in a birdbath in his grandparents' northern Colorado back yard when the incident took place.