Ashley Cole fights Cheryl for control of chihuahuas

By Lucy Jones 700AM GMT twenty-three March 2010

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If a dog is a mans most appropriate friend, afterwards it comes as no warn that Ashley Cole refuses to surrender over control of the dual he shares with Cheryl Cole. Men competence be happy to leave their young kids in the control of their mother, but when it comes to their pooches, the a opposite make a difference entirely. The philandering footballer is so vigilant on observant his pets that, according to rumours, they have their own motorist for the days he is authorised to outlay with them.

Did I discuss the dogs are chihuahuas called Buster and Coco? A bit unmanly, no? Well, according to the ultimate turn in the dog world, Coles crash on trend.

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It proposed on the select streets of Shoreditch, where men were speckled proudly withdrawal room conversions accompanied by no, not a Geldof sister path dogs. Tiny, ratty, yappy dogs. The kind that you competence step on accidentally. The breeds precious by Paris Hilton. Pugs. Handbag mutts. The dogs that, lets be honest, are a small bit girly.

At initial glance, the direction is discordant. Society expects men to be hurtling down streets with slavering rottweilers or on foot on the Downs with rugged labradors. One thinks of Bill Sikes and Bullseye. Of track masters huddled around hounds on a glacial meet. Or men goading their staffies in petrify pockets of middle cities. The Pomeranians are zipped up far afar in Hermès handbags in Los Angeles, or Cheshire. Until now.

The series of men outspoken to show off their small dogs is multiplying. Indeed, the alternative day, I saw 3 men with path dogs sitting alone in the same bar. And the not only the smart streets of E1. A friends mom tells me that she was taken by surpise to see a brawny man strolling around Windsor Great Park with a chihuahua. The materialisation has been witnessed in Bath, Manchester and Scotland and you cant move in Milan airfield for men with their bichons in tow.

Dianne Lunney, a breeder of chihuahuas for 40 years, says that masculine perspective towards small dogs mostly changes. "They begin by observant "I dont wish those small rats for dogs but when they get the dogs home, the wives call me up and contend that their husbands have taken them over."

Graham Foot, authority of the British Chihuahua Club and a breeder for 50 years, is not remotely broke to travel his Chihuahuas in open and says that theyre some-more of a plea than his German shepherds. "Small dogs can be unequivocally assertive and lash out only as most as some-more stereotypically dangerous canines."

But the doubtful that men are entrance turn to the thought of "rat dogs" since their charge would give them travel cred. Despite the doubtful appeal, it chimes with the zeitgeist.

As men hide fingerfuls of their girlfriends moisturiser, wax, and wear sarongs on the beach, because shouldnt their dog tastes ring the delicate as well as the masculine? Man-bags sojourn in practice so the subject of ride is already, erm, in the bag. And for the amiable bachelor, the not as big the dog, the simpler to see after.

But is machismo unequivocally so pass? Do we feel gentle about men sauntering around locale with a span of jewelled Chihuahuas? Is metrosexuality unequivocally attractive?

Judging by the stage I witnessed the alternative day, the answer is "yes". One such guy strolled in to a video emporium with a tiny dachshund. Like iron filings to a magnet, the women raced to get as close as probable to the dog and by extension, his owner. He could have left the emporium with a full dance card.

Perhaps Barack Obamas preference of a foolish-looking Portuguese water-dog called Bo has done it simpler for men to evade what gathering dictates.

You competence be astounded to listen to that the initial dog to have dined in the House of Commons is believed to have been a chihuahua. It was the annual cooking of the British Mexican Society in 1954 and, apparently, the dog wore a immature jersey and a solid collar.

It stays to be seen either this direction will hang with the civic Dandies or shift the approach we feel about mans most appropriate (smaller) friend. Toy dogs competence shun the associations of WAGs, Taco Bell and Madonna. But will men ever unequivocally be means to go through on foot what is, basically, an over-grown hamster on a lead?