PRESENTED BY THE DOMESDAY BOOK OF DOGS The Techichi Supposedly entirely mute pet dog of the aboriginal Americans. Extensively used as a food source by the indigenes as well as by Spanish explorers. The dogs bred prolifically but failed to keep the pace and eventually became extinct. As with all pre-Columbian 'breeds' they were allowed to cross indiscriminately with introduced dogs and became swamped by foreign blood. Sometimes called the Small Indian Dog or the Alco, although this latter name may have been a generic term, in many Amerindian dialects, to denote a small 'breed'. The Techichi may be an ancestor of the Chihuahua. In an effort to account for the obvious differences between the two breeds Vesey-Fitzgerald, 1957, wondered if the 'Spanish occupiers' could have introduced Papillon blood into the Techichi. Both the Chihuahua and the Papillon sport a pronounced stop, Doggie Hubbard, 1948, narrates an old tale about the disfigurement of Techic