@AllThatJazzZ
That's a good looking Bud you have there, and here I go getting myself in trouble, and a nice size. Sorry to all those out there with forever fur friends of the diminutive size but I have found them on the whole to be aggressive and noisy. Fortunately for me my wife and I had an already set arrangement that I cleaned up after the dogs and she took care of the cats.
@GtHawk Pardon me for scratching my head, but, after nearly 50 years (well, since 1974) of owning diminutive dogs, I've never had one that fits your description. None of them ever barked other than when it was appropriate (someone at the door, a loud noise nearby, etc.). They were never allowed to bark incessantly, so they just didn't -- even when the occasion for barking was appropriate. The only aggression any of them every showed was toward a sibling who
might have side-eyed the contents of the dog bowl of the other. I had to break up a few tussles on those occasions, but even I, a diminutive woman, could reach in and separate a couple of snarling toy poodles who together weighed about 12 lbs. Finally, I didn't even hear the bark of my handsome new rescue until a couple or three months after I got him. It's still so rare to hear him bark that his bark is still foreign to my ears after almost a year.
None of my dinky dogs were ever aggressive toward any person or dog. I did get bitten once, though. It was when I was desperately trying to dig out a piece of food that was blocking my little girl's airway. She didn't cotton to having a finger stuck down her throat and her natural reflex was to chomp down on it. I was okay with that. I successfully dislodged the food and she began breathing
and eating (!) again. I washed my wound and thanked God that I had rounded the corner just in time to find her on her side struggling to breathe. Another few seconds and... well, I can't bear to think about it.
I did have a barking, aggressive dog when I was a kid. I loved her like crazy, but she was not very nice to anyone other than our family. She was my sibling and my playmate, and I felt like I was dying when I lost her. She was a collie.