#bonemouth shar pei

[petportraitsbyheatherlovelace]

A commissioned portrait of their bonemouth Shar Pei named Lauper. Polychromos and Luminance colored pencils used on 11"X14" Strathmore paper.

#traditional shar pei #shar pei #bonemouth shar pei #bonemouth #chinese fighting dog #primitive dog #dog #canine #pet #animal #pet portrait #commission #dog art #dog drawing #dog portrait

[elfdragon12]

Bonemouth shar pei should be more popular rather than the more commonly known meatmouth shar pei.

Beautiful dogs that cut a striking figure! Plus they don't have the wrinkles that are bacterial traps and can harm their eyes nor that swollen looking muzzle. They're also a little taller as well as being more athletic. Possibly healthier in general? But I haven't come across more research going into the health of the dedicated Hong Kong breeders keeping them alive vs the more widely available meatmouth.

From what I've read, the more wrinkled meatmouth variety was made by crossbreeding pugs and bulldogs which is probably also why they're considered a brachycephalic breed despite having an actual face.

#dog #shar pei

[bulldogges]

Jasdoren Leopold, a very nice, moderate shar pei

#shar pei #bonemouth #dogs #dogblr

[warcrimesimulator]

Bonemouth shar pei dogs are so great, I will never understand the appeal of these wrinkly-ass things

#they're ugly noah fence #also you have to clean all of their skin folds or they'll start to stink

[rocadog]

Can you recognize the Meat Mouth Shar Pei and Bone Mouth Shar Pei apart? In this video i will compare these two types of Shar Pei. #sharpei #chinesesharpei #meatmouthsharpei #bonemouthsharpei

#sharpei #shar pei #chinesesharpei #chinese shar pei #bonemouth #bone mouth #meat mouth #meatmouth

[dogwizard]

traditional (bone-mouth) shar pei

#shar pei #traditional shar pei #bonemouth shar pei #dogs

[elfdragon12]

So I mentioned a while back how I splurged and got a dog DNA test kit?

So. Is this girl

part lab or pit like I thought?

I got the results and--WHAT? SIBERIAN HUSKY WITHA STEEL CHAIR?!

This does make certain things make sense, like why she enjoys the cold and snow so much, as well as why she has such a tendency to pull and loves hiking. Like, yeah, bonemouth shar pei are much more active than the meatmouth variety, but I figured it was unlikely she was just straight bonemouth because of how uncommon they are in the west.

Thankfully as an apartment dweller who gets home late at night, she has the vocal tendency of her shar pei parent and not the husky.

This is very interesting to see how genetics are a grab bag (like how the percentage isn't just 50/50)... Also makes a great case for the husky as a viable option to bring back the bonemouth as other shar pei mixes in the "dogs like mine" look similarly.

#Dog #Tova the shar pei #And husky I GUESS #I won't change the tag especially since she looks way more shar pei

[elfdragon12]

So I gave into curiosity, splurged and bought a dog DNA kit, swabbed Tova, and sent it in.

The best visual matches I've seen for Shar Pei mixes are labs and pit bulls. But she also looks really similar to bonemouth variation of Shar Pei.

Here's a bonemouth Shar Pei:

Here's a Shar/Lab:

And a Shar/Pit:

And here is Tova:

While she loves to greet other dogs, she's not overly playful. For the most part, she doesn't care too much about other people unless they have food or a dog with them... Unless it's night time and she doesn't trust them. She does get protective at night. She's very quiet. She's also got quite a prey drive, especially around deer.

Along with all that, she's pretty athletic and loves a good hike. She does have allergies. Plus, she has a winter coat--only thing that softens her prickly Shar Pei coat.

Any thoughts?

#Tova the Shar Pei #Dog

[elfdragon12]

You ever look at Shar Peis and Chow Chows and realize how similar they are?

The less wrinkly versions

It's like if you gave a Shar Pei a big fur coat. They're about the same height and weight (Chows maybe just a big shorter, especially next to "bonemouth" Shar Peis), as well as even share the blue-black tongue color.

As they're both basal and ancient breeds from China, it's almost guaranteed they share a common ancestor from lost history.

#dogs #shar pei #chow chow #Am I becoming a Shar Pei enthusiast because of Tova? ... Maybe

[elfdragon12]

I came across a video "disproving" that brachycephalic dogs were ever bred in a way to not make them brachy by showing pictures from ~40s-50s. I mean, all the dogs they showed had much longer histories than 70-80 years ago, so a pretty weak "disproving" effort.

However, one breed they didn't seem to show was the shar pei.

I wonder why. (Pictures nabbed from this site.)

The "meatmouth" variation that most western folks are familiar are the result of crossbreeding. I've seen two different stories on who was introducing other dogs into the mix, either the dog fighters looking to have better fighting dogs or folks looking to make money off of western dog enthusiasts eager for the "rarest" dog breed. Either way, it's not how the dogs used to look.

There are still Hong Kong shar pei breeders who still actively breed the "bonemouth" and I wish more western breeders would get on board with this type of dog (but no, the overabundance wrinkles and meaty face is "cute" and bonemouths aren't AKC accepted).

#dogs #shar pei