Pictures of my dog....cute or weird?

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Hi,

Thought I would put some pictures up of my dog, Molly! She is a 3 year old Sharpai. My mum thought it would be funny to put a jacket on her... :rolleyes:

Some people don't like Sharpai's because of their face and I get some funny looks when I am out walking her (without the jacket!). They don't have the best reputation, but I wanted to let all of you know that they are the most loyal and loveable dogs I have ever had! :D

Got any nice pictures of your dogs to share!?


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She looks very cute but when i was 16 I did a couple of weeks work experience at the local RSPCA shelter and a couple of these guys were brought in with horrible weeping sores in all their wrinkly bits. Poor things had to put up with the wounds being bathed and dressed daily :( and I was told they need some kind of special skin ointment as routine. Is this true or were they laying it on a bit thick for the naive WE kid? :rolleyes:

I'm afraid it rather put me off the breed but it's lovely to see one looking so obviously healthy and happy :)
 
Can you remind me why they were bred with the excess skin?

I seem to remember something about another animal not being to get a proper hold other than skin?
 
Arent they originally fighting dogs? So the idea is that they cannot damage each other seriously but just grab skin? Might be totally wrong there of course...

Lovely pics, she is very sweet :)
 
Yep, it's an advantage when fighting, it's alot harder to inflict injury to such thick wrinkled skin, jsut as in akita it;s hard to casue injury through such thick coat.
I actually disagree with the breeding of these dogs, they suffer immensely during their lives and are the vets worst nightmare, and commonly they even lose their sight, develop horrible sores, ear infections, excess sweat build up and oedema in their legs due to excess skin folds, msot spend their lives miserable and itchy.

Op no offence to yours, im sure she is lovely, my sister has one but e actually has hardly any wrinkles.
 
I actually disagree with the breeding of these dogs, they suffer immensely during their lives and are the vets worst nightmare, and commonly they even lose their sight, develop horrible sores, ear infections, excess sweat build up and oedema in their legs due to excess skin folds, msot spend their lives miserable and itchy.
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Totally agree. It's sad what humans have done to dogs. :( It's not the dogs fault and the ones I've met a lovely animals.
 
I was told if you are going to by one of these as a pup, to get one as wrinkle free as possible.

Yet wrinkles are so adorable on puppies to lots of people (like the ones you see on greetings cards) that they will continue to be bred for their wrinkles rather than health.
 
Depp_by_Chocolate said:
I was told if you are going to by one of these as a pup, to get one as wrinkle free as possible.

Yet wrinkles are so adorable on puppies to lots of people (like the ones you see on greetings cards) that they will continue to be bred for their wrinkles rather than health.
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As pups, the majority will have a lot of wrinkles, but as they get older and grow they tend to disappear. As you can see in the pictures, it's mostly excess skin, particurlarly around the face!

Initially, we were going to get a labrador puppy and the woman who had them up for sale also had 1 sharpei puppy left, Molly, and it was then that we decided to buy her. I must admit, she did look awfully cute, but the owner was very honest about the breed and we also done a lot of research before deciding to buy her!
 
CAYLA said:
Yep, it's an advantage when fighting, it's alot harder to inflict injury to such thick wrinkled skin, jsut as in akita it;s hard to casue injury through such thick coat.
I actually disagree with the breeding of these dogs, they suffer immensely during their lives and are the vets worst nightmare, and commonly they even lose their sight, develop horrible sores, ear infections, excess sweat build up and oedema in their legs due to excess skin folds, msot spend their lives miserable and itchy.

Op no offence to yours, im sure she is lovely, my sister has one but e actually has hardly any wrinkles.
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I agree that people will overlook the pups health when deciding to buy one or not and it's not until they are in actual ownership of the puppy that they realise the health implications that the breed can have!

Apparantly they are renowned for their health problems. They have bad feet, are prone to ear infections like you mentioned, diet problems etc etc.

To avoid the health problems, we take extra care of her than you would with a normal dog. For example, we clean her eyes morning and night, I always make sure her feet are clean, I clean her ears regularly to prevent any infection and we give her the right kind of food. By doing that we have never had any problems with her at all. It's down to the owner to make sure the dog is properly looked after. They might need extra care, but if it avoids all those health problems it's worth it! :)
 
I think she is beautiful :)
I used to see 2 on a daily basis. Walk one and play with the puppy who couldnt go for walks at the time.
They are very sweet dogs, and the puppy was absolutely stunning. (All those wrinkles on a puppy aww)
But, I do agree with Cayla, that the breeding of the poor dogs is a real shame, they do suffer terribly :(
 
Brownmare said:
She looks very cute but when i was 16 I did a couple of weeks work experience at the local RSPCA shelter and a couple of these guys were brought in with horrible weeping sores in all their wrinkly bits. Poor things had to put up with the wounds being bathed and dressed daily :( and I was told they need some kind of special skin ointment as routine. Is this true or were they laying it on a bit thick for the naive WE kid? :rolleyes:

I'm afraid it rather put me off the breed but it's lovely to see one looking so obviously healthy and happy :)
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Their eyes can be a major problem if there aren't cleaned regularly. If the owner doesn't clean the eyes, they get quite gungey like you said and if they are continually uncleaned, it would build up to the point that you have described with the dogs in the RSPCA. It's easily avoided if the owner makes the time though!

I don't think thats true for all sharpei's, I've heard that some can have trouble with their skin, but we have never had any bother before so I guess it just depends!
 
She's a lovely girl. It sounds like you take good care of her.

I didn't know how many problems they could have. That's sad. A lady near us has two, but they have no wrinkles at all, apart from a few on the head. Not sure if they're mixes or what, but she did get them from a rescue.
 
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