Hairless
dogs like me, have been around since 900-1200AD,
I actually come
in two varieties Hairless, like me with hair on my crest, socks
and plume on my tail, the Powderpuff on the other hand has long
silky hair all over, how lucky is that!!! We are a bit houndy
and can be likened to little ponies.It is
believed we were first imported into Great Britain around the
1800’s and were regarded as a bit of a curiosity. Us
hairless Crested’s can come in a variety of colours ‘mahogany’, ‘blue’, ‘black’ ‘steel-blue’, ‘elephant
grey’ ‘lilac’ and ‘honey’, these
colours are often broken with pink, whilst some of us have pink
skin with coloured spots. Our teeth like that of other hairless
animals, elephants and pigs, are forward pointing. We feel hot
to touch, but feel the cold just as much as you do when you are
wearing no clothes. It is believed we were apparently used as
hot water bottles in eastern countries, and then eaten as a delicacy. Our size is around thirteen inches and we can be a ‘cobby’ type
or ‘deer’ type. I eat fruit and veg as part of my
diet, but apart from no hair I am a pretty normal dog. I am really
having fun at training, my owner on the other hand is a bit of
a nervous wreck when it comes to letting me off but Niki is doing
some therapy stuff with her to help her deal with this. So that’s
me.
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My name is Fluffy; I
am nearly 2 years old and have just begun training with Niki.
My owner
is donna, I also have 2 sisters, Usha a GSD and Tilly a Staffy/Lab
cross, in fact the house is female dominated with only 2
males, myself and Donna’s hubby, versus 4 females what
with donnas little girl too. Still if it wasn’t for Donna
I guess I wouldn’t
be standing around fields freezing to death, cold and wet.
What makes it worse is I have no hair, well that’s not
particularly true I have some leg, tail and facial hair which
is typical
of the breed I am, which happens to be a Chinese Crested.