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Posted by Svetlana on November 07, 2002 at 13:07:41:

In Reply to: Re: Here is my Sweety posted by cbg on November 02, 2002 at 17:12:11:

:What a cutie! Is there any special care for a shar pei?

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::Here is my Sweety!

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Hi, welcome.

Well, I'm a new shar pei owner - but I don't htink they need a special care. Groomingwise. They are very short-coated, some of them are almost bold, their ears do not have to be trimmed.

But because of their wrinkles they may have a lot of skin problems.

I just wash mine once per 10 days (if to do it more often - his skin may get very dry) in a special shampoo that I bought from my wet and put a kind of a conditioner on his coat after that.

Some people just wash their dogs in a human conditioner with no soap. It depends on each individual dog.

Their ears need to be cleaned once a week.

I brush my bandit'd teeth once a week with a special rubber-finger-tooth-brush (he doesn't like other brushes). Plus, he chews raw bones (actually, not raw-raw, but bones made of natural stuff) and also he chews a rope - which is a kind of flossing for him.

Thant's basically it.

As for food - I try to avoid soy-containing food (I give him Iams for Puppies or Ol'Roy). Some shar peis have allergies for rice (!!!). Looks like mine has it too.

That's all I can say judjung by my not so long experiense.

And you know what: THEY DO NOT SMELL!!! THAT'S TRUE! I mean a usual doggy odor here. They don't - who knows why, maybe because of heir super short coat?

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