u/HeatSpecial

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▲ 220 r/sharpei

New girl

Some family friends were moving and not able to take Dallas with them. After hearing about this and knowing how sweet of a dog she was my wife and I couldn’t say no.

We’re Labrador people through and through, but adding her to the family has been awesome. Integrating with our two other dogs and cat was no issue.

Excited to have her and to learn about a new breed.

I have some questions though:

  1. With how wrinkly her skin is, how often will I need to bathe her and take care of the skin under those wrinkles?

  2. There are patches of hair missing in certain spots, and she scratches her self pretty often. Are they prone to allegories? Any tips?

  3. Her right eye gets really goopy through out the day and I’ll compress a warm, damp cloth and clean it out but it’s constant. Her eyelid looks life it’s flipped. Looking into this; it seems like a somewhat common issue with the breed. Our friends told us there’s no need to worry about it since the surgery is $600. I disagree and think it’ll be worth. How bad is this affecting her quality of life.

  4. Any certain foods to avoid over another with this particular breed?

Thanks in advance for any and all info. I’m going to go squeeze on her disgustingly cute face cheeks.

u/HeatSpecial — 3 days ago