r/sharpei

just some cuteness to lighten up your day

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.

I look like crap but I don't care. I'm trying to clean but can't get anything done because I can't stop smooching her.

I just want to eat her for breakfast, lunch and dinner. My little Deja Vu. 🩷

(I imagine her saying to herself "Maaaaa, staaaaap!!!! You're so annoying." 😂)

Our foster pei, Ziggy. Whereever you need to be, he’s in the way, and no, he’s NOT moving. Find another route.

I wanna know if any of you have similar experiences of people assuming your pei is aggressive.
For context, I have had peis in my family for as long as I can remember, and not once have I ever encountered an aggressive or mean one, its quite the opposite with them
being extremely lovely, albeit sometimes shy, wrinkly babies.
When I got my own pei for the first time last year and I took her to my vet for the first time, both vet techs and a nurse were extremely surprised by how friendly she was. They explained they had never had a “nice” sharpei in the clinic and they always had to have some sort of sedation to work with them.
Now, my girl is typical sharpei-weary of strangers. Shes never so much as growled at another human, but she gets very scared if a stranger approaches her and tries to touch her unless they let her come to them. She LOVES other dogs and all she ever wants to do is be around them
and play lol.
However, just in the last week I’ve had 2 people ask if my dog is friendly because they’re typically an aggressive breed and they don’t want to approach to say hi if thats the case. I usually tell people not to bother approaching unless they have time to sit and wait for her to come to them as I refuse to stress her out or scare her.
It could also be a stigma from the fact they were a fighting dog, or their body language/face can be harder to read (personally, when i see a sharpei face all i want to do is squish it), but I cant believe how many people have told me I own a stereotypically aggressive dog.

She loves to pose for the camera ahaha!

Our boy often battles with ear infections, which is common for our Peis oc. But lately they have been leading to puss which we then get treated from a vet (Germany).

Last time was about 6 months ago and now he already is infected again... So we have a feeling it's getting worse every year.

Any tips ? We would gladly appreciate!

I clean his ears and folds (outside)

We don't flush them anymore as the vet said we shouldn't

as the caption says, my honey is super obsessed with grass. ALL grass. she likes to roll around especially in dewy grass and pluck it with her teeth then spit it out before getting insane zoomies. you can see a blade of thick grass in her mouth in the picture lol.

also, im holding a piece of grass in the air to get her to sit for this picture.

is your pei a grass lover?

Ok so this isnt a funny story for say but a funny instance that happened to my new mini-shar pei so I found her at a Humaine Society and I have had her for a week but prior to her I had one that was with me for 17 years, well she sleeps in my bed just as my other one did for her whole life but I have a Temperpedic bed and its made to give the best sleep out of most beds and is made of memory foam well my dog now Harper is use to sleeping on concrete or cotton beds and she falls asleep now and she is so out of it she wakes up and has a drool spot where her head was its so funny that she gets in such a deep sleep that she drools my other one never did that but this one does and I thought that you guys would like that.

I’m obsessed with my baked potato boy!

have any of you dealt with valley fever in your shar pei? i took her to the vet today for lethargy and while i couldn’t afford the test, my vet has a hunch that she has it. i will be going back after i get paid on friday to get the official test done, just trying to keep her comfortable for now.

what are your experiences with valley fever?