I hope not lol! They’re divine
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He looks like an African Wild Dog with those ears!
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Ok, my dog Zipper also ended up having “25% chowchow.” I have to say that I don’t think there are enough chows to be contributing to the gene pool at a high frequency.
Is “chow” inclusive of other breeds too?
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Zipper is a cutie! No idea about the chow component. Does Zipper have black spots in his palate or on his tongue? All my dogs that indicated chow on genetic profiles had big black spots on their tongue. Also, I think when we do do these genetic tests, we think our dogs are a pure breed and another pure breed when they likely are a motley of dogs with another motley of dogs or maybe the tests are just all bullshit I don’t know
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She does. One waaaaayyyy in the back that you can’t really see unless she’s borderline overheated, and a couple under her tongue.
If it’s real, it’s so bizarre. How many pure or even half chows have I seen in the flesh? Probably 15 at max? (and I was a dog bather for a year, so saw lots of dogs come through!)
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Same! I’ve only met one purebred chow in my entire life. I was in college and he was a frat houses mascot, and that dog was weird as hell and actually bit me.
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I can say I’ve never met one I liked, either.
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We had a lady in our performance dog club that raised chows.
Hers were nice looking, but for performance, they just were not very motivated, no drive to be seen, would just stand there best.
We used to call them pet rock dogs.
They never gave anyone, dog or person, any trouble, just didn’t respond much to their environment around them.
She would bring some to puppy classes and they learned fine to heel, sit and stay, were not rambunctious, if another dog got fresh they just stared, didn’t play or fight, mostly ignored them, kind of strange, but nice dogs.
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