Botox for Shar-peis?
A week or so ago I was visiting the fishing village of Steveston. This is a little patch of land in the greater Vancouver area which is historic, unique and most picturesque. I love to visit and whenever I do I stop by for a feed of good old fashioned fish and chips. The restaurants and takeouts line the pier facing the fishing boats loaded with their goods brought fresh from the ocean.
As you can imagine this is a friendly and welcoming sort of place. Fish hawkers, ice cream vendors, souvenir shops and eateries all vie for your and your dog's dollar! Yes! Many come with their furry friends to feast on a filet of salmon or halibut whilst taking in the scene. There are many outdoor tables so that your pooch can sit close to the table and hope for morsels to fall into his expectant mouth. Lip smacking good all the way around.
It was on such an afternoon that I met Tazzie and Botox -- two darling shar-peis that were holding court on the pier. I'm a sucker for anything cute and of course shar-peis deliver in spades or should that be in wrinkles? Their owner, Randall, it turns out handles a line of brushes that will make any dog hair vanish with a mere sweep over the offending article -- be it a black pair of pants, a designer sofa straight from Roche Bobois or simply the seats in your car. Shar-peis it seems shed a lot. All short haired dogs do. Look for the FURemover at your favorite pet store.
We chatted a bit about dogs, shared a laugh over the name Botox, and laughed some more as someone observed " . . . well I'm not getting any botox treatment, obviously did not work on the dog . . . "
Fast forward to yesterday . . . on my porch, the local paper with a photo of a shar-pei. Now, I did notice that in the community where I live, there seems to be an increasing number of these cute wrinkly pups, who do grow into their wrinkles as they reach adulthood, or at least their bodies do but the faces stay adorably furled as one wrinkle falls over another.
"Shar-peis in distress" the paper toutes and quotes Dr. Kevin Harris, a local vet as saying " . . . there is so much skin on their face and their forehead that it rolls their eye lids in and they can't see. They actually have damaged corneas . . . "
The article goes on to describe how the folds resting on the cornea cause pain, vision problems and ultimately blindness. The shar-pei traces its roots to China and was near extinction as recently as the 1970's. Today there is no shortage of these cute and cuddly doggies. Dr. Harris however, is not as enamored with them as we are. It's not the dog he objects to but the health problems that this breed endures. He's had to do major surgery to help these shar-peis and from his perspective it would be better if people just opted for another type of breed.
Soooooo . . . .thinking of Botox. I wonder? Is it worth a try?
As you can imagine this is a friendly and welcoming sort of place. Fish hawkers, ice cream vendors, souvenir shops and eateries all vie for your and your dog's dollar! Yes! Many come with their furry friends to feast on a filet of salmon or halibut whilst taking in the scene. There are many outdoor tables so that your pooch can sit close to the table and hope for morsels to fall into his expectant mouth. Lip smacking good all the way around.
It was on such an afternoon that I met Tazzie and Botox -- two darling shar-peis that were holding court on the pier. I'm a sucker for anything cute and of course shar-peis deliver in spades or should that be in wrinkles? Their owner, Randall, it turns out handles a line of brushes that will make any dog hair vanish with a mere sweep over the offending article -- be it a black pair of pants, a designer sofa straight from Roche Bobois or simply the seats in your car. Shar-peis it seems shed a lot. All short haired dogs do. Look for the FURemover at your favorite pet store.
We chatted a bit about dogs, shared a laugh over the name Botox, and laughed some more as someone observed " . . . well I'm not getting any botox treatment, obviously did not work on the dog . . . "
Fast forward to yesterday . . . on my porch, the local paper with a photo of a shar-pei. Now, I did notice that in the community where I live, there seems to be an increasing number of these cute wrinkly pups, who do grow into their wrinkles as they reach adulthood, or at least their bodies do but the faces stay adorably furled as one wrinkle falls over another.
"Shar-peis in distress" the paper toutes and quotes Dr. Kevin Harris, a local vet as saying " . . . there is so much skin on their face and their forehead that it rolls their eye lids in and they can't see. They actually have damaged corneas . . . "
The article goes on to describe how the folds resting on the cornea cause pain, vision problems and ultimately blindness. The shar-pei traces its roots to China and was near extinction as recently as the 1970's. Today there is no shortage of these cute and cuddly doggies. Dr. Harris however, is not as enamored with them as we are. It's not the dog he objects to but the health problems that this breed endures. He's had to do major surgery to help these shar-peis and from his perspective it would be better if people just opted for another type of breed.
Soooooo . . . .thinking of Botox. I wonder? Is it worth a try?
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