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The Last Shih Tzu To Leave Peking

The Japanese occupation of Peking in late written by Madame de Graeffe tracing
1937 stopped future dog shows. Breeding their line back to Lize and Kwaine who
in Peking continued on a limited scale. were born in the Imperial Palace. Lize
There were a few accounts of Shih Tzu in died in 1930 and Kawanie in 1929. The
Asia during this period of time.Mrs. Shih Tzu of Monsieur de Graeffe moved to
Audrey Fowler of England was a great Iran when he was transfered there. Alan
lover of the Shih Tzu and tried Roger and Sheila Bode, English Breeders,
diligently to acquire breeding stock saw Lize and Kawanie in Iran and became
without much success. Her interest in determined to own some Shih Tzu after the
the little dogs began in 1935. Mrs. war. Their remembrance of color was that
Fowler made many trips to various of brown and gold.
sections of cities of Hong Kong and Three years later Mr. Roger acquired a
Shanghai looking for the golden puppy of parents from Peking. Soon
long-haired dogs. Mrs. Fowler was after, he acquired a gray and white bitch
acqauinted with a man named Dr. Vincent from a Chinese who was returning to China
Nesfield who did acquire a gold and white and wanted to find a suitable home for
Shih Tzu back in 1904.In 1904, Dr. his pet.Reverend D. Allan Easton, pastor
Vincent Nesfield, a medical officer in of the Peking Union Church in late 1948
the Younghusband Expedition to Tibet, documented the only Shih Tzu bred in
brought back a little Shih Tzu. He did Peking that he knew of was those of
not know exactly where these dogs Alfred Koehn, A german author and
originated. He only knew the breed was publisher and to his knowledge the last
very old. This little Shih Tzu was a Shih Tzu to leave Peking were taken out
female, who went back to India with him, by a British diplomat who left Hong Kong
and died in Gambeti Assam in 1910. He in 1948.Among other Shih Tzu who left
felt like there was no dog ever he could China before the Communists' occupation
imagine more faithful and more of Peking in 1949 was Mai-Ting, a black
affectionate than this little girl Shih and white bitch from Shanghai and
Tzu he acquired during the Younghusband Wuffles, a camel-colored male from North
Expedition. She would not go to anyone China who left by air just prior to the
else, and Mr. Nesfield felt the Shih Tzu advance of the Red Army. Wuffles was
breed had some kind of special quality bred to Mai-Ting and produced one black
that brings "good luck," hence the honour and white puppy in 1950. Their names can
of receiving one. His dog came from the be found in many English and American
Dalai Lama, who at that time had fled pedigress. A few years later, Wuffles
from Lhasa. The thirteenth Dalai Lama was tragically killed by a truck.The last
gave these little dogs as special gifts recorded Shih Tzu to leave China was a
to the old Empress of China and that is bitch named Hsi-Li-Ya, imported to
why specimens were found in Peking. Mr. England by Mr. R.P. Dobson in 1952. With
Nesfield's Shih Tzu was gold and white, the Communist government in power, the
the face was not like a Peke, i.e., fate of all dogs was sealed. Dogs were
"stumpy."Mrs. Audrey Fowler acquired a consumers of food and thus ordered to be
gold-and-white female of the right age to destroyed. It is therefore presumed they
undertake the strenuous journey to became extinct in Asia. Fortunately, the
England from the Countess d'Anjou in Shih Tzu reached the West about 25 years
Peking. She acquired another puppy, a before the Communist Revolution. It
little honey-colored female from Frances seems like a miracle they ever survived
Bieber, a well-known authority on the when so much of destiny seemed to be
Sacred Lion of Buddha. These early against them. God's gift of the Shih Tzu
gold-and-white imports left no progency, to us prevailed over all the evil the
but Mrs. Fowler was determined to breed had endured.It is my feeling that
establish a gold-color line and went on "good always overcome evil." And The
to establish the famous Chasmu Kennel in Shih Tzu are certainly something "good"
1938 on her return to England from for all of us.....Connie Limon publishes
Peking.Monsieur de Graeffe, Belgium a FREE weekly newsletter. A professional
ambassador in Peking in the 1930s was newsletter with a focus upon health and
able to acquire a number of Shih Tzu wellness for you and your pets. Coupons
descended from a pair bred in the palace for shih tzu puppies and other products
in the 1920s, named Lize and Kwaine. are offered to subscribers. Updates of
There is a seven-generation pedigree available puppies.




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