The Last Shih Tzu To Leave Peking

The Japanese occupation of Peking in late 1937line back to Lize and Kwaine who were born in the
stopped future dog shows. Breeding in PekingImperial Palace. Lize died in 1930 and Kawanie in 1929.
continued on a limited scale. There were a fewThe Shih Tzu of Monsieur de Graeffe moved to Iran
accounts of Shih Tzu in Asia during this period ofwhen he was transfered there. Alan Roger and Sheila
time.Mrs. Audrey Fowler of England was a great loverBode, English Breeders, saw Lize and Kawanie in Iran
of the Shih Tzu and tried diligently to acquire breedingand became determined to own some Shih Tzu after
stock without much success. Her interest in the littlethe war. Their remembrance of color was that of
dogs began in 1935. Mrs. Fowler made many trips tobrown and gold.
various sections of cities of Hong Kong and ShanghaiThree years later Mr. Roger acquired a puppy of
looking for the golden long-haired dogs. Mrs. Fowlerparents from Peking. Soon after, he acquired a gray
was acqauinted with a man named Dr. Vincentand white bitch from a Chinese who was returning to
Nesfield who did acquire a gold and white Shih TzuChina and wanted to find a suitable home for his
back in 1904.In 1904, Dr. Vincent Nesfield, a medicalpet.Reverend D. Allan Easton, pastor of the Peking
officer in the Younghusband Expedition to Tibet,Union Church in late 1948 documented the only Shih
brought back a little Shih Tzu. He did not knowTzu bred in Peking that he knew of was those of
exactly where these dogs originated. He only knewAlfred Koehn, A german author and publisher and to
the breed was very old. This little Shih Tzu was ahis knowledge the last Shih Tzu to leave Peking were
female, who went back to India with him, and died intaken out by a British diplomat who left Hong Kong in
Gambeti Assam in 1910. He felt like there was no dog1948.Among other Shih Tzu who left China before
ever he could imagine more faithful and morethe Communists' occupation of Peking in 1949 was
affectionate than this little girl Shih Tzu he acquiredMai-Ting, a black and white bitch from Shanghai and
during the Younghusband Expedition. She would notWuffles, a camel-colored male from North China who
go to anyone else, and Mr. Nesfield felt the Shih Tzuleft by air just prior to the advance of the Red
breed had some kind of special quality that bringsArmy. Wuffles was bred to Mai-Ting and produced
"good luck," hence the honour of receiving one. Hisone black and white puppy in 1950. Their names can
dog came from the Dalai Lama, who at that time hadbe found in many English and American pedigress. A
fled from Lhasa. The thirteenth Dalai Lama gavefew years later, Wuffles was tragically killed by a
these little dogs as special gifts to the old Empresstruck.The last recorded Shih Tzu to leave China was
of China and that is why specimens were found ina bitch named Hsi-Li-Ya, imported to England by Mr.
Peking. Mr. Nesfield's Shih Tzu was gold and white,R.P. Dobson in 1952. With the Communist government
the face was not like a Peke, i.e., "stumpy."Mrs.in power, the fate of all dogs was sealed. Dogs were
Audrey Fowler acquired a gold-and-white female ofconsumers of food and thus ordered to be
the right age to undertake the strenuous journey todestroyed. It is therefore presumed they became
England from the Countess d'Anjou in Peking. Sheextinct in Asia. Fortunately, the Shih Tzu reached the
acquired another puppy, a little honey-colored femaleWest about 25 years before the Communist
from Frances Bieber, a well-known authority on theRevolution. It seems like a miracle they ever survived
Sacred Lion of Buddha. These early gold-and-whitewhen so much of destiny seemed to be against
imports left no progency, but Mrs. Fowler wasthem. God's gift of the Shih Tzu to us prevailed over
determined to establish a gold-color line and went onall the evil the breed had endured.It is my feeling that
to establish the famous Chasmu Kennel in 1938 on"good always overcome evil." And The Shih Tzu are
her return to England from Peking.Monsieur decertainly something "good" for all of us.....Connie Limon
Graeffe, Belgium ambassador in Peking in the 1930spublishes a FREE weekly newsletter. A professional
was able to acquire a number of Shih Tzu descendednewsletter with a focus upon health and wellness for
from a pair bred in the palace in the 1920s, namedyou and your pets. Coupons for shih tzu puppies and
Lize and Kwaine. There is a seven-generationother products are offered to subscribers. Updates
pedigree written by Madame de Graeffe tracing theirof available puppies.