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The Last Shih Tzu To Leave Peking

The Japanese occupation of Peking in lateand Kwaine who were born in the Imperial
1937 stopped future dog shows. Breeding inPalace. Lize died in 1930 and Kawanie in
Peking continued on a limited scale. There1929. The Shih Tzu of Monsieur de Graeffe
were a few accounts of Shih Tzu in Asiamoved to Iran when he was transfered there.
during this period of time.Mrs. Audrey FowlerAlan Roger and Sheila Bode, English Breeders,
of England was a great lover of the Shih Tzusaw Lize and Kawanie in Iran and became
and tried diligently to acquire breedingdetermined to own some Shih Tzu after the
stock without much success. Her interest inwar. Their remembrance of color was that of
the little dogs began in 1935. Mrs. Fowlerbrown  and  gold.
made many trips to various sections of cities
of Hong Kong and Shanghai looking for theThree years later Mr. Roger acquired a puppy
golden long-haired dogs. Mrs. Fowler wasof parents from Peking. Soon after, he
acqauinted with a man named Dr. Vincentacquired a gray and white bitch from a
Nesfield who did acquire a gold and whiteChinese who was returning to China and wanted
Shih Tzu back in 1904.In 1904, Dr. Vincentto find a suitable home for his pet.Reverend
Nesfield, a medical officer in theD. Allan Easton, pastor of the Peking Union
Younghusband Expedition to Tibet, broughtChurch in late 1948 documented the only Shih
back a little Shih Tzu. He did not knowTzu bred in Peking that he knew of was those
exactly where these dogs originated. He onlyof Alfred Koehn, A german author and
knew the breed was very old. This little Shihpublisher and to his knowledge the last Shih
Tzu was a female, who went back to India withTzu to leave Peking were taken out by a
him, and died in Gambeti Assam in 1910. HeBritish diplomat who left Hong Kong in
felt like there was no dog ever he could1948.Among other Shih Tzu who left China
imagine more faithful and more affectionatebefore the Communists' occupation of Peking
than this little girl Shih Tzu he acquiredin 1949 was Mai-Ting, a black and white bitch
during the Younghusband Expedition. Shefrom Shanghai and Wuffles, a camel-colored
would not go to anyone else, and Mr. Nesfieldmale from North China who left by air just
felt the Shih Tzu breed had some kind ofprior to the advance of the Red Army.
special quality that brings "good luck,"Wuffles was bred to Mai-Ting and produced one
hence the honour of receiving one. His dogblack and white puppy in 1950. Their names
came from the Dalai Lama, who at that timecan be found in many English and American
had fled from Lhasa. The thirteenth Dalaipedigress. A few years later, Wuffles was
Lama gave these little dogs as special giftstragically killed by a truck.The last
to the old Empress of China and that is whyrecorded Shih Tzu to leave China was a bitch
specimens were found in Peking. Mr.named Hsi-Li-Ya, imported to England by Mr.
Nesfield's Shih Tzu was gold and white, theR.P. Dobson in 1952. With the Communist
face was not like a Peke, i.e., "stumpy."Mrs.government in power, the fate of all dogs was
Audrey Fowler acquired a gold-and-whitesealed. Dogs were consumers of food and thus
female of the right age to undertake theordered to be destroyed. It is therefore
strenuous journey to England from thepresumed they became extinct in Asia.
Countess d'Anjou in Peking. She acquiredFortunately, the Shih Tzu reached the West
another puppy, a little honey-colored femaleabout 25 years before the Communist
from Frances Bieber, a well-known authorityRevolution. It seems like a miracle they
on the Sacred Lion of Buddha. These earlyever survived when so much of destiny seemed
gold-and-white imports left no progency, butto be against them. God's gift of the Shih
Mrs. Fowler was determined to establish aTzu to us prevailed over all the evil the
gold-color line and went on to establish thebreed had endured.It is my feeling that "good
famous Chasmu Kennel in 1938 on her return toalways overcome evil." And The Shih Tzu are
England from Peking.Monsieur de Graeffe,certainly something "good" for all of
Belgium ambassador in Peking in the 1930s wasus.....Connie Limon publishes a FREE weekly
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