Chinese Shar-Pei Health Problems and Feeding

Apartment Living

Active Lifestyle

Watchdog Ability

Child Friendly

Dog Friendly

Cat Friendly

Shedding Level

Exercise Needs

Social Needs

Grooming needs

Stranger Friendly

Health Issues

Trainability

Adaptability

Feeding:

Unhealthy products for Shar Pei:

• Smoked products
• Pasta
• Sweets
• Chocolate
• poultry with small tubular bones
• Pork
• Legumes
• Cabbage
• Potatoes

Healthy products for a Shar Pei:

• Rice
• The beef (muscular part)
• Mutton
• Rabbit meat
• Byproducts (40% of the meat norm in day)
• Poultry (chicken, turkey)
• Sea fish (without bones)
• Seasonal vegetables and fruits
• Greenery
• Tomatoes (well removed tartar)
• Dairy products (yogurt, kefir)

Diseases of Shar Pei

• Food allergies
• Otitis media (ear infection)
• Thyroid disease
• Entropion (inversion century, causes irritation of the cornea, with delayed treatment leads to blindness)
• Loss of the lacrimal gland of the third century
• Glaucoma
• Acne (a skin disease caused by a tick bite symptoms: severe itching and noticeable hair loss)
• Pyoderma (skin infection)
• Primary seborrhea (much sebum on the skin, peeling, odor)
• Familial Shar-Pei Fever (FSF) (syndrome is not fully understood, it is known that the disease is hereditary and leads to renal failure)
• Mastocytoma
• Bloat in dogs
• Hip dysplasia (causes lameness, arthritis and severe pain)
• Canine elbow dysplasia (ED)
• Congenital idiopathic megaezofagus (increase the size of the esophagus)