10 Wrinkly Facts About the Shar-Pei

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2. COMMUNISM NEARLY ENDED THE BREED.

As the dogs were edged out of the fighting pits, breeding slowed and the Shar-Pei population dwindled.

The breed took another hit when China became a communist country. The government decided that pets were a luxury item and instilled a hefty tax on owning one. Eventually, owning a dog became known as a “decadent bourgeois luxury” and dog breeding was banned altogether.

In 1947 the tax skyrocketed. Since only the super wealthy could afford to keep their pooches, the Shar-Pei was nearly wiped out. From the late ‘60s to mid ‘70s, the Shar-Pei was listed by Guinness World Records as the rarest dog breed in the world.

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