Chow Chow Puppy Dog Care Information

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Chow Chow puppy dog

Chow Chow Health Information:

Some common health concerns for your Chow Chow are; CHD, entropion, patellar luxation, elbow dysphasia, cataract, distichiasis, PPM, gastric torsion, stenotic nares, glaucoma,elongated palate.

Also of note: Your Chow Chow is highly intolerant of heat. Heat stroke and exhaustion are dangerous, life-threatening conditions, so be vigilant in keeping your Chow cool.

Chow Chow Exercise Information:

It would be wrong to suggest that the Chow Chow is lazy. Rather, the Chow is a breed of regal leisure, leaving the drudgery of exercise to the Bourgeois. The Chow expects casual, non-strenuous strolls in cool temperatures or short periods of independent yard play throughout the day. But, do not expect your Chow Chow to gaily prance after thrown sticks. He will ignore the request with rolled-eye repugnance.

Chow Chow Grooming Needs:

The Chow Chow is nothing of not hairy. No matter which coat variety one chooses, grooming your Chow Chow will take some effort.

The smooth coat Chow Chow will need daily brushing, paying special attention to the chest and mane. During the spring, the smooth Chow will blow his coat and vast clumps of hair will find their way into every imaginable (and some surprising) spaces. The only consolation to this is that you have purchased the smooth hair Chow. If you purchased the rough coat Chow Chow, you are probably not even reading this. You are likely sweeping the shed into mountainous heaps of fur, all while pondering the physics of three feet of fur shed from a two foot dog. Curious.