Archives for 2016

Legendary Blue Chows of a Mongolia monastery visited by Dr. K. H. Abshagen

The article you are about to read below is one of the single most important references we have today to original Chinese Chow type, character and overall description of the breed in his homeland. There have been various published “mentions” of the legendary blue chows being raised by monks in China and Mongolia, but rarely […]

Admiral Dewey and his chow mascot Bob-late 1800’s

Below are a series of photos I have been sitting on for quite some time waiting to pull all the clippings together into an article and it all began with this original 1917 press photo I acquired was released following Admiral Deweys death the same year. This loyal little Chow mascot found on the streets […]

BREED PIONEER -1911-1933 Claire Knapp Penney Dixon and her Clairedale Chows

In November of 2013 when ChowTales Archive was in its infancy, I ran across an outstanding website that covered everything you could possibly want to know about one of the leading fanciers in early American Chow history, Claire Knapp Penney of Clairedale Chows. I immediately wrote to the site owner Ken Spooner of Spooner Central […]