What a red letter day it was yesterday when a surprise package arrived in the mail from long time chowist Mary Counihan.  Lo and behold a large priority mail box packed to the gills with historical chow ephemera, articles, photographs….you name it!!!    I was like a kid in a candy store.  As I excitedly paged […]

This article written in 1916 is pretty amazing to read, as it could have been as easily written today and still applied to many of our breed dilemas. Not only are the comments about the “scowl”  featured, but important points of the standard….. and reasons to CHANGE the standard are discussed.  A fascinating read.  I […]

The coat color “white” was mentioned quite often in articles and books of the late 1800’s until about 1915 or so.  I want to add more to this page as I find new images and mentions of the white chow which differs from the cream who has “biscuit” ears.  These two examples are good ones. […]