1 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:06,800 Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome to the short stuff. Fin'd shar Josh 2 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:09,920 Speaker 1: the shark Chuck shark. Jerry's here too, and we're just 3 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:14,840 Speaker 1: paying around and this is short stuff. Is that off 4 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: the top of your head? Please tell me you don't 5 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:22,160 Speaker 1: prescript these? No, not something that terrible. Okay, No, let's 6 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: see like furiously scribbling. Now he's crossing it out. Uh, 7 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:31,639 Speaker 1: you want to talk sharpay? Yeah? I do, I shar do. 8 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,760 Speaker 1: It sounds like you gotta stop. It sounds like and 9 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:38,600 Speaker 1: I didn't look it up, but Sharpay's sounds wrong and 10 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:40,919 Speaker 1: it just seems like the plural sharpay is probably sharpay. 11 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:44,159 Speaker 1: That's what I take it as. Sure, okay, Yeah, and 12 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: it came from China originally the sharpay breed did. Yeah. 13 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:49,280 Speaker 1: This is a dog, by the way, Yeah, we should 14 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:52,200 Speaker 1: probably say that. I think every single person who's ever 15 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:55,040 Speaker 1: been familiar with dogs is also familiar with sharp pay 16 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,760 Speaker 1: because they're one of the most unique and unusual looking 17 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:03,440 Speaker 1: dogs on the planet. Because they have huge, floppy, folding 18 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 1: skin flaps all over their head and neck and shoulders 19 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: that differentiates them from basically every other dog. They make 20 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 1: bloodhounds hang their jowls in shame. They have that many 21 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,760 Speaker 1: folds and flaps of skin. That's right. Uh. And by 22 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:20,319 Speaker 1: the way, this comes from Patty Rasmussen and how stuff 23 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:23,120 Speaker 1: Works dot com. And you said it came from China 24 00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,480 Speaker 1: originally the breed uh. And in Chinese that translates to 25 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:31,520 Speaker 1: translates to sand skin. The plural of translated is translate 26 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:36,480 Speaker 1: to sand skin. Uh. And a fully grown Sharpei is 27 00:01:36,600 --> 00:01:38,560 Speaker 1: you know. They're they're pretty big, between forty five and 28 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: sixty pounds a couple of feet tall. Uh. Those folds, 29 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:46,360 Speaker 1: like you said, are unmistakable. Uh. They're kind of light 30 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: brownish in color, although they can be apparently up to 31 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,000 Speaker 1: seventeen different shades and different colors. Yeah. They also have 32 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 1: a really prominent, big stout muzzle too that really fits them. 33 00:01:57,880 --> 00:01:59,960 Speaker 1: It seems appropriate to the rest of their body size, 34 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 1: but it's also unique. But you only notice the muzzle 35 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: after you notice all the skin folds. And then after 36 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: you notice the muzzle, you'll notice they have these tiny, little, 37 00:02:08,760 --> 00:02:11,880 Speaker 1: kind of soft eyes that are made even softer by 38 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:14,919 Speaker 1: the huge flaps and folds of skin hanging around them. 39 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 1: They just kind of have this sweet, kind of droopy 40 00:02:18,520 --> 00:02:20,959 Speaker 1: look about them that makes you want to just come 41 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:26,360 Speaker 1: up and you know. Yeah, and as we'll see here 42 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:28,839 Speaker 1: in a few minutes, those all the skin action around 43 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 1: the eyes can cause a lot of problems sadly. Yeah, yeah, 44 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:33,440 Speaker 1: that's the problem. Is like it's super cute and super 45 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:39,639 Speaker 1: sweet with the dogs, like please call the police. Uh, 46 00:02:39,639 --> 00:02:43,239 Speaker 1: so let's talk about these folds. They actually uh interviewed 47 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: for this article, Patty Rasmussen interviewed Dr Kirsten Lynn blad 48 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: Toe of Uppsala University in Sweden. That's some pretty good digging, 49 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: yeah for sure. And uh apparently doctor doctor Lynn blad 50 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 1: Toe knows all about these folds and where they come from. 51 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 1: And it comes from something called hia lauronin and this 52 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,680 Speaker 1: is like a gel. It's described as a gel around 53 00:03:10,720 --> 00:03:14,120 Speaker 1: the cells and the skin and Sharpay's just have a 54 00:03:14,200 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 1: lot of this stuff accumulating basically in the skin. Yeah, 55 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,560 Speaker 1: and that may sound familiar to you if you, uh 56 00:03:20,720 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: and have anything like a skincare regime, because hyaluronic acid 57 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:26,520 Speaker 1: is having a real moment right now and has for 58 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 1: a few years. Yeah, but this is the actual stuff 59 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:34,520 Speaker 1: that that is that kind of pads and makes um 60 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: the cells kind of floppy and elastic and gives them 61 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 1: kind of buoyancy and bountinus and vibrancy and youth and 62 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: um cover girl and all that stuff, and all of it, 63 00:03:47,240 --> 00:03:50,680 Speaker 1: all of it is produced at bottom by the hyaluronic 64 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:54,920 Speaker 1: acid syntheses two gene. And it turns out that Sharpei 65 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 1: dogs no chuck. Now that I was about to say, 66 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:06,840 Speaker 1: I think Sharpay's work work. So um. The sharp Pays 67 00:04:06,960 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 1: have hyaluronic senta's two jeans basically on steroids. That's right, 68 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:15,920 Speaker 1: And so you're getting way too much accumulation of it, 69 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,520 Speaker 1: and it's that's what produces the wrinkles. It's really they 70 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:21,360 Speaker 1: figured it out. And this is the kind of thing 71 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: that sharp Pay lovers love. They buy these dogs for 72 00:04:26,480 --> 00:04:30,160 Speaker 1: a lot of money. And uh, if you want to know, 73 00:04:30,400 --> 00:04:32,120 Speaker 1: I guess, well, maybe we'll take a break and we'll 74 00:04:32,120 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: tell you a little bit about the breed. And what 75 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 1: they're like is dogs. Stop? Stop? What are they like? Josh? 76 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 1: You got h sharp as that's true, each one more 77 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 1: cuddly than the last. Uh. No, I have one momo 78 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 1: and she is in no way sharp Pay, although she is. 79 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: She's too, so I guess she's, you know, from the 80 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:17,479 Speaker 1: same homeland to an extent um. Yeah. Uh so the 81 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:22,960 Speaker 1: Sharpay is apparently a it's a good dog if you're 82 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: looking for a loyal dog that doesn't really play well 83 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 1: with other dogs and doesn't like strangers. That seems to 84 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:35,239 Speaker 1: be one of the big tenants of the sharp Pay breed. Yeah, 85 00:05:35,279 --> 00:05:37,160 Speaker 1: it is a big tenant. And you know, I'm sure 86 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,320 Speaker 1: we'll hear for from sharp Sharpay owners that will either 87 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:42,600 Speaker 1: kind of verify this or tell us like we've got 88 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:44,920 Speaker 1: it all wrong because their dog is nothing like this. 89 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,960 Speaker 1: But one thing you're gonna want to be accustomed to 90 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 1: and up for is maybe a little more vet care 91 00:05:53,160 --> 00:05:57,680 Speaker 1: than you would your average mutt street dog because Sharpay, 92 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,599 Speaker 1: because of the unique situation with the h as to gene, 93 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,520 Speaker 1: there can be a lot of Um, there's sort of 94 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:05,760 Speaker 1: a host of problems that can happen to the sharp 95 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:07,520 Speaker 1: by Yeah, and a lot of them have to do 96 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: with the eyes. Yeah. Well yeah, and it's it ultimately 97 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:13,159 Speaker 1: goes back to the skin folds. Like so the eyes 98 00:06:13,240 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 1: themselves can have all sorts of problems. But if you 99 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:17,400 Speaker 1: really kind of look into it, it seems to be 100 00:06:17,480 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 1: from skin pressing up against the eyes, um, coming in 101 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: contact with the eyes, um, there's one where the dog 102 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 1: can actually go blind from the skin just pressing on 103 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:33,240 Speaker 1: his or her retina for so long. Um that there's 104 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 1: also like, like, because they have that kind of sand skin, 105 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:40,600 Speaker 1: it's kind of you know, course, a fold of that 106 00:06:40,760 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 1: turned inward onto their cornea over probably a very brief 107 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 1: amount of time is going to damage their cornea. And 108 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 1: that's another um issue you can have, so just from 109 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:52,760 Speaker 1: skin coming in contact with the eyes, but they also 110 00:06:52,800 --> 00:06:55,800 Speaker 1: have other stuff that like the eyes themselves can just 111 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:58,880 Speaker 1: be kind of weaker in sturdy um. And that's just 112 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 1: one very common, widespread problem that sharp Pays have. They 113 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:06,200 Speaker 1: also have a lot of genetic disorders too, and again 114 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:09,640 Speaker 1: it has to do with hyaluronic acid. Oh is the 115 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:11,640 Speaker 1: is the fever disease linked to that too? That's what 116 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 1: I That's what I took it as. Yeah, okay, oh, 117 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,120 Speaker 1: let's see that the study does link that gene um. 118 00:07:17,160 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 1: It is called periodic fever disease. They sometimes even call 119 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: it familiar familial Sharpai fever. And it seems to just 120 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: come out of nowhere. The dog will get feverish, feverish 121 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:33,960 Speaker 1: and sort of listless and uh yeah, apparently that high 122 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:38,360 Speaker 1: alert high a laurinon cheese is to blame for this 123 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:43,600 Speaker 1: periodic disease as well as some like autoimmune issues. Yeah. Um. 124 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:47,680 Speaker 1: And then there's also sharp pay auto inflammatory disease or 125 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: spade with an eye, and it has all sorts of 126 00:07:52,920 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: stuff in addition to fever, arthritis, dermatitis, ear infections, organ infections. Um, 127 00:07:59,480 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 1: just a whole host of problems. And again it has 128 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 1: to do with that mutation that you know leads to 129 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,080 Speaker 1: these skin flaps that's been selected to for more and 130 00:08:08,160 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 1: more over generations and generations of Sharpay's. Um. I guess 131 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 1: the breeders had no idea that they were also selecting 132 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: for the most genetically unsound of the bunch too. As 133 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: far as this disorder, this autoimmune disorder goes, Yeah, it's 134 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: sort of like the bulldogs having like trouble breeding even 135 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:34,600 Speaker 1: they've been bred so their noses have been bred so 136 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:38,960 Speaker 1: smashed up against their face. I remember reading that that 137 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:42,360 Speaker 1: long ago chuck that um. I believe in the nineteenth century, 138 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:46,080 Speaker 1: the bulldogs had a reputation like pit pulls have today, 139 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 1: that they were brutal, vicious dogs, and there was a 140 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:52,760 Speaker 1: big public outcry about them as a breed to basically 141 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 1: just destroy the entire breed, and uh, to avoid that 142 00:08:58,040 --> 00:09:02,440 Speaker 1: bulldog breeders bread them. They started selecting them to be 143 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 1: way more mellow, way less physically capable of like violence, um, 144 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: and just generally nicer and happier. And so we have 145 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:13,679 Speaker 1: the bulldog today which basically no way resembles the bulldog 146 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:18,000 Speaker 1: of the nineteenth century. Interesting, we should do something on 147 00:09:18,040 --> 00:09:20,040 Speaker 1: the pitbull at some point too, because those were nanny dogs. 148 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:23,360 Speaker 1: Pit bulls are great. I love those dogs. I've had 149 00:09:23,360 --> 00:09:26,679 Speaker 1: those dogs. Uh. So as far as the sharpay being 150 00:09:26,720 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: a good dog in the house, like you said, they 151 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: are very loyal, so they're great in that aspect. The A. K. C. 152 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,679 Speaker 1: Says that, you know, the puppies might be better if 153 00:09:36,679 --> 00:09:40,240 Speaker 1: you have older kids, so they might be a little rambunctious. Uh, 154 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,280 Speaker 1: they're really smart. They're pretty independent, but they are loyal. 155 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,240 Speaker 1: I think initially they were hunters and guard dogs, so 156 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:49,920 Speaker 1: you know they're gonna take some training. They do suggest 157 00:09:49,960 --> 00:09:53,840 Speaker 1: obedience training, uh, and that they typically aren't great with 158 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:57,160 Speaker 1: other dogs and strangers. So it's it sounds like one 159 00:09:57,200 --> 00:09:59,280 Speaker 1: of those breeds where you you know, you kind of 160 00:09:59,280 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 1: got your hands full. If you're a sharpay lover. I'm 161 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:04,760 Speaker 1: sure that you know what you're getting into, but they 162 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:08,160 Speaker 1: sound like they're not the easiest dog to have. No, 163 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:10,319 Speaker 1: but I have a feeling that if you are a 164 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:13,960 Speaker 1: sharp a lover, you don't care and love them entirely. 165 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:17,720 Speaker 1: So that's exactly they're interesting looking animals. I will say that, yeah, 166 00:10:17,880 --> 00:10:20,080 Speaker 1: you did a call out for sharp pay owners, so 167 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:22,560 Speaker 1: I want to second that if you have a sharp pay, 168 00:10:22,679 --> 00:10:24,720 Speaker 1: tell us all about your dog. We want to hear. 169 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:27,800 Speaker 1: Please do And in the meantime, we're just gonna say 170 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: that short stuff is out. Stuff you Should Know is 171 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:36,400 Speaker 1: a production of I Heart Radio. For more podcasts my 172 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:39,720 Speaker 1: Heart Radio, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, 173 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.