Speaker 1: Hey, and welcome to the short stuff. Fin'd shar Josh
Speaker 1: the shark Chuck shark. Jerry's here too, and we're just
Speaker 1: paying around and this is short stuff. Is that off
Speaker 1: the top of your head? Please tell me you don't
Speaker 1: prescript these? No, not something that terrible. Okay, No, let's
Speaker 1: see like furiously scribbling. Now he's crossing it out. Uh,
Speaker 1: you want to talk sharpay? Yeah? I do, I shar do.
Speaker 1: It sounds like you gotta stop. It sounds like and
Speaker 1: I didn't look it up, but Sharpay's sounds wrong and
Speaker 1: it just seems like the plural sharpay is probably sharpay.
Speaker 1: That's what I take it as. Sure, okay, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it came from China originally the sharpay breed did. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This is a dog, by the way, Yeah, we should
Speaker 1: probably say that. I think every single person who's ever
Speaker 1: been familiar with dogs is also familiar with sharp pay
Speaker 1: because they're one of the most unique and unusual looking
Speaker 1: dogs on the planet. Because they have huge, floppy, folding
Speaker 1: skin flaps all over their head and neck and shoulders
Speaker 1: that differentiates them from basically every other dog. They make
Speaker 1: bloodhounds hang their jowls in shame. They have that many
Speaker 1: folds and flaps of skin. That's right. Uh. And by
Speaker 1: the way, this comes from Patty Rasmussen and how stuff
Speaker 1: Works dot com. And you said it came from China
Speaker 1: originally the breed uh. And in Chinese that translates to
Speaker 1: translates to sand skin. The plural of translated is translate
Speaker 1: to sand skin. Uh. And a fully grown Sharpei is
Speaker 1: you know. They're they're pretty big, between forty five and
Speaker 1: sixty pounds a couple of feet tall. Uh. Those folds,
Speaker 1: like you said, are unmistakable. Uh. They're kind of light
Speaker 1: brownish in color, although they can be apparently up to
Speaker 1: seventeen different shades and different colors. Yeah. They also have
Speaker 1: a really prominent, big stout muzzle too that really fits them.
Speaker 1: It seems appropriate to the rest of their body size,
Speaker 1: but it's also unique. But you only notice the muzzle
Speaker 1: after you notice all the skin folds. And then after
Speaker 1: you notice the muzzle, you'll notice they have these tiny, little,
Speaker 1: kind of soft eyes that are made even softer by
Speaker 1: the huge flaps and folds of skin hanging around them.
Speaker 1: They just kind of have this sweet, kind of droopy
Speaker 1: look about them that makes you want to just come
Speaker 1: up and you know. Yeah, and as we'll see here
Speaker 1: in a few minutes, those all the skin action around
Speaker 1: the eyes can cause a lot of problems sadly. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the problem. Is like it's super cute and super
Speaker 1: sweet with the dogs, like please call the police. Uh,
Speaker 1: so let's talk about these folds. They actually uh interviewed
Speaker 1: for this article, Patty Rasmussen interviewed Dr Kirsten Lynn blad
Speaker 1: Toe of Uppsala University in Sweden. That's some pretty good digging,
Speaker 1: yeah for sure. And uh apparently doctor doctor Lynn blad
Speaker 1: Toe knows all about these folds and where they come from.
Speaker 1: And it comes from something called hia lauronin and this
Speaker 1: is like a gel. It's described as a gel around
Speaker 1: the cells and the skin and Sharpay's just have a
Speaker 1: lot of this stuff accumulating basically in the skin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that may sound familiar to you if you, uh
Speaker 1: and have anything like a skincare regime, because hyaluronic acid
Speaker 1: is having a real moment right now and has for
Speaker 1: a few years. Yeah, but this is the actual stuff
Speaker 1: that that is that kind of pads and makes um
Speaker 1: the cells kind of floppy and elastic and gives them
Speaker 1: kind of buoyancy and bountinus and vibrancy and youth and
Speaker 1: um cover girl and all that stuff, and all of it,
Speaker 1: all of it is produced at bottom by the hyaluronic
Speaker 1: acid syntheses two gene. And it turns out that Sharpei
Speaker 1: dogs no chuck. Now that I was about to say,
Speaker 1: I think Sharpay's work work. So um. The sharp Pays
Speaker 1: have hyaluronic senta's two jeans basically on steroids. That's right,
Speaker 1: And so you're getting way too much accumulation of it,
Speaker 1: and it's that's what produces the wrinkles. It's really they
Speaker 1: figured it out. And this is the kind of thing
Speaker 1: that sharp Pay lovers love. They buy these dogs for
Speaker 1: a lot of money. And uh, if you want to know,
Speaker 1: I guess, well, maybe we'll take a break and we'll
Speaker 1: tell you a little bit about the breed. And what
Speaker 1: they're like is dogs. Stop? Stop? What are they like? Josh?
Speaker 1: You got h sharp as that's true, each one more
Speaker 1: cuddly than the last. Uh. No, I have one momo
Speaker 1: and she is in no way sharp Pay, although she is.
Speaker 1: She's too, so I guess she's, you know, from the
Speaker 1: same homeland to an extent um. Yeah. Uh so the
Speaker 1: Sharpay is apparently a it's a good dog if you're
Speaker 1: looking for a loyal dog that doesn't really play well
Speaker 1: with other dogs and doesn't like strangers. That seems to
Speaker 1: be one of the big tenants of the sharp Pay breed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it is a big tenant. And you know, I'm sure
Speaker 1: we'll hear for from sharp Sharpay owners that will either
Speaker 1: kind of verify this or tell us like we've got
Speaker 1: it all wrong because their dog is nothing like this.
Speaker 1: But one thing you're gonna want to be accustomed to
Speaker 1: and up for is maybe a little more vet care
Speaker 1: than you would your average mutt street dog because Sharpay,
Speaker 1: because of the unique situation with the h as to gene,
Speaker 1: there can be a lot of Um, there's sort of
Speaker 1: a host of problems that can happen to the sharp
Speaker 1: by Yeah, and a lot of them have to do
Speaker 1: with the eyes. Yeah. Well yeah, and it's it ultimately
Speaker 1: goes back to the skin folds. Like so the eyes
Speaker 1: themselves can have all sorts of problems. But if you
Speaker 1: really kind of look into it, it seems to be
Speaker 1: from skin pressing up against the eyes, um, coming in
Speaker 1: contact with the eyes, um, there's one where the dog
Speaker 1: can actually go blind from the skin just pressing on
Speaker 1: his or her retina for so long. Um that there's
Speaker 1: also like, like, because they have that kind of sand skin,
Speaker 1: it's kind of you know, course, a fold of that
Speaker 1: turned inward onto their cornea over probably a very brief
Speaker 1: amount of time is going to damage their cornea. And
Speaker 1: that's another um issue you can have, so just from
Speaker 1: skin coming in contact with the eyes, but they also
Speaker 1: have other stuff that like the eyes themselves can just
Speaker 1: be kind of weaker in sturdy um. And that's just
Speaker 1: one very common, widespread problem that sharp Pays have. They
Speaker 1: also have a lot of genetic disorders too, and again
Speaker 1: it has to do with hyaluronic acid. Oh is the
Speaker 1: is the fever disease linked to that too? That's what
Speaker 1: I That's what I took it as. Yeah, okay, oh,
Speaker 1: let's see that the study does link that gene um.
Speaker 1: It is called periodic fever disease. They sometimes even call
Speaker 1: it familiar familial Sharpai fever. And it seems to just
Speaker 1: come out of nowhere. The dog will get feverish, feverish
Speaker 1: and sort of listless and uh yeah, apparently that high
Speaker 1: alert high a laurinon cheese is to blame for this
Speaker 1: periodic disease as well as some like autoimmune issues. Yeah. Um.
Speaker 1: And then there's also sharp pay auto inflammatory disease or
Speaker 1: spade with an eye, and it has all sorts of
Speaker 1: stuff in addition to fever, arthritis, dermatitis, ear infections, organ infections. Um,
Speaker 1: just a whole host of problems. And again it has
Speaker 1: to do with that mutation that you know leads to
Speaker 1: these skin flaps that's been selected to for more and
Speaker 1: more over generations and generations of Sharpay's. Um. I guess
Speaker 1: the breeders had no idea that they were also selecting
Speaker 1: for the most genetically unsound of the bunch too. As
Speaker 1: far as this disorder, this autoimmune disorder goes, Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: sort of like the bulldogs having like trouble breeding even
Speaker 1: they've been bred so their noses have been bred so
Speaker 1: smashed up against their face. I remember reading that that
Speaker 1: long ago chuck that um. I believe in the nineteenth century,
Speaker 1: the bulldogs had a reputation like pit pulls have today,
Speaker 1: that they were brutal, vicious dogs, and there was a
Speaker 1: big public outcry about them as a breed to basically
Speaker 1: just destroy the entire breed, and uh, to avoid that
Speaker 1: bulldog breeders bread them. They started selecting them to be
Speaker 1: way more mellow, way less physically capable of like violence, um,
Speaker 1: and just generally nicer and happier. And so we have
Speaker 1: the bulldog today which basically no way resembles the bulldog
Speaker 1: of the nineteenth century. Interesting, we should do something on
Speaker 1: the pitbull at some point too, because those were nanny dogs.
Speaker 1: Pit bulls are great. I love those dogs. I've had
Speaker 1: those dogs. Uh. So as far as the sharpay being
Speaker 1: a good dog in the house, like you said, they
Speaker 1: are very loyal, so they're great in that aspect. The A. K. C.
Speaker 1: Says that, you know, the puppies might be better if
Speaker 1: you have older kids, so they might be a little rambunctious. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're really smart. They're pretty independent, but they are loyal.
Speaker 1: I think initially they were hunters and guard dogs, so
Speaker 1: you know they're gonna take some training. They do suggest
Speaker 1: obedience training, uh, and that they typically aren't great with
Speaker 1: other dogs and strangers. So it's it sounds like one
Speaker 1: of those breeds where you you know, you kind of
Speaker 1: got your hands full. If you're a sharpay lover. I'm
Speaker 1: sure that you know what you're getting into, but they
Speaker 1: sound like they're not the easiest dog to have. No,
Speaker 1: but I have a feeling that if you are a
Speaker 1: sharp a lover, you don't care and love them entirely.
Speaker 1: So that's exactly they're interesting looking animals. I will say that, yeah,
Speaker 1: you did a call out for sharp pay owners, so
Speaker 1: I want to second that if you have a sharp pay,
Speaker 1: tell us all about your dog. We want to hear.
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