Sunday, January 4, 2015

Havanese or Shih Tzu that is the question?



Most all of the pics of puppies in either species/breeds look a lot like Gus. So we are wondering which he is, although, either or a little bit of either combined is fine with us.
Recently we have bumped into people who have or have had Shih Tzus and they have said that is what he is.
Thus what prompted my wondering mode.
 
Their personalities/temperaments are not at all dissimilar but their heritages and family groups are.
 
The Havanese is from Cuba and their country's dog, thus the name from Havana basically; while China claims the Shih Tzu meaning little lion or even Fu Dog, yes those iconic statue dogs of the Ming Dynasty that are collectibles.
 
I had a friend who collected them, may still be doing that!
 
And Shih Tzus are in a different group including Lapso Apsos.
Any-who, my point is that Havaneses are members of the Bichon family of the Tenerif dogs including Bichon Frise as well as Poodles, a fine group; and our sign from our Skipper’s reign here says “A house is not a home without a Bichon”, should we remove that sign or leave it?
 
“Legends regarding the Shih Tzu abound. One says that Buddha traveled with a little dog fitting the description of a Shih Tzu. As the story goes, one day, several robbers came upon the Buddha with the intent of robbing and murdering him. The little dog changed into a ferocious lion and ran off the robbers, saving Buddha's life. The lion then turned back into a fun-loving little dog, which the Buddha picked up and kissed. The white spot on the heads of many Shih Tzus supposedly marks the place where Buddha kissed his loyal friend.
 
Many also believe that Fu Dogs, the guardians of Buddhist temples, are representations of the Shih Tzu.”




 See the white star on Gus’s head, like in the allegory above, about Buddha’s kiss, I love that story!



So if you were me what would you do?



The sign is I suppose a moot point since Gus has not learned how to read, yet, and it is highly unlikely that he would ever… but who knows, stranger things have happened.



Many of his predecessors understood the spelling of the words, Milk Bone or cat, out, and ride in the car and other words that they would react to appropriately, all brilliant I suppose… and so far he has proven himself to also be one of those smarties-without-pants, come on folks he is a dog!


I heard those tsk-tsks!



On that silly note of asking you all to make this year more interactive, allow me to be the first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!



And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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