These wonderfully handsome dogs are now yearly becoming more difficult to obtain. The old type of Thibetan Mastiff, with his enormous cowl of hair round the neck and beautiful brush [tail], carried curled over the back, is being replaced by a hound type of animal, with shorter coat, blunt head, and standing on longer legs. the markings of the old type and breed are, generally speaking, black and bright red tan. They have almost all got a white star or patch on the chest. BHOTEAN in his own country was considered a particularly fine specimen, and there was nothing like him amongst the others I saw, which were brought to India on the return of the Thibet Expedition in 1904. He was the long, low type, on very short legs, with great bone, and enormously powerful. His markings were as nearly perfect as possible, and although it has been stated that he did not show as much haw as some specimens I have never seen one which showed as much as he did. I cannot find the other references of olde, about a very powerfully built dog, on GREATLY BONED SHORT LEGS and long bodied (long, low type). But interesting this is how Bhotean was described. He was brought back from Lhasa, Tibet (not China) with the Younghusband expedition of 1904 and shown at the Crystal Palace in 1906 (Britain). He was imported by Major Dougall. ********************************** Very interesting that long, low, heavily boned types are hardly, if ever seen, today. This was 110 years ago, long before Chinese invasion.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 18:08:04 +0000
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