Japanese Chin

They may share a common ancestry with the Pekingese and Japanese Chin.

The name Japanese Chin is actually a misnomer for the breed owes its basic origins not to Japan, but to China.

A Japanese Chin" by Trafford Publishing.

Japanese Chin (Chin)

The origin of the Japanese Chin is clouded in the mysticism of Far Eastern ancient rites.

They also have three Japanese Chins named Oliver, Artemis, and Ivan as well as four cats, one being named Guenhwyvar.

Among other mementos, Perry presented Queen Victoria with a breeding pair of Japanese Chin dogs, previously owned only by Japanese nobility.

The Japanese Chin (Japanese: 狆, chin), also known as the Japanese Spaniel, is the dog of Japanese royalty.

Briarhill Rock And Roll, a Japanese chin so new to this level of competition that his handler, Scott Sommer, could not remember how many group placements he had earned.

They share ancestry with, and some believe are the foundation breed for, the Pekingese, Japanese Chin, Shih Tzu, Lhasa Apso, and Pug.

So did Deborah Harry's Japanese chin and Annette and Oscar de la Renta's Norfolk terriers, Tiger Lily and Jupiter.

Men and women, some with children and dogs, are walking in and out, making appointments, flipping through magazines, feeding small bits of butter cookie to Pickles, the black and white Japanese chin.

The toys group, an unending collection of adorable creatures from Japanese Chins and Pekingese to pugs and Yorkshire terriers, was dominated all year by a Shih Tzu, Ch.

As a result of exchanges of Tibetan Spaniels between palaces and monasteries, the breed is likely to have common ancestors with Oriental breeds such as the Japanese Chin and the Pekingese.

"I thought I'd meet guys at the dog run," said Kristen Lee, a fashion designer who owns a Chin-Tzu, a cross between two toy breeds, a Japanese Chin and a Shih Tzu.

A derelict she snapped up in foreclosure and decorated to the nines, starting with the foyer's Hirschfeld caricature of herself and her pooch, Miyake (a Japanese Chin named for a favored designer of her dress-for-success wear).

It has long been surmised that the Japanese Chin and Pekingese were once the same breed with the Pekingese having been bred out to create the short, bowed-legged, long-back, pear-shape bodied breed of dog known today.

The Japanese Chin lorded over his environment an cared not whether it was a hundred-and-fifty room palace or a three room cottage: his concern was only that he was considered to be the most important object within and life catered to his every whim.

It shows that the Gobi Desert Kitchen Midden Dog, a small scavenger, evolved into the Small Soft-Coated Drop-Eared Hunting Dog which then evolved into the Tibetan Spaniel, Pekingese, and Japanese Chin.

A grizzled veteran of the show dog wars, the standard schnauzer who defeated 93,725 other canines last year, and two rank amateurs on the scene, a surprisingly poised wire fox terrier and a flashy Japanese chin, became the first group winners last night at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.

Some of the celebrities featured on Breed All About It include Susan Ford and her Golden Retrievers, Greg Louganis and his Great Danes, Lorrie Morgan and her Japanese Chins, and Andrew Weil and his Rhodesian Ridgebacks.