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- Chinese Crested Dog, Hairless
- Chinese crested, hairless
- Chien chinois à crête/à poil vaporeux et houppette
- Perro crestado chino
- Chinesischer Schopfhund
- Chinese Crested Dog, Powder Puff
- Chinese crested, powder puff
- National kennel clubs and breed clubs (see, e.g. Breeding/Health Strategy Documents, below)
- Population-level statistics (see, e.g., Swedish Insurance Data, below)
- Research articles
- Breed club surveys
- Breed-specific information on rates of disease and death from Agria Pet Insurance (Agria Djurförsäkring) is available for many breeds.
- The Kennel Club, UK: Breed Watch (Category 2)
- Sweden: Breed-specific Breeding Strategies: (in Swedish) and/ or English summary
- Finland: Health information/Statistics
The Chinese crested dog is a hairless breed of dog. Like most hairless dog breeds, the Chinese crested comes in two varieties, with and without fur, which are born in the same litter: the Powder Puff and the Hairless.
Source: Wikipedia
Links to Breed Descriptions
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Other Names for Breed
Country of Origin and Parent Breed Club
Health and Well-Being
Some sources of health information include:
Breed-Specific Articles
Breed Standards
There are numerous breed standards.
The basis of breed/conformation shows is the judging of pedigree dogs against the 'Breed Standard', which is a picture in words that describes the range of features that are deemed appropriate for the breed.
Three of the major international standards are:
Breed-Specific Statistics
1. Swedish Insurance Data
2. Finland: Finnish Kennel Club Database: Chinese Crested Dog: https://jalostus.kennelliitto.fi/frmEtusivu.aspx?R=288
Breeding/Health Strategy Documents
Health/Breeding Strategy Documents and Links:
Health Surveys:
The Kennel Club 2004 : Chinese Crested Pedigree Breed Health Survey: chinese crested.pdf
The Kennel Club: Breed Population Analysis, Chinese Crested: CHINESE CRESTED.pdf
Breed-Specific DNA Tests
Other Breed-Specific Webpages
Canine Chronicle: The Chinese Crested
Paw Print Genetics and Paw Print Pedigrees | Health Database
Breed-Specific Research
Parker, H. G., Harris, A., Dreger, D. L., Davis, B. W., & Ostrander, E. A. (2017). The bald and the beautiful: hairlessness in domestic dog breeds. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 372(1713), 20150488. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0488 | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5182420/
Breed Clubs
We are listing sites for breed clubs with health or other information that might be helpful. Follow links below.
Canada: Chinese Crested Club of Canada
UK: Chinese Crested dog Club
The Chinese Crested Club Of Great Britain
USA: American Chinese Crested Club
Finland: Finnish Chinese Crested Association
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