Sentences with phrase «chow as a hunting dog»
Early depictions of dogs resembling the Chow Chow appear in pottery and paintings from the Han Dynasty (206 BC to 22 AD) and it is said that one Chinese emperor actually kept 2,500 pairs of Chows as hunting dogs!
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A bas - relief was discovered recently that dates back to the Han Dynasty (150 - 200 BC) which definitely places the Chow as a hunting dog in that period in China.