The Chinese Shar - Pei is
a fairly old breed which, in many cases, correlates to good health.
Not exact matches
They are
fairly common in
older dogs, regardless of
breed but may be found in younger dogs as well.
Some
breed both to replenish their own stock (which they want to keep in an optimal age bracket) and to sell and some of the most respected of these will look at their one year
old pups, keep the best, sell any that make a minumum weight and are
fairly good but that they don't need and kill the rest (so that they don't reduce the quality of their name as breeders).
Laryngeal paralysis is a life - threatening progressive disease of
older large
breed dogs causing air way obstruction (inability to breathe) after usually a
fairly long history of exercise intolerance and noisy breathing.