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Emery

The Lhasa Apso

Color

All colors are equally acceptable, with or without dark tips to ears and beard. The tail should be carried in a tight screw over the back. The breed standard currently used by the American Kennel Club was approved July 11, 1978. You can find lots of different colour Lhasa Apso's as puppies some start off with a dark brown coat with tan and white splotchs, but when they are cut their colour turns much, much lighter; sometimes even white.

Size

Lhasas are about 10 to 11 inches at the withers and weigh about 14-18 pounds. "Emery is about 30 lbs?!" The females are slightly smaller, and weigh between 12-14 pounds. The breed standard requires dark brown eyes and a black nose. Texture of the coat is heavy, straight, hard, neither woolly nor silky, and very dense. A Lhasa's coat should be of good length.

Lhasa Apso (lha-saw op-so)

Information source from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Lhasa Apso is a non-sporting dog breed originating in Tibet. It was bred originally to guard monasteries by alerting monks to any intruders who entered the monastary.

Recently, DNA Analysis has identified the Lhasa Apso as one of the 14 most ancient dog breeds.The breed has incredibly good hearing and this is why they were use in Tibet as ears for the old Tibeten monks who were hard of hearing so that the monks could be alerted by the dogs sharp high pitched bark if there was any intruders.

History

The heavy coat of Lhasas can also be explained by the geographical features of Tibet: the temperature frequently drops below freezing thus making it hard for a dog to survive without sufficient insulation. Lhasas were rarely groomed by their owners thus allowing the breed to adapt to the harsh weather, although when they are in warm climates, such as the south-western U.S., many owners prefer to have the coats trimmed.

Breeding

In 1901 Mrs. A. McLaren Morrison brought the Lhasa Apso to the UK where it was registered as an official breed in The Kennel Club in 1902. The original American pair was a gift from Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama to C. Suydam Cutting, arriving in the United States in the early 1930s. The American Kennel Club officially accepted the breed in 1935 in the Terrier group, and in 1959 transferred the breed to the Non-Sporting group.