Chow Pei

Your Chow Pei temperament can take on the attributes of either or both of the breed parents, the Chow Chow and the Chinese Shar Pei. These are the personality attributes being reported by other Chow Pei owners: alert, loving and affectionate, protective and intelligent. Your Chow Pei will not naturally be good with kids or strangers so, to modify this trait in your Chow Pei, you will need to begin socialization with children and strangers as early as possible in his life. He will likely be more friendly and comfortable with other pets in the home than with kids and small children but socialization will help him adjust to other pets as well. He is intelligent but that doesn’t necessarily mean he’ll be easy to train as both parent breeds are quite independent. It will require copious amounts of patience and perseverance to complete the task of training your independent Chow Pei. Your Chow Pei is a fairly active hybrid and will need moderate to high levels of exercise to maintain good health. Your Chow Pei is not generally a hybrid which is guilty of excessive barking, sounding the alarm when he is scared or disturbed. He is, however, guilty of high levels of wandering and roaming as he follows his nose to investigate the various interesting scents in his environment. Keeping him on a leash when outside is in everyone’s best interests. He does tolerate solitude fairly well so, for those owners who are away for longer periods of time (such as working outside the home), his independence allows him to fare well alone, though he would probably much prefer the presence of those with whom he has bonded.