Yeah, they're doing that to check (the vet agreed, BTW, or she'd not have been put down). They also have to check for rabies even though she's current on all medical stuff of course.
She'd had aggression issues the whole time. We were the 4th house (the rescue lady had tried 3 others) she lived in, all that before she was 1. We solved her food bowl aggression literally by hand-feeding her kibble out of our palms for a few months (both meals, every day). The "random" aggression we just never figured out. Real Jekyll and Hyde behavior. Sometimes kids would tug on her the way kids do (mine only grabbed her (nylon) collar) and she'd be sweet, other times you look at her funny and she sounded like a pit bull. Thought about an empirical treatment with psyche drugs, actually, talked briefly about it at the vet last week at her checkup about doggie prozac.
Shar pei are typically listed as 8-10 years. Last one we had made it 15.
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