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Norway
Mona Selbach, Correspondent

The show circuit is just to start up again after a very have had and/or breed, you will find Norw Swed CH
cold and snow filled winter, so not a lot to report from Lohov’s Fisasco in the pedigrees. In the pedigree of my
show scene. The Norwegian Chow Chow Club had their Chow bitch (with a smooth mother) imported from
General Meeting on March 30, and an almost all new kennel Mon Ange in Ukraine, you will find Lohov’s Fiasco
board was selected. Nice with new brushes so we wish as well C’hengtus and my own prefix Tsingfu 42 years
them all luck. behind.
In February I got a very interesting chat from a Facebook
friend in the US. She had produced a beautiful smooth
fawn puppy by two longhaired parents, and had been told
this was impossible. Enzo Farinalla in Italy had asked
her to send me the picture, and I sure was interested.
Yes, it is possible to get a smooth puppy from longhaired
parents. It is seldom seen, but it is possible. Actually it
has happened two times in Norway, one of them became
Norway’s first smooth Champion. And we also know of
one born at the Ukwong kennels in England, Ukwong
Shot Silk by Ukwong Barbarossa x Ukwong Model. Coco Chanel Mon Ange
The first one born in Norway was called Lohov’s Fiasco, In the 1980s another smooth from two long coated
but he certainly was no Fiasco, he was made up both parents were born in Norway, at the kennel Mai-Ko-Chow
Norw and Swed CH and was the first smooth Chow in Geilo, owner Mail Gunn Frydenlund. Parents of the
to become champion in Norway, actually he gained bitch was Brosscroft Royal Mink, import from England,
his Norw championship two times, one time as special and her mother was a daughter of another English import
breed “Smooth Chows”, and the Norw KC found out he N CH Taymoth Hobson’s Choice of Baytor. Unfortunately
had to complete with the longhairs, he had to start it all she has not kept any pictures of this bitch.
over again. I seem to remember I was the one that gave
him his final CC, for real Norw championship. He was When starting look behind in the pedigrees of these
from a longhaired red dog mated to a longhaired black two dogs, Lohov’s Fiasco and the Mai-Ko-Chow’s
bitch, both of them with several English imports in the G-litter from witch the smooth bitch came, in the great
pedigree. When the puppy was 6 weeks old – he was born grandparent’s generation there are a lot of Chows from
on October 5th, 1981, the breeders Laila and Johannes the Ukwong kennels, and prefix from kennels using
Hovdal, contacted the Norwegian Veterinary Highschool Chows from Ukwong lines, quite a lot of the same names
as they thought the puppy’s coat to look odd compared to appear again and again.
the others in the litter, and Dr. Norodd Nes gave them the I like to say thank you to Laila Hovdal who told ne
following answer: It might be a mutation or it might be the story and let me have a beautiful picture of NS CH
an incomplete penetrance that was the reason why he was Lohov’s Fiasco.
smooth.
A simple way to explain an incomplete penetrance is that
both parents of the smooth puppy were carrying their
own incomplete smooth gene, and thus a smooth puppy
could be born from two longhaired parents. Laila Hovdal
further informed me that it might be important to know
that Dr. Norodd Nes told them that a part of a smooth
gene can rest in many generations before the gene meets
it’s equal in a so called genetic engineering.
Fiasco gave his smooth genes further on to many of his
pups. Behind all the smooth Chows that kennel Lohov Norw Swed CH Lohov's Fiasco 83