Monday, September 22, 2008

Chowchow


chowchowisn'titadorable


seetheblacktongue!!!

Like my bloggie's new look? Haha, the pic up there was painted by ME!!! In super emo mode!! :P First time using gouache...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

why do you chow chow has a black tongue?

tezuka said...

Hmm, it's a long story. A long time ago, the red Indians found a young bear lost in the forest. No one knew from whence he came...

So they took him in, and the Indians gave him to one of their hunting dogs to look after.

The bear grew up, and became strong and healthy, but then for some reason it never grew into a full sized bear. In fact...

In fact, it started to bark!

The little bear-dog was a good hunter and he went hunting with the Indians.

On one such trip, he got lost in the forest, and a large bear attacked him. It was the Great Bear of the forest and it reprimanded him for not being a bear anymore. They had a fierce fight, as the little bear-dog held tight to his alliance with his foster parent, and his owners, the Indians.

The fight was long and hard, but the bear-dog never gave up. Finally he bit the Bear hard, and did not let go. The Bear freed himself with his magical powers, looked at the bear-dog with new admiration and told him this:

"Your courage is great, and I respect your loyalty. But you can no longer be a bear. From now on you shall be a dog.

Since you have fought with and tasted fire (for the spirits of the forest in native America are connected closely with fire) your tongue shall henceforth be black."

The little dog was left on his own. He wandered around, tired and injured and on the way he met the president of America himself, Teddy Roosevelt, who was out on a bear hunting trip. Contrary to popular belief, the little bear-cub was not killed as in the stories, but was looked after-ed for a time.

He liked to eat, and erm...he liked to eat so much that the Americans took to calling him 'chow chow'.

One of the people who went on the trip with the president saw the chow chow's cuteness and stole him away on a trip to china.

He gave the chow chow to one of the Emperor's concubines (whom he was having an affair with), and the woman loved it so much she brought it everywhere with her.

The emperor was fascinated also by the dog. Little did he know however that the concubine was planning to murder him and take over the throne.

Chow Chow was a noble animal, and when he realized that the emperor was going to be poisoned (he hated murder, you see) (and he knew it was poison because he had worked with poison back in his days as a hunting dog with the Indians), he jumped and knocked the cup from the emperor's hands.

The emperor was inclined to be very angry with the dog for knocking the cup down (given that it was given to him by his favorite concubine)...but on closer inspection he realized that the poison had created a hole in the floor!! (~weee!!)

If you've ever seen a Foo dog, those traditional stone guardians found in front of Chinese palaces and temples...well, its a statue of Chow Chow.

The end!! :D