Maria Allen
#7 Between 1971 and 1975, a group of fans and enthusiasts of the breed began to carry out an operation to rescue and preserve the Shar Pei.
A rescue team led by S. M. Chen and Matgo Lowe searched for and bought the surviving dogs and sent them to Hong Kong to restore the breed.
#8 In Hong Kong, Matgo Lowe founded Down Homes, the world’s first Chinese Sharpei nursery.
#9 In 1978, the Shar Pei achieved the dubious privilege to enter the Guinness Book of Records as the rarest dog in the world
And it was this fact that most likely became the reason for the interest in this breed, which flared up first in the United States, and then throughout the rest of the world.