🏠 Best for: Devoted owners, apartment living
🐾 Personality: Social, cat-like, affectionate
💧 Shedding: None (hairless) / Low (powderpuff)
You either fall instantly for the elegant, weird-cute look, or you don’t.
The Chinese Crested comes in a mostly hairless version with a “crest,” a tail plume, and little socks, as well as a fully coated “powderpuff” version.
The Canadian Kennel Club traces the breed to African hairless dogs later refined by the Chinese, and notes it was once used on ships to hunt vermin.
Personality-wise, it’s social and clingy in a cat-like way, happy to perch nearby and then climb into you. Size stays toy-lean at about 11–13 inches tall and 8–12 pounds.
The hairless variety may need moisturizing and may be prone to sunburn, so basic skin care is important.
📍 The Chinese Crested has won the World's Ugliest Dog Contest more times than any other breed, a title its fans wear as a badge of honor.
🐾 Personality: Social, cat-like, affectionate
💧 Shedding: None (hairless) / Low (powderpuff)
You either fall instantly for the elegant, weird-cute look, or you don’t.
The Chinese Crested comes in a mostly hairless version with a “crest,” a tail plume, and little socks, as well as a fully coated “powderpuff” version.
The Canadian Kennel Club traces the breed to African hairless dogs later refined by the Chinese, and notes it was once used on ships to hunt vermin.
Personality-wise, it’s social and clingy in a cat-like way, happy to perch nearby and then climb into you. Size stays toy-lean at about 11–13 inches tall and 8–12 pounds.
The hairless variety may need moisturizing and may be prone to sunburn, so basic skin care is important.
📍 The Chinese Crested has won the World's Ugliest Dog Contest more times than any other breed, a title its fans wear as a badge of honor.