{"id":3280,"date":"2018-05-24T08:12:52","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T08:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hanniko.com\/blog\/theories-and-legends-about-the-blue-tongue-of-the-chow-chow-dogs\/"},"modified":"2018-05-24T08:12:52","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T08:12:52","slug":"theories-and-legends-about-the-blue-tongue-of-the-chow-chow-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hanniko.com\/blog\/en\/theories-and-legends-about-the-blue-tongue-of-the-chow-chow-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you know that there are many legends and theories about the blue tongue of the chow chow dogs?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been said that chow chow, in the past, was the Buda temple guardian dog<\/strong>. One day a monk in one of the temples fell ill and the dog replaced him in his job of fetching firewood. Turns our that the chow chow found charred pieces of wood and so by carrying this wood with his mouth the carbon dyed his tongue blue forever.<\/p>\n

Another chinese legend (that\u2019s chow chow\u2019s origin) says that the chow chow was a very special dog-dragon at the beginning of times<\/strong>: he totally hated nights. He hated them so much that one night he licked the dark sky to make the day light show up. This infuriated many Gods and so they took revenge: they\u2019d leave him blue tongued for ever and that\u2019s how everyone would know what he\u2019d done.<\/p>\n

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Another version of (blueish) similar dye asures that a chow chow dog breeds used to join Buda while he\u2019d be painting the sky blue<\/strong>. The dog had no better idea than licking the painting drops that would fall of Buda\u2019s brush\u2026 and the rest is history.<\/p>\n

The funny part of this is that leaving aside the wonderful human necessity of using fantasy for explaining inexplicable things, the boring scientifics do not agree neither about why the chow chow dog\u2019s tongue is blue<\/strong>. Some of them say that this dog\u2019s metabolims produces a lot more melanin than what\u2019s considered normal. The melanin is a dark pigment that being localized in a big proportion in the tongue of the chow chow, it provides him this characteristic color\u2026 However, other theories afirm exactly the oposite: that chow chows have a lack of tyrosine, and what makes it worse, apparently this is what produces the melanin\u2026<\/p>\n

Will we someday know the truth about the mystery of the chow chow dogs blue tongue?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been said that chow chow, in the past, was the Buda temple guardian dog. One day a monk in one of the temples fell ill and the dog replaced him in his job of fetching firewood. Turns our that the chow chow found charred pieces of wood and so by carrying this wood with …<\/p>\n

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