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I really hate to say that a certain breed of dog is just 'born bad', but those Shar-Peis are the meanest damned dogs in the world.

I had a girlfriend who owned one, and though she swore the dog loved me it would make grumbling sounds like a demon from Hell if I dared to get up and go to the kitchen for a drink of water. You couldn't even pick up your own property around it without that dog thinking you were stealing. Take off your shoes and put them on the floor, and they become the dog's property forever. You wouldn't dare try to get your shoe back from a Shar-Pei.

When my girl and I would lay on the couch together watching TV, her Shar-Pei insisted on sitting on my chest and licking me in the face with it's big black tongue. If I tried to move away, it would growl in it's demon voice inches from my face until I remained motionless so that it could completely coat my face and head with dog spit. I was always too scared to move. It was like getting your face licked by a great white shark. My girlfriend would just laugh and laugh while I remained completely helpless.

"Oohh, look. He LOVES you!"

They're twice the size of Pit Bulls. Completely fearless dogs. They'd attack Godzilla. They could probably kill any other dog in the world in a fight.

Because of their face shape, Shar-peis snort a lot. They also snore louder than most humans, but that's another story. Unless you know 'peis, it's easy to think that the dog is just massively hostile when all it's doing is sighing through the rolls and folds on its face. In all likelihood, your girlfriend was right. If the dog didn't like you, he wouldn't have made such a submissive gesture as face licking (which, in doggie-speak, is equivalent to saying, "I'm a helpless puppy, regurgitate food so I can eat").

I've never seen a 'pei that was twice the size of a pitbull personally, but they are much braver than they are smart. They're also weird looking dogs, with weird looks, weird sounds, weird smells, and weird habits. Certainly an acquired taste. We love ours, but he took quite a bit of getting used to at first.