Shih Tzu Dog Breed and Elementary's Up to Heaven and Down to Hell

Summary: Shih tzu natural history illustrations inadvertently itemize why a Shih Tzu dog breed member inherits everything on Elementary March 3, 2016.

shih tzu, with brown- and gray-blazed white coat, from Canil Dirraus, Araras, São Paulo estado (state), southeastern Brazil; Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007: Canino21, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Shih tzu natural history illustrations and images address aspects that advance a dog as heiress in the Elementary procedural drama series episode Up to Heaven and Down to Hell March 3, 2016.

Director John Polson and writers Robert Doherty and Tamara Jaron bring the endemic ManhattAnt and the exotic shih tzu breed into the fourth season's 15th episode. The series' 85th episode overall concerns the shih tzu Eustacia Vye, whose name celebrates Thomas Hardy's (June 2, 1840-Jan. 11, 1928) The Return of the Native. Rosalyn Graham decides, before dying in a 10th-floor balcony daytime dive, that a domesticated dog deserves a moneyed, propertied lifestyle more than dilettante, disagreeable family members.

Rosalyn Graham's will entitles Eustacia Vye to an expense-paid existence that ensures the exotic shih tzu breed experiencing all the extensive, necessary beauty and health schedules.

High maintenance and positive feedback furnish respective reasons why a caring pet owner favors financially, and finds a way to thank, her shih tzu Eustacia Vye.

Shih tzus grow flowing, long double coats, mustaches, tails curved over their backs and topkots that optimally get groomed daily with wire brushes with flexible pins. Their big, dark, round, wide-set eyes in shallow eye sockets herald daily cleaning the corners with clean, damp, soft cloth and restraining or trimming head hair. Eyelashes inverted through inner, not outer, eyelids and impaled objects on fast-growing, omni-directional facial hair that inspires the nickname chrysanthemum-faced dogs impel daily inspections and styling.

Grooming schedules other than daily for eyes and body, head and tail hair jeopardize healthy looks of models for shih tzu natural history illustrations and images.

Attractive, family-oriented, happy, healthy shih tzus likewise know daily schedules for ears and noses since short snouts and small faces kindle dust inhalation and yeast infections.

Gum-cleaning with damp, soft cloth and teeth-cleaning with brush and paste tri-weekly lessen losing 28 baby and 41 permanent teeth in gingivitis-, halitosis-, tartar-prone small mouths. Trimming foot-pad hairs and nails weekly make shih tzus move their four-toed front and five-toed hind feet comfortably and safely over many indoor and outdoor surfaces. Shih tzus need daily cleanings of tear-stained faces and travel-stained bodies with clean, damp, soft cloth and monthly washes, head through tail, under a hand-held shower-head.

Shih tzu natural history illustrations and images observe happy, healthy 9- to 16-pound (4.8- to 7.26-kilogram) adults with 9- to 10.5-inch (22.86 to 26.67-centimeter) paw-shoulder heights.

Shih tzus present, as they pass promptly in their family's wake from place to place, the positive reinforcement that they prefer in all interactions and training.

Fifteen-minute, half-mile (0.81-kilometer) walks once daily in warmer weather and two to three times more on colder days queue up as exercise for short-legged shih tzus. One- to eight-month-olds and nine-plus-month-olds respectively require antioxidant-, chondroitin-, glucosamine-, omega-3 fats, probiotics-supplemented all-natural fruit, meat, vegetable kibble servings. Shih tzus (from the Chinese 西施犬 [xīshī quăn, "lion [like] dog"]) sustain 10- to 18-year life expectancies with savvy diet, exercise and grooming schedules.

Perhaps Eustacia, descendant of Tang through Ming Dynasty (618-1644) palace pets and representative of an American Kennel Club breed recognized in 1969, triumphs over disinherited heirs.

Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) and Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) find themselves up in the air in a case about an elderly woman who jumps to her death, leaving her estate to her pet shih tzu, Eustacia Vye, in Elementary tv series' Up to Heaven and Down to Hell (season 4 episode 15): SpoilerTV @SpoilerTV, via Facebook Feb. 12, 2016

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

shih tzu, with brown- and gray-blazed white coat, from Canil Dirraus, Araras, São Paulo estado (state), southeastern Brazil; Saturday, Feb. 3, 2007: Canino21, Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shihzu.jpg

Joan Watson (Lucy Liu) and Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) find themselves up in the air in a case about an elderly woman who jumps to her death, leaving her estate to her pet shih tzu, Eustacia Vye, in Elementary tv series' Up to Heaven and Down to Hell (season 4 episode 15): SpoilerTV @SpoilerTV, via Facebook Feb. 12, 2016, @ https://twitter.com/SpoilerTV/status/698320965529370626

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