Hi & Thanks for taking the time to come along and have a look at our site.

Here you will find the dogs at Tianshi & the generations behind them. Take a look, it may interest you to see where we began and where we are heading. Tianshi didn't start with the showiest of stock but our dogs are and have always been sound healthy and well tempered. My goal is to breed beautiful Shar-Pei with the happy medium of type between the older bone mouth style and the more fashionable Meat Mouth, temperaments to suit a family environment with a definite preference for the classic horse coat in the more unusual colours and a healthy dog. We seek to develop the ultimate all round Shar-Pei with type, temperament, good health and show winning abilities (reach for the stars I say). A loyal dog to guard the home and family, who will be intelligent, invite friends in and wag their tail at the judges, of course!!!

I am Peta Andrews....Simons in a previous incarnation,that seems light years ago in a galaxy far, far away. I come from generations of dog breeders, my grandmother bred Fox Terriers and my mother bred German Shepherds under the Victorian Canine Association Aratula prefix.

I grew up with a Labrador, a Cocker Spaniel who seemed old from the day I can remember him, but still seemed to last forever, a Border Collie, a couple of Heinz 57 Terriers, German Shepherds and a house full of cats (mostly rescued strays). My childhood Shepherd, Thompson, who was my guardian, my friend and my freedom on early morning and late night walks as a teenager, died when I was in my early twenties. I had gone looking for a Shar-Pei puppy to keep him company, and ease my grief as he lost the battle with Testicular and then Lymphatic cancer, but ended up unable to find one (mainly due to opinions about them not being a breed for "young people"....Very strange ) and opted for my next, very different choice, an Alaskan Malamute ( A whole story of it's own there). My first Shar-Pei came along as a belated wedding present from my now ex husband. What was supposed to be just two wrinkly dogs to live in the house has become my life passion

In my school life I had great love affair with biology...particularly genetics. I have kept and bred fish.....freshwater, cold & tropical, marine and my favourites African Cichlids, seahorses, mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, Burmese Cats under the FCC prefix also Tianshi, Alaskan Malamutes under the VCA Alayshia prefix, along with horses, ducks, chickens, geese, lizards & frogs. I used to hold a Category 2 Wildlife Fanciers License.  To those of you that know me...forgive me if I forgot anything!!! I suppose it's pretty safe to say I love my animals.

I am currently at University studying Animal Science and I hope to specialise in Zoology and Genetics and be able to apply my few years of study to my lifetime love. Many people ask me what I am going to do with my degree when I finish uni? I am doing it for purely self indulgent reasons (which anybody who has studied with children will laugh at!!) and hope to help the development of the shar-pei in the years to come. Sure as hell make more money out of specialised marketing services (which has been my career) but life is about enrichment, not riches.

My first Shar-Pei came to live with me in 1991 , that was Wrinkleranch Mi Lin, Ming & Wrinkleranch Ching, Xani . When we went to look at the pups I really liked Xani ( have a bit of a soft spot for my boys) but also liked the idea of some cute wrinkly puppies (as you do) , so home they both came. Neither of them had much wrinkle but they were, all their lives, exceptionally healthy dogs with no eye problems & no skin problems and lived to heart ages of 9 and 11. They were both very quiet and reserved dogs with loving natures and excellent gentle temperaments. My first litter from Ming gave me 3 boys and 3 girls who all stayed pretty close to home except for 1 boy I sold who later turned up on the front cover of the Herald Sun..much to my delight! . I kept Rumples from my first litter and Xing from my second. All the while I was learning more about the breed and was surprised to discover how limited we were in Australia for good dogs and new bloodlines. Two years after getting Ming & Xani I imported Aust Ch. Ginkgo Opium For Tianshi, Opium from Moira Howarth in New Zealand, to lift the overall type of my dogs. When he arrived he had three betrothed females Ming and her two daughters Rumples & baby Xing.

I finally decied to use Xani at stud when he was 7 years old. He was no show stopper of a shar-pei but his health and temperament were superb and I decided to put him to my best bitch and see what we got. As it turned out he sired my first ever blue shar-pei (and I almost desexed him!!) So he then got used extensively in my breeding program and his daughters have gone on to carry his legacy of long life , fantastic temperaments, flawless health and the dilute gene. This was the foundation stock that brought us to where we are now. The journey has been an interesting and personally fulfilling one, with the best yet to come.........