Editing Chow Chow (section)

== Notable dogs ==
[[File:0A Chow Dog Agility.jpg|thumb|200px|A female Chow Chow competing in dog agility]]

[[Sigmund Freud]] had a Chow Chow named [[Jofi|Jo-Fi Ling]] who attended all of his therapy sessions because he felt that dogs had a special sense that allows them to judge a person's character accurately, and admitted he depended on Jo-Fi for an assessment of a patient's mental state.<ref>{{cite book|last=Coren|first=Stanley|title=What Do Dogs Know?|year=1997|publisher=Free Press|page=128}}</ref>

U.S. Navy admiral [[George Dewey]] acquired a Chow Chow in Hong Kong in 1898 and named it Bob. Bob rarely left the admiral's side and had the run of the cruiser {{USS|Olympia|C-6|6}}. Bob died in 1899 from eating chocolates given to Dewey by well-wishers upon ''Olympia''{{'}}s arrival in New York City.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}

[[Walt Disney]] and his wife, [[Lillian Disney]], had a Chow Chow named Sunnee. It was the couple's first dog. Allegedly, Walt gifted Lilly the Chow Chow inside a hat box, which inspired the scene in [[Lady and the Tramp]] where Lady is gifted in the same way.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Walt Disney's Chow "SUNNEE" Inspires Movie|url=https://chowtales.com/walt-disneys-chow-inspires-movie/|url-status=live|website=ChowTales|date=February 4, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116144419/http://chowtales.com:80/walt-disneys-chow-inspires-movie/ |archive-date=January 16, 2016 }}</ref>{{better source needed|date=March 2024}}