After researching the breed for several months, Maria (living in Rhode Island at the time) purchased her first Chinese Shar-Pei in 1989, when visiting her folks in Idaho (where she grew up), a classic fawn horsecoat named "Lady Von Wrinkle". This is where the name "Von Wrinkles" was incorporated as her "kennel" name. Lady was purchased as a "show" quality puppy, so Maria found a local AKC all breed club in RI, and signed up for confirmation show handling classes. In 1991 Lady produced her first litter of puppies, and Maria had her first experience whelping and raising and finding homes for these peibies. Breeding and showing has been a learning process and work of love ever since then. After a divorce in 1991, Maria relocated to Utah with her young son Trent Krupa. In 1992, after whelping Lady's second litter, Maria met and married Tim Harris, from Michigan, who also had four children from his first marriage. Then this large combined family set up shop in Ortonville, Michigan. From here, over the next several years, our shar-pei family grew in numbers. Their lives were then blessed with the unexpected addition of their daughter "Mindy" born summer of 97. Four months later Tim took a job transfer to sunny So. California, where we have lived and raised our dogs ever since.
    Today, most of Tim's older children, still live in Michigan, Trent is attending college in RI, (and Mindy who is 11 years old, has the house all to herself, here in sunny Southern California).  (Maria recently graduated and is a Registered Nurse now) , and enjoys competing in (showing her dogs) once or twice a month at local AKC shows.  Tim works as a Western Region Manager in the construction industry. We now own three horses which we enjoy riding in our spare time. We carefully plan only one to two litters per year, with the goal of producing the best quality Shar-Pei possible, both in health and temperament.