I have a shiba inu too!!! we shd add each other b/c i noticed from your user profile you have some wit too as well. You have to being a shiba owner! Cafepress now makes a shirt that says "Don't Buy a Shiba, ask me why", probably prompted by the webcam fad last fall of those puppies...
I don't have the Shiba in the picture anymore :( I miss my Georgie. He was a stray I picked up in the parking lot at work right before Thanksgiving. With as clean and well behaved (and housebroken!) as he was, I figured someone would be looking for him. But no ads in the paper, no one reported him missing, no signs in the area I found him. Which was sad, because you could tell that someone had cared for this dog at some point--he was clean, neutered, trained, and had recently had his nails trimmed.
I kept him for about....4 or 5 months, but I couldn't afford two dogs and my fiance and my mother were having fits (my fiance was never an indoor dog person, and George had some interesting...habits, like figuring out that he could jump from floor to chair to table and eat whatever was on the table, and would have pissing contests with my mother's chihuahua, which wasn't fun for my mom), but I'd never really planned for what I was going to do with him--I didn't want to take him to the shelter in case they ended up putting him down. I
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That's too bad! Shibas are some of the smartest dogs around and keep you on your feet constantly! Yep, when mine was lighter - he would jump from floor level all the way up to the dinner table (glass!) to look out the window at me leaving him alone as i pulled out of driveway for work. That was heartbreaking so about 6 months later I got him a companion. Shibas need to feel like part of the pack so that explains that mentality and wnating a buddy, not to be left alone, to be indoors. They still have a lot of primal wolf instincts left in them. Hence some of the fear aggressiveness many have with larger dogs that come near
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I kept him for about....4 or 5 months, but I couldn't afford two dogs and my fiance and my mother were having fits (my fiance was never an indoor dog person, and George had some interesting...habits, like figuring out that he could jump from floor to chair to table and eat whatever was on the table, and would have pissing contests with my mother's chihuahua, which wasn't fun for my mom), but I'd never really planned for what I was going to do with him--I didn't want to take him to the shelter in case they ended up putting him down. I ( ... )
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