red fox howl

I don't know how many times people on the street tells me that I look like a fox. Here is a video of a red fox. I sound nothing like it (make sure you have the sound on when you view the video). Shiba howls are much more elegant, I think. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk1mAd77Hr4&feature=player_embedded

It is towards end of May, but this global warming/cooling stuff is confusing me. In northern California, it should be nice and warm by now, but we still got rain and chilly weather (well, for california). I cannot decide if I should finish shedding and grow my summer coat or not. So I am still sporting my shedding shiba look.

Hey, get your own food!

getting a good view

I love sitting on the headrest of the sofa, with my butt hanging off, looking out of the window all day long.

my new toy

I am really into playing with my basketball nowadays. One day I managed to bite a hole in this basketball. Since then, I have been playing with this slightly deflated ball, pouncing on it like a cat, and growling at it.

Why Shibas are Special

Yup. Too lazy to get out of bed, but i'm that desperate to eat. I'm a Shiba-version of Garfield! You may also notice tufts of my fur sticking out, as i talked about in my last post.

Molting!

My owners took another ridiculous picture of me.

My owners have given up on grooming me, (thanks for all the tricks you guys posted on my last shedding-related post!) And more tips?

And that furminator- I took care of that! (The furminator is a dog brush)

Shiba Chair

Instead of holding my head up high, i am holding my butt high. Go figure :)

New Pillow!

My owners took this picture of me at night.

I was using my owner's old stuffed bear as a pillow. :)

Happy Easter!

Have a great easter everyone!

The Majestic Shiba

lovely.

Cool Shiba Blog

My owners found this blog for four Shiba friends, who post comics with their posts. Read their blog at http://shibal-inu.blogspot.com/! One of my favorite comics is shown here.

(If the picture is too small, read it larger here: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2715/4464096790_404e124fdd_o.jpg)

Hey! Im orange too! Oh wait, im colorblind.

So go ahead and visit http://shibal-inu.blogspot.com/ for Shiba comics! They made me laugh. Or as you humans call it, "Lol"

Singing Shibas!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnXQDMDobHc

My owners found this video of a Shiba Inu singing. I wish i could sing, but our family doesn't do a lot of music. I guess that i should leave my screaming to barking at the dog next door!

Toe Food Vs. Tofu!

My owners made a new video of me chewing my toes. You can watch it at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDvoDR9hRgc

Toes taste pretty good, so all you shibas, (and shiba lovers!) should try it out sometimes!

"Toe Food" for my birthday

Happy birthday to me! I turned 7 today.

Thought I would share my favorite breakfast food. Yummy. Hope I get a special dog bone for dinner tonight.

papr - paparazzi

Hoppy's glamour shots

Busy!

My owners have been neglecting me because they say they're "busy". Like they have more important things to do, rather than sitting around and petting me, all day!

Ive been sleeping more, and wake up in the morning to say "hi" to my owners, then go back to bed. I spend most of my dads sleeping.

My owners also found that Hoppy's favorite food is cabbage. She ate them up really fast, and my owners never even cooked the cabbage that they bought. They just gave them to Hoppy, every day!

Hoppy the escape artist

My owners keep finding Hoppy hopping around the house, after she escapes from her indoor winter retreat. She is able to get out of the tiniest gap that the gate has, by becoming long and skinny. Amazing for such a chubby bunny. :-)

Hoppy

My owners did a photo shoot with Hoppy and me! This is my favorite picture.

blueberry leaves

Because everyone in the house loves blueberries so much, especially me, my owners decided to buy a bunch of new blueberry plants. While they were digging holes in the garden, I started munching on the baby leaves that were sprouting from these blueberry plants. They were yummy, tasted like blueberries. Except I got caught twice and my owners were not too happy about it. That's me in the background eyeing these plants. Yum.

flossing my teeth

My owner and I had lots of fun playing with my doggie teeth flossing toy.

Muddy Face

Its been raining pretty hard here, and our backyard has been overflowing with mud. Ive had fun playing out there. :-)

addicted to bunny food

I like having Hoppy in the house for the winter. Whenever she gets a cup of food in the morning, I run over and help her out with her food bowl. What are friends for, right?

frolicking in the rain

Yesterday it was raining cats and dogs (note to self: why do people say that). Anyway, I ran around in the rain and had a great time.

close encounter with crabs

It is Dungeness Crabs season in California, and my owners got 2 big ones. I was really scare of them when they were wiggling in the sink, and I was shaking all over when I saw them. Even after they were cooked, I was still hesitant. But, after I tasted a piece of meat that "accidentally" fell on the floor, I could not get enough of these yummy crabs.

bunny food thief

Right before the Christmas vacation, my owners were busy filling up Hoppy's food bowl. There was this huge bucket of bunny pellets just sitting there. Hmm, just looking....On second thought, what the heck, don't mind if I help myself with some.

new favorite thing to do

I love running with my owner on his bike. They used to take me jogging, but they are just far too slow for a shiba. Now with the bike, I can run really fast. Here is a video of me at the end of my daily run.

stripes on shibas?

My owners are wondering why I got these stripes on me, especially visible with my winter coat. Their previous shiba did not have them. They think I am part feline with these stripes. Huh?

Faith the 2 legged dog

This dog was born without her front legs, so she learned to walk on her two hind legs like a human. Amazing.

new nest

it is getting cold outside, so last night I decided to make myself a nice warm nest to sleep...in the laundry basket. I dugged all the linens out, and settled myself in comfortably. It was so warm and cozy until someone woke me up with the camera flash.

cutest kitty video

Even though I am a dog, I do have a soft spot for cute little kitten. check out this video

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/27/the-cutest-video-of-all-t_n_372535.html

eewww!

another kill, from yours truly.

a lazy Sunday with Hoppy

Hoppy moved indoor for the winter, so I get to spend more time with her.

who you are calling an air head?

Every morning I go to each of my owners' rooms and jump on the bed to wake them up. This morning I went to one of their bedroom, walked right past her who was right by the door without seeing her, went to check out her bed to look for her, then realized that she was already up. I quickly howled and tried to greet her. She called me an air head. Humph! Just because I did not see her and thought she was in bed still. It was early in the morning afterall.

alpha and omega dogs

I know who the alpha dog is in my pack. Everyday she gives me food and I wait till she starts eating before I eat. Today she accidentally left a plate of chicken on the coffee table, and I just sat there and did not touch it. But when my alpha dog accidentally left a cup of Hoppy's pellets on the floor, I quickly helped myself with it. Afterall, I see Hoppy as the Omega dog, so her food is free for all, hee hee.

persimmons

The persimmon tree in the backyard yielded over 100 fruits this year. They are really sweet. Hoppy, my rabbit buddy loves it, but I just can't get into it. I am a blueberry eating shiba.

the rat hunt continues

Must be the warm weather we have been having. My owners put out some gopher traps at the entrance to some holes in the backyard. We got a rat instead. I got so excited I tried to get it, but of course my owner kept the fun all to himself again. Now I circle the gopher traps all the time, and he had to put some buckets over the traps to prevent me from trying to get the traps. No picture of the dead rat this time. Apparently it was too gross. May be next time.

shiba yarn

http://www.vipfibers.com/collect-store-fiber.htm#collect

This place can spin dog's fur into yarn to make hats and stuffs. My owners had collected a huge bag from the shiba they had before me. And now they are thinking about collecting fur from me. I shed big time after each bath, with bags of fur. Has any you shiba out there ever had your fur made into a sweater or hat or scarf?

the "shiba lean"

Whenever I am scared or I want to cuddle, I sit up properly on the couch with someone, then I start leaning towards the person until my weight is completely on the person. My owners get a good laugh out of that because apparently my predecesor used to do that a lot, and my own shiba mom did that to my owners when they went to pick me up at my breeder. The other day during that big rain storm, the wind was so strong that the whole house was shaking, and I was doing some serious leaning. I did not want to show that I was scared, so I sat up properly, but I did some heavy duty leaning there.

it was a dark and stormy night

Boy, oh boy. Did it rain last night. Supposely leftover of a typhoon from Japan that came across the Pacific and hit our area really hard. Things were blown around all over the yard, tree branches broken all over the place. Today is 60 miles an hour wind and a lot more rain. I got so wet going to the backyard to do my "business" that I ran right back in the minute I am done. My pretty fur is all matted down from the rain storm. And now the roof is leaking right near my food bowl. Eeek. Not my precious foods!

bunny in the backyard

We have had hummingbirds, racoons, rats, lizards, and gophers in the backyard, but never have we thought there would be wild bunnies. No, not my buddy of 6 years Hoppy, who is living in this huge hutch. Today we saw a bunny freely hopping around the backyard. We noticed that it was hopping much faster and higher than Hoppy, who is a bit overweight and not as agile. I hope the bunny comes back so we can get a picture of it. I did not chase it or try to kill it like my owners were afraid I would do. I know bunnies are friends and I just sat there and left it alone :-)

where the wild things (lizards) are

This is where I hunt for lizards in the backyard. Everytime my owners stackup the bricks nice and neat, I knock them down and sniff through the bricks for lizards. Last week I found a big nest of them and killed about a dozen of them, which upset my owners greatly. But I am not going to let that stop me from knocking down these bricks. The hunt continues...

pigs smarter than dogs?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33205603/ns/today-today_pets_and_animals/

Acoording to this article, teacup pigs are the new fad in UK. People like them because they are smarter than dogs? Huh? Well, at least I will never become bacon. Plus do pigs hunt? Guard the yard? Shed all over the rug? Never mind, forget that last one.

pics of rat hunt

pics from last weeks hunt. First one is a pic of one of the four (prob 5) rats I killed (ewww, pretty gross). And that's me searching for more rats.

Just little old me

Today one of my owners was trying fix the irrigation system in the backyard. He was driling a hole through the fence. After he drilled it, he stucked his finger through the hole trying to clear the hole. So I sneaked up to the fence and licked his finger from the other side. Because we have been having rats, racoons and gophers in the backyard, he thought it was a rat and screamed (like a girly girl). Hee, hee. It was just little old me.

longer lifespan for dogs and cats

Apparently we are living longer, just like humans.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33076736/ns/health-pet_health/

This MSNBC article mentioned a dog that is 26 years old. Wow. The shiba inu my owners had before me lived till she was about 17 years old. I heard she was very active hunting in the backyard and going for walks every day until the final 2 months. This is a picture of Uni three months before she passed away. That's Brownie (Hoppy's brother) who passed away a month later because he ate through the dry wall one day and ate the insulation inside the dry wall. So unfortunately he did not live very long. But Hoppy is over 7 years old now. So hopefully she will live a long time.

the killing spree continues

Yesterday my owners were moving some bricks to prop up the tool shed in the backyard. I always knew there were lizards amongst those bricks, but never realized how many. It was a whole nest of them. Maybe 10 or 12. I went after them so fast, they were dead bodies all around. I did not eat them, just kill them all. Needless to say, my owners started screaming because while they do not like rats, they like lizards and were trying to protect them from me. While I got praises the other day for killing those rats, I got nothing for killing the "cute little" lizards. What can I say, I am a hunter. Just like the other night, no kisses from my family last night and more teeth brushing and disinfecting wipes.

Kura the Mighty Hunter

Today my owners were cleaning out the tool shed in the backyard. They noticed the birdfood bag had a big hole in it, so they moved the tool shed trying to clean things out. As always, I was sniffing around checking things out. Four rats scurried out from underneath the shed. I caught them. One! Two! Three! Four! Four in a row in less than 10 seconds. I got them just like that. I killed them and dropped them immediately. Later another big fat one ran out. But this one was fast, and I took off after it. Later on, my owners found blood drops along the wall in the back yard, but could not locate the rat. Tonight for some strange reason, no one wants to kiss me, and everyone keeps trying to brush my teeth and clean my nose with anti-baterial wipe. What's up with that?

getting wet

I did not go into the pool all summer until yesterday when my owners launch a surprised attack and grabed me and put me in the pool. It is important for dogs to learn to swim just in case we fall into the pools by accident. Most common accident for dogs in the backyards is drowning because many dogs were not trained to find the exit for the pools to get out.

I hate getting my pretty fur and paws wet, so I made sure I swam directly to the steps as I was taught where I can get out. Once I got out, I automatically ran to away to a dirt pile and got as dirty as I could. My owners got their revange by catching me and giving me a bath. I have video of my swim that my owners will post soon once they upload it.