Hi!

What a Stinker

I wish my camera was working on my phone today...took Izzy and Z to some amazing woods near us and Z ran through the fence, under the gate and into a nearby cow farm (no nearby cows thank goodness). However, lots of nearby cow pats. Iz and I had to watch him jump (so happily) from pat to pat, the head goes slowly to one side and down towards the floor, then all legs are kicking in a fury until he springs back up and onto the next pat. The boy was covered - literally. There were two small patches of white, one between his eyes and one on the side of his belly, the lure of the treats was too much to finish full coverage...stinker...

Vets

Well, the past couple of visits to the vets have been a total disaster!! Poor old Z is pretty suspicious by nature, so he's cottoned on that they dont do nice things in there -even after plenty of 'just for a treat' visits in between. The vet has given up trying a bit I think - he used to be very good at distracting, making friends, giving treats, but now he seems to have categorised Z as trouble and no longer bothers (even though all he does is demonstrate his lung power with the most impressive Shiba Screams ever!) Time for a change of vet? Does anybody else have any experiences with vets and Shibas clashing?

The War on Slugs

Ziggy went out into the garden, a normal looking little fella, and came back looking like this...

I can only presume that he needed this war paint for some great battle against the slugs in the back garden...

Snow!!!!

Ziggy loooooooves the snow! And boy, is it snowing here. The whole country has come to its knees, and thats pretty much where the snow is on Ziggy...

And here he is attacking our little friend Maya...As you can see her fur is less well equipped to deal with the snow - it just stuck all over her face!!

A Vision In Beige

Proud of the Little Terror

Recently, it has been fireworks night. As a particularly neurotic dog you may expect Z to have gone mental - but he was very chilled about the whole thing.

Also, we walked across London to a friends house and he didnt get aggressive to one of the dogs we walked by even though he has been getting a bit of lead aggression recently. I have been really upping his socialisation through his adolescence and he is really starting to calm down around other dogs. He has never tried to bite another dog, even when they have bitten him, but he he'll certainly make a big fuss (surely not- a Shiba making a fuss I hear you cry!!). Onwards and upwards!

His recall was even pretty good today (although he's still well and truly attached to a training lead!)

Right, whats next on the training list...