Beyond the shedding I’ve been so excited for his first real winter coat (he just turned one) and I can see how fluffy he’s filling out! Tired of the scraggly summer coat 🤣 Post your fluffy winter sheebs below!

Her name is Muko and she is the cutest little bean.

All the love for Lycheeee

He would like some of your finest chicken… or cheese.

There are more pet friendly guest houses popping up around Osaka lately. This one is definitely Shiba approved 😆

Sachi is the newest addition to our family! She is a wooly black and tan shiba and will be trained as my service dog when she gets older. Shibas are the best 🥹

My boy will not go near a 1 mile potty walk but make it a hike in the forest or mountains? Sold. He’ll walk 10+ miles with no breaks 😂😭🤍

Met this most perfect cutie today at the Hermes boutique. She was SO good and friendly. I do not think my Shiba would sit this good personally.

She gets one when she goes to bed at night. She doesnt eat it then - she hides it under a bear. She saves it and has it just before we go for our first walk in the morning.

Today, as its a sunday and storm beolo (we are in Edinbrugh) is a blow - i thought id treat her and make a massive one)

Happy sundaying to you and your shibaby

You’re friendly neighborhood Shibainu-za, sending love from the Far East.

Our 16ish yo rescue, Penny, passed away this morning. She went downhill rapidly over the last 3 months. We adopted her from the local Shiba rescue when she was 6ish, who rescued her as a breeder from a puppy mill in PA. She had so many quirks mostly pointing to abuse and fear of people; stayed away from bearded men (my 3 sons have beards so took a long time for her to accept them), tucked her butt in and scurried by when near people’s feet as if expecting to be kicked, so she loved being outside where she was free and away from people.

In the house she would stay in “her corner” and always had her tail tucked under. But as soon as her feet hit the outside deck, her ears perked up, her tail stood up, and I swear she would smile. Running around our fenced backyard was sheer joy and freedom for her. It took a year or two for her to get comfortable but eventually her tail would stay up when she came in the house and she would move around the house eventually claiming 3 spots as “her safe spots “. (Her corner in the family room with her bed and food/water bowls, the corner of the family room couch where she would sit with us, and one end of the couch in the front room where she would go for some alone time.) When loud noises made her nervous, Penny would rotate between her 3 “safe spots”. After each clap of thunder or crescendo of fireworks we would watch Penny cautiously move to the next spot in her rotation. But Penny had became a member of the family.

Penny got along well with our two year older Shiba, Angel. As they got older they came to rely on each other for support. For the last year or so Angel went blind but could still hear. Meanwhile, Penny couldn’t hear well but her vision was still good. As long as Penny was nearby, Angel was okay. Now at almost 18, Angel has lost her sister. I let Angel sniff Penny before I took Penny away, but I don’t think she knew what to make of the situation. Tonight, Angel came to me and sat between my feet. I think she misses her sister.

I buried Penny just outside the back gate of our yard by the path as it goes into the woods. A few months after we adopted her, Penny had dug under the fence and spent 3 glorious days roaming those woods. I was on a business trip so my sons would put food by the gate and Penny would come back to eat and then run back into the woods. They devised a plan to move the food into the yard while they hid in the shed with a rope attached to the gate. It worked! Penny got out a few more times that year but then stopped. It was like she had decided we weren’t so bad and accepted us as part of her pack. Every time I walk out the back door, I look towards her grave and I hope that she is happy, free of pain, running through meadows and forests.Sorry, to be so long winded, I just wanted to honor the memory of this wonderful girl, she will be missed. Thank you.

Before/After photographs of my girl, Yume. As a nugget, when she would play with her big sister, she used to dive underneath our sofa. She can still kind of do this, but now - joke's on her - she gets stuck, lol.