The Shio Storm

This is what I call Shio's ability to blow coat. For what feels like all of April and May, Shio has shed enough to build two new Shibas.   I'm not sure where he gets all that fur from, but he sure looks a helluva lot skinnier now than he did before. The furniture and floor in our apartment is always covered in a blanket of fluffy white hair and when Shio shakes, its like a mini fur storm in the apartment. What makes it worse is that all our furniture is either black or grey. 

I don't remember what our apartment looked like before Shio came along!

Shio Loves Oranges

Edit: Shio does not eat oranges all the time. We know that it is not good for dogs to eat too much citrus fruits. Don't believe them when they say that dogs don't like oranges...

Shio Loves Paper

"Shio goes after every single piece of paper on the street like a tax attorney during audit season." - Justin Silver, Dog Enthusiast and Trainer

Unfortunately, the paper he's chasing is loose debris on the street during his walks and not the green kind.

Shio vs. Floor

As part of the aftermath of "Freedom for Shio," we have noticed he has picked up the habit of chewing on the floor -- there are now markings of his teeth on the bamboo floor of our apartment all over... In order to prevent this from happening further during the day when he is in the crate, we have redesigned his crate:

Hopefully, Shio will no longer be able to pull the cloth from under him to expose the floor for further redecoration...

(Needless to say, Ting is pretty pissed about this new hobby of Shio's...)

Freedom for Shio

The first thing you see when you walk into our apartment is Shio's wire crate sitting the living room. You could only imagine my surprise when I opened the door on Friday evening after a long day of work and saw the door wide open with no Shio inside! Where was Shio?!  I took a couple of steps in and saw Shio hanging out on the couch in the middle of a glorious mess he created during the afternoon. He saw me and instantly ran over to greet me and let me know how proud he was of the interior re-decorating he did that day. Turns out that the replacement dogwalker I used that day decided not to put Shio back into the crate when they came back from their afternoon walk.

After surveying the damage, we found that we lost one throw pillow, two separate corners of a wall and several different spots on the floor to teething. Needless to say, J and I were not happy campers and will not be using that dogwalker again... ever.

On the up side, Shio has excellent bladder control.