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…
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Prior to getting Shio, we have read that Shibas do not like water. So, we made a conscious effort to expose Shio to water as early as possible, including giving him a bath the first night he arrived home. Despite our efforts, the Shiba in Shio is too strong for us to fight — he…
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Don’t worry about the first bath setting a bad precedence! It’s a shiba trait. Bailey and all other shibas we’ve met said the same thing. Bailey’s even requires us to hold an umbrella over him on a few occasions for him to pee!
[...] him a bath. (Those who do not know how difficult it is to give a Shiba a bath can refer to this, this and, more hysterically, [...]
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[...] searched the house for damage (refer back to Freedom for Shio post), and much to our surprise, there was no trace of [...]
[...] 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 [...]