Shio is finally 8 months old! It’s amazing how much he has changed in this past month.
Quick recap of this month:
He has finished teething on everything in our apartment (yay!) and is able to be left home alone without being crated for 6 hours at a time.
He’s clingy! This was a big surprise to us. Shio will run up to me to check in at the dog run now and sit by our bedroom door waiting for us in the morning. He’s also okay with being held for more than 10 seconds.
There have been minimal potty accidents indoors but he is not fully trained yet.
The fur on his face has lightened while the red fur on his body has darkened. The fur on his back has become coarser and his tail started to fill out and look fluffier.
He continues to love playing with us and other dogs. Still has terrible recall but we will work with our trainer on that.
And he still does not sleep in his doggy bed.
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Did she used to bite you too? Our shiba is 5 months, and thinks that saying hello is to bite us. No matter what we try we can’t shake it, and we are hoping it is just while she is teething. Its gotten a lot less forceful than it was, but still she wants to bite us instead of letting us stroke her.
She will also wait outside our bedroom door in the morning, which is sooo cute!
Do you think Shio is full size yet?
The mouthing when he says “hello” only happens every once in a while with J and I but not anyone else. He used to do it frequently but I think it was more of the young puppy excitement that he’s grown out of.
The period when he was teething was the worst and I’m glad its over!
He’s 23.5 lbs now so I hope he’s full size!
Good luck with your little Shiba and take lots of pictures! They grow up so quickly!