Showing posts with label shiba inu. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shiba inu. Show all posts

Sunday, May 2, 2010

As the Snow Melts..

Winter came and went so quickly.  Too quickly.  Looking back, most of it was spent at home training and bonding with Kumo.  I summarized our few ventures out of our hometown here.

 Snow Day One

 Kumo's first reaction to snow: wth is this?!

He was not digging the strange texture and sinking sensation of fresh powder. It took a good deal of coaxing to get him to follow us through the snow. He whined and scuttled around uneasily.  He looked kind of like a lizard; legs and toes sprawled out to increase his surface area. And it kinda worked! He didn't sink quite as much, but he looked ridiculously funny doing it.

After about half an hour of trudging, Kumo just plopped down and refused to follow.  Tim had to picked him up and  carry him out of the powder back to the parking lot. We walked him around the parking lot for a while, making him walk through a little snow now and then until he got used to it.

During our walk, we saw a family with a beautiful white German Shepherd.  It was huge! And so friendly. Maybe Kumo figured if that ginormo-doggie could have fun in the snow, so could he.. because all of a sudden Kumo was running into the snow on his own. lol.

He followed us easily after that. Sometimes he'd wander off a little to sniff a tree or dig a little snow then run to catch up with us.


Friday, April 30, 2010

じこしょかい [Self Introduction]

My name is Kumo (雲), which means "cloud" in Japanese. (It can also mean "spider," but considering mom's deathly fear of the nasty things, I'm pretty sure that's not what she was going for.)
I am a red shiba inu (柴犬) and, as of today, am eight months old!

I have two people. One who fusses over everything and sometimes suffocates me with a little too much love, I call that one "mom"; the other one is a lil rough on the edges, but the best human a pup could ask for because he takes me out on all my awesome adventures! I named him "dad." They're a bit of a handful sometimes, but I love 'em anyway.
Every day is a new adventure. Whether it's walking to Starbucks with my friend Karen, days at the dog park with my MeetUp group, or epic adventures in the wilderness. I'm gonna enjoy every minute of it! Life is great when you're a shiba.