You know you have a Nihon Ken when... [Topic #100! Woohoo!]

edited March 2013 in General
... the sight of your front door and driveway gave hanging open is cause for an anxiety attack.

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  • ...a pet snake escapes and you're more afraid of the dogs eating it instead of the other way around.

    ...you spot a cat during the walk and do everything you can to make sure they don't see it.

    ...picking clumps of shed fur out of their coat is more entertaining than tv.

    ...you base your friends off of how the pups react to them.
  • When you you stop correcting people and how to say their name and breed.

    ...when you find your bestest ...whatever...that was hanging in top of a bookcase to dry has been dragged around the room and is now covered with fur that broke the vaccum after I had picked it out as it was, as calia said, more entertaing than tv.
  • - you turn off the shower and the dogs step IN to lick your legs and rub on the walls.

    - you cant help but smell their fur- I never knew a dog could smell so good!
  • When you call their name, tell them to "come" and all you get is a blank stare.
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    -all you can see of your dog when it's sleeping is its legs sticking straight up in the air.

    -neighbors think somebody's being murdered when your dogs see a cat/have to get their nails clipped/are left alone for 20 seconds/drop their bully stick out the crate and they can't get to it.

    -you're worried about your carpet surviving the spontaneous dog zoomies.
  • -you can read your dog's mood by how intensely/in what direction its tail is curled.
  • -when your dog sighs at you to let you know how incompetent they think you are.
  • -you can read your dog's mood by how intensely/in what direction its tail is curled.
    THIS. So much this! Why can't I like more??
  • - when the response to "He/she is a [ insert breed here]" is "Huh"?

    -when you feel slightly insecure about walking them while they are blowing their coat because you don't want people to think you can't care for them properly.

    - when you do a "cross check" on all doors and openings before settling in for the night.

    -when there are just too many small animals outside so you just pick them up and walk home
  • Ha! Kel, you are reminding me of last spring when I took Juno out walking at night and there were frogs everywhere! She LOVED lunging after them when they suddenly hopped, but it was not a fun leash walk for me...
  • - when you make bad "Kai" puns for anything else with the long I sound: ie. callingout a-la The Electric Company: "Hey, you kais!" or "That's it, no more Mr Nice Kai" or "Vermont Public Radio's Eye on the Kai Forecast" ...etc. (Just want to note that there's also an "Eye on the Night Kai" daily astronomy forecast as well... at least at my house there is. I think it pertains to (kuro!) Matsu...)
  • Lol made my night hey you kais knock it off right meow!
  • ....when you post photos of your nihon ken in a hooters shirt on facebook and people ask, "where is his cleavage", you reply with, "he is wakainu. He hasnt matured yet"

    That happened.
  • - haha! I talk to the cats and ask them "Oh. How bout you have your dinner later? When did you say you want it?" and wait for them to say "Meow! We want it MEOW, DAMMIT!" they are too old for that torment now, but it was fun while it lasted...
  • ...when you have to explain repeatedly to other dog owners why your dog REALLY can't be off leash.

    ...when you have a snarling growling dog fight and everyone is in disbelief you are nonchalant lol
  • ...you know it can't possibly be any other dog but YOURS screaming from an entire building away.
  • -when you turn around abruptly on a trail at the park because you see a wildly crazy dog heading your way and the owner has no clue how to handle the dog and your dog is highly reactive!

    -when you spend more on your dogs food than your own.

    -when you laugh at the delivery guy running from your house.... every time he hears them bark!

    -when you panic at the thought of guests coming because your house is not really yours... it belongs to the dogs and you can definitely tell when you walk in the door lol Toys everywhere, beds and blankies here and there, etc. and they don't like strangers at the house so people think them snooty!

    -when someone asks if your dog is a husky and you say "no, she is an Akita" and he replies with "oh, I've never heard of that brand" (yes, that really happened)

    - when you would rather rush home to take care of your independent, stubborn, aloof and silly dogs instead of heading out to dinner after work with humans LOL

    Wow! I sound like the crazy dog lady ;)
  • - you cant help but smell their fur- I never knew a dog could smell so good!
    @WrylyBrindle my puppy smells like ramen tonight. I have no idea why. But now I want ramen.
  • lol I kuro tora muscle laughing
  • -when you tell people what breed they are and you get "shifoo ibu and kai fin?" Repeated back to you.
  • -when you see a license plate that says NHK and you think NihonKen.
  • - when you put padlocks on gates to prevent someone from accidentally leaving a gate open and providing your dogs with an escape route!
  • Oh this is a cute thread!

    When somebody says, "cute cat where'd you get it?"
  • When you bathe your dog at a pet store and you have to worry that someone is going to call PETA or some other animal rights activists group on you.

  • When you attempt to convince your fiance/wife, that a honeymoon in Japan would be awesome. Yet secretly you are planning on bringing back more dogs.
  • edited March 2013
    When youre so addicted you can't stop with just one and made up a trip to visit the family so really you can have free housing to stop by a breeder while your there and secretly get a second dog.
  • You're wondering (for the umpteenth time) there must be someone out there who could knit you a sweater with this bag of shed fur...
  • When you just smile and stare blankly at people as they comment on how your black stripey dog (or any of the NK breeds) looks like a fox or coyote.
  • edited March 2013
    When your dog sneaks into your roommates/childs/significant others room and steals the smelliest socks from the laundry pile and burys them in your bed, creating the double headed issue of how to fish them out and explain how they got there.
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