Fun this weekend!
Heres a few photos. 
Toby and I visited the dog park ( as usual ) this weekend, he loves going there. Hes so social with all the other dogs. 
And we went for a hike on Saturday afternoon in the local park. Toby was packing it out, cool as usual. 8)
... and today it rained. ... and hailed. including thunder and lightning. It was scary.
Today Toby had tooons of energy from being cooped up most of the day. The cat got him started, and he went wild like normal and ran around the house all crazy. After I caught him, I figured it wouldn't hurt to start working on training a recall. The other day, another Shiba owner suggested that I choose a short, random word to recall Toby with, and treat him ... every single time I call him and use that word. So, Toby actually began to come when I called him and treated him. He did the usual begging and jumping and sniffing. I kept turning my back and he'd eventually get bored and wander off to the other room. He was getting pretty good at it. Except. He'll only do that with me. I tried it with my mom, and every time she said it, he looked at me.
We visited this cool pet store in Wayne. And bought a bag of Orijen to try out. So, the sunset tonight was really different. Very beautiful. I snapped a few photos. ( of course, the suburbs aren't as pretty as other places, shame theres houses in the way )
I'll be putting up a few videos soon, just gotta upload them to youtube.
Toby and I visited the dog park ( as usual ) this weekend, he loves going there. Hes so social with all the other dogs. And we went for a hike on Saturday afternoon in the local park. Toby was packing it out, cool as usual. 8)
... and today it rained. ... and hailed. including thunder and lightning. It was scary.
Today Toby had tooons of energy from being cooped up most of the day. The cat got him started, and he went wild like normal and ran around the house all crazy. After I caught him, I figured it wouldn't hurt to start working on training a recall. The other day, another Shiba owner suggested that I choose a short, random word to recall Toby with, and treat him ... every single time I call him and use that word. So, Toby actually began to come when I called him and treated him. He did the usual begging and jumping and sniffing. I kept turning my back and he'd eventually get bored and wander off to the other room. He was getting pretty good at it. Except. He'll only do that with me. I tried it with my mom, and every time she said it, he looked at me. We visited this cool pet store in Wayne.
And bought a bag of Orijen to try out. So, the sunset tonight was really different. Very beautiful. I snapped a few photos. ( of course, the suburbs aren't as pretty as other places, shame theres houses in the way )I'll be putting up a few videos soon, just gotta upload them to youtube.
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Toby is just such a handsome boy
I love how every time you ask him to bring it back he's like, "Uh...OK mummy." Until in the end he decided to just keep it haha
He's decent at fetch, but if hes in a playful mood, it normally turns into 'I wanna play chase and run away from you and hide behind the pool'
The dog in the front of the chase took Toby's Kong Wubba, and then all the dogs wanted it! It ended up getting demolished and Toby didn't even care. I ripped the squeaker out, and now use it as a way to get his attention. ;D
Toby is such a cute boy. And he has a gigantic tongue! (another thing to fuel the "is Toby a Shiba or a Shikoku?" ;-P)
Nice pictures. I like the sunset one with the fence.
anyway..
i would love to have a playdate with my crew and your handsome boy! We have to figure out a way!
Yeah, everytime i'm at the park, I feel like hes the prettiest one there. At least the majority of the owners in that video visit everyday. Their dogs are super nice and socialized.
Somedaaay, Toby will meet your Shibas. ;3 We just gotta plan ahead for when i'm home.
lets do plan for it! or you can come up here, we think near the early summer we'll have the fence job done and we can release the 'hounds' to play!!
*Also, Monica - the Philly Shiba meetup organizer - might be planning on bringing the shiba meetup closer to allentown for one or two meetups since there are a lot more people north that do not have a meetup (me included!) that want to meet everyone else and their shibas!