Am I a shiba addict?
I guess the first step is admitting it - so here I am - my name is Jen and I am a shiba addict.
Every
day, I go to petfinder.com and look at the shibas, even though I foster
and realize its much more than just a cute dog picture when they are
rescues.
Then I go to websites to see what kind of pups are for
sale from breeders. But everyone says if they advertise, chances are
they are not good breeders.
Then I look in our local paper which never EVER has Shibas in it.
Until today...
5 pups, 1 black and tan male, 3 red sesame males, one red female. Located 10 miles from me. Price negotiable.
You have no idea how hard it is to not call the number. I would love, love, love the black and tan.
IS THERE A CURE??
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i think if a study were conducted, you would have all the signs of an addict, a Nihon Ken addiction anyway.
i've
come to the conclusion that my next 'fix' will have to be put on hold
until I can infact produce some land with my name on the title....
Let's review the situation:
1. Maui
2. Kaia
3. Ahi
4. Loa
5. Hilo
6. Lani
7. Kona
While not a shiba addict, I think this is self-explanatory.
so i gave in and called, this lady bought a shiba from a pet store,
and another from someone giving him away and decided the best idea
would be to breed them. So she did it on purpose, it wasn't an 'oops,
my dog is prego' thing.
our conversation did not end well.
especially when I brought up that she was irresponsible to breed a
petstore dog w/o checking for LP or hip dysplasia and she said her
female has food allergies that she never could 'solve' .... oh my. I'm
too mouthy. Even for a self proclaimed "shiba addict", I still cannot
support such utter disregard for irresponsible breeding!!! AND she's
selling the pups at 6 WEEKS OF AGE!! my stomach hurts.
You were right to tell her off. I'm so tired of people who think that breeding any two dogs is a good idea. It never seems like it will end either because people are just too stupid to care.
Just like I am on a facebook group and someone asked about getting a dog from a REPUTABLE breeder. I mentioned some breeders I know of. This assface links up this website:
http://www.purebredpups.com/index.htm
Sure this guy got a healthy dog from him, and the guy has a lot of references on his site from happy customers. However the guy breeds mostly mutts, and talks nowhere about health checks that the dogs go through, nor breed standards.
The "breeder" lady, not the addiction comments... just to be clear.
As for the breeding, I don't get it either. Why is it that people think just because they have two intact dogs it makes sense to breed them? Hell, most humans are running around intact and we don't procreate just because we can (well, a majority of us anyway).
We had to get approval to allow our pack to move in... had an attorney and everything. Cost us more than the closing of our loan.
We recently learned that NM is in the top 3 states for dog abuse! It's horrible here... Jen sees some really bad stuff at the shelter when she helps out. We have become pretty involved with the shelter and all the supporting people. The shelter here in Taos gets more money than the school system and county (in taxes) combined annually.
Honestly, I support spay/neuter laws, even if it ruined Jen and my plans... if it stops things like the shit at that link above I am all for it. I'd fix my dogs in a second if even just half the states in the USA passed a spay/neuter law.
Jen - were you calling the person with the puppies because you were interested in getting another Shiba and then found out that this person was a irresponsible breeder? Or were you just calling to find out information about the breeder to see if they were good or not?
Yes, I wanted to find out info about the pups and realized she was just a backyard breeder with no clue.
If you don't have control of your own dogs right now, i think its pretty irresponsible and selfish to bring in another puppy into your unstable pack because YOU want it. I think you should really put the dogs safety into consideration regarding this decision, especially if you haven't gotten professional help for Kitsune's behavior.
i was going to get mad and never come on here again - but you (all) are right, no matter how frank it was said, you are.
Truly - I have an itch when it comes to the shibas and notably realize that Uncle Sam is going to fund my visit to the behaviorist instead of an ill advised back yard breeder pup.
my husband is the voice of reason, reminding me that he is working with Kitsune at home very day and can only handle that right now and I know that, really, I'm a well adjusted adult, who had to convince him for a year after we were married (3 years ago) to foster dogs b/c he never had one before. He keeps me in check.
Calling that breeder was for a selfish reason, but honestly I wanted to be pleasantly surprised that a good breeder was located so close to me for future litters when it all worked out in the end. But since I believe God knows best, she was not what I wanted to find.
Not that I need to prove it, I feel compelled to say that I'm not a crappy dog owner, I did learn my lesson, and I enjoy this forum so don't think of me otherwise! I am committed to my two dogs, and I am committed to my work in rescue, so I really do know what is the best for me and my dogs in every aspect. I've seen to many dogs end up in shelter because their owner did not really see the big picture and realized that the dog didn't fit into it after all. I could never ever do that, nor do I ever want to get bit again (the bruising SUCKS), and I want to make the dogs I have now the best sort of canine citizens I can.
Sorry if anyone misunderstood. I'm just a girl with big dreams and fast typing hands. The reality is I'm not really an 'addict', its just a past time finding out where shibas are and what they look like and what their names are, then I get to come home to mine and its a dream realised.
I don't know. Now i'm babbling.
Besides, any good breeder would have asked you about the bite on your arm, and then said the same thing that everyone else said.
If you really want to work with other dogs, and help other dogs, I'm sure your local shelter could use another volunteer. They may not be Shibas but they are ever so grateful for some petting.
I just want you to see it from my side of it. You posted that you got bit, you found Kobe a new home, you said you were going to get a behaviorist and work with Kitsune on his behavior for a while. That sounded great and I figured that would be the end of the discussion about new dogs entering your pack, at least for a while. Then you made this thread, and its been a week since the Kobe incident? Do you see what I mean? It just seemed like you were jumping into things without really thinking them through.
I got a little more personal on this thread because if you remember, you made a thread "fighting within the pack" and then a week later, you decided to foster Kobe. So when this came up, I was worried you may make the same mistake again.
I am having the same behavioral issues with Ninja. He is not friendly with other dogs and is fearful of strangers. I have been working really hard to keep it consistent with him and its finally paying off little by little. The one thing I've learned is that you can't force it, you have to be *VERY* patient. I want a Kai and a Shikoku SO BAD. I was convinced that I would not be able to get another dog as long as Ninja lived. But after working with him for the past 3 months consistently and having a behaviorist come, I am pretty confident that I will be able to add another dog to our pack and know that Ninja is in my control. Despite all his progress, that day is still a long way off.
I hope you understand my motivations were not to be mean in any way.
See the fighting in the pack thread I posted out of panic because I knew we were getting a foster shortly after that. and Tsuki's wound was as superficial play accident when compared to the severity of fighting with the foster.
So then the foster came, and after a long 24 hour introduction period, there was still nothing we could do to control the situation, except seperate, which worked for 2 days, then blew up all over my now blue arm.
then the 'shiba addict' thing, i posted because it was ludicris to even think about another permanent dog with everything that happened here, and that was the point - why can't i stop thinking about adding to the 'pack'??
And truly, I called the puppy ad because i wanted to see if there was going to be a good breeder close to me that had pups with markings that i want in the future, obviously I could never ever convince my better half to get another dog right now. Our "pack pact" is that we must a. own a house, b. fence in the yard and c. have complete pack leader status with our two before getting another, and he doesn't even want the 3rd to be a shiba, he wants a Basenji!!
I guess the problem with the forum is you get snippets of a life in a selective story, which is meant to generate responses, but I can see it from your point of view now as well. Sorry if for one second I seemed unworthy of owning such treasures. Please be assured, I take everything from this forum in as sound advice, but ultimately life is lived outside my computer screen. Right now, in my present situation, we are only looking forward to keep improving Kitsune's progress since Day 1 with us, last night we had a major milestone (see social anxiety) and our time and money would be better spent on a behaviorist rather than another pack member at this time, shiba addict or not, I realize that.