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  • Evening all, sorry for the delay, but been busy lately. To update noches progress, he is doing a lot better. Hair is starting to grow back, its still just peach fuzz, but at least its hair color, you never really know just how thick shibas coats a…
  • Yeah..its before, as you can see the left side( his left, the right side we are looking at) is a malformed socket and ball, The socket is a very open arc and thus allowing the leg bone to almost full luxation out of the socket, which in time can ero…
  • 3/30 Hello all, sorry for no updates the last couple of days, been busy, also wanted to wait till I saw some changes. First off noche is doing much better, he is spunky all over again and trying to do everything he used to do. The one thing I learn…
  • Yeah, I'm glad that we caught it early to, at first I thought that maybe I did the surgery to soon, since the majority of fho cases I read were on dogs 2 years or older, but now I come to realize they are done that old mailnly because the symptoms a…
  • Hello all, and thanks for all your kind and warm thoughts, seems be helping him out :) 3/25/09 Well, noche is still limping, the swelling still hasn’t gone down all the way, in fact on the 24th (yesterday) I mentioned it to my vets technician (she…
  • Thank all for the warm wishes, Ill tell noche :). Dlroberts, FHO (Femoral Head Ostectomy) basically cutting out the femur "ball" or head, the doctor tries to remove enough so that the bones no longer touch thus preventing grinding, in tim…
  • Hers a pic (sorry, only have my cell phone camera on me)
  • OK...the worse of two evils, turns out noche has HD, the x rays confirmed it :(. The docotr said I could wait until later to do surgery, since noche is in no pain or discomfort, however, suregery will be necessary at some point, the bone is to mal f…
  • I actually did some more checking this morning on him; the knee seems to have the pop, in fact I am leaning towards the fact that it may be patella, (between hip and that I prefer patella), Luna actually had the suregery as well and she recouped 100…
  • Thanks everyone for their input and responses, believe me Im am looking for the best setup for my exisitng shibas, and us. Here are some of the answers to your questions. Brada1878, yeah 2 acres is not huge...but I failed to mention that we actuall…
  • Kissui, Is that only true for akitas?..or for shibas as well,? I ask this because noche, my 6 month old shiba, is about to get snipped, I had the other two shibas snipped at the same age. As far as "guard" dogs, like I said, thats not t…
  • Thanks for the reply Staticfuzz, To answer your question, because we simply love animals, I have perosnally raised monkeys, panthers, wolves, various species of birds, even had a sloth at one time. We have ample land and will have a big enough hous…
  • Dont go by pictures..shibas look a lot bigger in pics without a known point of referance. My friends who see pics of Sol Luna and Noche think they are German Shepard size until they see the pics with me next to them.
  • Noche looks to be keeping his original face markings, he did go through some coat changes. At one point I thought he was going to havve a very noticible brown skunk stripe down his back..but black hair is forming over it, so its not as noticible any…
  • New development in his coat....the tan hairs have black roots...so no idea whats going on here...and there are grayish/white hairs also with black roots...so weird..Maybe hes been dying his hair...doh!
  • Noche is getting close to 14 weeks, the first pic is him around 8 weeks, he has grown a bit since then (pushing over 12 pounds now). His brothe and sisters looked almost all identical to him, so I don't think he will turn red, I just have to wait an…
  • No idea why these are so large
  • antoher, here you can see the red hue on his head...
  • These are a few from now
  • Here are your body shots...this is noche then
  • I think it is the undercoat that is showing more(on the right and left sides of his back the undercoat is more white)...he was shedding a lot of black hair for a bit and I do see small black hairs underneath, so he could be flipping coats. As far as…
  • I would have to agree with Niko's mom, My sister tried to convince us to not to neutor Sol, said people would pay good money to use him as a breed dog, but honestly we purchased him and Luna as pets first...The sheer benefits of spay and neutor outw…
  • I’m in agreement with about everything everyone said, My female shiba is VERY friendly with other dogs and strangers...to a point...she will just as well greet you as much as turn her back to you...she decides when and where she wants to socialize. …
  • Ill try that, not sure if merrick dog food has grain, ill have to check, but it is holistic and has been good to Luna and sol, also going to see the vet on Thursday for his 3rd set of shots, (forgot he was due for those), ill have him take a look.
  • "p.s. how old is luna? I'm trying to determine when my cream will get her pink nose on! ^,,^" Luna is 4 years old now...I cant remember when she started getting more pink in her nose...I will look for some old pics and see if I can narrow…
  • Sorry..they are big
  • Well, noche had his first visit with Sol and Lunas boo boo fixer yesterday, and he said he is a very healthy boy shiba...he stated the exact smae thing you all did..that hes a pup and will grow into his limbs..hehe. Noche went for the office tour, t…
  • thanks all, I figred he was..and wife tells me I am just being crazy..but wanted to make sure..either way he is adapting nicely..today Sol, Luna and Noche have had tehir first indy 500 around the house....I have no idea who was chasing who..but it w…