# Shikoku Towel Rubbing! The Shikas love to rub on towels... ## Thread In Photo / Video Gallery (Shikoku Ken) · started by brada1878 · 36 replies - **Category:** [Photo / Video Gallery (Shikoku Ken)](https://nihonken.org/community/c/photo-video-gallery-shikoku-ken) - **Forum:** [Nihon Ken Forum](https://nihonken.org/community/) ## brada1878 (admin) · 2008-02-08T02:53:12.000Z The Shikas love to rub on towels... ## Romi (admin) · 2008-02-08T03:15:07.000Z I want one!!!  I love how Kona is just standing there like "uhhh...what the heck are you guys doing?!" ## _dlroberts · 2008-02-08T10:36:23.000Z Haha. They're hilarious. I think I'm starting to want one too. ## brandon_w (admin) · 2008-02-08T10:53:19.000Z You're only starting to want one?  I'm trying to figure out the logistics of sneaking away with Ahi without the other 5 dogs and two humans noticing. Nemo likes to roll on blankets like that, I've never given him the opportunity to do it on a towel. ## JessicaRabbit (admin) · 2008-02-08T11:33:28.000Z My puppy cannot come soon enough! Well maybe there is that whole moving thing huh? I'll just covet yours for a couple months. Romi-that was Kaia. (I still think it is hilarious that I can name all 6 of someones dogs whom I have never met, but I forget my friends boyfriends name all the time) ## brada1878 (admin) · 2008-02-08T12:43:12.000Z I like how in the video you can see the difference in their personalities by the way they rub... Loa is very free spirited and happy - so she just dives right in and is on her back getting crazy. Ahi, on the other hand, is a bit more calculated and uptight so she looks at it and sniffs it, tries to eat it, then she places her shoulder on it but doesn't fully commit. Kaia started rubbing on it right after I cut the video off... I wish I had still had it on, Kaia is really funny when she does it. ## Romi (admin) · 2008-02-08T14:05:18.000Z Jessica - LOL, thank you for that!  Hehehe Sorry about that Kaia, Shes just so small....I get them 2 confused now.  Once Kona grows up, I think i'll have it down. ## brada1878 (admin) · 2008-02-08T14:42:43.000Z no worries - I mix their names up too, all of them. ## Evan · 2008-02-08T14:53:10.000Z too cute! ## hondru (moderator) · 2008-02-08T18:35:55.000Z Dave, shibas are just a gateway drug.  Everyone wants a shikoku eventually! Brad, I have no doubt that you mix their names up with that many!  I mix up all the kids' names, too.  It really horrifies people when I say to Isaac, "Tojo, leave it!... I mean... Isaac, put that down, please."  LOL ## okiron · 2008-02-08T19:45:20.000Z You're right :P I'm not getting my shiba for another year and I'm already planning to get a shikoku (mostly thanks to Ahi lol) ## _dlroberts · 2008-02-08T20:08:39.000Z Haha. You're right, they are a gateway drug. I promised myself that two dogs was going to be it. But I want an Akita and a Shikoku and....I'm going to have to make myself wait though. Joey is going to be enough of a handful and then at some point it might be a good idea for me to think about focusing on finishing my degree and finding a job. ## hondru (moderator) · 2008-02-08T20:11:04.000Z Dave, the whole "real life outside of owning dogs" is a real drag, huh? ## MommyofNiko · 2008-02-08T21:42:03.000Z Sasha does that to the bath rug when I get out of the shower....sometimes even right when the shower gets turned off.  She harasses it, licks it, rubs it psychotically.  I love my monsters! ## hondru (moderator) · 2008-02-08T22:25:48.000Z Loki once pulled clean sheets off the clothesline and rubbed in them, getting them all dirty and wet (he had just taken a bath). ## JessicaRabbit (admin) · 2008-02-08T23:15:20.000Z I LOVE the post bathing rub-fest. Moto does a shiba 500 all over the house and only stops to rub everything in his wake. ## MommyofNiko · 2008-02-09T13:14:33.000Z Chad sent me a video of Niko's post bath shiba 500 and I only saw a red blur. This morning shower Sasha didnt even wait for me to get out of the shower and then she forces me off the rug so SHE can have it. ## brada1878 (admin) · 2008-02-09T16:11:43.000Z Our Shibas do the post bath freak-out too! Its so funny! They Shiba 500 all over and stop and rub on things. The Shikas do it too, but that usually turns into a fight because they are so reactive and crazy. Its one thing to have two Shibas banking off the backs of the couch, but add 2 Shikoku to it too and its just hectic. Heidi is so right - Shibas are the gateway dog drug - lol! This forum too! You guys want an Ahi, but now I want a pit, and a Hokkaido, and .... well it just goes on and on! As for the name mixing up - it usually only happens in a quick reaction situation... and I will go through all the names... "Hilo, no Ahi, no Kona, no Kaia, no Maui, I mean Loa - LEAVE IT!" lol! All the dog look at me like "Gosh dad, I'm just standing here... WTF?". ## Romi (admin) · 2008-02-09T16:17:43.000Z LOL Brad!  I can just imagine you going through all the names and all the dogs tilting their heads at you like "huh?".  Portia gets crazy after baths.  She likes to rub herself on everything too.  Expecially our bed comforter .  Ninja is more chill.  He kind of gets excited when he's done and just wiggles a lot.  Not much of a rubber yet.  Its seems that every dog I've had gets more excited than ever after a bath.  Like the warm water and shampoo turns some light on in their brain and makes them super excited.  I think the rubbing might be because of the smell of the shampoo?  And they're trying to get it off or re-mark their territory? ## MommyofNiko · 2008-02-09T22:11:17.000Z Shampoo is a human thing...their wild instincts dont think they need to smell "fresh".  That is the rubbing coming in...we made them stink! LOL ## sujewel · 2008-02-14T00:55:45.000Z I love it!! Mika rubs on anything that has been freshly washed. It's the Bounce. She loves the smell! When I do laundry, I'll give her a sheet. She puts it on the floor and rubs all over the sheet. But only a few times, then she wants a new one. Crazy. I'm also glad to hear that I'm not the only one that randomly yells out the wrong pet name. Usually, it's Mika. She get's scolded all the time. I was complaining about my boyfriend's mess a few weeks ago and I called him Mika too!! ## brada1878 (admin) · 2008-02-14T12:51:22.000Z lol - That is funny, I think Jen would be pretty mad at me if I called her by one of our dogs names. lol! ## JessicaRabbit (admin) · 2008-02-14T12:52:24.000Z I would rather be called one of my dogs names than another womans though... ## MommyofNiko · 2008-02-14T13:20:32.000Z Good point Jess.  I havent called the dogs by a different name but the wrong nicknames. ## okiron · 2008-02-14T17:42:11.000Z Lol I've went through that with Errik before...saying "Dahmer! I mean Kayden! I mean Sassy! wait..ERRIK!!!!!" ## brada1878 (admin) · 2008-03-04T00:28:39.000Z more (after Loa got a bath): ## Romi (admin) · 2008-03-04T02:06:50.000Z LOL, wow that's some hard core Shika Towel Rubbage. haha...they REALLY get into it eh? ## sujewel · 2008-03-04T02:09:42.000Z LMAO! Too Funny. ## brada1878 (admin) · 2008-03-04T02:28:29.000Z It's like crack for Ahi - she loves it... she will even rub on people, I have been trying to get that on tape for a while now. ## JessicaRabbit (admin) · 2008-03-04T09:35:33.000Z Loa has gotten SO big --- **Navigate:** [Forum home](https://nihonken.org/community/?format=md) · [Sitemap](https://nihonken.org/community/sitemap.xml)