Aaaaand we're BACK!

Ok so I officially win the award for the worst blogger in the world. It's been WAY too long since I've written a post. So much has happened in the past year! Where to start?

Well...We moved to California! Such a huge move from Massachusetts to Cali but totally worth it. Knoxy loves it here. The move itself was pretty stressful on both humans and dog. We ended up driving out here. Amos has to start his job right away so he took off the day after Christmas with Knox and I stayed behind to take care of things back in MA and joined him in February. It was a very hard 6 weeks being away from my boy, but the reunion was priceless. And now here we are 6 months in and loving it. We have so many wonderful friends, and knox gets to play with so many shiba friends! Knox also has completed his test and observations to become a Therapy Dog! He's really mellowed and become a total joy to have around. He's well behaved, calm, yet playful and silly at times. I can't describe the love I feel for this little fluff ball. More love than I was ever expecting or than I anticipated.

Knoxy is now 2 years old! I can't believe it. I read the posts from even before we got him and I can't believe how much has changed.

Well, in the past year we got heavily involved in rescue work and fostering. It was an extremely rewarding experience, and we decided to continue doing the same thing on the west coast. We are currently fostering a sassy little black & tan female shiba named Tasha. We have had her for a little over a week now and can already see a change in her. She came to us very nervous, shy, and wouldn't really interact with anyone. She's so-so about other dogs. She gets along with Knox MOST of the time but once in a blue moon she gets a little "bitchy" and snappy. We are working on that. We aren't quite sure if she would do best as an only dog or not. But she DOES need to loose a significant amount of weight. She's very small, but weighs the same as Knox who is a BIG shiba. Knox is 31 pounds and tall!

But we will do all we can for Tasha and let her know it's okay to have fun and be spunky!

Pics to come! Just wanted to post an update! I'm really going to try to keep up with this! Or Knox will kill me.



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Special Shiba Puppy Needs a good home in New England!

Hi Boston Sheebs! I am posting this on behalf of a good friend in MA. She has a special little pup who is looking for a very special home, could you be that home? Here's some info about little "Forrest":

Run Forrest Run!

    Meet Forrest, a beautiful cream Shiba Inu boy, born June 27^th 2012.  Forrest is winning hearts as one of a litter of three.  In most ways, he is just like his brother and sister, however unlike his siblings, Forrest was born a little different.  

     Forrest was born with a congenital condition called Patellar Agenesis, otherwise known as a lack of kneecaps.  What does this mean for Forrest?  Well, it means he moves a little differently than the others.  He has a bit of hop when he runs full speed, but he certainly keeps up with his friends.  He has been evaluated by two veterinary professionals, one of whom is an Orthopedic Specialist.  While neither is able to say for sure what the future has in store for him, they do agree on a few key points.  First, Forrest is oblivious to his condition… he is in no pain and plays and horses around with joyous abandon.  Second, due to the rarity of his condition, there is at this time no surgical intervention necessary or expected.  Finally, though his condition is rare, there is every reason to believe that in the right home, with the right family, Forrest has a bright future ahead of him and will be a loving and fun companion.  Forrest is an outgoing little boy who can run, play, chase balls, play tug of war, snuggle in for cuddles and give Shiba kisses, but feisty enough to keep you laughing and on your toes……. just like any other puppy. He is comfortable in an x-pen, crate, collar & leash, and reliable with his potty training.  He is very social and friendly with both people and other dogs.  

     You may now be wondering, “Ok, so what does this puppy need?”  Well, the ideal home/family for Forrest is one with active Shiba parents to ensure he gets plenty of exercise to keep his muscles toned, preferably with a fenced yard for playing fetch. Keeping him trim and not allowing him to become overweight will also be important. Another dog to entice him to play and exercise could be good as long as the dog is known not to be too rough at play. Last, we would prefer to avoid homes with young children.

If you are interested in baby Forrest, please contact me!

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Please help save sweet Ava!

Hi all! I know it's been FOREVER since we've posted. Life has kind of took over, mostly for the better! In the past year we have really gotten into rescue work and fostering. We are proud to say we have fostered 7 fur babies and loved every one of them to pieces! Our current foster Ava is in a lot of trouble and has a lot of health problems. I am asking for your help today. Ava is very very sick with heartworm. Also we found out while she was getting spayed she was pregnant. The vet determined the pregnancy would be too damaging on her heart and had to unfortunately terminate it.

We pulled Ava from a high kill shelter in Georgia minutes before she was to be put to sleep due to over crowding. Thanks to lots of amazing volunteers we got her up to SC to get her vetted & spayed and that's when all the health problems surfaced.

Ava is very confused, but sweet and always has her tail wagging. She is a precious girl and doesn't deserve the cards she's been dealt. She can't even go out in the back yard lately because her coughing is getting so bad =( Can you please help us? Any donations are welcomed and no donation is too big or small! If you can't donate PLEASE PLEASE share! The more people who know about this baby the better! She is dying for a 2nd chance at a happy healthy life in a loving forever home!

Below is the link to the Chip In site where you can make your donations. Any questions feel free to email me or leave a comment. THANK YOU so much for taking the time to read this!

Hi! I'm sweet Ava! Can you help me?

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MISSING SHIBA INU IN BROOKLYN!! WE NEED YOUR HELP!

HELP! My sweet furiend Nami escaped from her collar this past Friday May 4 in Brooklyn near Manhattan Beach. If you or anyone you know lives near this area please cross post! Her humans are worried sick about her and want her home safely!

Here is the website that has been created for her:

Bring Nami Home!

This is Nami! Pls help us find her!

Also, if you would like to make a donation for her reward, it would be greatly appreciated! Every little bit helps!!!!!

Come back soon Nami! You haz lotsa people and doggies worried sick about you ='(


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Pet insurance- Trupanion

I, Sir Knox Greenleaf, am officially on pet health insurance. I am a proud member of Trupanion now! It gives my humans piece of mind and slight sanity. Even though I like to make them INSANE =D

Check this out!

Click the image to see the larger version!

Pet Insurance 101 graphic created by Trupanion.

They were super friendly and I am hoping nothing bad happens to me, but it's nice to know if it does, there will be some help!

Licks,
Knox

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Shiba mini meetup!

Well, this happened a couple weeks ago but of course my lazy typist humother is just posting it now. Le sigh...


But it wuz SUPER pawsome! We met up wif lotsa shibas! And do lotsa zoomies! Weeee!!

Shibas r da BOSS!

Like DAT!

We also had another purpose for this meet up. Another Shiba named Raiden and I did not get off to a good start a few months ago. At our first meet, we were both intact males and very alpha and dominant. Humans made a bad mistake by introducing us for the first time in my home, and I got a little mean. Well, a lot mean. Long story short, we did NOT get along. At all. 

So we let the dust settle, and humans had both of us neutered. And we were hoping for a better round 2. Humom was reaaaaaaallyyyyyy nervous and expecting the worst. But when we approached each other, it was all forgotten and nuffin but play time and zoomies ahead of us! All humans were so relieved =)

RAWRRRR! 

Play Play Play!!

Can't wait for NE Shibapalooza!!!!!

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Knox the "Catdog"

My typist has been seriously LAZY and has refused to update my blog. RUDE.

So I have a new nickname. Catdog. I'm not a fan of it cuz i iz NOT a meowie!! Kaiju's humom started with the name and it's caught on. Here is a vid of my bestest buddy Porter and myself having an intense conversation.

Note: I iz a MANLY shiba. I do NOT sound like a meowie.....HUFF!






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NE Shibapalooza 2012 Date is Set!!

Hi Everyone!

Knox’s humom here again. I’m happy to say we finally have a date set for NE Shibapalooza! We have decided to make it the weekend of May 5-6. The actual meet up will be on Sunday the 6th at Crate Escape in Belmont, MA. But I am thinking maybe we could do a pre meet up Shiba picnic at a park or fenced in play area if there’s enough people interested.

Now the fun part begins! Spread the word to as many Shiba owners & lovers as you can! Share share share! 

If you have any questions about the meet up, lodging, etc please don’t hesitate to email me at briggababy@gmail.com

More updates to come!

Amanda + Knox

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North East Shibapalooza 2012!

North East Shibapalooza 2012


Hello all!


Knox's humom here. We have exciting new updates about North East Shibapaloozameetup. A lot of the people attending are #twibas but we want to extend the invite to allshibas and shiba owners/lovers! So please tell everyone you know!

   Where:

We have selected the place for our meet up. It's called Crate Escape in Belmont, MA. (http://www.crate-escape.com/) It is all fenced in and has lots of room for the sheebs to run around and even a large fence divider INCASE we need to separate a dog/dogs. We will have the place to ourselves for 2-3 hours. There will be food and drinks for the humans and obviously water and noms for the sheebs. There will be a doggy door giving access to an outdoor area that is also fenced in! So hopefully the weather will be wonderful! 
I have attached a few photos just to give you a slight idea of the area (outdoor+indoor)

         When:
Right now we are feeling out all attendees for a specific date. We are deciding between 3 weekends: 4/28-29, 5/5-6, and 5/12-13. If you are not on the email list yet and are interested in attending PLEASE email me and tell me what weekend(s) work/don't work for you and I will try to keep everyone's schedule in mind to choose the best date. The more the merrier so I will accommodate as best as possible!


           Accommodations:
I sent an email out last week giving a link to some pet friendly hotels. But @iamkaiju's humom was nice enough to help out and go even further to help the people traveling by suggesting some hotels/rentals close to the meet up area but still close to Boston and other great places:

Here are some accommodation options that I have found...
There are more Cambridge options included here only because the meetup will most likely be in Cambridge, which is across the Charles River from Boston.

Pet Friendly Vacation Rentals 

http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p300263 (Cambridge)

http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p917866 (Cambridge)

Others in Greater Boston area: http://www.homeaway.com/search/refined/massachusetts/greater-boston/region:20141/Suitability:pets+considered

Pet Friendly Hotels

Hotel Marlowe (Cambridge) - http://www.hotelmarlowe.com/mlw_pet.html

Liberty Hotel (Boston) - http://fidoloves.com/dog-friendly-vs-dog-tolerant/

Marriott Residence Inn (Cambridge) http://www.marriott.com/hotels/fact-sheet/travel/boscm-residence-inn-boston-cambridge/ (Cambridge)

Others : http://www.fidofactor.com/boston-ma

The town of Brookline is quite close and nice, too. Or, if you don't mind driving in, North Shore towns are beautiful. Amanda lives in one of those towns.
If you see any place you want to consider, please don't hesitate to ask us about the town/neighborhood.


Also... please check out this website too for additional accomodations: http://www.bringfido.com/lodging/state/massachusetts/


Sorry for the long post but I am trying to get the message out there as much as possible. Please spread the word! We currently have Shibas coming from NY, NJ, MA, NH but we want to make this big so let's do it!


For those interested please get back to me via email to let me know which dates work best. I will update as much as possible about any news and/or changes. My email is BriggaBaby@gmail.com


Also any recommendations for other activities are welcomed! We could also do a picnic if the weather permits. 


A big thanks again to @iamkaiju's humans for helping out. We are so excited to make this happen!


Thanks,
Amanda (Knox's humom- @KnoxyFoxy11)

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The new year! Etc etc etc....

Happy 2012 to all of my Shibas and Shiba lovers out there! I haven't been posting much lately so lots to catch up on!!!!!!

I've been having a pawsome year so far! I was lucky enuff to have 2 PLAYDATEZ with Kaiju who is my buddy and also happens to be my cuzzin!

Kaiju and I chillaxin' at my crib

Come and get me!

Grrrrr!!

*Please check out Kaiju's blog for many more amazing pics of us!


I also ran into another Shiba that wuz mentioned in another post of mine. Her name is Ichi and she's a 10 year old Shiba girl. Very pretty and dainty. She doesn't like to play as much but she's a good observer! We ran into her and a few other dogs and they were kind enough to invite us over to their home for a playdate!

Ichi the "observer"

Water break-Ichi watcha lookin' at? 

Me & Normy the Labradoodle!

My head is like an owl's!!!! Bwahaha!

Show me yur TEEF!

Mommy and I have been stayin' at my buddy Porter's house and will be for the rest of the week. His mommy and daddy went far far away (something called a "vaycayshun") We have lotsa fun playing, wrestling, barking, etc.  He is one of my bestest buddies so I don't mind being away from home to keep him company! 

I wuv you Porter! 

Nap time

Food time

Nap time again

It's been a good start to the new year! I'd like to give myself a high paw for a great 2011. Well done, Shiba. Well done.

Licks,

Knox 

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Merry Shibamas! Time to open secret shiba gifts!

FINALLY! I've been looking and starting at that box for WEEKS! And I finally get to open up the box and see what my #secretshiba @shiotheshiba (And Emi) spoiled me with!

 Sniffin' it out...

 OMD! There'z STUFF in there!

Yum!

I can't read but mommy read the nice note to me

 OMD!! ITZ CHEEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!! *drool*

And after a long morning of opening gifts...I rest.

We want to say a special thank you to Shio, Emi and their humans! I iz a lucky sheebs =)


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Happy Pawlidays!

Happy Pawlidayze!!!! 

Practicing my bestest shiba mind control. And trying to blend in with the tree...

Is it working?!?

I've already gotz packagea from my Secret Shiba (Twitter Shibas and Forum Shibas) under the tree. I can't WAIT to see what else Santa Paws will bring for me! (Hopefully lots of noms)



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Learning about the rainbow bridge...

I have a furiend named Curtis. Mommy told me he crossed the rainbow bridge last week. I iz sad. I dunno what the rainbow bridge is but I don't get to see him anymore. I will miss running up to you and jumping in your face and making you run in circles to escape my hyper puppy ways. You were a good furiend. I wuv you and will see you again someday!

Curtis

Curtis' brother Porter is my bestest bud. He iz very sad cuz he misses his brother. Mommy takes me over to visit Porter a few times a week to cheer him up. I wuv Porter and don't want to see him sad, so I give him many shiba hugs and kisses.

cheer up Porter!

Mommy iz very sad. I lick her eye sockets when she is sad. She's giving me extra hugs, kisses, and noms for some reason. Whatever this rainbow bridge is, I don't like it! It makes everyone no fun. 

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I'm a free pup, finally.

The stitches are finally out and the cone is off! I used my Shiba mind control to make sure we made this weekend count. It was my first weekend back in the game and it wuz PAWSOME! I went to the dog park and dog store on Saturday and we went to a nice beach in Gloucester on Sunday.

Humans were really nervous about this weekend. Incase you havent heard (most of it iz lies anyway)..but in the past, I was accused of mounting and marking other dogs at the dog parks and beginning to act really dominant. I even used to try to mark places at the doggy stores and da vet. The marking of other dogs wuz rly bad. I don't know what came over me then. But this weekend it was all about DA FUNZ! I could care less about making sure I was the boss. I didn't mark or mount ONE SINGLE THING! I just ran around (yes, off leash...I iz a fake shiba) playing and chasing other dogs. My humans were super happy and gave me extra noms cuz of it!

Saturday wuz the first day back and we took a nice long walk to the doggy store then all the way to the doggy park. Although humans were stoked cuz it was sucessful, they weren't gunna get their hopes up just yet.

Come on MOM! I don't wanna stop to take pix! Let's GOOO!

But when we went for round 2 on Sunday, they were SUPER STOKED!  As long as I getz extra play time and extra noms...It'z all gravey! Plus I LOVE the beach!

 Guarding humom...

Hudad!

Humom!

Here's some pictures of me playing the role of Shibasquatch...

Taking in the scenery...

After my pawesome day...I came home to take a little nap.

Pawrents are pleased, so they gave me a brand new pig ear to chew on later in the evening while we kicked back and watched sum human football.






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Shibas are not PAPER DOLLS!

Just because I am THE cutest creature on the planet, that does NOT MEAN YOU CAN CONTINUE DRESSING ME UP LIKE A DOLL. Wasn't Halloween good enough for you humans?! This is abuse!!!!

THIS IS NOT FUNNY!

When it rains...the humans put this stoopid rain coat on me. SO EMBARASSING. I show my hatred for it immediately.

And the worst one of all....

I iz sad.......

They should know by now not to do it. The second they put any clothing on me, I freeze up and refuse to move any part of my body. Serves them right!


HUFF!




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