Canine Carnival Update

For those of you who went to the Ocean Beach Canine Carnival, you found out that it was super fun! I had a blast with those new exotic smells from Ocean Beach. (I've never been there before.) I also had so much fun sniffing doggy butts and getting to know other dogs (I didn't meet many humans, I was too busy getting to know new fuzzy friends.). Anyways, I had a ton of fun and can't wait for the next carnival or faire.

From the San Diego Shiba Inu Meetup Group, I enjoyed meeting Sakura, Marcus, and Sara! As Stitch would say from Lilo & Stitch: "Aloha, Cousins!" I would have stayed longer but mommy, daddy, and uncle had to go look for some computer and car parts.

Daddy and uncle had to find some stuff so they can play games on MY computer (I peed on it.. it's mine!). *hmph* (Well, I didn't pee on uncle's computer yet.. but it's in my house, so I claim it as mine!) Mommy had to find something for her *cough: my* navi unit. Mommy and daddy couldn't install it in MY car until they get 2 more parts for it. Daddy is still not done fixing MY (other) car. (I claim all the cars that I get driven around.. MINE! And I've already left tons of my fur on mommy's (MY) car. hehe.. I did it right after she brought me to the groomer's to get a bath and nail trimming. She was very surprised after I got up from laying/rolling around behind her seat on my way up to the back seat before I got seatbelted in. I think she said something along the lines of "I thought you just got groomed.") I can't wait for mommy's (MY) car to get the spiffy navi unit.. Then I can bookmark all the dog parks and dog suppy stores in the area (and maybe sneak in a couple of those locations inbetween her errands when I'm along.). Shh... don't tell mommy or daddy, I want to see their confused faces when they arrive at a dog park instead of one of their stores.

Canine Halloween Carnival in SD

Event Details

Date: October 26, 2008

Time: 10am - 4pm

Location: Santa Monica Avenue between Ebers Street & Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach (92107)

Phone: 619-225-8705 or 619-225-2237

Child Price: Free

Adult Price: Free

Event Description

Bring your four-legged best friend to the Ocean Beach Canine Carnival for a howling good time! Festivities include a canine costume parade with Bandit the Biker Dog as Parade Grand Marshall, a silent auction, plus a street fair with food and goodies for people and their pets. There will also be an agility course, bobbing for bones, a dog psychic and paw art.
This event runs from 10am - 4pm with dog registration from 11am - 2pm. Admission is free for people, but dog registration is $5 for a single dog and $8 for groups & floats. All registered dogs will receive a free bag of goodies and prizes. City rules require dogs to be leashed at all times.
Proceeds from this event will benefit non-profit organizations in the Ocean Beach area.

From:
http://www.kusi.com/community/events/29766309.html

Picture time!

I can play dead! Just not on command.

Look How Cool We Are!!

Hey, shiba owners... Look what mommy bought at Mitsuwa when she went vacationing (*whines* without me....).


This is a birthday card with a sleeping shiba puppy. It's a stand up card, so it folds out like a display and to get to the part that says 'Happy birthday,' you have to fold the dog back to release the flap of the card. The 'on your special day' flap folds down and... ta daa... the rest of the card is revealed! (Sorry.. no pictures of this..)


Mommy did a double take when she saw this one. She said he looks like me, but I don't think so.. And, I don't think I'd stay that calm if I was off-leash.. AT THE BEACH!! Woohoo! Time to go swimming!

For those of you who loOOooOOove stationery like my mommy does... guess what they have?! Shiba sticky tabs!!!! Look! On one of the tabs, there is even a little heart to show how much we're loved!!

If anyone out there knows Japanese, mommy said that there are lots of books and magazines about us at the bookstore in Mitsuwa. It was enough to take up most of the display shelf on dogs. There were a couple of books on labrador retrievers and German shepherds, but most of them were about us! Mommy was in awe when she saw how many books and magazines there were about us.

Miss

I miss mommy... I hope she comes back soon. While I'm waiting, I shall steal space on the bed until she comes back.hmm.. I think I'll play with the camera too. I think I need a 'dignified' picture:
I think this picture is worthy of being put on the wall behind my desk when I'm the C.E.O. of my own company! Now, I just need to think of ideas for a company.

Oh... I forgot... I got in trouble the other day. Daddy was trying to figure out why his computer wasn't working properly, so he took his computer apart to look at it. Guess what he found..? He found his third hard drive covered in pee and dust. I didn't do it! It was the cats, I tell you, the cats! ...Okay, I admit it. I peed on it. It was making noises at me! What else was I supposed to do? I barked at it already, and it was still making noises. (This happened at least a month and a half ago... before daddy rearranged his room and put his computer on top of the table.) It sounded like the thing I peed on in the living room. (Daddy says it was the DVR.) At least, daddy said, I'm consistent. Daddy isn't keeping hard drives any place I can pee on them now. Oh well.. I'm grounded right now. I'm not allowed on the bed for a while.

Actually, I don't think I'm grounded, I'm just not allowed on the bed because I smell funny right now. I was chasing the hose again for a few weeks, now I smell like wet dog. Daddy will give me a bath after he finishes studying for his test. I hope he passes with zipping shiba! (Then he can give me more attention, instead of some pile of white stuff with black squiggly stuff on it.) Oh and since daddy is busy with the black and white flimsy stuff, I've been bugging daddy's friend. I go into his room and I sniff around, then I stare at him to try to persuade him (with my canine hypnotizing brain waves) to give me extra food or walk.. actually, I like attention too.

Huhhh... I'm tired... I wish mommy would come home already, then I wouldn't have to make an extra trip to the garage door to see if mommy is there.

Happy 4th of July!

I hope everyone has a great Independence day! Remember that if you have pets, bring them in before the fireworks and you might want to keep them inside the house until the next morning when all the fireworks are over. I don't want any of my fellow fuzzy, feathery, scaly, etc friends running away from home and getting lost.

In celebration of independence day, I got a new collar! The ball is old, but the collar is new. Unfortunately, the old collar did not make it into any photos, but I was wearing it out. The part that was looped around the place you put the clip into was wearing thin, so it was time for a new one. This one is a little bigger, but still has the pixel camouflage. Apparently the desert camouflage blends in with my coat? But truthfully, I don't think it matters, there is a black nylon backing to it and I don't think black blends in with my coat very well unless it was next to my eyes or nose. Oh well, a new collar is a new collar: time to break it in and wear it thin!
I think this is enough posting for now. I'm going to relax here in the house with my humans until they either decide to watch the fireworks somewhere or in their back yard. I, of course, will be hiding under the bed, planting a stink bomb for an unsuspecting soul to come by and take a huge sniff of air.

Smelly Contest

Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention. The farting contest between daddy and I is still going on. I'm in the lead though!

It's Peanut Butter Time!

Woohoo! Look what I got again! I got more peanut butter!!!! This time, I was not a clean eater like last time. I still had some peanut butter balls/wads stuck to my bottom lip that I had someone help me clean up. But anyways, here is another video of me eating yummy, delicious, scrumptious, delectable PEANUT BUTTER!

Hmm.. what else happened today so far. Oh, I learned how to crawl under people's legs when they're sitting down with their legs up like a triangle. /\ <=Like that. It's just like crawling under daddy's bed but without a bed over your head. (Hey cool! That rhymes!) Well, I can do it when daddy's arm is not calling for me to mouth it. Once daddy's arm is waved in front of me, I'm all for playing with daddy. Crawling around is fun, but being able to fit my mouth over something that's not a rawhide or tennis ball is funner! Hmm.. That's all that went on so far today. I think I'll go to my back yard territory and lounge around in the shade some more. Maybe I can catch a bird?

Oh, so in the back yard, I've been peeing on a weed and that's been growing very well. Daddy says I should pee on his plants and make his plants grow instead of the weed that I like very much. Hmm.. I've been thinking about what daddy said and I think I'll pee on his plants... nah! I like my plant. It grows faster. :)

Peanut Butter

Daddy decided to spoil me today. And I guess provide entertainment. He brought home a bunch of food but didn't let me around it at first. Then later on that night, he took a huge wad of brown stuff and stuck it to the top of my mouth. At first, I didn't know what was going on, but I did taste something gooood. So I kept licking and licking. Boy that took forever to finish, but it was some really delicious goop (that humans call peanut butter? They should call it peanut goop. Or how about mashed peanuts! Haha.. kind of like mashed potatoes, but peanuts instead. haha... Okay, I'll stop joking about human food.). Someone had a camera and recorded the whole thing.



If I get peanut butter all the time when they film me, I'll let them film me all they want. I get yummy stuff.

Mwahahaha... I got drenched today running around in the back yard. Someone was watering the plants out back and I was running around following the water trying to snap at it. I guess they found it entertaining because whenever I got close to the water, they'd move it to the other side of the back yard. How mean! So, what did I do? I chased after it, of course. I got so tired that at one point, I just stood there waiting for the water to come closer to me. But once I regained my energy back, I was back chasing after the water from the hose. Then a little while later, I was super tired. I went to my water bowl, drank some water, then just stared at it, trying to get the water to magically levitate to my mouth to go down my throat. I think I was staring at the water for a good 3 minutes before I took another loooooooooooooooooooong drink and watched the hose. After a few more minutes of chasing water, they turned off the water and made me rest. I was disappointed, but I went over to a dry patch and started rolling in the grass (but mostly dirt. That's what you get for turning off the water!). I came back in the house last night all smelly and dirty. Well, not too dirty, just enough for them to not give me a bath just yet because I heard that I might be going somewhere tomorrow. We'll see if everything works out the way it is supposed to, and if it does, I get to go on a trip! (Not to Petco or on a walk or to the {dun dun dun} vet or to the groomers.)

Wroo.. I think that's enough excitement for the day, I'm tired. I hope tomorrow will be just as fun! Or I hope I get magical powers to make me move stuff. Then the next time I tire myself out, I can levitate water to my mouth.

Boo

Mommy went home tonight. :( Oh well, at least daddy is still home and didn't leave too. Daddy looked so tired when he got home today, after mommy left.

I think it's time for another father-son bonding time. Maybe we'll have a farting contest this time. I don't think daddy has a chance against me. He doesn't have to eat my kind of food.