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Dusty is an awesome Shiba who actually comes when called – Imagine that!!
Here is a comment excerpt from awesome Shiba parent Brendan -
“Just a quick note to offer hope to others that read that you can’t take your Shiba off a lead.
Well we have had Dusty a while now and after getting her over the panic of having a lead on we are now able to take her to the park and let her off her lead. I would not do this in a small park or near cars/roads.
Dusty is great for about 30 minutes then she starts to get a little over excited and want to chase birds or becomes very aloof and is hard to get back. we them put her back on the lead for 15 minutes before allowing her off again. its working great. we have been working very closely with the trainers on her recall prior to doing this.”
Super Shiba Inu Dusty!
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Great advice thanks!
Couldnt ignor dusty tho it would break hers and my heart she is always so pleased to have me home.
Might try giving her the run of the whole house apart from the bedrooms and see how she does with that
Thanks
Hey Guys
Any ideas on the following.
Dusty still sleeping in her cage at night as she seems to really like this. when he leave the door open to let her have run on the kitchen (very large kitchen) she cries. We want to get her out of the cage so she has just a bed in the kitchen and all the space she wants. Thinking about buying her a bed that has sides and a roof to it. any other idea’s??
i think she likes the idea of being safe in her cage and she has had it since we got her but i feel mean locking her in at night and what her to have more freedom. Is anyone hear crazy enough to let there dog have the run of the whole house at night?
Also off topic does anyone’s shiba have a little we when they get over excited to see you? for example when i get in from work its a good bet to come in the back way so when she comes to meet me she is already in the garden as 9 times out for 10 she will have a little wee as she is making her happies noises and greeting me
Thanks
Hey Brendan,
Always very good to see you and Dusty!
Re sleeping – Sephy still sleeps in the crate in our bedroom. I think with him, he really wants to be in the bedroom with us. Sometimes, he will ask to go downstairs. This usually only happens when he comes back from the vet and prefers to be alone.
When he asks to leave, we usually let him have the whole house except for the bedroom. Once he leaves the bedroom, he doesn’t get to come back to the bedroom. If he is free rein in the bedroom, he will usually start doing his Shiba moves, get under the bed and start biting, or otherwise try to wake us up.
This way – Sephy gets to choose – stay in the crate in the bedroom, or have freedom in the whole house except for the bedroom. And everyone else gets a good night’s sleep
Re little wee – That sounds very much like excited urination. One way to address excited urination is to make greetings more low key. One of the dogs in my training class had this issue, and the trainer also suggested ignoring the dog for a short while until the dog is calm. Probably difficult to do with Dusty
I also like the article on excitement urination from the Humane Society -
http://www.humanesociety.org/animals/dogs/tips/excitement_urination.html
Happy early Birthday to Dusty!
And I’ll be sure to let you know if it ever goes up on e-bay!
yeah that was the one i was talking about, its very good, well done you. If it ever goes on ebay let me know
Dusty is also one in august
look forward to seeing the new pics
Thanks! I think he’s pretty handsome. Those pictures are pretty old. I’ll get some new ones up soon. He has gotten a little bigger. I do think he is larger than the average Shiba. He will be 1 year old on August 1!
The 5 canvas blue picture? I painted that a few years back. It was my first (and so far last) painting that I’ve done. If it is not that one you are referring to then I am not sure which one it is.
Congrats on the swimming!! Reptar gets out in the water until he can’t walk any further and then just stands there and watches the other dogs swim. Looking forward to the day we get a breakthrough like that!
Reptar is such a good looking boy. he has such a knowing look about him.
Off topic the blue picture you have in your lounge looks really nice where did you get it from?
yeah we got her used to it by getting her in from the garden and showing her the tin foil and then giving her some bacon!
lucky she is so active or she would be the size of a house
she is only 10.2kg and looks great although i do think she is a small shiba as in other people pics they look bigger than dusty!
good luck.
we had a real break though the other day an managed to get dusty to go swimming down on the beach. it was so nice to watch. we took her down with two black labs and she was rasing them out into the sea to get the ball. she loved it. I will try and get a pic of this next time i go.
Thanks Brendan! It’s all about the treats with Shibas huh? Did you practice this at home or in a familiar place first?
I will definitely try this! Great info.
Sorry its taken me so long to reply but what SS said is good advice. The other thing we do is take out some kitchen foil. Dusty knows that this normally has bacon in which is her fav and we only allow her this treat when we are out. She gets one bit when we are first in the park and taking the leash off and so she knows we have bacon in it. She gets the second bit when we call her back and she lets us put her lead on.
She is so smart that when we use foil in the kitchen for something else she gets all happy and does her funny noises thinking she is going to get some bacon.
My advice would be to find out what your little mans fav treat is and then as mean as it sounds only let him have it when out walking at the start of the walk and then again when he lets you put him back on his lead. Keep it in something different like tin foil so they know when you have it
Good luck
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I think #2 is what I’m going to try. I’m hoping to be able to let him off a leash when at the lake so he can play with other dogs and go in the water as pleases. Keeping a drag lead on him in this situation makes me nervous if it gets caught, or getting tangled with another dog etc.
They are smart, sometimes too smart. I can’t keep up! Reptar is almost always 1 step ahead of me. Crazy pooch. Slow is definately the key word here! Like you said, “Keep Shiba Guessing”!! Thanks for the tips.
I need to update his pictures…I also need to find an easier and quicker way to upload pictures to a slide show. Any recommendations? He’s getting so big. I love his tail! It’s multicolored and sometimes reminds me of a Cheerio!
Hmmm – what are you using right now?
I use WordPress for mine and it is pretty easy to do. I only need to select all the images I want to download, and it gets stored in the WordPress media library. Then there are a variety of plugins I can use to display the images.
I’m not sure where to post this question but since Dusty is so good at walking off leash, I decided to post it here.
My question is about putting the leash back on your Shiba. When we’re outside (in a fenced in backyard at the moment) and he is not on a tie out, and we go to put him on a leash or a tie out, he will come to us but the second we try to leash him, he runs away. Even if we reward, or bribe, him. He either thinks we’re playing with him, or he knows we’re taking away his “freedom”. I can see this being a huge deterrent for off leash play. Are there any tips or tricks for happily and easily getting them back on the leash?
I know of two ways to approach this.
1. Put the leash on before he gets to go out.
This is what I usually do with Sephy. He likes to go out, so the condition is I put a leash on him before he goes. If he doesn’t want to put the leash or collar on, then he doesn’t get to go out. This works very well with Sephy.
2. Keep Shiba guessing.
Putting a lead on Shiba once he is free-rein outside will be more difficult. This is because Reptar knows that putting on the lead means less freedom and Shibas do love their freedom.
One thing you can try is to keep Reptar guessing. Call him to you many times while he is outside but most of the time, he just gets a treat and some affection, and then let him go again. Other times play tug or some other fun game with him, them let him go again. Sometimes, put the lead on him, then take it off at once, and let him go. In this way, he won’t always associate coming and putting on the lead with loss of freedom.
Shibas are smart though, so you want to go slowly. Initially I would just focus more on rewarding and playing with him. Then once he is coming on a regular basis, you can try putting on the lead and then taking it off immediately.
Hugs to Reptar. I was looking over his pictures again today – such a handsome boy. I also just noticed that he has a double curl in his tail! Sephy has that too. I always think of a French beret whenever Sephy is strutting around and his tail is bobbing along at a jaunty angle
Thanks for all the kind feedback guys. I am pleased that other are having joy in walking their shiba’s off lead as well.
What you say Kaiks is very true. Dusty also loves to get other dogs to chase her, the bigger the better but is very aware when other don’t want to play and will run straight back to me and my partner to comfort before looking for another play date.
We are just having the joy of our first moulting at the moment and have brought every different type of brush/comb in the shop to try and help but Dusty is very picky over the ones she will let us use on her and it has to be paired with a treat and lots of belly rubs (such a smart girl)
Dusty is one good looking Shiba! I showed my husband Dusty’s pictures and he thought I was showing him Reptar! Thanks again for sharing all the pictures. Brendan, that is one pretty girl!
My wife and I have been taking our six month old boy Senbei to an off-leash park since he was four months old. We have have a few worrying incidents but he is usually quite responsive to us and he is very good at interpretting other dogs’ characters. He loves to instigate a chase and understands when he is not welcome. I have to admit that the park we go to has very welcoming and friendly owners.
Now that Senbei is a teenager we are being careful and trying to nip any problems in the bud. His parents were both walked off leash and the breeder has given us advice in how to go about it.
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i will try and get some pics next week when at training. Also take some of her over the park and taking a dip in the lake with my parents to black labs.
B
Hahaha – that is too funny.
I don’t know what it is with GSDs but my Shiba loves them as well. Unfortunately, the feeling is frequently not mutual and it usually ends with Sephy doing his Shiba whine.
You gotta get a picture with Dusty on the back of the GSD! That would be too precious. And you gotta help Dusty win over that other dog – who does she think she is anyway – messing with a Shiba
Bless that’s my baby. she is such a good girl. She however is now in love with a German shepherd (trainers own dog) who is massive but this does not faze dusty and she has started climbing on his back!!! I am very pleased that he is so good tempered with her but alas already has eyes for another dog so dusty is out of luck lol.
B