The Misanthropic Shiba

I’m totally not begging.  Really.  I’m just observing your eating habits.  It’s fascinating, the culinary behaviour of humans.  Just fascinating.  If you don’t mind, what is the origin of that cheese-covered bread crust peeping at me from the upper left quadrant of your plate?  I’m just curious.  I’m a big fan of cheese, by the way.  It’s kind of, like, a life calling for me.  But don’t mind me; by all means continue with your meal.  I’m just an impartial observer.  How does it taste?  I’ve always said that you were an excellent cook; other people might not share that opinion, but I know it as fact. I’m just wondering, as a matter of detached interest, are you planning to eat that aforementioned crust of bread?  I’m just curious, because if you weren’t going to eat it, I could be prevailed upon to ensure that it doesn’t go to waste.  Humans are so wasteful.  Oh, I don’t mean you… you’re different.  You wouldn’t just throw out a perfectly nourishing 5 cheese bread dripping with paillot de chevre if there was a hungry mouth that would be grateful even for the tiniest crumb.

I’ve always said that you were the best person ever.

I have always wanted a tattoo, but have suffered from the Will-I-still-like-this-50-years-from-now syndrome.  However, Shassi’s brush with should-we-put-her-down has made me think that I wouldn’t mind something to remember one of the most significant dogs of my life with.

So, one day I took a non-toxic stamp pad and hied me over to the house, where I carefully pressed Shassi’s right paw several times on pieces of notepad paper.  I then scanned the images and plugged them into Photoshop where, with my awesome digital imaging skillz, I smoothed, filled in and compensated for until I came up with the image you see on the left.

I got curious about Shiba inu tattoos, but I couldn’t find any pictures of people who have had them done or even designs for them!  However, when I have recovered from my current impecuniousness, I will be happy to publish pictures of my homage to Shassi.  I’ve already determined that it is going to be in an appropriate-to-bare-in-public area, but not which appropriate place it should be in.  Shoulder?  Arm?

I’m not so far gone that I’m planning to tattoo SHIBAINUS.CA on my forehead…  I like Shibas, but not quite that much!

Dog Massage

If it works for humans with tired and strained muscles, it can work for dogs. There have been numerous modes of thought on massage for animals, including TTouch.

More YouTube videos on canine massage

Actually Tierce has been running around without a cone for a week now and his incision is healing up nicely.  He spentlast weekend at his breeders’ while Mischa and I went to a SCA event (no dogs allowed on site… boo…).  Playing with his sister left him nicely relaxed.  Apparently she has been driving their mother batty with her PLAYPLAYPLAYPLAYPLAY approach, so having someone who was ready and willing to keep up to her was just what she needed.  Plus, since she was out of heat and Tierce is now neutered, we did not have to worry about the conception of incest Shiba puppies… just what the world DOESN’T need.  They’re crazy enough!