My beloved Tojo, (below w/ Santa Claus), is a mix of those two breeds.
Posted on 03/16/2011 4:39:20 PM PDT by beaversmom
The more people I meet, the more I love my dog.
posted this on Facebook earlier today. Great story
You are very welcome. So glad that GOD gave us some companion animals to keep us company. Dogs are definitely special creatures.
Monitors put out bleary screens on certain days. This is one.
My uncle worked in the shipyards in Richmond, CA during WWII. One day a Japanese ship was towed into the yeards. The crew was taken into custody as POWs, but there was also a mother dog and a litter of pups aboard. My uncle took one of the pups home to his 2 little girls, and they named her Judy. Judy (an odd looking dog) was a part of their family for nearly 20 years. No American had ever seen a dog like that, but one day the family encountered an elderly Japanese man in the park. He told them that Judy was a typical Japanese dog. She looked like a miniature Akita with the curled tail, but she had a short, fawn colored coat. She was a wonderful dog. She was so tiny when my uncle brought her home that he carried her in his coat pocket.
Incredible...thank you...
We think that Judy was a Shiba Inu, or a mix with a lot of SHiba in her.
The movie was certainly worth it, if only for the story. It was slow for me, but I still enjoyed it.
You have my envy, I would love to go to Japan, even now. I would love to help them in person... there must be something I could do to help them clean up, but my health issues give me pause.
I know this must sound crazy, but my wife and I have decided to give it a shot at learning Japanese. I have been thinking about that for over a year, now with all of what’s been going on, I’ve gotten off the fence.
It’s expensive, but I think we will be using Rosetta Stone.
Anyway... get the movie.
bookmark.
You’re description of Judy fits the Shiba Inu to a T.
Oh dear Lord... so much loss.
My heart breaks.
Howdy stranger..
Me too. I can stop crying now. (and I’m a guy). I love dogs.
Great video! Thanks!
Fox & Friends had a report on the other day about two dogs whose owners were unable to take them as they scrambled to higher ground. The dogs (a lab and some other breed) were tied to a shed. Evidently they managed to chew through the tethers and outrun the tsunami. They were reunited with their owners.
“Dog breeds originating in Japan”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Dog_breeds_originating_in_Japan
When I was a little fella we lived pretty much in the woods.
We had one good-sized dog, probably a sort of shepherd mix, and a small rat terrier type which always wore a harness. They were always allowed to run loose (people thought that was normal back then). One night they didn’t come home, then next day they showed up. It was a couple of days before we realized that the little dog was missing his harness. We figured out that he had gotten hung up somehow, and the big dog had chewed him loose. I would like to think we rewarded him somehow for that display of doggie devotion.
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