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Snick the Dog
Snickers, a.k.a. Snick the Dog, a.k.a. Kawakirei BNT Sweet ‘N Nutty, is a black and tan Shiba Inu. Born Thanksgiving Day, 2003, in upstate New York, Snick was a sweet puppy from the very beginning.
His breeder, Sandra Krupski, chose him for us because he was “the kissiest” boy in the litter. She later wrote “Snickers was a big puppy when born and he loved to eat and looked like it. Because he was so bottom heavy
Snick spent the first five years of his life in Manhattan, living the charmed life of an active city dog. He went to meetups and training classes, played with his pals at the dog run every day, took long walks all over the city, partied hard at doggy daycare, had an awesome dog walker, visited a school to teach kids about doggies, went to restaurants and bars, and even went to work at an investment bank every Friday.
We moved out of Manhattan in the summer of 2008. Snick spent 7 months in rural Indiana, a little over a year in Jersey City, NJ, and is now living in Tupelo, MS. Life in a small town doesn’t lend itself to an interesting life for a dog, but Snick does get to go to the office every day now instead of only on Fridays. Spending time with “mom” will always be his favorite activity.
Snick’s pedigree provides a solid foundation for his wonderful temperament. Ongoing training and socialization have built on that foundation. Although he is a Shiba Inu – often known for being snarky with other dogs and antisocial towards humans outside their inner circle – he has continued to be a very social dog.
Some Milestones in Snick’s Life
| Jan 31, 2004: | Nine week old Snickers moved from upstate NY to Hell’s Kitchen, NYC to start the process of changing Jenna’s life. |
| June 2006: | Snickers had so much fun with his two neighborhood Shiba friends, that he started a Shiba Inu meetup group in NYC to make NEW Shiba friends! |
| July 2006: | Snick’s blog was named in Urban Hound‘s first “The 10 top reasons why New York City is great (for dogs),” list. |
| September 2006: | Snickers appeared in Urban Hund’s fall catalog. |
| October 2006: | Snick passed his Canine Good Citizen test. |
| March 2007: | Snickers appeared in Time Out New York, promoting the first Canine Cocktail Pawty fund raiser for Animal Haven Shelter in NYC |
| March 2007: | Snick and his friends from the meetup group convinced some humans to found NYC Shiba Rescue. |
| September 2007 | Snick and his buddies Benno & Lily represented Shibas at the AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Day event in Madison Square Park, NYC. This was Snick’s first big public event (with many more to come). |
| October 2007: | Snickers became a foster brother for NYCSR, hosting his first temporary Shiba sister. |
| April 2008: | Jenna & Snickers became registered Delta Society Pet Partners. (This means he is a “therapy dog.”) |
| May 2008: | Snickers started visiting classrooms at The Gillen Brewer School in New York City as part of their humane education program. This was Snick’s favorite job to date, only ending because he moved to Indianapolis in August 2008. |
| October 2008: | Snickers appeared as the featured Shiba in WoofPatrol.com’s Shiba Inu breed profile. |
| December 2008: | We started weekly visits with participants of the Easter Seals Adult Day Services program in Indianapolis. This was harder for Snickers than visiting with kids, but fun also and a great learning experience. |
| March 2009: | Snick moved to Jersey City, NJ. We hoped to start school visits again but weren’t able to find a local program. We dreamed up the idea for Animals Who Educate. |
| October 2009: | Snick enjoyed putting his ambassadorial skills to use meeting thousands of people when Jenna & Snickers coordinated the Shiba Inu booth at the first ever AKC Meet the Breeds event held in NYC. |
| March 2010: | Snick and a few of his Twitter pals, founded The Anipal Times, a daily online newspaper for animals and animal lovers. |
| May 2010: | Snick moved again, this time to Tupelo, MS. |
| August 2010: | Snick enjoyed reading the first ever PRINT edition of The Anipal Times. |
| August 2010: | Jenna & Snickers joined Comfort Creatures in Tupelo. |
| March 2011: | Snickers met his future fiancée, Emmie the Superdog, while she was walking across the country with her dad to raise money for military families. |
| June 2011: | Snick threw a birthday pawty for Emmie in NYC which raised money for charity (and was a perfect excuse to go home to visit old friends.) |
The blog entries below chronicle Snick’s life and the effect he has had on my life and the world around us.
Blog Entries About (and by) Snick the Dog
Snickers wants Emmie to agree to marry him. Help him win her hand by sponsoring a Hike for Heroes mile at herosponsor.com [click to continue reading...]
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Emmie the Super Dog is walking across the country with her pal, Troy Yocum. She recently told Snickers that she has a secret mission for the end of the hike. [click to continue reading...]
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Today has been a good day for dogs and a lazy day for me. Friday, I spent time figuring out what I do, why I do it, and what I really should focus on. Yesterday, I ran errands and did chores – a typical Saturday. Normally, on Sunday, I would work… work on rescue stuff, work on NSCA stuff, take Snick for his shelter visit, answer email, do some web development or updates for clients or one of my clubs/charities, etc. NOT TODAY! I started the day with good intentions, [click to continue reading...]
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hai peeples, Snickers here! one of my Shiba friends on Twitter had the brilliant idea to haz a secret santa wif each other. we called it #secretshiba. one peeple drew names for us and told us who to send a gifty to. i opened my #secretshiba gift this morning. it was so much fun, i wanted to share it with you!!! After we were done with #secretshiba we got in the car and went to my grandpeeples house. (this iz the first time in my life i haz lived so [click to continue reading...]
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hi peeples, snickers here! this my second time to participate in my furriend cokie the cat’s anipal photo hunt. this week the subject is “my second job” meaning the job AFTER taking care of our peeples. after taking care of mom and girl, my job is helping educate people about responsible ownership of companion animals and also about shiba inus. here are some piktures of me doing my job! i haz a third job which is visiting kids in schools and other places as a registered Delta Society Pet Partner [click to continue reading...]
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hi peeples, snickers here! today is my birthday! i am seven years old! mom does not like that i am now a “middle aged” doggy but i like the number seven. it sounds mature even though ize as silly and playful as ever. seven seven seven… see? it sounds good! to celebrate my birthday this year mom got this nifty drawing of me from her friend kristin at bohopets.com. it would also seem that mom iz buying me a house because i heard her talking about how she iz going [click to continue reading...]
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When we lived in Indiana, we couldn’t walk the dogs outside because loose dogs in the neighborhood would approach us – even chased us a couple times. Luckily, we had a HUGE backyard to play in there. When we got ready to move to Mississippi, I made a point to find an apartment complex that was all fenced in and has strict leash rules (in addition to the town leash laws). We can only walk around on the grounds of our apartment complex and very nearby though, because there aren’t [click to continue reading...]
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hi peeples, snickers here today my mom did check the mail and she laughed! why did she laugh? because there were two things in the mailbox and neither of them were for her. my Girl did get something and i did get something. i got this wonderful gift from my shiba friend in california, yuki. hers mom made this felt keyring and it looks JUST LIKE ME. my twitter furriend @cokiethecat haz this thing called the anipal photo hunt where anipals with bloggys post pics in a different theme each [click to continue reading...]
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Snickers has turned into such a snuggler this past year or so. Here’s the proof. (That’s my leg that his paw is draped across.) A lot has happened since my last post, but most importantly, we’ve moved (again). We’re all settled into our new apartment and routine in Mississippi, so hopefully I’ll be blogging more soon. [click to continue reading...]
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I haven’t written a real post for awhile. I’ve been focusing more on making time for “walkies and snuggling” with Snick when I’m not at work or working on the various projects (Shiba rescue, crazy Twitter projects, meetups, etc.) that he gets me involved in. I still want this site to be a place to share great information, so I’ll be back to blogging soon. In the meantime, as a peace offering, here’s a quick list of what’s been keeping me so busy. First, we have Brandy. Sweet old Brandy. [click to continue reading...]
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Today was a good day. Snickers and I started off the afternoon (which is the beginning of our day after all) with romp in the snow covered dog run. Then Snick managed to take me to his favorite liquor store. Yes, I said my dog has a favorite liquor store. Jersey City Wine & Spirits keeps dog treats at the register. I discovered this shortly after moving here when Snickers unexpectedly dragged me in there. I try not to walk by there when I’m not prepared to go in, but [click to continue reading...]
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hi peeples! snickers here. did you know that i was born on thanksgiving day? well, i was. my birthday is not on thanksgiving every year, but mom says she gives thanks for me every day. this year, my birthday will be the day after thanksgiving and i will be six years old. and this year, me and mom have a special request. we are trying to help nyc shiba rescue raise some money. they had to stop taking in new doggies because of the economy (and a couple dogs with [click to continue reading...]
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Oh. My. God. This may be one of the most fun things you can EVER do with your dog. This past Saturday morning, Snick and I trekked to Central Jersey with friends Catherine and Nick and their two dogs Wylie and Tigger. I believe the course was about 700 yards long. No one was officially timing the dogs, but we used Cathy’s iPhone and clocked Snick’s second run at just under a minute. That’s a polo field they’re running on and, no, there’s no fence. I was terrified to let [click to continue reading...]
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Snick and I planned the National Shiba Club of America’s booth at NYC Meet the Breeds 2009. Along with volunteers from the NYC Shiba Meetup and NYC Shiba Rescue, we had a great booth and lots of fun. [click to continue reading...]
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In August, Snickers tried lure coursing for the first time and LOVED IT. I immediately (literally, within minutes of his first three runs) started searching and emailing to find a way to get involved in lure coursing. I got really lucky. My first email was to the American Sighthound Field Association regional director for this area. Within an hour or two, I’d received a reply and we were corresponding back and forth on how to find all-breed lure coursing events. They put me in touch with Mickey Stoble who runs [click to continue reading...]
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ok mom did you get that? type into my twitter"ize havin fun at this event. do send treats"got that? k thx. oh you can put that on my facebook too thx [click to continue reading...]
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Snickers and I spent last weekend at Fido’s Festival in Woodstown, NJ. We were there with NYC Shiba Rescue to talk to people about Shiba Inus, Shiba rescue in particular, purebred rescue in general and responsible dog ownership. I really enjoy working at these events. Not only do I get to talk to people about the breed that I absolutely adore and about purebred rescue groups and how important adoption is, we also get to try new things and meet new people. We’ve made friends with rescue groups, vendors and [click to continue reading...]
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I’ve been personally involved with the lives of many rescued Shiba Inus since founding NYC Shiba Rescue two years ago and I’ve felt varying amounts of affection for each and every one of them. Every dog is an individual (just like people) and there’s almost always something lovable about each of them (maybe not so much like people). I believe there are only a few dogs in our lifetimes that truly steal our hearts though. Some people call them "heart dogs." For me, one of those few dogs was a [click to continue reading...]
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hi peeples, snickers here! it has been awhile since i dictated a post for the blog (although i am always talking away over on twitter). i asked my tweeps recently what i should blog about and friend-to-all-nyc-shibas, @roxyturtle, asked "what do you do while Mom is gone for the day? Does your Mom do anything to give you activities while you’re a latchkey dog?" i can say that in my five short years i have spent my days in many many ways! here is the bulleted version (because i dont [click to continue reading...]
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Snickers is definitely LOVING being back in an urban environment. He enjoyed the big yard and the big parks we went to in Indiana, but mostly I think he was almost as bored as I was. When he went outside he would check the fence perimeter and then settle on his park bench and wait for me to sit down with him. Now that we’re back east, he’s back to taking his long adventure walks and enjoying all the sights and smells a city has to offer a curious pup. [click to continue reading...]
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Snickers and I fostered little Penny in the summer of 2008. She was a great little Shiba girl who got off to a bad start (her original owner didn’t train her, give her any boundaries or instill any self-confidence in her). Our relationship with Penny was a little rocky for the first week or two when she came to live with us. She was a fast learner and a sweet girl at heart though and we really fell for her by the time she was adopted. Penny found a wonderful [click to continue reading...]
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This morning one of Snick’s "anipals" (that’s what the animals on Twitter call themselves), who also happens to be a Shiba puppy, asked: @Snick_the_Dog what did your parents do to help you get over your nipping and teething phase? This was not a question that Snickers or I could answer in 140 characters or less (not to mention that I was at work and Snickers doesn’t actually know how to type without my help). I knew I’d answered this question before, so I searched both blogs, but I couldn’t find [click to continue reading...]
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Last week while I was away for three days, Snickers stayed with my friend Kathy and was a bit mopey and worried. When I took him back this Monday though he was SOOOO excited to be there. Apparently, now that he’s sure I’ll be back in a few days, he’s having a great time. Here’s a video Kathy shot of him playing in her backyard this afternoon. [click to continue reading...]
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hello everybody. mom is worried that you will think we abandoned our website. we did sort of but not forever. me and mom moved again. we moved to a place near the home where we always lived before we moved to the country!!! we are really happy about that but mom has been too busy to update our website and tell all you peeple about it. see, mom went to nyc to visit some big dog show (without me! i know, can you believe it?). when she came back to [click to continue reading...]
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Snickers, his sister Secret and our foster boy, Murphy, had a blast playing in the the first real snow of the season. [click to continue reading...]
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I will get back to regular blogging after the holidays, I swear. In the meantime, here’s a picture of Snickers sleeping on the couch between my parents while they were here for Christmas. I have a better photo that shows that my mom is passed out asleep too, but she would kill me if I posted it. hee hee [click to continue reading...]
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I’ve fallen behind on my regular pace of posting for Jenna & Snickers (.com). It’s partly the holidays (don’t we all love to blame stuff on those?!?). Plus, Snick and I have just been busy! Wednesday, we went to the Crossroads Easter Seals Adult Day Program to meet the volunteer coordinator and visit with their clients. Before we left NYC, Snick visited with developmentally challenged elementary children. I was so happy with the way Snickers read the children at the school that I looked for just the right new job [click to continue reading...]
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Hi all, today was my fifth birthday. mom made a big deal of it. she said something about five being special. also, there’s thing day called Thanksgiving where the people eat together. the day I was born was Thanksgiving and this year it was Thanksgiving again. (I have no idea why it isn’t that way every year, so don’t ask me.) anyway, after all the people ate – and I had some of that, don’t worry – seeky and I got to eat a special kind of cake, just for [click to continue reading...]
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T found her camera. I was so happy that I made a couple vids for your viewing amusement. [click to continue reading...]
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hello everyone, snickers here, in case you are wondering, i am writing this the way i do most things… making mom do it with Shiba mind control. she wants me to share my point of view on things. i told her ok as long as she does the work of typing it. typing on the laptop is impossible when you have paws. i told her to type the way i tell her though without editing to make it perfect. besides, jaqi said that mom agreed not to edit her posts, [click to continue reading...]
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Snick doesn’t want the new blog to be ALL about serious stuff, so here’s one just for fun. I met some of my bestest friends through the Shiba Meetup group that Snick and I started in NYC a couple years ago, so we’ve started one here in Indianapolis too. The Indy Shibas have had two meetups so far. Below are some photos from our second meetup, which was this past Sunday afternoon in Fort Harrison State Park. You may click the smaller images to embiggen. [click to continue reading...]
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Snickers and I went to our first Indiana meetup last weekend. It wasn’t a Shiba meetup, unfortunately, because I haven’t yet figured out where we’re going to hold those. It was a general meetup, but with a twist. It’s a new group in Indianapolis called the Downtown Dog Walk, which gets together every Sunday night and walks along the canal or through downtown to a bar or restaurant with outdoor space and then hangs out outside. You know how people say New Yorkers are rude? And, of course, we New [click to continue reading...]
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OMG, these are the cutest squirrels you can imagine. Unfortunately Snickers thinks they look incredibly tasty. If I am not VERY careful he is going to break one of my fingers and/or get away from me when he sees one of these cuties dashing across the park. Debbie clicked this photo with her phone when we were walking. Click through to see the next one! [click to continue reading...]
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For the last month, Snick and I have been visiting a small school for developmentally challenged children once a week. We visit three classrooms ranging in age from four to nine and each class has about 10 kids in it. Each visit is only about 20 minutes long. One class has invited us to the playground with them for the last two weeks, so our morning has been like this 9:00 to 9:20 – 7 to 9 year olds 9:30 to 9:50 – 5 & 6 year olds 10:00 to [click to continue reading...]
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I learned what could have been a devastatingly difficult lesson this morning. Snick’s leash broke while we were out for our morning walk. He was running at the time (he does this weird “run away from it” thing after he poops) and the end hardware attached to his collar just POPPED out of the hardware piece sewn into the leash. You know the part where it swivels? Just popped right out! I guess the metal must have worn over time. There are few things quite as frightening as seeing your [click to continue reading...]
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We have a new little foster dog, Penny. She makes the fourth confused Shiba girl that has moved in to Snick’s territory. (Counting? Secret, Shayna, Lola – who didn’t stay long – and now Penny.) I’ll write more about Penny in a day or two… the point is that watching Penny and Snick made me realize what a great host and teacher Snickers has become. To add to that feeling of pride, when I opened the mailbox today, mine and Snick’s Delta Society Pet Partner IDs were in there! We [click to continue reading...]
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I have to show you these photos of Snick and Shay. They love each other! Besides, you can’t go wrong with cute doggy pictures when you have nothing to blog about. [click to continue reading...]
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I was crating Shayna at night and whenever I wasn’t home until she and Snick got to know each other better (and stopped fighting). Friday night, I let her sleep outside the crate for the first time. After I went to bed, Snick joined me as usual and a few minutes later Shayna hopped up on the bed too. I thought Snick might chase her off, but he didn’t. She’s done well… she stays on the opposite side of the bed from Snick and he doesn’t seem to mind. I [click to continue reading...]
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Snickers and I pupsat a couple of our buddies – Benno & Lily – this weekend. Snickers and Lily are in LUV. I got a couple quick videos of them playing together tonight. Having the three of them in the apartment all weekend has been great, although walking them all together is often challenging! There’s a very primitive feel to having 3 Shiba wandering around the place, even in midtown Manhattan! [click to continue reading...]
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I have joked for a long time that Snickers is the Shiba Ambassador to NYC because so many people stop me on the street to find out what kind of dog he is. I have talked to people from all over the world about Shiba Inus. Snick took his ambassadorial duties to the next level a couple weeks ago by deigning to be fawned over by hundreds of people at the AKC’s Responsible Dog Ownership Day in Madison Square Park. He was an incredibly good and patient boy and I [click to continue reading...]
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I’m telling you, Shibas know how to party and it involves a lot of running and a lot of eating. Canine Cocktail Pawty #2 had both and was therefore a big hit. The running is a given when you put a bunch of doggies together in the huge event space at Animal Haven and the doggie eats were DIVINE (according to the masses of dogs surrounding the table anyway) and were provided – as was this photo – by Culinary Crossing. Stay tuned. Pawty #3 is already in the works [click to continue reading...]
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One of my meetup members posted some new photos today from our last meetup and this was in them. Ahhhh…. that’s my beautiful boy. [click to continue reading...]
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The only times I have ever heard Snickers howl have been when I’ve left and gone out without him. He’s OK when I leave for work M-F mornings. He’s sort of OK when I leave at other times and T is here. BUT if I leave unexepectedly at any time that I would (should) be with him and T isn’t here to soothe him… he howls. He doesn’t bark, cry, whimper or scream. He howls. It’s pretty spooky because it sounds like a coyote is in the building, not my [click to continue reading...]
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Today was a Shiba Day. Snick and I went out this morning and he had a good romp at the dog run and then he sat on the bench with me while I had my coffee. We went to his favorite pet store so he could shop. After a few short hours at home, we headed to a Shiba Meetup at the dog run in Chelsea. The meetups are almost always a blast, but they’ve become a lot more fun for me in the past few months as I’ve really [click to continue reading...]
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So, yesterday I spent the day out in New Jersey (AUGH, THE HORROR) at the Shiba Specialty. I got to meet some great Shiba people and was able to love on some awesome Shibas. I learned so much sitting ringside with Kathi Melton of Bali Hai Kennels, watching the 42 Shibas that were entered. I must have been asking her the dumbest questions… I’ve never even BEEN to a dog show before, but she was great. When I got home last night, Snickers was soooo happy to see me. He [click to continue reading...]
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Miss ~T~ has a bean bag in her room. She got it from my folks for Christmas about five years ago. It’s gotten a lot of use -double as much for the 3 years that we’ve had Snickers. The zipper is broken, enough beans have somehow disappeared for it to be about 2/3 it’s original size, the cover is looking sort of worn… you get the idea. So, a week or so ago, we briefly discussed the idea of getting rid of it. It takes up a lot of room [click to continue reading...]
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WOOF! LET’S PLAY!!! I know, I know, I only posted twice in December. Well, my knee is almost healed, the holidays are over, and I caught up on about half of my past due work this long weekend. I logged into Bloglines today to find over 400 posts that needed reading though (eek), so I’m not QUITE caught up on everything yet. As soon as I can stop to breathe, I promise that I will post. My sister took lots of great photos (including the one above of Snick) while [click to continue reading...]
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Snickers Then And Now He’s all grown up and he’s my "heart dog." I never would have guessed that the silly, squiggly, mouthy puppy we brought home back in January 2003 would grow up into such a confident, wonderful adult. He is so self-assured and so loving. He’s reserved with most folks outside the pack, but he turns into such a silly boy when he is greeting one of his favored few (human or canine). There is just so much to love about this guy, I could blog about him [click to continue reading...]
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Snick’s Canine Good Citizen certificate came today. He’s a certified good dog. (Secret, on the other hand is a CDB – canine dumb blonde – but we love her anyway.) Just for fun, here’s a silly picture of Snickers at the dog run a few weeks ago. He had just yawned, I think. I was thinking today about a couple of my favorite Snickers moments that ended up as blog posts. They were: Snicks, The Valiant Hunter (or something), and Shibas are Fierce One of these days when I’m not [click to continue reading...]
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Snickers passed his Canine Good Citizen test today. Yay Snickers!!! We went to the My Dog Loves Central Park Country Fair with our NYC Shiba Inu Meetup group today. He was scheduled to take the CGC test on October 24th but they were doing testing in the park and I thought “what the heck! we’ll take it and fail and know what we need to work on.” So we did, and HE PASSED!!! The one part I thought he might not pass was the “supervised separation” where I have to [click to continue reading...]
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Snickers knew something was up when we left the apartment. He could smell Secret’s kennel in the hallway. He walked so nice with me to Bryant Park, looking up at me at every intersection to make sure I saw how good he was being. When we got to the park, I spotted ~T~ and pointed her out to Snick who made a FAST BEELINE for her across the park. He was most concerned with giving her kisses, but then he wanted to check out Secret. Secret was still a little [click to continue reading...]
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A few days ago, I referred to a photographer, but gave no detail. Well, the detail is that Snickers got to be a model for a day (unpaid, just for fun) for Urban Hund‘s Fall 2006 Collection. The photographer, Kent Henderson, emailed me a few days ago to say that a picture of Snickers made it into the catalog! hee hee! I don’t know if Snick will be on Urban Hund’s website too, but if so, I’ll link to it when the fall collection goes online. In the meantime, click [click to continue reading...]
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A few weeks ago, Snickers had his first sleep over. He goes to the dog run, he has playdates, he goes to doggie daycare, but this was new. His friend, Bean, spent a whole weekend with us! (Bean’s companions – Beth & Jeff – had to go out of town. We were dogsitting.) Snickers and Bean met when they were puppies and they have been fast friends ever since. Bean used to live in our neighborhood, but he moved to Brooklyn, so now we have to coordinate visits. They get [click to continue reading...]
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I guess I forget – because he has such a big personality and heart – but just now I turned the corner into my room and saw Snick sleeping (and shedding) on the corner of my bed and thought “Gee, he’s really quite small.” So, I went over and gave him hugs and snuggles and kisses just for being so cute and wonderful. Of course, that woke him up and put an end to my leisurely afternoon (because now he wants to eat, play, walk, something.) [click to continue reading...]
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The evening of the May 24th – Snickers was acting weird at the dog run – breathing fast, staying right next to me. He was stung by a bee at the run last summer and flies made him nervous after that (till it got cold and they went away), but this was a bit extreme. The morning of the 25th – We were at the dog run and he started looking all around like something was after him and then he started to shiver and shake and whimper and cry. [click to continue reading...]
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I talk to so many people since I got Snickers. (Mostly because tourists are more likely to ask someone with a dog for directions, but also kids that want to know if they can “pet the puppy” and even the random Shiba owner or enthusiast that we run into.) Tonight, as Snick sat in one of his favorite people watching spots, I had a conversation with a nice Japanese lady. She came over to say hello to Snick. She was familiar with Shibas, but when I asked if she’d ever [click to continue reading...]
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Tonight, Snickers got to do something only country dogs usually get to do. He trotted proudly home with a prize held carefully between his teeth. He didn’t exactly hunt this down and kill it, but he certainly proved himself to be capable of procurring dinner. We were outside for our bedtime walk. As we were walking north on 8th Ave we started to pass two ladies carrying identical shopping bags. These weren’t just any shopping bags though; they each had a big picture of a DOG on the side. As [click to continue reading...]
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Shibas? Evil? Never! Um, well… maybe! Talk about evil eyes! (These were taken back in October when Snick’s buddy Toshi was over to play again. No Shibas were actually harmed during this playdate.) [click to continue reading...]
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OK, I know I should be sleeping now, but I’m goofing around with the blog instead. What’s it to you? Sheesh! This was just a few days ago. This is clearly Snickers’ favorite toy. I just HAD to share this. He was furiously playing with his hedgehog one day and then basically just collapsed into a nap with it. And here is Snickers enjoying the brand new conference room at my job last Friday. (I guess this is proof that he’s a good boy. The company just completely renovated and [click to continue reading...]
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After reading Bones Would Rain from the Sky, I have been working on teaching Snickers more self control. It really pays off when he is good at the office! [click to continue reading...]
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I know my Shiba readers will understand. He’s not spoiled. He’s just, um, well loved. First, this is Snick enjoying the king size Sheraton Sweet Sleeper Bed while we were away for the holidays. Second, this is the recipe for Snick’s food. I’m not exactly sure what it says about me that the ONLY time I cook is when I prepare Snick’s food. [click to continue reading...]
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Snick just walked out of the bathroom with a piece of tissue stuck to one paw. I swear, I am not making this up. [click to continue reading...]
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aka How To Stop Traffic in NYC Snick and I just went for a long bedtime walk. We walked and walked and walked. He rounded the corner onto a street he walks on almost every day. There was still some snow there. He started sniffing around and checking it out. All the sudden he started to run back the other way. Then he abruptly stopped, sat, lifted a paw, and started to SCREAM. Have you ever heard the Shiba Scream? No? Well, if you live in my neighborhood and you [click to continue reading...]
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Inu means “dog” in Japanese. I’ve known that for years. Akita Inu, Shiba Inu, etc. What I didn’t know until my mini me and I started researching breeds was that an obsolete meaning of Shiba in Japanese is “small.” When I mentioned to a friend of mine last summer that Shiba Inu means Small Dog, she found it quite funny that when someone asks me “what kind of dog is that?” my answer is “he’s a small dog.” Now, whenever I answer the question, a strange “Who’s On First”-type script [click to continue reading...]
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I still haven’t caught up on my work. I seem to have the developer’s version of writer’s block. Which sucks. A lot. <sigh> Anyway, I just had to catch up on reading a few of my favorite blogs today. I am not going to let myself post (this doesn’t count!), so in the meantime, here is a picture of Snickers politely reminding me moments ago that I can’t go to bed until I cook his next few days worth of food. I think he may have meant “can we go [click to continue reading...]
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I have been awake for 3 hours. I’ve had breakfast with my daughter. I’ve had my first cup of coffee. I’ve probably dropped off, or picked up, my laundry or my dry cleaning. I’ve spent time with at least two of my good friends. I have walked 1.5 miles. I’m usually hungry for my second breakfast already. If we were still sans dog, this list would look like this… I’ve been awake for 45 minutes. I’ve glimpsed my daughter in passing as I stumbled into the shower. I have walked [click to continue reading...]
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My dog – Snick the Dog – He knows the days of the week. I don’t mean that I think he knows the names of the days, but he knows the pattern of the week and he keeps track. He knows that for 4 days I go to work and leave him home, for 1 day he goes to work with me, and then for 2 days I generally stay home and hang out with him. On normal Friday mornings, when we leave the dog run, he trots purposefully past [click to continue reading...]
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Lunch Break Blogging: It is almost 2:00 PM and I have spent my entire day so far working on one friggin computer that suddenly decided to stop booting up. I’ve had a VP in Investment Banking computerless all day and it looks like I’m going to have to reformat c:. <sigh> I’m running some last ditch effort diagnostics right now while I eat a hamburger for lunch. I am catching up on a little blog-reading while I eat and test and a blog post about Dakota, a Shiba puppy in [click to continue reading...]
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It’s raining today, so Snick has his buddy Toshi over to play. Watching them race maniacally around my apartment reminded me that I never posted pictures from the last time Toshi came over. So… with no further ado, my favorite pair of Double Trouble Shibas. [click to continue reading...]
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OK, this is a quick post from work (BAD ME), but I just could NOT help myself. Snick comes to work with me almost every Friday. Since half the office was out for Rosh Hashana today, he got to come for an extra day this week! I keep a fleece mat in my desk and unroll it for him when he’s here. He’s so cute snuggled up napping under my desk, that I had to take his picture. (Although, I only had my phone to take it with, so isn’t [click to continue reading...]
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I couldn’t help myself. This is one of Snick’s puppy pictures that the breeder sent us when he was just a teeny baby. And THIS was a week or two after we brought him home. [click to continue reading...]
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… a FAT SHIBA? Snickers is very food motivated, so I have to be careful that he doesn’t get FAT when we’re working on learning a new behavior. [click to continue reading...]
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Since it was so BRUTALLY hot when Snick and I went out this morning, he decided to spend the rest of his day like this… [click to continue reading...]
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Everyone asks why I didn’t kick the guy back. I HAD TO CHECK ON SNICKERS. By the time I knew he was OK (perfectly fine, just a bit befuddled), the jerk was almost a block away. Besides, all that really mattered to me was taking Snick home and giving him lots of extra snuggly love. [click to continue reading...]
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Who goes to someone else’s city and kicks their dog??? Apparently, American tourists do. [click to continue reading...]
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Shibas are such regal little dogs and they usually have nice, exotic sounding names. One of Snick’s Shiba friends is named Toshi and another is named Kaleo. People (well, adults at least) look at me a little sideways when they ask his name and I tell them "Snickers." But what can I do? T and a committee of her friends picked his name. I suppose I had veto power, but who can veto the name a 10 year old picks for her first puppy?!? His registered name is actually Kawakirei [click to continue reading...]
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I was at Snickers’ girlfriend’s apartment early this afternoon saying (to her owner, not to her) how much work I need to get done this weekend and as I was saying it I realized that my entire weekend so far has been about the dog… doing stuff for and with the dog. Yesterday, Snick and I left home at 10:30 AM. We ran errands, we went to the dog run, we went to the pet store, we dropped stuff off at home, and then we went to Brooklyn to see [click to continue reading...]
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It’s not like I have nothing else to say or talk about. I have a fairly interesting life… at least I think maybe I do. The dog has a way of getting me involved with people I wouldn’t otherwise know or spend time with it. It has turned out to be an GREAT side effect of having him. A few weeks ago, a group of friends took 7 of our dogs to Echo Lake Park in NJ and spent the afternoon hanging out and letting the dogs play. We took [click to continue reading...]
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OK, my DOG has play dates. My daughter didn’t go on play dates… well, not until she was old enough to arrange them herself! I’m not sure how this happened; Snickers and his doggie pals are obviously colluding to influence our behavior. And they say Shibas aren’t social! The picture on the left is Snickers and his girlfriend Ill Nana. The one on the right is him and his best buddies, Bean. Bean’s mom Beth took that one. [click to continue reading...]
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Snickers is the best little dog. This first picture is from a couple months ago. I just remembered it and had to post it. He jumps up on the cushions and watches the cars and people on the avenue below our apartment. When he was smaller, he thought they were something small to be chased and eaten. (I think, from the way he barked.) Now he seems to understand that he’s looking at the same place he goes when we go downstairs and walk outside. This one was today. That’s [click to continue reading...]
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The photo that started it all. This past Saturday, I went to Bryant Park to take some pictures for a website I was working on (Bryant Park Capital). My daughter and her puppy, Snickers, went with me and I ended up with this great picture of him! At some point that day, I decided I wasn’t a half-bad photographer and today I decided I need somewhere to post pictures. So, there you go… now you know why this blog is here. [click to continue reading...]
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