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Tonight Mathias had a friend over and they played Rockband on the TV. I have to say I like when I hear music. If it comes from Mathias guitarr, the Tv or Sandra's singing doesn't matter. I could sit, or lay for hours and just relax.

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Fishballs

Me and Sandra just got back from another activitywalk but we did it by our own this time. I walked on a stonewall, jumped up on a table, walked over a big fallen tree and it was really easy with Sandra there to help me. Her secret weapon was fishballs! Or... Salmonballs I think. They are delicious. I would do anything for a salmonball. Yum yum yum.

Today we went on a daycruise to Uppsala, Sandras former hometown. She says it's healthy to breath Uppsala-air once in a while. We ate at Max and met Sandras old friend Johanna. She just had to see me since she'd heard so much about me. She was stunned of my beauty of course.

On our way home Sandra took the wrong way so we spent an extra hour in the car but it didn't matter much since I love to be with Sandra and Mathias. They where listening to music and singing... the singing they could have left out though.

Goodnight

Shaping up

Now, Paula had to reassure Sandra and Mathias that my "behaviour" is pretty normal for a dog in his best years, in the time of bitches in heat. (They never had a dog before, only bitches) I know I have been a bit... how should I say... hard to live with for this past week but I just can't keep it in. I just love the little bitches out there and when they call for me... oh my, oh my, oh my!

But I will try not to whine so much, and try to relax some more. But I'm telling you, Sandra and Mathias, this is very normal! Listen to Paula!



Btw, they took down the gates since they wasn't too keen on me getting braver and braver. They are going to get a solid gate but it is fairly expensive. Well, they can't keep me from the front door yet, so I guess we are going to try something else.

OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe this! This is totally outrageous! Look what they've done!

They've made these weird green things move and sound whenever I touch them.

I'm so frustrated and upset right now. I never thought they would win over me. I'm now laying in the kitchen, far away from Sandra. Oh I'm soooo upset!

Activity walk

The walk today was really interesting! We first met up with the other participants at the Petshop and then we headed off. We were about 6 dogs and our first mission was to jump up and walk on a stone wall. This was really easy for me since I love to jump up on things and walk around. The catch on this one was that I couldn't do anything without Sandra telling me to. I was in a good mode today so I let her make the calls.

The next mission was to balance on top of another stonewall. This was really though since there wasn't a plain surface to walk on, it was big rocks! Sandra guided me through it but she had some help with small pieces of candy. They really kept me motivated!

We did a couple of "stay"-"go ahead" excercises as well. They both included hiding a little bit of candy and then I had to wait for Sandra to say: "Go ahead" before I could take it. I have to say I was really good at this and could tell from Sandras happy voice that she thought so as well.

The last thing we did was going in and out of... well, was what was it... the thing you put your bike in? Anyway, I had to go below the upper one, and over the one near the ground. Do you get it?

Now I'm a bit tired but I thought the walk was really fun and I hope we participate next time as well!

Like a game

Sandra and Mathias have been experimenting with gates today. I actually feel a bit sad for them when they put in all the effort of making a solid gate, and then I just ram it. They usually put it away after a while and tries to figure out something new. I can tell, they are never going to find anything that can hold me in. I am the master of breaking out, I am the KING of breaking out! I'm just to smart for them, poor Sandra and Mathias.

My morning routine

I usually sleep until ten minutes to eight. Then I give up this shibascream which creates an interesting effect on Sandra and Mathias. They kind of jump out of bed, disoriented and half asleep. It is always funny to watch. Then I get some tellling-off. However, I only do this because at ten to eight I really need to go out, so, instead of waking them up at six, as I did in the beginning, I am now very nice to them. But I think they realize that.

Feeling blue

I don't know what is going on with me today. I'm feeling a bit unmotivated and a bit down. Sandra tried to cheer me up by taking me for a run outside. I enjoyed stretching my legs but I got tired afterwards. I think there are a lot of fertile ladies outside and maybe it is my hormones that is making me low today.

Anyway, I tried to cheer me and Mathias and Sandra up by making their bed. They have a lot of pillows which are really fun to play with. So I am now in a much better mood.

Those stupid humans

As I told you earlier I learned how to ram the gate into the hallway. I was very proud of that but Sandra and Mathias wasn't. So today, when I jumped over the gate a couple of times (I bet I would be really good at Agility) they asked Paula for some advice on how to handle it. She gave them the advice to put me in a closed area where I couldn't reach the gate. Two times they put me in there and then let me out about 10 minutes later.

I decided to teach them a lesson, again (lot of lessons for these humans to learn). I went and lay down in front of the gate without even touching it. Sandra and Mathias were thrilled! They gave me lots of cred for it. But when Mathias took the leash and wanted to go out for a walk I just stayed in my place. Just in front of the gate so he couldn't open it. -What do you say now, HUH? He tried to call me, bribe me, anything but I didn't move a bit. After a while both Sandra and Mathias bursted out with laughter. -Okey baby boy, you made your point, Sandra laughed. After this I stood up and let Mathias put on the leash.

I guess there will be no more sending me away from the gate. VICTORY! Bet this will teach them not to teach ME!

Glassy streets

Ususally we go for at least one long walk everyday but nowadays it is to slippery outside. Even I, who have claws, have troubles walking outside. Well, we will just have to put up with it and go for short walks for a while and then, when the streets clear up we can take our long walks again.

Some new pictures

Gases

Sandra worked all night yesterday, again! She didn't come home until three in the morning. I was really upset with her. I want all of my family to be home when I go to sleep. When she finally got home and went to bed I just had to get my revenge. I lay down with my behind towards her and then I farted, not only once but TWICE. She wasn't to happy about that but I hope she learnt her lesson.

Ps. I learnt how to ram the gate to our hallway. Moahahahaha

Family's visiting

Tonight we are acompanied by Sandras youngest brother and his girlfriend. Mathias, on the other hand has a night off tonight. He's at Heron City with a friend, watching a movie. He said something about it would get to crowded in the sofa with four adults. Well... appearently Sandra thinks it is to crowded with three persons in the sofa: Everytime I jump up she tells me to jumo down again. I think this is very rude since I actually live here. I think Jimmy and Carro should be sitting on the floor... if it's so little room in the sofa, I mean.

Well... no hard feelings. I guess they should sit in the sofa, they are, afterall, our guests... and I'm just a simple dog. Great looking, simple dog, that is ;-)

Shiba in Strängnäs

Today we went downtown again to purchase a leather collar for me and a dogtag. When we where heading to buy some burgers for Mathias and Sandra we saw a red Shiba Inu. The dog's owner moved to the other side of the road before we met. I wonder who it was. Anyone who knows?

When we where in the dogshop Sandra signed us up for an Activity walk next thursday. There are only five dogs in each group and we walk across town and does som activity excercises like jumping and crawling. Sandra thought it would be fun for me since I'm such an active dog. But we'll see, we'll take i slow.

Sleepy people

Both Sandra and Mathias have a bad habbit of sleeping to long in the mornings. I like the mornings and the morningwalks, they are the best. That's why I want to get up as soon as possible, mostly around six. Sandra and Mathias usually makes me wait until seven at least, and then takes me out. But when we get back THEY get right back to sleep some more! I can't accept this! Usually I give them a lesson by jumping onto the bed and walk around on top of them. They normaly wake up, but if they don't, right away, I'm ready to bark at them.

One good thing happend today. The famous and talented young actor Heath Ledger that died exacly one years ago today got nominated for an Oscars for his amazing role as the Joker in the new Batman movie "The Dark Knight". I really hope he wins.

Bad weather

I've spend most of the day inside becuase of the bad weather today. I don't mind if it's too cold or too windy but when it's wet and rainy I rather stay inside. The thing is, when my fur and paws is wet, Mathias and Sandra wants dry them with a towel, I don't like it, I don't like it at all. Everytime it comes to drying my paws I try to tell them I don't want them to touch them, but they don't care and continues to use the towel on me anyway. I guess I have to surrender.

Sandra wants me to write that I made a majestic jump onto to sofa tonight. Straight up in the air over the highest point of the sofa. Sandra got so surprised she made a little scream.

Paula's visit

I forgot to tell you about my visitors yesterday. Paula and her sister came to see me! I was really glad to see Paula again, after all, we spent my first days in Sweden together. Her sister was also very nice!

I really had a good time when they where here, all the cuddling and attention... I loved it! But then I got a bit frustrated at Paula. She decided I needed to trim my claws. I didn't agree at all and tried to tell her not to cut them. But she wouldn't listen to me. I tried with everything: Snarl, bark. I also tried to get some help from Mathias or Sandra but they just stood there: Well, Sandra was holding me so she couldn't do much though. Well. Despite this little incident I still fancy Paula.

A very good day, I say.

Shiba in the window

Today we went to celibrate Mathias grandmother. I don't know what age she is, but she is old. We didn't go inside since Mathias and Sandra thought there were too many people inside and I might feel awkward. I don't know what they where thinking. I love humans! And they love me!

Now I'm sitting in the window, just looking out for cats or dogs. Sandra is laying just below me and that makes it a bit difficult to jump down, so I just use her as a springboard. I can't really tell if she's okay with it because first she goes: Ouuuffff! And then she laughs at me. I decide she likes it.

Feeling better

This morning when I woke up I felt much much better. I was actually in such a good mood I let Mathias sleep till half past eight. But when I got back I jumped into the bed to wake Sandra and then no one was allowed to sleep anymore. I played with Sandra for a while. I'm really gotting the hang of playing with humans now. I really enjoy a good playtime.

Tomorrow Paula is coming to visit. I am going to tidy things up around here till then. Or, Mathias is going to do that since Sandra is working again. But I don't think he knows about it yet.. haha.

A bit ill

Today I have been feeling a bit ill. Mathias has been a bit worried since Sandras been at work whole day and whole evening so he called Paula who told him it was probably nothing to worry about. Sometimes dogs eat bad things, but as long as I'm lively and curious I should do fine.

Sandra says I seem just as happy as always and I don't feel ill anymore, so I hope it was just for today. Now I'm going to sleep. Goodnight!

One week

I have now been living with Sandra and Mathias for 7 days, 4 hours and 31 minutes, and I have to say I like it here. I have lots of space, great food, long walks and best of all: two persons who loves me unconditionally! Life is great!

Fieldtrip to Sthlm

I just got home from a very interesting daytrip. We went to see Sandras father, his wife and their baby; The golden retriever Ronja.

I was very excited to meet her and play a little but judge from my surprise when this uptight little lady barked me into place. I just wanted to sniff her behind, like normal dogs do, but she wouldn't let me. Well, I thought she was a bit scary so I decided to try again later, when we went for a walk, but it was the same response.

I guess I have to learn not to be so energetic when it comes to girls.

Besides this I hade a great time. There where a lot of new things to smell and see. We got to borrow a doggame from Sandras father. I haven't tried it yet since I'm quite tired so I'm gonna try it with Sandra tomorrow.

Bye for now

Sandra is writing...

Kuro has been making snarls and barks this evening with no particular reason. He just lays there, sleeping, suddenly he starts snarling and then a couple of barks. He doesn't even get up. He just lifts his head.

This is new to us since he has been a very quiet dog so far. But hey, it's charming!

Guitars

Yesterday, Mathias opened a door to a new room in our house and showed me one of his guitars. I can't remember I've seen one of these things before. Mathias told me that they are used to make music which he loves to do. I thought they where kind of scary so I took it cautious while exploring them. Guitars are big and I think they sound strange, maybe there's something wrong with Mathias guitars, or maybe he's just a bad guitarplayer.

Long walk with Sandra

Today me and Sandra went for a very long walk again. This time she knew exactly where we were all the time. Or at least she behaved like it. We went on for hours in the woods and at one point we actually saw really, really big dogs. They had very very large paws, but no claws. They had hair all way down their necks. And their tails looked like large ponytails. I recall the correct name for these big dogs is Horses.

I was pretty tired when we got back so I have just been sleeping since then.

What's the big deal?

We had a salesperson visiting us tonight. He was at the same age as Sandra and Mathias and he was very nice. He sat down in the sofa and spoke to Sandra and Mathias about a yearbook with all the news from 2007. I thought it was pretty boring so I went back to sleep. This was apparently a good things since Sandra said I was a good dog. I guess she said that cause I didn't pay any attention to the salesman, but why should I... he was boring and was not talking to me at all. Well, I'm glad it pleased my family.

Booooring

Sandra and Mathias where really really boring this morning. First I had to whine for a long time before Sandra even woke up. I mean come ON. It was half past six, what on earth is she still doing in bed one might ask. Well, she took me out for a walk and I got to relieve myself.

Judge from my surprise when she went back to sleep again! This was not something I agreed to so I decided to teach them a little lesson. I jumped up onto the bed, stumbled over Sandra and finally took a big jump right on Mathias stomach. He made a funny noise and looked like he had been hit by a truck or something. Talking about overdoing it. It was just little innocent me.

Well, they didn't get up so I decided not to waste anymore energy on them. Boring people.

Sandra is writing...

I just had to take some time to tell everyone who might be reading this how lucky me and Mathias are to have Kuro in our lives. He is a remarkable shiba which draws attention wherever we might go. He is extremely friendly and very playful.

I can also announce that the diciplinprogram, which we started this afternoon, already is showing. He doesn't rush out the door whenever we open it and he jumps down from the sofa when we ask him to. Okay, I have to be honest... he is very tired due to the long walk earlier today but I really want to believe that he understood what was asked of him because he is a very intelligent Shiba Inu.

I can honestly say that this little doggie has really become a vital part of our lives and we hope he will achieve great results in 2009's dogshows.

So tired, and what is Sandra up to?

I just got back from a two hour walk. And I am soooo tired. We went over the bridge, followed the water around a small islet and then to the store where Mathias got some treats for tonight. I didn't get any though, but that's okay. After all, I'm really really tired after the walk, you know, there is so much to keep an eye on so most of the time I'm exhausted when I get back from walks. Today is definitly no exception. I met a very nice human on the walk, Sara. She is friends with Sandra AND she has a dog of her own. I didn't get to meet her dog today, but we will schedule a meeting soon.

Sandra did something really weird when she was giving me my food tonight. She held on to it and had me to stand still before I got my food. She then sat right next to me when I ate. I didn't get the reason why she did this but I didn't pay much attention to her when I finally had the food in my mouth. It tasted great. Insted of wholegrain rice I get basmatirice. This i prefer since it is more aromatic and tastier.

Now, back to sleep.

Ps. Sandra looked rather pleased when I ate my food, so I guess I did something right.

Relaxation

I'm really getting used to living with Sandra and Mathias. I like the apartment and the neighbourhood. There are a lot of dogs in our building but so far I have only met one of them, the sassy little Aussiegirl. There is also a large rottweiler and an alsacian and some other dogs I don't know the breed of.

From my livingroom I can stand on my backlegs and see out the windows. I see a lot from the 3rd floor and sometimes I get really excited when I see another dog, or a cat.

This evening I've been laying on the floor, just taking it slow, half sleeping. It's really nice to just relax sometimes. No, I'm going to go back to sleeping in front of the television. Good night.

A phonecall

Sandras phone rang earlier today and when she put on the speakers I heard this very familiar voice. I tried to concentrate to try and figure out who was speaking. And then I realised: it was Paula! I was very happy to hear her voice again since I miss her and Daniel. Lucky for me I overheard her and Sandra discussing a visit by Paula and April at my new home.

I'm really looking forward to it.

A nice day

This morning Sandra took me for a long walk in the woods. It is kind of exciting to walk in these woods because they look a bit different compared to those in Japan, hmm... maybe not, but they feels different. We ended up getting lost and walked around for an hour before we got back home where I found a new friend: an Australian Terrier.

Later, around noon, Mathias followed us into the same woods for another walk and this time we didn't get lost at all, in fact, we found a very nice path to walk on.

Sandra and Mathias has changed the position for the gate which is supposed to keep me away from the door. The gate is now located so that I can't reach nor the frontdoor or the bathroom. Unfortunatly, since Sandra is very short, she can't either. She has already broken her favourit pair of trousers. Well, that's what happens when you try to prevent a shiba from going wherever it likes. Heeheehee.

Bad teddy!

All of you who have met me know that I'm a calm and very happy shiba, and this morning I was on my way of picking out my favourite teddybear from Sandra and Mathias bed. There where four of them so you can see how challenging it was for me.














Suddenly, out of nowhere ( Well, I might have shook one of the bears) a large snarl reached my ears. "Oh my god, one of the bears (probably the one I shook) is attacking me" was my first thought. I tried to teach the bear some manners by barking angrily at it. It snarled three times and then stopped. That's when I got my chance. I jumped onto the bear and tried to kill it. But it kept snarling at me and I got more and more confused. "Why didn't it stop?" Sandra and Mathias stood behind me, laughing. Soooo impolite in my opinion.

Well, since I am a noble shiba I decided I didn't want to waste any more energy on that cheeky bear. Stupid bear.

Arrival

I'm sorry that I haven't posted anything for a couple of days, I've been busy. Yesterday I finally arrived at my new home at Sandra and Mathias and spend most of the evening exploring. They got an exciting big screen TV which is cool. At first I thought there were actually humans in there.

They also got a lot of carpets which are very fun to play around with. I'm taking it slow and careful but I think I'm gonna enjoy it here.

Oh, I almost forgot! Mathias gave me a large flag which represents my home country which he put up on the wall behind my bed, it's a Japanese flag and it's absolutely great.

I'm in Sweden!

Aah, I am finally here. I have not yet reached my final destination but I'm doing just fine here at Paula and Daniel's. They let me out in their backyard and I found my first toy: A large ball which belongs to Kuro I. Unfortunately it broke when I got too excited. Hopefully I will be on my way to Sandra and Mathias when Kuro I notices the broken ball.

Swedish weather

I wonder how it will be in Sweden. Are the people friendly? Will dogs I meet be nice to me? Will I even understand what they say, the humans that is, of course. Dog language I do know how to speak since all dogs share the same language. Shiba Inus are amongst the best dogs when it comes to speaking "dog". That is very cool I think! Hopefully my new caretakers know how to understand dogs, at least.

Wait a minute, I heard it was freezing cold over there. Is this true?

Packing my belongings

On Tuesday, 6th, I will be put in my cage and shipped abroad to my new home. This is a bit scaring but mostly I'm excited! This is my chance to shine and Sweden is the country to do it in. From what I've heard there are'nt too many b/t shibamales with my unique and gorgeous appearance.

Oh! I also have my very first frequent blogvisitor. Sweet Hailey have decided to subscribe to my blog. This is good news for me since I've heard she is a really beautiful b/t shibagirl.

My first footprint

Hello there everybody. Soon this blog will contain a lot of interesting happenings. Mostly about me and my new family in sweden, but also about dogshows and other happy events.