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Meet Kita

One week from tomorrow we will be welcoming Kita into our home! We still miss Coco and Honey very much, and they will never be forgotten, but we have agreed as a family that we are ready to bring a new love into our lives. Coco and Honey were both rescues, but I was ready to adopt a puppy from a breed that I have long admired: a Shiba Inu. We have settled on the name Kita for this beautiful creature. She is just under seven-weeks-old in the picture here---taken for us by her breeder---and she'll be joining our family next Saturday, September 9. (Click the photo to go to the Flickr set I've created just for Kita.)

Shibas are from the same bloodline as Akitas, and in fact many people think of them as small versions of Akita's but with more than Akita-sized attitudes! To truly appreciate the Shiba, whose puppies the dogs' own national organization refers to as "fiery little furballs from hell", you have to get to know their personality. If you're interested, here's a brief description from the National Shiba Club of America, and here is an amusing tribute from a Shiba owner that is well worth the read! (Note that the latter link contains a small bit of PG and R rated language.)

I will post more pictures and tell more about her when she finally joins us next week. We've been waiting for almost five weeks now, and we are finding it hard to be patient!

Posted by Ron Pacheco at September 1, 2006 07:04 PM