About the Shiba
Taro is a small, red, male shiba from PHX. He was born November 2008 and was adopted from Shiba Inu Rescue Association by Kai & Tra in July 2009. Don't let his slight stature fool you; he is an experienced practitioner of Shiba Mind Control. He loves socks, balls, sticks and pinecones, and volunteers twice a month at memory care and rehabilitation facilities.
my humans know that i don’t need a halloween costume.
why is that, you ask? i’ll give you not one, but two reasons:
- if they put a costume on me, i’m likely to lawyer up and sue for all the pain and distress caused by what i consider to be cruelty to this animal, and
- a costume is unnecessary as i am capable of portraying many roles sans costume.
among other things, i’ve been known to be:
a ghost
a football player
a flautist
a jedi or a monk
a prison inmate
a scholar
a lumberjack
a west-coast stoner
a hungover dog
(on flickr & in the book ‘animals with hangovers’)
a soccer player
an ikea-made, stuffed-animal version of taro shiba
& a zombie taro shiba!
clearly, no costume necessary for this pooch. but, even if you’re wearing a costume or if you put one on your pooch, i hope you all have a happy and safe halloween!
(taro shiba jack-o-lantern on flickr)
