Shiba Surprise

The independent Shiba Inu will keep you on your toes.

Koshou wanted his brand-new furry tug toy -- and he wanted it badly. But the Shiba Inu’s uncooperative human, Mary E. of Illinois. had decided to save the toy for agility training. So she tucked the coveted plushy back into its box and set the box on the kitchen table. Mary then removed the chairs, mopped the floor, and took a nap while it dried. “I woke up an hour later to find Koshou happily chewing on his new toy,” she recalls with a chuckle. “Somehow he’d pushed a chair back into the kitchen so he could climb onto the table!”

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