The horrors of the backyard.

On Saturday April 14th my beloved Aizen joined his brother Tosen in heaven. He was a strong boy and fought to stay alive up until the end. I can't even begin to express my pain or the emptiness I feel without my Little Aizen and Tosen nipping at my heels. Everywhere I turn I see something that reminds me of them and their happy Shiba smile. Every now and again I still hear their little howls and yips to get my attention and find myself looking around for them.

After Tosen passed I began some detective work and discovered that our new wonderful house with it's lush wooded back yard isn't quite the heaven I wanted it to be. In it I've found at least 4 poisonous plants all very deadly.

The Vet had said that Renji and Buddha had been poisoned by something like rat poison, and being as our neighbor had said that prior to us moving in the property had been treated. But now the same symptoms appear and it's been a year, the poison should all have been washed away.

Alex came to me asking if the pups were poisoned had I considered by plants, because everyone had seen them eating them several times. So I began researching the plants and weeds in my back yard thoroughly. I suspect that this is indeed what has killed my pups.

Because of my ignorance I have lost a total of 4 shiba babies. I had no idea what any of those plants were before or what they did. I had grown up around them all my life and never thought one thing about them.

I ask all of my readers if you have pets that go outside or even children, please research the weeds and plants around your homes. Even something as simple as a buttercup can be and is deadly.

Aizen & Tosen

Rest in peace my little Angels, we may not be able to hold and cuddle you

but you will always be with us in our hearts.

            01.01.12 - 04.14.12

Tragedy Strikes again...

I mournfully announce that Tousen passed away this morning... Symptoms began to appear a couple days ago. He just didn't seem like himself. But I was not too concerned with it, until yesterday when I noticed that his feces was mostly blood. Then I got worried. We wouldn't have had the money to take him to the vet until this afternoon but that was not sufficient.

Now Aizen has had me up all night with him vomiting. I think it may have something to do with the de-wormer medication I gave him. But I fear he may have the same thing Tousen did. I'll see how he's doing when the sun comes up and I can call the vet.

The guys and I have been going over what could possibly be wrong with them. The symptoms are similar to that of what Renji and Buddha suffered from. Which makes me think that there is something poisonous in my back yard. A plant or something.

Easter Shiba

The shiba's had a wonderful Easter this year. I wanted to make them each their own Easter baskets and get them their own Easter bunnies but I ran out of time trying to plan the whole event. But there is always next year.

The shiba's loved their first Easter bone hunt anyway. I bought a box of milk bones the ones that have all the different flavors and colors and hid them around the house. All of the shiba's ran wild trying to race each other to the next bone. Is was so adorable.

Tien'kou found the most bones, but that was mostly because Aizen and Tousen thought that they were supposed to bring the bones back to me. It was so sweet, they would find a bone, run over drop it at my feet and then race to get the next bone. But then, Tien would run up, grab the bone they had dropped at my feet and go and hide it under the table. So the pup's didn't get very many of the hidden bones. But because they were all so sweet and asked so nicely I gave in and let me have all the milkbones they wanted. They even got to eat a few easter egg (hard boiled of course.)