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~ a basenji, a shiba, and their human companions

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Category Archives: Signs of the Beast Bay

Looking forward at day’s end

03 Saturday May 2014

Posted by M.C. in Bowdu the shiba inu, Bowpi the basenji, Observations & opinions, Signs of the Beast Bay

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dog parks, off leash, sunset

I finally snapped a picture that I like enough to place as a new blog header. When I first activated this WordPress theme [Chateau], I don’t think there was an option to randomize header photos. Now that I know there is such a function, this is one I’m throwing into the mix:

20140502 Looking forward at day's end

Confession: This shot was taken at one of our most frequented parks, in an area currently under contest. After years of trouble-free use, the commission in charge has decided to act on seemingly arbitrary grounds and declare this specific area a leashed zone.

This came as a surprise to the vast majority of canine-accompanied visitors who, like me, have always found it an off leash area.

After numerous meetings both public and private, new signage, vandalized signage, posted bulletins, letter writing campaigns, Facebook quibbling, and some of the typical sniping that accompanies dog-centric kerfluffles, consensus seems to be carry on in a respectful manner. The park has no power to enforce its own policies, let alone maintain the grounds in accordance with the original guidelines they laid out decades ago for the use of this off-leash area.

We at the House of Two Bows advocate healthy, safe, and responsible sharing of public grounds. This includes abiding by posted leash laws, learning to share with other patrons who are there to respect and enjoy the environment …

20140502 Bowpi-sunset1

… and also recognizing that sometimes, the pathways formed by the habits of hundreds of thousands of human and canine footsteps really do make more sense than the rigid boundaries drawn by a few forgotten rulemakers.

Bowpi-sunset2

Such is the “natural” evolution of public, community space.

Roll of 28, Day 27: Ecological contemplation

27 Thursday Feb 2014

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graffiti, public art, roll of 28

This morning, I helped play tour guide to a couple of international visitors who are in town. As eco-activists in their own country who are very much concerned with landfills, land use rights, and ocean ecology, they wanted to check out one of the East Bay construction dumping grounds that is currently a contested site between the local parks and recreation bureaus, public artists, and homeless squatters.

Dogs are part of the landscape here as well, though this is one of the parks on the Bows’ list of parks we don’t go to anymore, because Bowdu started behaving very uneasily off leash, to the point where he was refusing to follow along even with high value food bribes. Consequently, it’s been over a year and a half since we’d been through. I wondered if Bowdu would still be freaky about it.

The answer was yes. After a quick poop off leash, Bowdu was ready to boycott entry again, so I had to reattach him and only then was he willing to follow along. Bowpi, however, enjoyed off leash privileges since she was behaving.

This site changes all the time. Today, I was closer to understanding Bowdu’s unease. The homeless squats had proliferated, while much of the art and color had been depleted. Even the anarchist library had disappeared; after I got home, I found out that it had been vandalized and burned down a little over a month ago. In its place was fresh garbage, not the construction debris that has always been there, and sprawling encampments. At least a couple very territorial dogs charged and gave us all a scare.

Bowdu’s nervousness is completely justified. Something here feels off kilter in a way I fail to describe with words, yet Bowdu clearly knows. I don’t expect to come back anytime soon, unless at the behest of another round of visitors.

Roll of 28, Day 23: Too much acreage for one panorama

23 Sunday Feb 2014

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canine body language, dog parks, roll of 28

Too much acreage for one Panorama
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I was catching up on one of my favorite dog blogs, Do You Believe in Dog, because the most recent post on dog park aggression caught my eye.

An excerpt from Julie Hecht’s post:

    For dog owners, “aggression” doesn’t have to be this strange, unknown, out-of-the-blue thing. You don’t have to wait until your hand is bitten to learn about aggression. Heck, we could even argue that we learn less about aggression and conflict through actual experience. Ever hear anybody say: “OOOOoh! Now I get it! I now clearly see all the things that led up to that dog biting that other dog’s ear off. I will certainly not miss it next time”? To an untrained eye, witnessing conflict is usually very upsetting and scary, not something where you walk away with a deeper understanding of what actually went down or how it could have been avoided.

One reason I continue to advocate for the idea of dog parks, if not always the execution or the actual construction (cf. The Dog parks we don’t go to anymore) is because in an increasingly leashed world, dog parks are sites where I, as an average, conscientious dog owner, have learned much about both canine behavior and human social behavior as related to dog responsibility. The latter is the subject of an article by sociologist Patrick Jackson, “Situated activities in a dog park,” Society and Animals 20 (2012): 254-272. The article is also the target of some ire from The Science Dog, who reviewed it in depth.

I don’t have a lot of time to go into details at the moment, and I have yet to read the original article. At any rate, the professional reactions to the article and some of the follow-up responses are provocative to me. For one thing, I’m disappointed that articles like Jackson’s, based on case studies or anecdotal experience (which is also always regionally and culturally delimited), are often used to reinforce broad anti-dog park biases, especially when it’s very difficult to cast any incidences of “aggression” in a positive light. Secondly, when I peep in on conversations about dog parks, I am often struck by how people aren’t even talking about the same type of space; dog parks are as varied as parks in general. Hell, even I can’t claim consistency with what I call a dog park, as I could apply the same word to a variety of spaces within my own county — from the unfenced, multi-acre terrains as pictured above in today’s Roll of 28 post, to narrow concrete runs underneath noisy freeway bridges, to mulched and landscaped yet still claustrophobic, contained plots of land in the middle of a residential neighborhood.

Third, I often wish there was a better way to steer humans towards individual responsibility and education, instead of automatically presenting dog parks as spaces where ignorance inevitably breeds. That’s why I appreciated Do You Believe in Dog’s perspective. As indicated in the above quote, if humans are as much the problem as their dogs (if not more!), then human training is necessarily in order. Fittingly, they include a good stash of links on reading canine behavior towards the bottom of the post (as they include carefully selected resources with every post — one of the reasons this is one of my favorite dog blogs).

Though it sounds like Jackson was a bit too impartial in his ethnographic analysis to make room for much agency in dog park human behavior, I will credit his statement that canine behavior “may only be gained through experience.” That is, if such “experience” includes coupling retrospective assessments of aggressive incidences along with active engagement in observing and understanding dog behavior. One can, I believe, reflect back and anticipate forward progress at the same time, specifically when it comes to learning more about how to live with our own dogs.

Many happy returns

22 Monday Jul 2013

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I often wonder how many dogs have to pee on a post, and for how long, in order to transform it to this…

Many happy returns

We frequently pass this lovely specimen at one entrance to the most popular off-leash dog park in the East Bay. One month, I tracked our average number of daily dog interactions, typically counting about 40 dogs on a “slow” day and over 70 on a busier afternoon at this particular park. And that’s just what we see — a mere fraction of actual visitors per day.

Not all of them go through this gate, but virtually every one that does has to ah, toss a few cents into the donation bin, if you will.

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Roll of 28, Day Twenty: Caught in the open

20 Wednesday Feb 2013

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Roll of 28, Day Twenty: Caught in the open

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Roll of 28, Day Ten: Unsafe at any speed

10 Sunday Feb 2013

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20130210 Roll of 28, Day Ten: Unsafe at any speed

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The Dog parks we don’t go to anymore

16 Monday Jul 2012

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aggression, bay area, belgian tervuren, canine body language, dog bites, dog parks, dog play, food aggression, pit bulls, san francisco bay area, shiba inu, socialization, stupid pet owners

I’m addicted to dog parks.

Does one admit “addiction” to anything other than ill habits? I’ve often felt defensive about this dangerous love if only because discussions about dog parks tend to focus on their negatives — you could get yourselves killed at these places, for God’s sake! The way I see it, every dog park is beholden to specific contexts, moments, and patrons, because they are, by definition, spaces carved out of some kind of community. Rejection of dog parks is not so much a pronouncement of their inherent evilness, but more a rejection of the types of sociality that accompany them — which is fine, as neither human nor dog can be expected to socialize in the same ways. But unlike some more extreme critics of dog parks, I’m less likely to blame the park itself than the people who designed it and established patterns of antisocial use in the first place.

Now, what I call a “dog park” includes many different arrangements. For me, it’s any public space that permits the presence of dogs, ideally off leash. Some are fenced, some are designed with dogs specifically in mind and thus equipped, some are multi-functional areas that just happen to allow dogs, perhaps in designated or segregated spaces. At any rate, we have many to choose from here in the San Francisco Bay Area:

Dog parks in the East Bay (from DogGoes.com)

How do you choose, when not all options are created equal? Experiences will vary according to you, your dog, the time of day, the way the air smells at the moment… point is, I don’t know that I can generalize. I just have stories and experiences and a handful of lessons learned through repetition and observation.

Stories behind a jump for length and pictures of bruises and punctures and pain.
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LINKS: Bay Area Shiba Blogs

21 Monday May 2012

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bay area, northern california, san francisco bay area, shiba blogs, shiba inu

While things are “slow” here at the House of Two Bows (still got enough shorter, pre-drafted posts to maintain our M-W-F schedule!), I thought I’d spread some link love by sharing other Bay Area and Northern California Shiba Inu blogs. For whatever reason, we are a strangely cohesive, social networking-oriented breed community.

In no particular order…

5 May 2012 Bowdu meets Maya

Eat, Play, Love: Maya the (Long-haired) Shiba (above! and at the very bottom of this post)

Sinjin the Shiba Wanderer, with Sienna

Demon Dog: Prince Zuko’s blog

Suki, canine sidekick of professional photographer Jonathan Fleming

He’s Ichigo! (pictured below)

4 June 2011 Worlds collide

Life with Kai the Shiba (bonus: potent adorability on this entry with puppy Shiba and two Basenjis!)

Severus the Super Shiba (hasn’t been updated in a while, but we hope our fellow allergic Shiba is doing well!)

My Shiba is a Diva

Maggie the Mini Shiba (whose photos are actually in focus, as opposed to mine, below)

16 April 2012 Maggie the mini Shiba

And let’s not forget all the Shibas spotted by The Dogs of San Francisco. No, it’s not every day that one spots a Shiba… but around here, you do see them with some frequency.

Did I miss any local Shiba blogs? Let me know!

5 May 2012 The long and the short of it

Companion tags

09 Wednesday May 2012

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attica, attica riot dog, graffiti, pit bulls, street culture

Graffiti art from two Bay Area taggers:

1 April 2012 Companion art: GATS + Attica

Stylings on the left by GATS, on the right by Attica.

According to Bay Area graffiti culture blog Endless Canvas, Attica’s various dog-centric tags pay tribute to the spirit of the Greek riot dog. Attica’s feature tag seems to be a pit bull, and favors bully breeds in general.

Holistic treatments for pet allergies

09 Monday Apr 2012

Posted by M.C. in Bowdu the shiba inu, Food, drugs & other ingestibles, Health, Signs of the Beast Bay

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allergies, bovine colostrum, digestive enzymes, essential fatty acids, holistic veterinary care, nettle, skin and coat supplements, supplements, vitamin C

8 April 2012: Sooo many weeds!

Last year during April, we initiated some preemptive measures to stave off the onset of spring and summer allergies. March showers bring a profusion of April floral activity here in the Bay Area. Even I have been sniffling more than usual, indicating that something is already in the air. So last year around this time, we started giving Bowdu a Benadryl tablet every other day to block those histamine receptors before things really had a chance to go nuts. During the peak of summer, he was still getting Benadryl just about every day, though he was on no prescription meds. We got through last summer rather smoothly, but as a complex and chronic concern, I’m always looking to find out more about allergy treatment options.

A preliminary disclosure: I’m no expert; I’m just presenting the notes I collected from a talk I attended. I think I maintain reasonable skepticism of veterinary practices in general, though my own background and experiences have made me far more sympathetic to holistic care. I grew up with two scientist parents who have been employed for decades by a major pharmaceuticals company (mom works in their animal health department — there are many clinical trial reports floating about the internal document library that were edited by said employee’s teenaged daughter). Yet our entire family has frequently turned to traditional Chinese medicine than manufactured drugs to alleviate our own chronic ailments.

Which just goes to say that I don’t necessarily advocate any one “school” or type of medicine over another. As long as one is willing to counterbalance the information they receive from professionals with their own research, I think there is merit in exploring new ideas.

Dr. Anne Reed addresses the crowd at her allergy talk.

At the end of last month, I attended a talk on “Holistic treatments for pet allergies” hosted by a local pet boutique and headed by a well-respected local holistic veterinarian, Dr. Anne Reed. You can check her website for her credentials, as I did before I signed up for the event. The talk was booked to capacity, and the crowd consisted primarily of women, age 30 and older. Many attendees were already familiar with Dr. Reed’s services. I was not. Despite rave reviews and a decent network of resources in our area, we have not yet made the costly plunge into holistic veterinary care (for example, Dr. Reed’s current rates are $210 for a first intake, or $265 for a first house call). The $10 entrance fee to this event seemed a mere pittance in comparison.

Dr. Reed began by laying out the differences between Western medicine and holistic medicine (a term which she used interchangeably with “Chinese medicine”). As she explained it, the default position with Western medicine regards the allergen — the pollen, dander, food in rare cases of true food allergies as opposed to intolerances, etc. — as the problem. Treatment options are thus focused on eliminating the offending allergen by figuring out what to avoid (hence, the costly tests that still often register false positives), or eliminating the body’s response to allergens through specialized diets of “food-like substances” (hydrolyzed protein prescription diets), immune suppressing drugs (Prednisone and prednisolone, antihistamines, cyclosporin), or complex immunotherapy (which remains prohibitively costly and time consuming for most pet owners).

The problem is that the immune system, when suppressed for such long periods of time, relishes the opportunity to get back to “work,” so allergic reactions frequently tend to get worse over time. When your pet is taken off those drugs, the immune system kicks back in overdrive mode, so future allergic responses tend to get more extreme, or last longer, or branch out to new allergens that were never a problem before. Dr. Reed confessed to dreading the patients who come to her as a last resort because the drugs that have been prescribed to them for years no longer work; it takes a significantly longer time to undo the damage than the temporary relief of prescription drugs, and for this reason, she recommends that pet owners do everything in their power to stay away from these drugs in the first place.

Holistic medicine, on the other hand, is not concerned with identifying specific allergens, because it takes the body as the foundation for all improvements, not external factors. If the body is healthy and balanced and everything is working properly, it should be well equipped to handle the stressors of living and functioning as natural beings in a normal environment. Not so much to expect our bodies to behave, right? Well, as dog people know, ideal behaviors come through consistent and steady training, and our bodies can be conditioned in a similar way.

As a holistic practitioner, she doesn’t really look at or consider allergy tests. In her experience, the results frequently have a demoralizing effect — how is it fair, after all, that a household pet can or should be allergic to human dander or grass? The best that the tests can do, in her experience, is buy some time as she works to strengthen the body’s immune response through holistic means.

18 February 2012: Fish on fish

To that end, food is her essential starting block. She briefly debunked the idea rehashed by many pet owners that some common proteins are inherently evil (chicken, beef, and lamb are oft-named culprits) or that any specific breed typically does not do well with any particular protein. If certain breeds seem predisposed to reject specific types of proteins, she’s more likely to ascribe the problems to genetic factors and how the pets were bred, not necessarily what breed they are. She did not spend much time on this point, but she did allude to grave concerns that generations of kibble-fed dogs have resulted in generations of modern dogs that are ill-equipped to adapt as nature intended.

At the same time, Dr. Reed was very pragmatic about acknowledging that a fully home-cooked or raw diet is not possible for many homes. To that end, we can only do the best that we can, but there is nothing like a good diet of fresh and balanced food to start your pet off on the right foot. She spent some time talking about the differences between home cooking and raw food. One note that I jotted down which resonated with past knowledge is that traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners actually don’t advocate a diet of exclusively raw meat, because too much “cold” food (and “cold” means more than temperature here) can be damaging to the spleen and other vital organs. If your pet tends to be energetically “hot,” and allergies are symptomatic of such a state, then a raw diet can certainly help. However, bodies and metabolism do not remain stable over a lifetime, so you should be prepared to adjust as necessary. If nothing else, TCM reminds us that natural systems are constantly in flux. We may strive for perfect balance, though we cannot assume permanence!

There is much more to be said on the intricacies of traditional Chinese medicine, but rather than stray too far from her main topic, Dr. Reed recommended that interested parties do their own research. She recommended Four Paws, Five Directions: A Guide to Chinese Medicine for Cats and Dogs by Cheryl Schwartz as a good starting point for pet owners. Personally, I’ve had a look at this title in the past and found it problematic in many ways, but that’s a post for another time. Dr. Reed praises the book for giving a broad, if someone dizzying overview of TCM in current practice.

Next, she turned to specific allergy treatments that pet owners can work with. I’ve tried to organize and represent the information based on notes to the best of my ability. If I have made any transcription or factual errors, I will follow up and correct the information.

  • Omega-3s.
    Functions: to decrease inflammation, build cell membranes, help joints, etc. Omega-3s and Essential Fatty Acids are widely touted, so you can look up the benefits with little problem.
    Use: Look for a DHA/EPA number between 50 ~ 100 mg/kg, a capsule of about 1000 mg / day is a good maintenance dose.
    Issues: In the past, vets could solve lots of problems fairly efficiently by giving pets just Omega-3s, but this no longer seems to be as effective because commercial pet foods are now supplementing with their own essential fatty acids. Consequently, pets need more Omega-3s in order to counterbalance the Omega-6s in commercial diets. Also, just because everyone sings the praises of fish oils and because this is a “holistic” approach doesn’t mean that there are no side effects. Too much Omega-3, for example, has been associated with increased clotting time (so animals may bleed easier and keep bleeding) — a concern if your pet is going in for surgery. Clean and sustainable sourcing of fish oils is an ongoing concern as well, so make sure to monitor the quality of your product.
  • Digestive enzymes.
    Functions: to help “rest” the digestive tract and allow associated organs some relief while promoting nutritional absorption and decreasing intestinal inflammation
    Use: Pick a simple, plant-based enzyme (she likes Standard Process Multizyme and Prozyme), typically added at about 1/4 teaspoon per cup of food.
    Issues: Digestive and skin health are closely related in holistic medicine. You want your pet’s skin looking and feeling as healthy as possible. Paw pads shouldn’t be crusty, but rather, feel “like a pair of fine driving gloves,” even though they meet concrete and ground every single day. The best way to improve skin is through digestion, and if your pet’s skin and coat are looking good, everything else is probably reasonably in balance.
  • Vitamin C
    Functions: to serve as a natural antihistamine, to strengthen cellular bonds, to serve as a “cooling” agent
    Use: about 500 ~ 1000 mg per day, once a day, for a 50 pound dog
    Issues: I didn’t get a chance to ask whether this was a temporary measure or a more permanent supplement, as I’d read conflicting information about whether or not this is necessary, or potentially harmful for pets. If i get a chance to follow up, I will update here.
  • Bovine colostrum
    Functions: to promote digestive health by “sealing up” the cellular walls of the intestinal tract, aiding in better digestion, among other functions
    Use: look for it in powdered form, follow recommended dosing information
    Issues: She didn’t get much time to talk about this one, so I may be missing some details. This is a “quick” and more short-term fix that she seemed enthusiastic to endorse, though she doesn’t use it over the long run.
  • Freeze-dried nettle
    Function: as a homeopathic remedy particularly useful for inhaled allergies
    Use: about 1/4 tsp per 50 pounds of dog
    Issues: It may cause several days to a week of itchiness or irritation until you see improvement. However, she has found this particularly effective to ward off seasonal allergies just as they are appearing. She did not say how long one should keep feeding the nettles (over a whole season?). This is also meant to be a short term remedy.

At this point, Dr. Reed started running out of time, so she blitzed through the potential uses of apple cider vinegar (messing with pH is controversial, but she recommends 1 Tbsp/50 pounds of dog in certain situations), green tripe (a “miracle food” loaded with enzymes), and green leafy vegetables (good for the liver). On Vitamin E, she has not found it absolutely necessary to add this in combination with fish oil, as some years she has recommended it, and some years she has not, yet has seen no difference either way. She thinks that pets are compensating for the supposed depletion of Vitamin E in other ways, particularly if they get a good mix of organs in their balanced meal.

IN CONCLUSION: patience and perseverance, and staying away from prescription allergy meds, puts your pet on the right track to long-term health. You may not see immediate results with the approaches that she outlined, but in the best cases, you will be able to look back after some time and account for significant differences. I know that has certainly been the case for us here at the House of Two Bows.

14 February 2012: Bring on the pollen

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