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The House of Two Bows 雙寶之屋

~ a basenji, a shiba, and their human companions

The House of Two Bows 雙寶之屋

Tag Archives: off leash

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:

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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 …

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… 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.

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

REVIEW: Orijen Alberta Wild Boar freeze-dried treats

20 Monday May 2013

Posted by M.C. in Food, drugs & other ingestibles, Reviews, Videos

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acana, champion pet foods, chewy.com, dog treats, freeze-dried raw, mr. chewy, off leash, orijen, pork, sponsored reviews

Orijen freeze-dried treats

Product: Orijen Alberta Wild Boar singles freeze-dried treats
Manufacturer: Champion Pet Foods
Quantity: one pouch, 2 oz. (approx. 45 pieces) [also available in 3.5 oz packages]
Price: $7.99 via Chewy.com
Ingredients: Wild boar liver, boneless wild boar
Guaranteed Analysis:

  • Crude Protein, 40% min.
  • Crude Fat, 50% min.
  • Crude Fiber, 1% max
  • Moisture, 2% max

Country of origin: Canada
Company Information: Champion Pet Food; 11403-186 Street NW; Edmonton, Alberta; T5S 2W6 Canada
Web Presence: ChampionPetFoods.com, on Facebook

Champion Pet Foods, the makers of Orijen and Acana, have quite a reputation for making what they call “biologically appropriate™” kibble with a surplus of whole prey ingredients that is supposed to mirror what dogs and cats would eat if left to fend for themselves in the “wild.” That part of their marketing platform has always been less impressive to me than their claims of sourcing “authentically fresh regional ingredients” that come from named, sustainably farmed sources. They are generally brands that the Bows do well on (Acana, specifically), though they’re priced beyond our capacity to feed them exclusively.

Knowing they’ve got a solid foot in the market for high-end pet consumers, Orijen has boldly trotted out a new freeze-dried treat. This product is so new, I didn’t even know this was in the works until alerted by the folks at Chewy.com, who gave me the opportunity to review from the selection which includes single-protein blends of beef, bison, duck, lamb, or wild boar, as well as three blends based on some of their popular kibble recipes, Regional Red, Tundra, and Orijen Original.


from the Champion Pet Foods channel on YouTube

(Call me weird, but I actually seek out company-produced PR videos to get a sense of how the company markets itself and what kind of information they think is valuable for others to know. I do, however, take their presentations with a healthy sense of skepticism and intent to read between the lines, wherever I can.)

For this review, we chose the wild boar recipe, primarily because there are very few completely pork-based pet foods on the market. I’m already favorably disposed to this line of treats for offering novel proteins catering to pets with protein sensitivities (as seems to be the case with so many dog people we know)

Upon receiving the 2 ounce bag in an oversized box from Chewy.com, I admit thinking… this is it?? as I shook the lightweight package before the Bows. Freeze-dried products tend to be very porous, so it’s hard to feel like you’re making a satisfactory purchase at the outset. It’s one reason that I’m not a huge fan of this type of food processing. Previous experiences have left me feeling that the crumbly mess that often accumulates at the bottom of the bag makes it a particularly un-economical way to feed.

These treats, however, aren’t quite as crumbly as others we’ve tried. Chewy.com’s protective packaging seems to help ensure that you’re not getting a pouch full of crushed bits.

Orijen freeze-dried treats

Lightweight they may be, freeze-dried products tend to be pretty rich — though these are less than 7 calories per treat. At any rate, you really don’t need to feed many of these at a time. The Bows, however, were completely taken by the novelty of the smell, taste, and texture.

Orijen freeze-dried treats

They glommed so close when I busted out these treats that I realized this would be the perfect incentive for practicing more “difficult” maneuvers. They’re a good size, not particularly messy, and totally irresistible. I don’t do much complex training with the Bows, but I do frequently take them off leash in high distraction areas, something which neither Shiba Inu nor Basenjis are known to be good at…

Okay, so the Bows are already accustomed to off-leash walking on vast acreage, and this is only one lesson of “Off Leash 101,” so my video may very well simplify the process and exaggerate the efficacy of these treats… What is unusual, however, is the way that both Bows remain underfoot and jump up like unruly Compsognathus, Jurassic Park style. Point is that this is a special treat, as confirmed by the Bows’ responses!

Given how effective these are, I think the price point is just right, at least relative to other freeze-dried dog treats on the market. I’m not willing to spend more than $10 on a pouch of treats that will be finished off in days or a handful of training sessions, but Chewy.com’s price for the small pouch is fair for the quality of this product.

I’ve yet to see these at my local pet stores, so I don’t know how normal retail price compares. We are grateful that Chewy.com provided us with a free sample in exchange for our honest review.

Final Grade: A

Bows unbound

10 Wednesday Apr 2013

Posted by M.C. in Bowdu the shiba inu, Bowpi the basenji

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marin headlands, off leash

Not sure what everyone else was doing last Sunday…

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… but whatever kept everyone else away allowed us unrestrained access to the entire Coastal Trail at the Marin Headlands.

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I’m not familiar with the floral cycles here. The wildflowers didn’t seem to be quite at their peak as they are on our side of the Bay. We still caught some nice blooms. And one very cool-looking pod thing.

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Pictures remind me to look them up later… I don’t know the names of any of these plants.

The Bows had a great time dashing around.

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The pair of shots below exemplify a key difference between the two Bows. Bowdu will just plow through as if he expects everything in his path to clear the way for him. This includes any human legs that happen to be blocking his route (*BOOF*). Bowpi, on the other hand, will try to duck and weave, navigating just a little more carefully, falling back when necessary.

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Sometimes I imagine what the Bows would do if they were lost in the wilderness, left with nothing but each other and their own survival instincts. Would they take cues from one another or would they basically be fending for themselves? How long would they trek together before splitting ways? Who would catch the first meat? Who would seek out human assistance, and who would revert to feral mode? If Peepsy got really cold, would Doobs let her snuggle against him? Or is Doobs more likely to resort to cannibalism?

Anyway, as we headed back to the car, RJ and I split up at one point without really signaling our intentions to the dogs. He decided to take a steep side route down, whereas I didn’t want to risk a tumble with camera in hand, so I stuck to the main path. Both Bows had been at his side when we parted ways. Some time into my wending descent, I looked back to see, much to my dismay, Bowdu running along the cliff edge of the path, heading uphill in disoriented panic. I yelled sharply and waved my hands high in the air to flag his attention, but he was such a tiny, distant speck that I couldn’t be sure he saw me for a second…

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But only for a brief moment.

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Bowdu closed the gap in no time, and would certainly have bowled me over with relief had he not been just a thirty-pound Shiba. Meanwhile, Bowpi had stuck with RJ. We were all reunited at the bottom of the trail, just as the humans had planned but had not communicated to the dogs. The Bows will have to play out their wilderness abandonment survival adventures some other day.

Demarcation

25 Friday Jan 2013

Posted by M.C. in Bowdu the shiba inu, Bowpi the basenji

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dog parks, off leash

One of our regular public haunts isn’t strictly a dog park, but a multi-use area with trails for bikers, picnic areas, and large, open fields. In the center is an unfenced, off-leash zone, barely indicated by posted maps at the entrance and vertical markers scattered around the zone’s periphery. Park patrons are expected to be able to contain their dogs more or less within the legal area by voice command.

18 February 2012

Occasionally, there will be scofflaws.

24 November 2012 Know your limits... then piss on them.

Urban off-leash Shibas (and others)

15 Wednesday Aug 2012

Posted by M.C. in Sightings, Taiwan reminiscences

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off leash, shiba inu, taiwan, taiwan dogs, tugou

At the risk of flouting the “NEVER EVER EVER LET A SHIBA OFF LEASH!” rule by which many Shiba owners and rescues wisely adhere, let me propose that there is actually an alternate universe where pet owners are crazy enough to raise their Shibas off leash from the get-go.

5 August 2012 Free-roaming night market Shiba

This Taipei night market Shiba was spotted darting between stalls and burrowing underneath roadside tables for scraps of food. She had on a collar, a good coat and good weight, and despite the airplane ears in the photo (because of the scooter that had just whizzed by), she wasn’t skittish around strangers at all and let me pet her. My guess is that this was a routine part of her days — giving “free feeding” a whole new meaning!

Frankly, this was such a typical sight that I often wondered what I was doing wrong with Bowdu during his puppy days in Taiwan, as he never gave us any indication that we could trust him off leash in such dense, urban settings. Perhaps his temperament dictated that he would have been one of many puppies fated not to survive into adulthood, had he been raised Taiwanese style. Those that defy the odds end up being extraordinarily traffic-savvy.

5 August 2012 A narrow margin between safety and SPLAT!

Because I was looking for dogs, I saw them everywhere. They were often pressed against walls, skulking with head bowed to the ground, weaving and moving so as not to attract undue notice. Often, they were unaccompanied.

6 August 2012 Urban off-leashing

Indeed, free-roaming city dogs are part of the landscape, for better or for worse. Even unchained, they knew to stick close to home turf. There were dogs in my former neighborhood that were as reliable as signposts: “Go straight past the corner with the two tugou, turn right, and you’re there.” Six years ago when I lived in the area off Minquan East and Dunhua North Road, these same two dogs used to hang out just like this, in the intersection. When I returned during this trip, I was grateful to see that they haven’t been run over… yet.

31 July 2012 They own this intersection

In the States, we keep our dogs close for their safety and our own (though we call it “public safety”). Off-leash privileges are regarded more as a result of training, not adaptation. It’s not that the Taiwanese don’t care about their dog’s safety, it’s that safety has a different situational context altogether. The end goal is still not to hurt or kill, and you’ll see some amazing reflexes in action as drivers avoid colliding with unexpected canine roadblocks. Nevertheless, there are frequent casualties too. Rescues are never short on half-paralyzed or wheelchair bound dogs due to urban traffic, as well as other things like gin traps (to be discussed later).

So there is a time and place for leashing, too. Bigger dogs (defined as anything one cannot fit into a purse) may not be welcome in convenience stores, so this guy waits outside…

26 July 2012 Waiting outside Family Mart

And this Shiba accompanies her owner inside a pet store, on leash.

4 August 2012 Shiba in a pet store

Wherever I go, I make it a point to observe how dogs live with or alongside humans. Sometimes the shared spaces are less visible or obvious as having a person and a pet attached to opposite ends of a leash. The way that pets are kept, or even defined in the first place, gives insight to aspects of everyday sociality that this blog attempts to document and take seriously. If you’re a regular reader, you already know this. But I still appreciate that you endure my fixations as I consider these bonds not only by breed or cultural standards, but more importantly, on an intimate, one-on-one basis as well.

27 July 2012 Hot and sleepy

Don’t stray too far…

28 Monday May 2012

Posted by M.C. in Bowdu the shiba inu, Bowpi the basenji

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off leash

When we walk off-leash (in safe, designated areas), I pretty much let the Bows walk ahead as they please.

14 November 2011 Bowpi checks in

Somehow, they know to stay within sight, and they never let me fall too far behind without checking back to make sure I’m following.

27 January 2012 The happy side of Mr. Grumps

C’mon let’s go

13 Friday Apr 2012

Posted by M.C. in Bowdu the shiba inu, Bowpi the basenji

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off leash

The weekend’s here.

Time to set yourselves free.

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Run wild.

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But don’t forget to check in every now and then.

Easter ham

Basenji bunny dreams of fish

Rough trail, cool water

07 Friday Jan 2011

Posted by M.C. in Bowdu the shiba inu, Bowpi the basenji

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hiking, off leash

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Photo taken 4 January 2011

We went to a new (to us) trail on Wednesday. I’m eager to go back.

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Bowdu stays out of muddy puddles, but he will wade if the body of water is clear and expansive, like a lake or the ocean. Getting wet also gives him the zoomies, which makes him want to run all over the place…

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… but he always stays within sight.

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I’m so impressed by how nimble-footed both dogs are. Bowpi, whose paw pads used to be so soft that they’d get scuffed on regular sidewalk, has no trouble following right along. She may have spoiled me for any Basenji we may have in the future, because she is so responsive and seems so eager to be good. Her biggest distraction is other dogs; she’ll ignore me when there are ungreeted canines in the vicinity. And I keep in mind that she does get spooked by sticks, since this lake is apparently a favorite site for LARPers.

Tucked away from cars or any other moving vehicles, including bikes, this lake felt safe. That is always my primary criteria before even considering letting either dog off leash.

Of course, there’s more to it than that. I’m kind of maxed out on the subject of off-leash Shiba/Basenji for now, though I encourage you to revisit it in recent blog posts over at A Winnie Day and The Misadventures of a Shiba Inu. Basenji owners weigh in on this long thread over on the Basenji Forums.

Worlds collide

05 Wednesday Jan 2011

Posted by M.C. in Bowdu the shiba inu, Bowpi the basenji, Sightings

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off leash

Shibasquatch?
Photo taken 4 January 2011

Rumor has it that something called a “Shibasquatch” was sighted near Lake Anza yesterday. The equally rare and elusive “Basenjisquatch” may or may not have been trailing close behind.

A follow-up report will be submitted, pending confirmation of details.

Meanwhile, Bowdu and Bowpi were recently spotted by another local Shiba blogger! Luckily, Sinjin‘s momma had a camera on hand to document the chance encounter. Hop on over to check out their cameo appearance on another blog over here.

Off-leashing, Part 0

22 Monday Nov 2010

Posted by M.C. in Bowdu the shiba inu, Human escapades

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bonneville salt flats, off leash, shiba inu, travel

Bowdu runs free on the Bonneville Salt Flats, w/ the Doggy Daddy and me in frantic pursuit. Taken by our friend Seth in August 2006.

That’s a blurry little picture of the Doggy Daddy and me, chasing after Bowdu across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.

We’d been driving for days, on our way from the Midwest to California for the final leg of our major international move. The combination of three adults and one dog crammed into a Toyota Camry had just started to make everyone a little stir-crazy.

In the preceding three weeks, Bowdu had traveled a total of 20 hours on an airplane, and been bounced back and forth between my parents’ home and the Doggy Daddy’s parents’ home about two hours away, while we prepared for the move. At my home and the Doggy Daddy’s home, he had stolen several opportunities to escape, as neither of our parents were accustomed to his door-bolting or his inability to limit himself to an unfenced yard. The times he ran off always made me panic a little, but in my pursuits I was able to observe that what kept Bowdu running seemed to be 1) the pleasure of running itself, 2) the freedom to sniff and explore new things — garden planters, lawn ornaments, objects heaped by other people’s houses and not just sidewalks and overmarked mailbox posts, and 3) an adolescent thrill in defiance. That is, I saw that the more urgently I chased him, the faster he would run away, but if I slackened my pace and watched from a slightly further distance, he wouldn’t try as hard to stay away, until I could eventually just walk up to him and clip him back on leash.

So whenever he got off leash, he wasn’t behaving as if he wanted to escape or be “free”. What he wanted was to run and explore, and if I was going to get in the way of that, then he would run away from me.

That’s how I saw it, anyway. But I didn’t have this formulated so clearly in my mind when I let him loose on the Bonneville Salt Flats that evening. At that point, we had all been cooped up for hours a day in a four-door sedan that was also weighted down with as many worldly possessions as the Doggy Daddy and I deemed necessary to start our new lives. We had been sleeping in a different place every night, risking some downright uninhabitable places for the sake of a bargain. We had left behind a life of relative wealth and comfort, and we had drained our savings to move overseas with our dog. There had been a lot to think about on that drive, and none of us were in our usual frame of mind. For the sake of expediency, we had bypassed the scenic routes, so the salt flats were the first truly impressive vista that made us say wow — Hello America. They had overwhelmed my sense of perception; I had not seen such vastness in a long, long time.

Lots of land for running, just running, with no olfactory distractions. Surely Bowdu wouldn’t be able to exhaust this expanse?

Mesmerized by the landscape, I stooped down and unhooked his leash.

And he ran.

Straight in one direction, towards the horizon.

No, I hadn’t thought through the situation very carefully.

We started running after him, clapping and calling probably with a pitch of terror in our voices. (Note: This just makes dogs more likely to run away from you.) Eventually, he did swing back, only to zoom past us and in the direction of the highway instead, which was still some distance away, but it made my stomach lurch nonetheless. At some moment in that frantic game of tag, I had an epiphany when I glimpsed the look of pure, unrepentant glee on his face as he barreled past. His infectious joy overcame my worry, and somehow, the pursuit morphed into a game, where the humans veered off and started chasing each other, zigzagging back and forth across as meager an area of the salt flats as our clumsy legs could traverse. Only when Bowdu joined in on this three-way tag was he eventually coaxed back into reach.

Seth says it took about ten minutes for us to round him back up. No doubt those were the most fun ten minutes Bowdu had had in days.

But for me, what preceded the pleasure was surely panic. I couldn’t dare to imagine that he was going to run away forever, but I knew I wondered if we would get him back before nightfall, or if we would be camping out on the salt flats that night, waiting for him to get tired of running nowhere and come back. We’re lucky the outcome was not so dire, but immediately afterward, I was willing to admit this was a pretty bone-headed move.

I’ve done a lot of stupid things in my life that, despite it all, turned out okay. It doesn’t make them any less stupid.

Nevertheless, this misadventure didn’t stop us from letting him off leash later, in more suitable and now familiar places.

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Photo taken 26 August 2006

Occasionally, other Shiba owners will ask how I trained Bowdu to walk off leash. The most memorable time was one day just last spring, when we chanced upon a large Shiba family reunion at our favorite 18-acre off-leash park situated in the middle of a 90-acre peninsula jutting out into the bay. Bowdu and I were surrounded by about a dozen Shiba owners with every dog on leash, marveling at how “well-trained” he must be and asking to share our secret.

I never know how to answer “How did you…?” because I don’t think we systematically trained him. Even that first time on the Bonneville Salt Flats should not have happened the way it did, from a training perspective. But because he came back after being let loose there, I felt like I gained insight into something that penetrates animal instinct, and enters something like personality, if I may call it that. Over the course of that journey and the subsequent adjustment period that followed, we learned about his limits as well as his capacities. Our collective relationship clicked in some way that… I’m still striving for the words to describe. I know that’s a cop-out, and not much of a conclusion. I just know that from then onward, we were emboldened to make more informed choices about letting him run loose when we later encountered more appropriate terrain, because we witnessed what space and topography could do to his behavior, as well as ours.

As a final word of caution, and to reiterate what I mentioned in my first installment of my thoughts on off-leash Basenjis and Shibas, I do not mean to suggest that every or even most Shibas can be safely let off lead. But at the same time, I don’t think it’s such a rare occurrence that we need to balk and gasp like a unicorn was just sighted, as the Shiba family reunion members did, or that we need to chide the human not at the end of the lead on how they’re taking “irresponsible” risks, as has also happened to me elsewhere.

First and foremost, you get to know your dog on an individual level and not merely as a subset of a generalized breed standard. Then secondly, you decide for yourself what you are truly comfortable with. And if you don’t think you’ll ever be comfortable with risking your dog off-leash in any kind of space, then so be it. Always better to be safe than sorry, as your dog ultimately loves you for the security you provide, from within and without.

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