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Aoiyama Sou Shikoku is a small kennel in Pennsylvania dedicated to the preservation of the historic Shikoku Ken breed
27/07/2024
Sometimes you just have to trust your dog ๐
Ushi got here in April of this year and although a naturally very loving dog with his people, it was clear there was some work to do in the confidence-building department. The last few months have been filled with a variety of socialization and training trips - stores, parks, handling classes, and more. Progress was slow at first but these last two weeks I really began to see a shift in him, enough so that I said screw it, we're going to enter DOS and see what happens, with the only real goal to just make it a positive experience for him. I spent most of the 3hr drive there this morning worried that he might get overwhelmed, worried that it was too soon, that a negative experience might set all our training back - I doubted both myself and him.
We got there and spent the first half hour just doing decompression sniff walks around the show grounds. With it being a county fairgrounds, there were PLENTY of other animal smells to keep him occupied. Then we made our way to the main building where we again spent time walking through and settling amidst the chaos. It wasn't long until I could see him starting to relax, but through it all, he stayed focused and engaged, inhaling the bait, AND after a brief staring contest with a grumpy old shiba, the tail popped up and stayed up ๐ Children were screaming, stewards were running past him, dogs were barking, and yet the tail remained. Any shikoku owner will understand how crucial that is lol What I was seeing was basically a whole new dog.
Well, this new dog of mine walked himself into the ring showed beautifully with some very minor melting at the ๐ฅ check, and walked back out of the group ring with a Group 3 out of a โจ๏ธtrulyโจ๏ธ lovely and competitive lineup of 7 dogs. Group 3 might not seem like much, but coming from a dog who I at one point thought may never step foot in a ring, and who overcame so much to be there, it means the world. We still have work to do but this handsome boy made me so proud today. The judge absolutely loved him, as did the dozens of other people at the show who complimented him and asked to know more about the breed.
HUGE thank you to FLAEDA for a wonderfully run show and Judge Pamela Moore for seeing my boy ๐ฅฐ
23/07/2024
A formal introduction for our newest addition! Thank you so much Adriana Craig for your hospitality and for trusting me with Baku ๐ฅฐ
21/07/2024
Just a โจ๏ธtouchโจ๏ธ of whimsy
19/07/2024
Huge shout out to Brittany Jacobs-Wall for showing our co-own boy Raikou to his first BIOS at San Antonio last weekend! He may have a smooth brain but at least he makes it look good ๐คฃ Super proud of these two ๐ฅฐ
14/07/2024
Over Yonder Photography
03/07/2024
Video courtesy of ๐
01/07/2024
King of the rock
01/07/2024
Now that I'm actually home for a full week for the first time in a month, time to make my Premier post ๐คฃ
It was all-around an excellent weekend and great to catch up with everyone! The dogs showed beautifully, and we got to check out some new trails and breweries in between. Forever thankful for my show crew who makes these events bearable and keep me sane lol
Thursday - Koji won Top 10 Best of Breed. It was his
third year being invited, second year
competing, and first time taking breed in
Top 10
Friday - Koda took the Champion class with Mei taking
Reserve Champion. Koji won the GRCH class
and took BOB
Saturday - Mei took Reserve Champion
Sunday - Koda took the Champion class again as well
as BOB (Impressive given his obscene
nakedness ๐)
(90% photo credit to Over Yonder Photography lol)
22/06/2024
Miss Boku got her CGC today! Congrats to her awesome guardian for putting in the work with her ๐๐ฅณ
13/06/2024
A little over half way to premier ๐ค
10/06/2024
We will be looking for a co-own or guardian home for a lovely import male puppy out of titled and health tested parents. He will be ready to go home in early August. With the new CDC rule going into place this summer, this may be the last import opportunity for quite a while. If you're interested in getting involved with ethical breed preservation in any capacity, please feel free to send us a message ๐
AKC/UKC/FCI/NIPPO registration
07/06/2024
Official English translation of the NIPPO standard now available ๐ค
https://www.nihonken-hozonkai.or.jp/en/standard/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0mXnG4vSL8m49GKXM4QwThrGbKVIADF8qxxBTnOHNZtexoXg9xptEVORk_aem_AbJHClpsALj0dDClJHmXD05uKGyUQ1jan7qZbdpIIcZ_TuGhpIKDrZTIqWze1hFNCxVrkfdLQHK4m0NW4-JCrFlM
02/06/2024
A weekend in the adirondacks ๐
02/06/2024
The sunset over the adirondacks was beautiful. Not sure what to make of the scraggly monkey-looking thing in the middle though ๐ฅฒ
28/05/2024
Errand days also mean socialization days ๐ค He got to explore different surfaces and walk in a new park with lots of other dogs and people so we could practice our focusing exercises (plus get in lots of good sniffing lol)
23/05/2024
Looks like summer's here to stay โ๏ธ
19/05/2024
After a few cameos in AKC, Masa (who still needs his person ๐) made his long overdue UKC debut and walked away with a Group 2 against some lovely dogs! Despite a mild snaffu in the morning (apparently "not before" times are not to be trusted at this club ๐) we had a lovely day catching up with some friends and meeting some new forbidden girlfriends ๐คฃ (Masa fell for a very fetching young keeshond lady ๐ ) Many snacks and pets later and it's safe to say he enjoyed himself lol
16/05/2024
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11/05/2024
Last weekend we attended our first US NIPPO Classic and I am beyond thankful to both the Colonial Shiba Club for continuing to organize this event after a covid-induced hiatus, as well as to Judge Hidehiko Sato for taking the time to judge our dogs and share his knowledge with us. It was the largest entry of shikoku and kishu outside of Japan and we hope to continue that trend moving forward ๐
Between myself and my co-owners, we had 7 dogs entered - 3 in the Puppy Sweeps and 4 in the regular classes. All our regular class dogs placed and while none took best of breed (that honor going to our friends at Hachidorisou Shikoku ่้ณฅ่ ๅๅฝ ๐) in an event where the judge has absolutely no qualms about dumping not only entire classes but entire entries, any placement is a good placement lol The results of the event for the medium-sized breeds (chuugataken) are as follows:
-HOKKAIDO KEN-
Seiken Males
Excused - Kinryuu Howasou
Yoken Females
Tsukimi Bezdrevzka Perla
Wakainu II Females
Excused - Mirina go Kaijusou
Saikosho - Not Awarded
Jun Saikosho - Not Awarded
Puppy Sweeps BOB - Tsukimi Bezdrevzka Perla
-KISHU KEN-
Wakainu 2 Males
1st - Souma go Kenyuan
Seiken Males
1st - Akiyama no Roushya Tenrou go
2nd - Akiyama no Roushya Koujiro go
3rd - Katsusaburou go Tomoe
4th - Akiyama no Roushya Hisshou go
Yoken Females
Akiyama no Roushya Seiroume go
Wakainu 1 Females
1st - Sekaichime go Akagawa Roushya
2nd - Akiyama no Roushya Ouha go
3rd - Akiyama no Roushya Kaichou go
Soken Females
Excused - Akiyama no Roushya Rainomine go
Seiken Females
1st - Katsuichime go Tomoe
2nd - Yoshimi Trump Hunter
Saikosho - Souma go Kenyuan
Jun Saikosho - Sekaichime go Akgawa Roushya
Puppy Sweeps BOB - Akiyama no Roushya Seiroume go
-SHIKOKU KEN-
Yochiken Males
Rufus Groudas
Ayato go Yamagiriinu sou
Absent - Kumori no Kirisame go Hachidorisou
Yoken Males
Kumomasa go Aoiyama sou
Kaminari go Aoiyama sou
Wakainu 1 Males
1st - Tensei no Ryuho go Fukuyama Shidahara
Wakainu 2 Males
1st - Kiyohidemaru go Hachidorisou
2nd - O'Ikon Yukio Go
Seiken Males
1st - Doruto go Shibukawa Kato Kensha
2nd - Lupo go Hachidorisou
3rd - Fusonosuke go Hachidorisou
4th - Jikino Kensha no Boeki go
Not placing - Masamine go Futomisou, Berkana Pride Good Bear, Himura go Hachidorisou
Absent - Hidetsugu go Hirota Sampousou
Yochiken Females
Masami go Nidai Iwahorisou
Akohime go Yamagiriinu sou
Yoken Females
Kaguya go Aoiyama sou
Wakainu 2 Females
1st - Jikino Kensha no Katana no Hira go (entered under NIPPO name Yasurime go Shikino sou)
2nd - Hanshoume go Aoiyama sou
3rd - O'Ikon Akio go
Absent - O'Ikon Emiko go
Soken Females
1st - Oshiana go Hachidorisou
2nd - Kanata go Hachidorisou
3rd - Ineko go Aoiyama sou
4th - Kaya go Ihoku Hakurensou
Seiken Females
1st - Banshuu no Satsuki go Banshuu Nagaike sou (day of show entry, not in program)
2nd - Hirokohime go Hachidorisou
Saikosho - Doruto go Shibukawa Kato Kensha
Jun Saikosho - Banshuu no Satsuki go Banshuu Nagaike sou
Puppy Sweeps BOB - Masami go Nidai Iwahorisou
Now to improve my handling skills and show in Japan ๐
10/05/2024
Come support our club's first sponsored AKC Open Show!
08/05/2024
Kangaroo's first Tractor Supply trip where she learned there are fun toys, live chicken nuggets, and nice people with snacks ๐
28/04/2024
Just a sappy appreciation post for Mei and her awesome co-owner ๐ญ They've had one hell of a spring so far, finishing up her CM and adding a few new titles to the alphabet soup that is her name lol Most recently they completed AKC's temperament test making her officially MBIS UCH Hanshoume Go Aoiyama Sou ATT CA CM CGCA FITB RATN TKI VSWB, also now the most titled shikoku in AKC! Seeing how accomplished my first bred-by has become is a pride I can't even begin to explain โค๏ธ
23/04/2024
Hikes and bar-doggin with Koji ๐ฅฐ
21/04/2024
๐ฃ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ถ๐ธ๐พ๐ท๐ฝ๐ช๐ฒ๐ท๐ผ ๐๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ผ๐น๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฏ๐ธ๐ป ๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ฝ๐ธ ๐๐ช๐ท๐ญ๐ฎ๐ป; ๐ถ๐ ๐ผ๐ธ๐พ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ด๐ฎ๐ผ ๐ฝ๐ธ ๐ฝ๐ฑ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ช๐ต๐ต
17/04/2024
Masa is 8mo old and currently looking for a co-own or guardian home. He's a sweet, outgoing boy, and is good with both strangers and new dogs. He's AKC-pointed, will start his UKC career this spring while still with me, and has earned his VSWB and TKN titles. Ideally the new owner would want to continue showing and/or participating in sports with him but if not, I would prefer that they be close enough (within 3-4hrs) for me to scoop him up for a weekend here and there to finish his titling. Any questions about him, please feel free to ask!
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Not to be outdone by her brother in RI, Boku made her show debut in Novice Puppy this past weekend. I was expecting a wild little kangaroo that tried to climb in the judges skin but was pleasantly surprised that she acted like a real dog ๐คฃ A testiment to the work her guardian's put in taking her to both puppy and handling class!
Well that's a wrap on the first hog bay of 2024. The dogs are happy and tired after 40hrs on the road and a weekend spent baying hogs, and I couldn't be more proud of the effort they put in. Reviving a working line - getting dogs to do what they were bred to do both consistently and effectively, isn't an overnight process. It takes years and generations, trial and error in pairings, long hours training pups, longer trips to work them, but I love seeing them getting out there. Koji was the first of my dogs to show me he truly had the instinct to start trying. His daughter Mei, at her first ever bay, her first ever time seeing ANY hog, not just a wild one, proved that I'm moving in the right direction - and that a gritty little gyp can get it done, pulling off a 9.0 in the one dog ๐๐ Watching them work a hog together for the first time meant more than I can explain. I also say gritty in relative terms of course. Anyone who's seen a good catahoula work hogs knows what grit is and that the hog matters more than life to them. They have a style unique to the breed, and a shikoku will never be that. They have far too much self-preservation to get flung 15 feet across a pen, a trait that will keep them alive in the woods, and one I wholly appreciate, but it will be interesting to see how their unique style will develop - to see what "grit" looks like in my own breed. Thankful beyond words for these dogs, and for owners and friends who support us on this journey โค๏ธ *To anyone who thinks this video doesn't seem like much, put your own dog against an angry, 300lb animal and see how they do. I can promise not an insignificant number of dogs don't want anything to do with it ๐ ETA - Those familiar with hog hunting will have picked up on this but to those that aren't, this style of baying would have caused the hog to run were it in the woods. To effectively bay up a hog, the dog(s) needs to learn to stay at the head. Much of this is genetics, but a lot is also ex
Babies' first snow ๐ฅฐโ๏ธ
What I wouldn't give for the ability to sleep through noise ๐ฅฒ Desensitizing the nuggets to some common, loud noises they may encounter. (I swear it sounds so much louder in this video than it was in person ๐คฃ)
First taste of mash for the next batch ๐
Puppies calmly settling in crates - such a beautiful sight ๐ญ
Koda had his AKC debut at the Taconic Hills KC Open show this weekend and rocked it ๐ Hammed it up with the judges, settled beautifully ringside, and ate ALL the treats lol He took 1st in Class/BOS both shows but no points earned as the only male entered. #ๅๅฝ็ฌ #shikokuken #akc #showdog #primitivebreed #nihonken
Working on building duration in the crates ๐ (and also learning that the food your sibling has is NOT magically better than your own ๐คฃ)
A few days late to post but this is the next set of barrier challenges for the puppies. Where before they had to go up and over, now they have to go around. Without fail, there's always one who tries to bull their way through and one that takes an extended detour to the food ๐ This will progress in difficulty as both the food and puppy get moved farther from the edge of the barrier. Small but satisfying redemption arc - our last puppy from the first challenge video figured this one out pretty easily (4th puppy) ๐
Today marks the start of the various barrier challenges the puppies will face. This is the first time they've been given an obstacle they need to overcome to get to their food and while it may seem simple at this stage, barrier challenges where the puppies are rewarded for their efforts (in this case with dinner) promote problem solving, critical thinking, and also help build confidence. It's important that the puppies figure the challenges out for themselves even though it's so tempting to try and help them. Challenges such as these combined with other aspects of the early socialization program lead to dogs with improved ability to learn and remember, dogs that are more emotionally stable, and dogs with better resiliency to stress.
A lesson in stream crossing. If you're going to follow the big dogs to the far side, you'd better be able to get yourself back ๐ #shikokuken #adventuredog #hikingdogs
First time trying a mash for the puppies. I was pleasantly surprised that they managed to eat more than they wore ๐
No better day for fighting the evil hose monster than when it's 90ยฐ and humid ๐คฃ
In this house we get really excited about bok choy ๐คฃ
Ring Practice with Mei
Quick video of Mei struttin' her stuff in the ring from this weekend since you can't upload photos and videos together in the same post ๐๐ Edit: I have absolutely NO idea what that alien noise in the background is ๐คฃ
Vacuum vs puppies
The only problem with raising puppies to be curious and confident around things like the vacuum . . . is getting them to move so you can actually vacuum ๐คฃ
Resource Guarding Prevention
Just a little resource guarding prevention protocol for this morning. Resource guarding is a totally natural behaviour for dogs and exists as a survival tool - a level of communication that exists between dogs to say "don't touch what's mine." We are not dogs though, and have different methods of communication as well as different expectations. To that end, it's important to teach puppies that not only is having a high value treat taken away NOT threatening, it can actually be very rewarding. The puppies caught on pretty quick and by the end were just manding for the treat rather than going back to their bone ๐
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