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I used to wonder why my Shiba never came over when I called.
Now I notice something else instead.
Every evening, without a sound, there’s always a place where we end up sharing the same quiet—even if we’re a few feet apart.
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Every spring, we brush until we think there's nothing left.
Then another handful appears.
I've stopped trying to win the battle against the fur. Maybe that's the lesson my Shiba has been teaching me all along.
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@DerGanesha It leaves a very bad impression. In a match where VAR is being used, there is no need to deliberately interfere with the goalkeeper. What’s more, he wasn’t even looking at the ball—he was facing the goalkeeper and intentionally obstructing him.
People say Shibas are difficult.
Mine simply refuses to pretend.
The trust we built was never given because I asked for it—it was given because, one ordinary day, I finally earned it.
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Sometimes my Shiba stares at the front door long before anyone arrives.
I used to wonder what he was looking at.
Now I wonder what he noticed that I hadn't yet.
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He followed me into every room this morning.
This afternoon, he chose the hallway instead.
It took me years to realize those weren’t opposite choices. They were two different ways of saying the same thing: I know where you are.
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The old towel should have been thrown away years ago.
But somehow it became part of the family because it was part of his world. Funny how living with a Shiba teaches you to care about things you never noticed before.
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The walk stopped again today.
Same street. Same patch of pavement.
He sat there for a minute, looking at nothing I could see. When he finally stood up, I wondered if the walk had been for him all along.
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Maybe that's why he likes the hallway.
Not quite in the room. Not quite away from it.
This morning he spent an hour there, watching the house wake up, as if the space between things mattered too.
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A small shift.
He spent the morning on the sofa, watching from a distance.
Later, I noticed he’d moved closer to the kitchen doorway—not because I called him, but because he decided to.
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Not following.
I moved from the living room to the kitchen and back again. He never left the sofa.
But somehow, every time I looked up, he already knew where I was.
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Still there.
I walked to the kitchen, came back, and he hadn't moved from the sofa. But somehow he always knew exactly where I was.
Maybe that's his version of staying close.
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A vending machine on the corner again.
I walked past it without thinking. My Shiba stopped, looked around, and stayed for a moment like there was something worth remembering there.
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He spent half the morning ignoring me from the sofa.
Then I opened the refrigerator.
Apparently, we were never having a communication problem. We were just working with different priorities.
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There's a vending machine on our usual route that means absolutely nothing to me.
My Shiba stops there almost every day.
After a while, I stopped wondering why and started accepting that he knows the neighborhood differently than I do
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One of the quietest things about walking a dog in Japan is how often people make space for each other without saying a word.
My Shiba never notices.
He assumes the whole neighborhood is already his.
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A stranger smiled from the other side of the street.
Before I could even look up, my Shiba had already sat down and was waiting to be admired.
The confidence of that little dog continues to amaze me.
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Today’s favorite spot was the space between the refrigerator and the wall.
Not the dog bed. Not the sunny window.
Just a place that made perfect sense to my Shiba and absolutely none to me.
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Maybe my Shiba wasn't ignoring the dog park.
This evening he sat by the fence, watching the river while the others played. For a long time, he looked exactly where he wanted to be.
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