2 permanent residents. A female akita, Azami, and a female shiba, Haruko, both akc registered with japanese lines.
Then we foster occasionally. Our first was a little border collie x terrier that we took in ourselves
Now we are officially fostering for a local rescue that specializes in shibas and japanese dogs. Here is Kenta the puppy mill shiba who just went to a new home with another volunteer that works for the recue
and then Dakota who is now my mom's dog. After much debate we think he is a shiba x husky. Everyone kept saying he looks like all these large breeds and in the end he only got about 30lbs. He also looks a lot like Kenta the sesame shiba above plus Haruko's coat and thicker build and then a slightly less curly tail, slightly different head shape, and black tongue plus being maybe 10lbs over standard shiba weight. The best thing I can guess would give that is adding husky (which can have black tongues) to a not so well bred sesame shiba like Kenta.
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Holy cow! They look so much alike! How big is Skippy? Elmer is about 50 lbs at 7 months.
How old is Skippy? Are you sure of his parents' breeds? We saw Elmer's mom, definitely a small bullmastiff (with maybe a touch of something else). His dad is a mystery.