Inside each person lives two wolves. One is loyal, kind, respectful, humble and open to the mystery of life. The other is greedy, jealous, hateful, afraid and blind to the wonders of life. They are in battle for your spirit. The one who wins is the one you feed.
They don't get very big, at the dog shows they are table dogs for a point of reference. I've actually been looking into getting a Shiba, but i've heard that they aren't really good with kids so I wanted to do some more research.
I looked into Basenji as well, but I figured in the long run their yodel would start to annoy me. Adam, if you look online, you can find wave files of the noises they make. Other than that, it was a toss up for me.
seriously though, can i at least play with them? josh's mom's bf's sister (durrr, sorry i know that's stupidly complicated) had shiba inu puppies when we were at her house last spring and they're just the cutest damn things ever. i really wanted one, and i think if she hadn't been asking $500 apiece for them, we would've gotten one. that, and we wouldn't have had anywhere to keep it at that point. I WILL ALWAYS LOVE THEM THOUGH