Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Available Shikoku Male

EDIT: Thanks for all the mails. This guy has found a home.
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I think I posted one pic of this guy a while back.
He was born on December 27th, and is out of Bunta x Kaori (Kaori is a Kuromasa x Chacha pup). He's a friendly pup, with a very nice temperament. If anyone's interested, mail me at kato.the.walrus@gmail.com




Here's pics from when the litter was younger.






Monday, March 19, 2018

Another Shikoku Database

So we already have a beautiful user generated pedigree database for the Shikoku Ken over at www.shikoku-pedigree.com that was put together by Nico over at Kasatori Sou in the Netherlands. I have however wanted a database to track COI, AVK, health issues, that sort of thing. The current Shikoku Pedigree site is great for a quick look up of a dog, get some good info and pictures, or putting pedigree information up quickly. It's user friendly.

What I've been working on for a while is a separate database that simply put will be less user friendly. And less friendly to me as well. I'm going through my excel database in Japanese with 96,000 entries, weeding out the dogs with not enough information, or double entries etc and am going to try to make it useful to track the past and current Shikoku gene pool.


https://shikokuken.pedigreedatabaseonline.com/en/ is where the data will be. I've currently put a bit of test data in there to see how it all comes up and calculates, how it handles Japanese kanji and searches, and so far all is good. I like the functionality of seeing the COI/AVK calculations, and being able to search for common ancestors in the pedigrees of multiple dogs (say you're looking for some connection concerning a genetic health issue).



Anyway, not sure how soon it will be before I get all the data up, but I reckon if I blog about it it will happen sooner!

Thursday, March 15, 2018

NIPPO Grand National 2018

EDIT 2018/10/05: THE VENUE HAS CHANGED! Here is the link for the new venue
http://nihonken.blogspot.com/2018/10/update-new-location-for-nippo-grand.html

The NIPPO Grand National 2018 will take place in Ome city, Tokyo, on the Meisei University campus.
It will be hosted by the NIPPO Santama branch.
November 17th - Shiba judging
November 18th - Medium/Large breed judging and BIS

Here is the address and map:

 2 Chome-590 Nagabuchi, Oume-shi, Tōkyō-to 198-0052 https://goo.gl/maps/kEWNGnV6xHk



I look forward to seeing you all there. It should be a good national to attend for people overseas seeing as the venue is close to the Tokyo metropolitan area.

Saturday, March 3, 2018

Two Shikoku Females Available

EDIT 2018/03/15 Both of these girls have been homed. Thanks for all the mails!

So these two lovely little Shikoku females are available.
Date of birth: 2017 December 21st
If anyone's interested, give me a holler at kato.the.walrus@gmail.com
They're Mikasa Sou lines on one side, and Yano lines on the other.