今日は清々しい天気だったので、追加の散歩で午後の3時半頃に公園へ向かいました。つい最近までの蒸し暑かった気候が嘘のようです。
It was a dry and cool day today, which is typical of our autumn weather. Hopefully, we will not have any more typhoons visiting us. To take advantage of the day, we went out for an extra walk at around 3:30 p.m.
彼岸を過ぎると急速に日が短くなるので、もう夕方のような日差しです。
After the autumnal equinox, daylight hours are getting progressively shorter, and it was already looking like close to sunset.
In that weakening light, we met Miou, a female Shiba Inu we have known since she was just a tiny puppy.
ミオウちゃんは4歳になったそうですが、すっかり落ち着いて、子犬の頃の面影が全く見えません。
Taiga playing cool.
元々は豆柴っぽい子でしたが、今では小ぶりの普通の柴です。以前聞いた話では、「豆柴」の子犬を迎えても、きちんと食事制限をしないとどんどん大きくなって、普通柴に近づくことがよくあるそうです。ミオウちゃんはぽっちゃり体形なので、美味しいものをたらふく食べて育ったように見えます。
As a puppy, she seemed to belong to the 'miniature' Shiba Inu category. However, her dad has been over-generous with tasty food and she has grown into a near-normal size. I hear that you have to be very strict with the feeding habit if you want to keep the miniature status.
その後、中央公園を突き抜けて板橋区側へ出ました。途中のケヤキやイチョウの木の林は人影が少なく、若い女性がそれぞれのベンチで読書をしている程度で、水彩画のような風景です。
We then walked through the woodland to reach the other side of the park. With very few people around, except two young women reading a book sitting on their respective bench, the scenery looked like a water-colour painting.
We came out of the woodland and stopped on the bridge to take a picture of Taiga, when I spotted our neighbour.
引き返してリアちゃんを待ち受け。
Taiga is excited not because she met Leah, but she was expecting a treat from Leah's mom.
いつものようにリアちゃんがズカズカと臭い嗅ぎに来ても無視しながら、
Leah shows off her proprietary right over Taiga, but they both got what they expected in the end.
リアちゃんは再度、耳たぶの補正中のようです。こうやって見ると、ジャーマンピンチャーというよりは、普通にドーベルマンピンシャーに見えます。
Leah is having her ear flaps fixed again. With the ears propped up, she looks like an American Doberman Pinscher.
リアちゃんたちと別れたあと、帰宅途中で会ったレオ君、4歳。一見柴犬ですが、チワワの血も混じっているそうで、言われてみると目のあたりがチワワです。
After saying good-bye to Leah, we headed home, when we met Leo, a 4 years old Shiba Inu-Chihuahua mix. Since the owner tells me that Leo is part Chihuahua, his eyes look a bit bulging.
たまにしか出くわさないけど、なぜかタイガはレオ君と相性が良いので、ふたりは道の上でも追いかけっこしようとします。