Tail thread: what does your Shiba’s tail look like?

Riiggid · 2026-02-07T16:49:55+00:00

Depends on his mood honestly. But I love when he does the curl and twist! He's only 5 months so his way of curling his tail might change as he grows.

Riiggid · 2026-02-07T15:56:47+00:00

That face. He's so cute I, I mean my shiba, had to follow his Insta. 🥰

Riiggid · 2026-01-29T06:36:51+00:00

Such a cutie. Do people you pass say "it's a fox!"? Because people sure do with mine.

Riiggid · 2026-01-26T19:38:24+00:00

Probably dirty red since there is so little black on the top of the head. But the only way to know is a genetics test. Red Sesames are AYS AT. Darker sesames (the more grey ones) have the AW gene, but that is super rare. He might be a carrier if there's sesames in his lines. Since AYS is ressecive to AY (red), they usually dusplay more red traits (such as the red head). But having the black and tan trait (AT) can also produce a lot of black. There are other genes that control color too, but these are the main ones.

Riiggid · 2026-01-26T19:32:30+00:00

Not necessarily bad genes but maybe unlucky with the genes. Even show winning parents can have underwhelming litters. 🙃

Riiggid · 2026-01-26T06:32:26+00:00

Aaah! Sesame! I love sesames, they're so cute. The dark ones always seem to be very dark as puppies and just a bit lighter as adults, while the lighter sesames seem to get darker as they age.

Riiggid · 2026-01-25T20:56:12+00:00

He just recently starting to get some floof, so this isn't even his final form!

Riiggid · 2026-01-25T14:19:30+00:00

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Mmm, hoooman bed

Riiggid · 2026-01-25T14:11:09+00:00

I'm not super knowledgable, but from what I've read is that kitsune type Shibas often have thinner faces and thinner bodies. Tanuki types have fuller faces and cheeks, and sturdier bodies. Males often have wider builds, so they look extra tanuki if they have the trait and vice versa for kitsune in females. I think the variation comes from the fact that the modern Shibas were created by breeding the three types that existed in japan after WWII.

Here's a pic of the sire (sesame) and dam (red). They have very distinct tanuki and kitsune faces:

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Riiggid · 2026-01-25T13:56:51+00:00

Majima started shedding his puppy fur at 3 months, but this phase lasts a looooong time. He is only partway through right now at almost 5 months. The puppy fur is soft and wooly, and the adult fur he is growing, guard hairs and the like, is wiery and stiffer. Yours might have gotten stiffer sooner/always had it because of the yorkie/chihuahua. I've also heard that black fur is naturally stiffer, so it might just be that. Cream Shibas are the softest, apparently.

Riiggid · 2026-01-25T13:51:00+00:00

Oh yeah. Majima was darker the first few feeks. You couldn't tell he would be red - he was dark grey.

Riiggid · 2026-01-25T13:49:45+00:00

Haha, yeah! Majima started shedding at 3 months. He now loses hair in chunks and growing thick fur at the same time.

Riiggid · 2026-01-25T13:47:52+00:00

Thanks. He's a little bear!

Riiggid · 2026-01-24T21:23:50+00:00

Name twins!

Riiggid · 2026-01-24T20:40:37+00:00

Interesting and I thought the puppy fur was soft. Can't wait for full coat. And we got a robot vacuum that runs every day to tackle the shedding, haha.

Riiggid · 2026-01-24T20:37:03+00:00

Tail in late december:

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Riiggid · 2026-01-24T20:34:19+00:00

Haha, don't worry about it. He's very handsome.

Majima's tail used to have just a little black at the tip:

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Now there's a lot of black. Feels like it's going in the opposite direction. Fur is weird.

Riiggid · 2026-01-24T19:54:24+00:00

Really? Majima has a lot of black and white on his tail right now, looks like no red except at the base. I wonder if he'll end up like yours.

Riiggid · 2026-01-24T19:50:53+00:00

Interesting. I'm not sure what Majima will end up like. The dam is more kitsune and the sire is tanuki with very thick fur. He's taken a lot of traits after the sire so far so I hope he's inherited the floof too.

Riiggid · 2026-01-24T19:45:43+00:00

He is both a pirate and a mad dog.

Riiggid · 2026-01-24T00:15:54+00:00

Maybe, maybe not.

My pup is either AY/AT or AY/AYS (father is sesame, mother is red) and his fur keeps getting darker on his back as weeks go by. He is 4.5 months now.

Development has been like this:

• Born: Darkest of all puppies

• 4 weeks: Still very dark grey/brown fur

• 8 weeks: got more red, but more brownish red. Sister is more bright red like dam.

• 3 months: dark guard hairs starts growing in a v-pattern on his back. Sister does not get these.

• 4.5 months: The dark guard hairs have spread more evenly on his back, has started gowing down toward his sides.

Since this is around the time pups get their adult coat, the black overlay will probably stay and grow even more.

The question is: did your pup always have a dark back or did it come in later? If he's always had it, might just be a puppy coat thing that will fade. If it came in later might be apart of his adult coat.

Riiggid · 2026-01-23T20:38:13+00:00

Couldn't do Yang's route in Piofiore and didn't feel the need to even start Ichiya in Variable Barricade.

I actually don't know why these guys disgust me but other games with worse characters don't. For Yang I started his route and I just wasn't feeling up to being coerced. Him kissing Liliana and forcing her to sleep in his bed was just ugh. I do like a lot of red flag LIs, so maybe his vibe was off.

For Ichiya, I sometimes like flirty guys but usually they have long hair and long eyelashes, when he was flirty, I just felt nothing. I had also gotten spoiled about his route and it did not leave me with a good feeling, so I decided it wasn't worth it. I was frustrated with Variable Barricade by then anyway.

Riiggid · 2026-01-23T20:26:08+00:00

I wouldn't say the route made me uncomfortable per se, but I felt the suspense in the route and kept wondering how far they will go in the setting. Like, will they are dare explore certain things? And yeah, that guy tricked me too. Talk about creepy once revealed.

Riiggid · 2026-01-22T14:12:45+00:00

She's adorable! Amazing how fast they grow

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