San Francisco (CA) – Nearly 8.5 million viewers from over 65 countries have stopped by in the past 7 weeks to watch the cute and fuzzy Shiba Inu puppies on ustream.tv. The puppies play, cavort, gallivant, romp and ooze love and joy. This has drawn a steady crowd of more than 20,000 viewers during peak times of the week.
No fuss, no mess
The pups have mass appeal for many reasons. They’re cute, happy and elicit smiles hand over first. And, when users get bored there’s always another website somewhere. In the mean time there’s no cleaning, no feeding, no walking the dog. Just happiness. And, like the grandparents enjoying the grandchildren, the joy is had and then they go somewhere else.
As of November 25, 2008, the site has received 8,485,131 views with more than 3,263 5-star ratings. Over 2,890 comments have been left. And today, November 28, the site went down for a couple hours while they reworked the pen. Immediately after they went live there were 28 viewers. Within 10 minutes there were over 6,000 viewers – and this on a holiday Friday.
Puppies sleeping on November 28, 2008. Visit the link below to see the puppies in action.
The six pups are divided equally among the sexes:
Girls:
- Autumn (Purple collar) – 4 lbs 11.2 oz
- Ayumi (Yellow collar) – 4 lbs 8.2 oz
- Amaya (Red collar) – 4 lbs 10.6 oz
Boys:
- Aki (Green collar) – 5 lbs 12.6 oz
- Akoni (Black collar) – 5 lbs 9.4 oz
- Ando (Blue collar) – 5 lbs 13.5 oz
Same litter
This is the first litter from their mom, Kika, who appears occasionally on-camera these days. The pups all have homes and will be delivered after their 15 weeks?? of fame. The owners have chosen to remain anonymous. CNN picked up on the cute pups on November 18.
