Ummmmmm... did I miss something.
Also if I remember correctly the odds of a shiny appearing are one in five thousand two hundred fourty three (1:5243)
I've ever only found two shinies, a tentacool which I captured and a zigzagoon. Unfoutunately I was so early in the game on the Zigzagoon I didn't have any pokeballs left... this made me Uber-mad/sad.
Also had a bad morning, first thing I did is walk the dog... didn't think the door would be locked, so I walk to my dad's work which is about a 10 minute walk by yourself but with a super-hyper-ADHD puppy its about 20... and it started raining halfway there... and that was my very terrible morning.
Edit:Uboa, Shirl seems to be freaking huge if he is bigger then Odessa, considering she's a little over a meter tall and for Shirl to be a meter when lying down I'd think he would have to be well over 1.5 or so meters... or about 5 ft.
Thats a little tall for a flareon, and if I remember my eeveelutions correctly Umbreon's are one of the tallest Eeveelutions, tied with another that I can't remember at this second.
So eithier Shirls an insanely large Flareon, or i'm just bored and wanted to poke fun and point out something trivial.
Eithier way i'm gonna pretend Shirl is only about 12 cm taller then Odessa, so Shirl is larger then Odessa, just not by the insane amount you mentioned. 1.2m is about 4ft is about what i'm gonna pretend Shirl is.