Our Akita Puppy
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Evening all.
At the request of a breeder we got talking to at Cruft last Saturday I took some pics for her, Also thought I'd share them with you all. He's 5 months old, stands 24' at the shoulder and weighs 5 1/2 stone.
24 foot? That is a BIG freakin dog!
Beautiful dog!
I'm just a tad worried as to why you chose THAT breed though ...... ?
I hope that you socialise him early and that he learns to play and have fun with other dogs.
Sorry to sound a little aggressive, it's just that I see/hear so many people with Akitas/Bull terriers/Pit bull crosses etc that I have become very sceptical as to why one would coose that breed.
I'm just a tad worried as to why you chose THAT breed though ...... ?
I hope that you socialise him early and that he learns to play and have fun with other dogs.
Sorry to sound a little aggressive, it's just that I see/hear so many people with Akitas/Bull terriers/Pit bull crosses etc that I have become very sceptical as to why one would coose that breed.
We walk him before work, I leave at 07:30 the g/f leaves at 08:30, either myself of the g/f will come home around 12ish for 1/2 an hour to let him out to go to the toilet and have a 10 min walk to stretch his legs etc, then I'm home from work around 16:15. he then goes on his evening walk around 18:00ish
Also mt parents live about a 5 min walk away and they absolutely love him so they spend at least 3 days a week round at our house with him while we're at work so the most he spends on his own is about 3 1/2 hours, but some weeks he'll have almost constant company all day.
Thanks, and you've answered part of your own question there, they are quite the most spectacular breed of dog I've ever seen. I've waited for my circumstances to be right before I got one, it took nearly eight years for that to happen.
The first time I saw one I amazed, and promised myself I'd get one eventually and while waiting did a lot of research into the breed and its characteristics & qualities were really appealing I visited breeders dog shows, to see them first hand
Don't think you're being aggresive tbh, they are an extrmely dominant breed and when we're out with him we keep him on the lead at all times. When we collected him from the breeder, one of their children informed us quite innocently that we'd picked the dog was the dominant one and he could be a bit of a bully. There are some dogs he likes and is happy to meet, but there are some dogs he doesn't like.
Unfortunatley like you say there are certain breeds that attract the wrong sort of owner due to their appearance and parts of their history. the owners who know the breed make the effort to socialise their dogs and make sure they are under control at all times when out in public, are the ones who you never hear about, when we're out we get stopped a lot by people wanting to ask all kinds of questions about him.
Awesome looking dogHow is the training with the Halti going?
Dog with socks rocks
Thanks, the training is going well, I'm happy walking him on a normal lead, but as he's getting bigger and pretty strong we bought the halti to give the g/f (and my mum if she ever holds the lead when they are out) a bit more control, he sometimes pulls if there are strange dogs around of we are in unfamiliar place, but the hlati seems to be doing the trick.
Hows your Boxer getting on? Sorry to hear about you having to get a rat on a rope
Ay luck in talking her out of it?
Hows your Boxer getting on? Sorry to hear about you having to get a rat on a rope
Rocky is fine. Getting on well. Passing his training with flying colours, though we're still unable to get him to behave around other dogs, whether on or off the lead.
It's starting to really bug me now. No idea when he's going to try and run off and disappear when off the lead.
Archie is the same, we've recently finished a puppy training class, and he would be fine with the commands and obidient when doing the training, but the minute another dog would bark or act up he'd start.
We don't him him off lead outside unless it's in an enclosed space, there is a tennis court on the park across the road from us where he has a run around, but off lead anywhere else and he'd be off over the nearest hill.
We don't him him off lead outside unless it's in an enclosed space, there is a tennis court on the park across the road from us where he has a run around, but off lead anywhere else and he'd be off over the nearest hill.
still really angry with you wordy!
i want that dog lol
Cool, I'll give you a shout the next time he starts acting up
Time for an update I think.
Archie is now 8 months old, I got talked out of showing him so he was castrated at 7 months. At the moment he's about 28" tall at the shoulder and weighs 7 stone. The castration hasn't altered his temprament all that much yet, but we've been told by the vet that the testosterone already built up in his system will take a while to clear,. He's still very boisterous around other dogs and gets very excited when we get visitors.
From my expiriences with owning an Akita so far it seems they are very much a love or hate 'em dog, while walking the comments we get are for the vast majority positive. On the same walk we can get people crossing the road to avoid him then crossing back after they've got past us, to people in cars slowing down to admire him or on one occasion stopping to ask about him.
Anyway enough yakking heres some pics.
Here he is on todays morning walking checking a couple of horses out
He's currently blowing his coat (Shedding) and for the last week we've been brushing him everyday. today we got a big shedding brush and the result is on the bottom letf of these pics.
Wanting to play
Posing
I left a box of tissues on the side, went upstairs for 30 seconds and this is what I was greeted with
And finally Archie saying hello to next doors cat, who he absolutly loves.
When he stands up like that he's about 5'8. the g/f is 5'10 and he's almost as tall as her.
Archie is now 8 months old, I got talked out of showing him so he was castrated at 7 months. At the moment he's about 28" tall at the shoulder and weighs 7 stone. The castration hasn't altered his temprament all that much yet, but we've been told by the vet that the testosterone already built up in his system will take a while to clear,. He's still very boisterous around other dogs and gets very excited when we get visitors.
From my expiriences with owning an Akita so far it seems they are very much a love or hate 'em dog, while walking the comments we get are for the vast majority positive. On the same walk we can get people crossing the road to avoid him then crossing back after they've got past us, to people in cars slowing down to admire him or on one occasion stopping to ask about him.
Anyway enough yakking heres some pics.
Here he is on todays morning walking checking a couple of horses out
He's currently blowing his coat (Shedding) and for the last week we've been brushing him everyday. today we got a big shedding brush and the result is on the bottom letf of these pics.
Wanting to play
Posing
I left a box of tissues on the side, went upstairs for 30 seconds and this is what I was greeted with
And finally Archie saying hello to next doors cat, who he absolutly loves.
When he stands up like that he's about 5'8. the g/f is 5'10 and he's almost as tall as her.
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We wished to have an Akita, Jack, lovely dog. He was a rescue dog though and suffered form separation anxiety, and we had suspicions that he had been trained as a fighting dog before hand.
The dominance thing can be got rid of if trained from a pup but ours was too far gone and had to be kept on a leash, he attacked anything furry. My step-dad crashed once with Jack in the back, he got him out and he leapt into a field and tried to take down a horse
but he backed off when the other horses came along.They are very protective but do have very distinct personalities. Such as we used to have a little baby of one of your friends that would visit and we would occasionally baby sit. He got jealous of the attention we payed to her and a couple of times just "knocked" her over.
Oh and the fur is a killer, in the picture above you see all that fur in the bottom left, you get that at least once a week in summer, it's hell.
They need a big open spaces and quite a bit of exercise. And the personalities of each dog can be very interesting, ours loved fast food lol.
But he was very loyal and protective, affectionate and always fun to play with. I wouldn't however recommend them as a first dog as they can be quite complicated and hands on to look after.
And they all are beautiful