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Akita, Family Pet?

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  • #52
    lrushe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,713 ✭✭✭lrushe


    Tripp wrote: »
    I have a Female American Akita and id agree with everything that Discostuy said about the Pros and cons of the breed.

    My akita is very loyal & protective of the Family and the House and will never bark unless something is wrong.
    They need so much attention when their pups , you have to train them from day 1 or your in for a tough time with them.

    Heres some pics of my Akita

    Don't Akita's look so at home in the snow!!!:)


  • #53
    Tripp
    Registered Users Posts: 398 ✭✭Tripp


    Shes 3 and yes they look so at home in the snow, Those snow pics where from the snow "The Big Freeze". She loved chasing snow balls and trying to eat them. Then wondering where the snow ball went when she caught it!


  • #54
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Tripp wrote: »
    Shes 3 and yes they look so at home in the snow, Those snow pics where from the snow "The Big Freeze". She loved chasing snow balls and trying to eat them. Then wondering where the snow ball went when she caught it!

    Might be a sister so :eek: they really are alike


  • #55
    Tripp
    Registered Users Posts: 398 ✭✭Tripp


    What the hell they are the spitting image of each other :eek:


  • #56
    turbodiesel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 553 ✭✭✭turbodiesel


    <link to rescue removed>

    I'm raising this thread from the dungeon in the hope that some of the Akita owners are still going to get a notification and ask how Akita ownership is going or went 10 years later.

    I've just adopted Zanna on Saturday.

    I don't have big dog experience but have read a lot of pros and cons over the previous 3 months before taking the plunge.

    She's living with myself, wife, 19 and 17 yr old kids and seems to have slotted right in as if she was always part of the gang.


  • #57
    jinxycat
    Registered Users Posts: 599 ✭✭✭jinxycat


    I still have my Akita Millie ten years later :). She’ll be 13 this October. She defies the odds at everything. I was told she wouldn’t live past eight, glad she has!!!
    I was told she’d severe hip dysplasia and by looking at her scans she shouldn’t be even walking but she’s a fighter and flies around the place when excited but does love her sleep too.


  • #58
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    My guy only made it to about 6 years, took a fit and never recovered

    He was calm around strangers and small dogs, great with kids. Not good with other large male dogs at all. Broke a lot of stuff around the house, including a door (long story). Very confident and curious, he'd would go out wandering if a gate was left open, did it twice and caused panic.

    Great dog, miss him a lot.

    One thing I found invaluable was a harness that clipped the lead at the chest so he couldnt pull on the on the lead, I got him at six months and he had very little lead training so I only had a short window to get him flying straight before his would have made him unmanageable

    That said i was standing talking to another dog owner once, not paying attention, he saw a dog he knew coming up behind us and decided to charge towards it, caught me totally unawares and I was flipped 360 over onto my back. I would have been about 13 stone at the time....big strong dogs


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