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| DannyBrown91 |
Posted - 01/04/2010 : 01:24:17
Not a reptile, but Japan is pretty exotic 
Here is my baby Sasha when we first got her in January, we got her when she was 8 weeks old but in these pics she is between 9-10 weeks.
Here she is now just over 2 moths on. She is now 18 weeks old i think so almost 5 months.
Going all playfull.
She moved lol
Will get another pic of her in the morning playing with her Sully teddy so you can see how much bigger she has gotten in the couple of moths we have had her. |
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| DannyBrown91 |
Posted - 04/04/2010 : 13:35:21
Yer, its normly when they get to around the 6 month mark they start testing the water so you just have to stomp on it straight away.
You cant stay angry at her though not when your shouting at her and she howls haha.
I havn't heard her bark yet which is normal apparently as they only bark when they think there is something wrong, but she does some pretty awesome howls. And she talks lol. its somewhere inbetween a howl and a grwol lol but yer she talks. It says on the internet that they often make funny noises though haha.
Judith, we weren't sure wether we wanted another dog after losing our rottweiler in November to cancer. It was so devastating when it happened but the house did feel empty without her so 2 months later we started looking into another dog and we ended up with sasha. |
| herriotfan |
Posted - 04/04/2010 : 06:20:20
Like you say Danny, they do the protecting without any training but they do need lots of socialising and need to be aware of their low status in the pack if you don't want a thug!!
She is lovely tho ;) |
| Kellog |
Posted - 04/04/2010 : 05:55:56
Sasha is absolutely gorgeous Danny  . I do wish I was in the position to have a dog like that - although my first choice would immediately be the GSD as they are what I grew up with. But just dont have the room or the health to look after a big dog so it isnt fair on them.
I have always had mongrels, and usually rescued collie crosses. I have been amazed at how healthy they are compared to so many pedigree dogs - I dont think we had any vet visits until they got old.
Am now dogless for the first time in my life  and I hate it....but it is a big decision to get another dog and certainly couldnt do the puppy thing. I guess time will tell....
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| DannyBrown91 |
Posted - 03/04/2010 : 01:14:57
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Originally posted by Sta~ple
I think you made the right choice. As lovely as Huskies are, you can very risky to let them off a lead and they also love to live outside rather than inside other wise their coats can go funny apprently :(
The Japanese Akita's are so much prettier than the American ones.. I think it's the fluffyness :3
It isn't advised that you let akitas off the lead, because they can become very dog agressive and will fight to the death if needs be. Sasha ont he other hand is a complete **** house, she jumps if a jack russell or yorkie bark at her. You can tell she has got the hunting instinct though. In japan the where used to hunt big game such as deer and bear.
Akitas are also an indoor dog, because they are so familly orientated. Apparently they do ok living outside but often become totally different dogs because they don't have an owner and a familly around them all the time. In the 3 months that we have had her she has certainly become part of the family.
I remember when we were looking on the internet and all the websites were saying how familly orientated akitas are and how loyal they are to their owners. Apparently they don't need training to become guard doggs because they are very protective of their owners and because of this need socialising at a young age.
Where as all the websites were saying about huskies is that they are lovely dogs that love to run away and are expert escape artists lol.
The one thing the husky did have going for it is that they are quite a bit smaller than akitas.
I said i only wanted a husky if it was black and white with blue eyes, but apparently it reminded my mum of demon off snow dogs so that kind of swung it for an akita too. I got my way in the end though hehe.
Edit - Ooo sorry for swearing lol.
Oh and as for the American Vs Japanese thing it was the face and the attitude that swung it for me, well i say swung it i wanted a japanese one from the start but they look so much nicer with the white face. Plus american akitas are a mixture of Japanese akita, german shepard and another breed i think and were originally bred for fighting.
People basically saw how strong and loyal the japanese akita was and tried to cross breed it to make a bigger version and ended up with the american akita.
Infact in America they don't see the difference, an Akita is an Akita, kind of silly to me like have a pitbull terrier and a yorkshire terrier and saying a terrier is a terrier. |
| crazy JJ |
Posted - 03/04/2010 : 00:53:28
awwww such an adorable fluffy doggie lol... ya can safely say jelous muchly... although i dooo love huskys... o n german shepards lol but urs is soooooo cute n great pics :D |
| Sta~ple |
Posted - 02/04/2010 : 23:57:53
I think you made the right choice. As lovely as Huskies are, you can very risky to let them off a lead and they also love to live outside rather than inside other wise their coats can go funny apprently :(
The Japanese Akita's are so much prettier than the American ones.. I think it's the fluffyness :3 |
| DannyBrown91 |
Posted - 02/04/2010 : 23:12:56
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Originally posted by hiper2009
Extreamly cute , and extreamly jelous you did well Danny on picking this breed.
I will post pics of my rare dog when i have time.
It was between a Japanese Akita and a Husky. My mum favoured the husky more and i favoured the akita more, at first she didnt like them because she was just searching for akita and was seeing some of the american ones but when she started looking into it and i was showing her different things about akitas she quickly decided that the akita was the best.
I think it was the fact that they are so good with kids that swung it as my sister is only 19 months old.
Got to say though sasha is really gentle when she plays with georgia, its just me she savages haha. |
| hiper2009 |
Posted - 02/04/2010 : 21:09:41
Extreamly cute , and extreamly jelous you did well Danny on picking this breed.
I will post pics of my rare dog when i have time. |
| BlueTongueDan |
Posted - 02/04/2010 : 20:03:12
Wow!
She is an absolutly awesome looking dog!
Cool photos, Danny! |
| DannyBrown91 |
Posted - 02/04/2010 : 00:42:00
They are very intelligent but are notoriously strong willed and if you don't show them that you are the alfa male then they can be very hard to train. Sasha is just starting to listen now, she knows if she has done something wrong. I think its quite funny when you shout at her though, because they are so family orientated its like shouting at a child lol, she just goes to her bed and has a little sulk then comes in 10 mins later looks at you and gives you a little cuddle hehe.
Yes some of the Akita crosses can get very large, American Akitas which are essentially Akitas crossed with German shepards get pretty big. Im not sure ours is fully japanese as the person we got her off didn't have papers for the male, the female was full japanese and the mother of the male was full japanese but the stud didn't have papers so sashas dad didn't have papers. She looks full japanese, you can normly tell by the face and many crosses have shorter chubbier muzzles and often have black faces. But its safe too assume she is atleast like 90% japanese.
She's already getting pretty protective, shes ok with any lad mates i have but when ever i speak to any girls she goes ona little mad one. Pretty wary of strangers aswell, she jumped at the parcelforce man the other day hehe. Im sure she will calm down when she gets used to seeing strangers all the time. |
| kdlang |
Posted - 01/04/2010 : 22:56:40
My sister used to breed Akitas. Stunning dogs. As a little comparison, I once had a rescue dog. It was a large crossbreed and when he was castrated at 7 months old he weighed in at a huge 45kg. I had to return him to the rescue for various reasons. It fair broke my heart as he was my baby. I would love to see how big he has got. |
| Sta~ple |
Posted - 01/04/2010 : 22:10:15
Eeeee I just looked at some of them full grown on Google and they are adorable as well! Are they easy to train? Or are they similar to Huskies in that way? |
| DannyBrown91 |
Posted - 01/04/2010 : 21:56:13
Indeed, they're classed as a large dog. Shes 5 months old next tuesday and won't be fully grown untill around 18 months i think. |
| Sta~ple |
Posted - 01/04/2010 : 21:09:56
My god, she could weigh as much as an adult? Wow I thought those dogs were small. They are very very cute though :3 |
| DannyBrown91 |
Posted - 01/04/2010 : 20:39:16
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Originally posted by Sta~ple
Awwwwww is she fully grown yet? Or has she a way to go as she looks like a cute short wolf at the moment.
Shes still got some way too go, she should get to between 35 and 40KG currently probably around 13KG.
Japanese Akita's are in some way or another realted to wolves
They are really inteligent dogs and if you have a little search on google you will read some amazing stories about them.
Anybody seen the advert for the film Hochi? We read th story on the net when we were reading about akitas. Hochiko was a Japanese Akita who would walk his owner to the train station every morning, go home and then be back in time to meet his owner getting off the train. His owner died of a heart attack whilst at work and everyday the dog would walk to the train station and wait for his owner, when the dog died they put up a statue in his honor which still stands :) |
| Sta~ple |
Posted - 01/04/2010 : 20:10:55
Awwwwww is she fully grown yet? Or has she a way to go as she looks like a cute short wolf at the moment. |
| DannyBrown91 |
Posted - 01/04/2010 : 19:02:30
quote:
Originally posted by tinamiles
i am actually grabbing my keys while i type this and am on my way to steal her! She is Gorgeous!!! soo wish i wasnt allergic to alot of dogs :(
Ahh you wouldnt want her then, she moults very heavilly twice a year and is extremely mischievious. As im typing she is running around the house soaking wet because my brother was in the shower and she decided to jump in with him lmao... |
| tinamiles |
Posted - 01/04/2010 : 17:14:54
i am actually grabbing my keys while i type this and am on my way to steal her! She is Gorgeous!!! soo wish i wasnt allergic to alot of dogs :( |
| DannyBrown91 |
Posted - 01/04/2010 : 17:08:16
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Originally posted by HannahB
shes gooooorgeous
in the first pic she looks like a big fluffy teddybear toy.. ah they dont stay small for long
shes great ...ever so slightly jealous!
Yer she was like a big teddy bear lol. I used to have to carry her around everywhere when we went out to the vets or anything and now she just pulls me everywhere lol. |
| HannahB |
Posted - 01/04/2010 : 15:52:21
shes gooooorgeous
in the first pic she looks like a big fluffy teddybear toy.. ah they dont stay small for long
shes great ...ever so slightly jealous! |
