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EddieWalker
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Thanks Brett,
This is our super star. Her name is Kaminari and at 9 months old, she won four majors in a row to become an AKC Champion. You have to win at least two majors to get your championship and most will win local shows to get a single point and keep doing this hoping for a major win along the way. A major has to have 8 females competing. You can win a single point just being the only dog of that breed competing. All Kami's points are from major wins!! Even more impressive is that she beat "Halo" for those wins. Halo is the number 5 Akita in the nation and the number 1 female. Once this happened, Kami went from just another puppy, to the number 18 Akita in the nation and the number 5 female. We haven't her since then because she blew her coat.
This is Matsu. He is five months old and already a couple pounds heavier the Kami at 72 pounds. He is still too young to compete and we are still waiting on Canada for his papers. Once we have them, we can get his US papers. He has to have his papers to compete. He is from Saskatchewan. His Grandfather is the winning-est Akita in AKC history. Both of his parents are Grand Champions with very impressive careers. His father died 20 years ago and he was born from frozen sperm. The people who breed him do not list those puppies for sale. They do not allow them to go to homes that they do not approve of. One of our good friends with 2 dozen years of showing Akita's and multiple top 20 dogs was turned down when trying to get Matsu's sister. They said her kennels where not what they wanted for her. Matsu is the pick of the litter, and after Kami did so well, they approached us. His potential is very exciting. Kami is perfect in every way, she is very special. Matsu is even better and almost too perfect. Karen has started Conformation training with him, and he is picking it up extremely quickly. He is very smart and seems to think things through, then does it better every time. Just off of FB posts and word of mouth through the Akita world, we are already being approached about breeding him. Those offers are significant, and the motivation to create the separate, air conditioned, tiled doggy house.
This is Raiden. He is the one that got us into dog shows. We didn't know what we where doing when we got him and in hindsite, would not of bought him to compete with. His biggest fault is his height. He is a shorty and barely makes the minimum height requirements for the breed. He also has a small butt. Great Akita's have massive rear ends. His ears could be better, his eyes are a little sunken and his gait isn't very smooth. He won enough shows to prove to us that he is average. Once we realized that and started looking around, we realized that he was never going to be a foundation dog for our kennel. Another issue happened last year when he came down with tick paralysis. It almost killed him, all his legs and head where paralyzed. Next to go would have been his internal organs. His immune system isn't something we want to pass on to others if we bred him, so we decided to retire him from the show world and let him live out is days as a pet.
Athena was first. Karen bought her before we met and she was her guard dog when she lived alone. Athena is pet quality and is very protective. She is lightning fast and will kill anything that gets into the yard. From racoons, to chickens, to snakes. She does not bark, she just takes off at full speed like a bullet. She is 95 pounds. Back in WWII, a lot of Akita's died from the bombing of Japan. To bring the breed back, they where crossed with German Shepard's. Athena shows a lot of those traits. The long snout especially. We call her the Queen of the Pack. She sets the rules and makes sure the younger kids behave. They give her a lot of respect, which is a nice thing to see. She is also a pet and will never be bred.
As you can probably tell, we are very attached to our Akita's!!!!
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