We also watched the Westminster Dog Show. Finest looking dogs on the planet. I was hoping to see one of your Okita's there. Maybe soon?
I've owned probably every "dangerous" dog on the list, in the past. Now we've evolved to small terriers. Not sure I could control an Okita these days, but they sure are beautiful animals. Keep up the good work.
There where only 4 Akita's at Westminster this year, which was noticeably low. Billy Jean won breed, and she was the only female there. We've never competed against her, and she is the number one ranked female Akita in the country. We're number 3 female. I'm not sure if we could beat her or not, but I'm know that we can beat the other three that where there since we have in the past. Currently our boy is ranked number 9 in the country and our girl is was number 12 when she last showed.
The top five in every breed get invited to Westminster. Then if you are a Champion, you can enter if you want. One day we'll go, we would prefer to be invited, but to become a top five dog, you have to compete almost every weekend to get more points then anybody else. We try to get one of our dogs to a show once a month, but that doesn't always happen. We usually win Best of Breed with either of our dogs, and we only go to the bigger shows. It's super easy to win Best of Breed at a small show, but some of those shows don't even give you one point, most are just a single point. We want to win 4 or 5 points in a show, which means there has to be a lot of Champions to compete against. Everyone has their own philosophy on how to show, ours is to win big, or not bother.
I posted this on FB for our Akita friends to see.
We went to the Repro Vet in Nacogdoches the other day for xrays of the puppies. He counted 7. Since there are so many, we are going to do a C Section so there isn't any risk of losing a puppy. A huge concern for us is if one or two get stuck inside and she is too tired to push them out, or just isn't able to. Then we have to do an emergency C Section, which means loader her and the puppies up, taking all of them to the Emergency Vet Hospital, which is half an hour away, or going all the way to the Repro Vet, which is over an hour away. Then take the risk that the surgery is successful, and the uterus isn't damaged. It's very common for these emergency surgeries to result in making her sterile and never able to have puppies again.
We will find out Monday when he wants to do the C Section.
Since the camera works so well, we bought another, and will probably buy two more when the puppies get here.
Thank you for everyone that recommended the WYZE Cam, it's proven to be better then we had hope for at a very reasonable price!!!
