This is something I'm coming across a lot more often now that I own Kiba. Granted I had it a bit with Naki, but nothing this bad. Though with him it was mostly people telling me he's going to take off it he went off leash or he was going to kill small animals. Granted he did try to roam when he was really little, but since I was living on a farm at the time there was plenty of room to not have to worry about it. Plus after a while he learned to stick around. But like I said with Kiba I'm getting a lot more crap. But it's not like I jumped into getting either of these breeds without thinking. I researched both of them a good bit before actually getting either of them so I knew what I was doing.

So even after reading into Akitas I ran into the trap myself. They're strong willed dogs, protective, don't get along with other people and other dogs and they get big. I honestly a bit nervous getting a dog like him, but at the same time I figured we could handle it one way or another. Once we got him and I started taking him out to places I'd get slightly nervous, again from what I've read and people kept trying to tall me.

But after that I pretty quickly said fuck it to all of that. Because that honestly seems like the trap that a lot of people fall into when it comes to certain breeds. People say one thing or another about a breed and people seem to just get stuck on it that it's how the breed is supposed to be and you can't change anything about it. Yeah certain things like both these breeds being stubborn and hard headed isn't something you can really change. But Kiba being a certain way towards other dogs and people I can. So as often as I can I'll take him out to the pet shops in our area and just walk him around for a while. Along with taking him to the park I always took Naki to. Granted it's a bit of a drive, but it's always been worth it. So now he's 7 months old, already 75 lbs and still just a huge baby. He doesn't really care if people come over to the house, aside from a quick protective bark when he hears someone knocking. Once I take him into any of the stores he just instantly does his airplane ears and wiggles his butt like crazy at the site of anyone. Along with when he sees other dogs he starts pitching a fit because he wants to go over and play with them badly. And yet I'm still getting crap from people that, "oh he's just a puppy still, just wait till he gets older." and I just laugh at them. People need to realize that just because they think a dog is going to be a certain way doesn't mean anything. Hell once he's an adult I plan on taking plenty of videos of him playing with other dogs and being around other people. Because I found someone on youtube that has one and "trains" dogs and claims that, "Akitas are like loaded guns, you don't know when they're going to go off and you can't have them around other dogs."

So yeah things have been going well with him so far. As I said he's already roughly 75lbs at 7 months and is healing up from having his baby tooth removed and from getting neutered the other week.