The Akita As A Guide Dog

by admin on June 29, 2011


The Akita As A Guide Dog




The Akita makes an excellent guard dog and can easily be trained as a personal protection dog. The story that is always associated with the Akita is the one where Japanese mothers used to leave the Akita to look after their children while they went into the field to work. I don’t know how much truth there is in this but there’s no doubt that the Akita makes an excellent guard dog.

It requires virtually no training when it comes to protecting your home. Once an Akita has become a member of your family and it has established its position then it will protect your home instinctively. People who you allow into your home when you are home will not be allowed near your home when you are away if the Akita is patrolling.

The Akita has a natural and powerful instinct to protect its family and patch of land. It is territorial and will attack anyone who it feels is a threat to it’s pack and land.

The Akita is also a dog that barks very rarely. This is good. It will only bark when it senses trouble, when an Akita barks there’s something it doesn’t like going on, and the deep throated bark of an Akita is enough to frighten any would be burglar away.

You need to take some precautions if you are leaving your Akita at home alone for periods of the day while you are at work. If the dog is allowed to patrol your garden then put some signs up warning people that the dog is loose. You’ll also have to make some provisions about your mail. No sensible postman is going to enter a garden where there is an Akita wandering about.

Take measures to make sure the Akita can’t escape. Padlock the gates. The Akita is the perfect guard dog, better than any alarm system on the market. If you want to train your Akita further as a personal protection dog then this will require special training but the Akita is perfectly suited for the role.


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