I'm certainly no Akita expert, but it looks a lot like just an Akita to me with an unusual coat color. A lot of dogs can have agouti coats, especially "northern" breeds.
Maybe someone can try contacting her to find out the story?
SO PRETTYY!!! I really don't support mixing breeds, esp. if it with rare breeds, but regardless, that dog is friggen beautiful. For real.
However, I dunno if it is a mix or not, but agouti is pretty much genetically impossible in japanese akitas and i've never seen an agouti pattern in an american akita.
If anything, my guess would be japanese akita, not american akita, that was crossed. I say this because of the shape of the head, kind of apple-like. And the body looks stocky like a japanese akita, but not so stocky like an AA.
It's a beautiful dog, and the agouti looks amazing on a "JA". I don't support mixing breeds either, but I can believe that it's a Shinkoku x Akita mix, it definately looks like both.
I don't think it could be half JA and half Shikoku unless the specific JA was carrying agouti. From my understanding, agouti and sable are on the same locus so if JA are never agouti, it's a little hard to imagine this is a JA cross if agouti is supposed to be recessive to sable.
It looks like whoever shot the footage is in Argentina. After I saw the video, the dog moves and is built so much like an Akita. The coloring and Shikoku face are all that seem Shikoku.
I thought agouti was fairly common in American Akitas under the color-name "brown" or something (I'm horrible with breed-specific color names). Dogs that aren't dark enough to be seal or aren't light enough to be fawn may be agouti, genetically. The facial markings characteristic of the agouti gene (seen in this dog and Shikoku) are just usually covered up by the AA's masking, I think.
This guy has the eye-rings commonly seen in agouti dogs with his muzzle covered by a mask.
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Maybe someone can try contacting her to find out the story?
However, I dunno if it is a mix or not, but agouti is pretty much genetically impossible in japanese akitas and i've never seen an agouti pattern in an american akita.
If anything, my guess would be japanese akita, not american akita, that was crossed. I say this because of the shape of the head, kind of apple-like. And the body looks stocky like a japanese akita, but not so stocky like an AA.
gotta admit this do is pretty good looking!
Dogs that aren't dark enough to be seal or aren't light enough to be fawn may be agouti, genetically. The facial markings characteristic of the agouti gene (seen in this dog and Shikoku) are just usually covered up by the AA's masking, I think.
This guy has the eye-rings commonly seen in agouti dogs with his muzzle covered by a mask.