Rising Sun Akitas, Orlando, FL

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• zandrame

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  I think their site is actually this:
  http://www.risingsunakitas.com
  
  I didn't see any indicators that they show their dogs. They register with AKC despite mentioning AKC doesn't separate AA and JA.. Their "About the Breed" page is the story of Hachiko.
• PoetikDragon

  February 2014

  Ages depend on the breeder (and culture). A dog with full health clearances must be at least 2 years old. But a dog could be bred with prelims instead of full OFA scores, the accuracy of which depends on the age of the dog when the prelims were done: http://www.offa.org/hd_prelims.html
  
  13-18 months old is 95.2% accurate; it doesn't list 19-23 months as a category but it will be even closer to 100%.
  
  I require prelims done at at least 15 months old for both males and females - the older the better, of course, and full OFA is preferable over prelims. I wont breed a bitch younger than 18 months. Due to the weirdness with Japanese Akita (or all Nihon Ken?) heat cycles and the breed's susceptibility to pyometra, I prefer to breed on the third heat if possible, or the fourth heat if that doesn't work out. As a larger breed their heat cycles tend to be longer, so third heat may be closer to two years from my previous experience. I wont breed a male without prelims, so for me no younger than 15 months.
  
  It really depends on the maturity of the dog as well. I waited until Gojira was 2 to try to breed her on her fourth heat (and she got pyometra instead) but she was really mature well before that - I would have been comfortable breeding her on prelims on her third heat. But my current girl, Angirasu, is nowhere near as mature as Gojira was at the same age, and she has about a 8-10 month heat cycle (!) so I definitely will not be breeding her at 18 months old - this April.
  
  Really the closer to 2 or 3 the better. We can do testing for eyes and hips before then, but the nasty auto-immune diseases in the breed - SA and VKH - can take a little longer for the dog to have symptoms. Especially if a dog has allergies, vitiligo, or any other related but non-serious auto-immune issue, erring on the side of caution and waiting is good. You just have to balance it with the risk of pyo... (Pyometra has happened to my dogs twice, I'm really nervous about it.)
  
  As for the oldest age to breed a dog, I would have to have really good reason to breed a dog older than 6. There are good reasons to do so, especially when we're discussing breed preservation and diversity in our extremely bottlenecked gene pools. But to do it just to sell pets that will all be spayed/neutered? No way for me.
• tajo

  February 2014

  Also something strange about this kennel is that they do not specify the pet-degree for their males and females. Since they are breeding "pure" JA as they claim why dont they publish the pet-degree? And why dont they publish full names of their dogs?