New JA pup
Male JA brindle from the Speiers in Texas.
He's been with me 2 weeks now and is definitely a handful. Very inquisitive yet sometimes very aloof. My first JA so there will be a lot of firsts for me. He already had his first vet visit where several people asked if he was half bear
Also his colors keep changing ever so slightly over these past weeks and I'm not quite sure how he will turn out but I love his white socks and tipped tail haha, will be interesting to see him grow and change.
He's been with me 2 weeks now and is definitely a handful. Very inquisitive yet sometimes very aloof. My first JA so there will be a lot of firsts for me. He already had his first vet visit where several people asked if he was half bear
Also his colors keep changing ever so slightly over these past weeks and I'm not quite sure how he will turn out but I love his white socks and tipped tail haha, will be interesting to see him grow and change.
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I just wanna cuddle your pup!!
None of this applies to white Japanese Akitas, since the gene responsible for "white" works in a different manner. A white JA starts out pigmented similarly to its siblings with a black nose which will usually fade within a year. As they get older, their coat may become biscuit-colored or shaded with red, particularly if the nose remains a darker color. (Think of it this way: more pigment = more pigment; darker nose = darker coat.)
So items like white boots, white tip tail will generally stay the same on a brindle. What will change , white markings on the face and/or neck area. These in some cases will thin up as the pup ages. Also as the guard coat comes in, brindles usually develop some amount of grey around the body usually at the front and rear of the dog. The rest of the brindle will usually lighten up as the dog ages.
Also what do you mean about White Brindle? JA come as Akatora(red brindle), Kurotora(black brindle), and Shimofuri (the translations is frost on a field or the marbling found on a piece of steak). Golden, blue, reverse, any other term of brindle is just slang or found in American Akitas.
Now this is what would be known as Shimofuri:
Also I've seen someone post an almost all white JA with very sparse black striping(this is what I was mainly alluding to), so I'll try and dig up the picture.
The deal with the white collar is that a full white collar breaks up the one distinct marking that both red and Brindle need to have which is Urajiro. As the white comes up the neck, if it makes a full collar that is akin to pinto which is a DQ.
I haven't finished editing the video yet but we filmed our judges seminar this year for the Akiho-LA show. He went into detail about brindle, how the stripes need to be defined, why a white collar(not half or 3/4) is not accepted, how an Akatora should be etc. I should have that up on our Akiho members Facebook section within a week or so.
EDIT: Not to be confused with what I was talking about earlier, a white dog that is genetically brindle or genetically red. By this I mean the dog looks white, but the white is hiding the dog's true coat pattern - which must be red or brindle.
EDIT x2: When I say pale color is discouraged, I mean in an overall sense rather than individual hairs. Urajiro creates pale color, as well as silver brindle. But it must be in balance with the dark hairs of the dog's body, not overwhelmingly light. Of course, white is the exception - it is the lack of color, and should be completely colorless.
@Deez, Haruki is 13 months now. Her face has lightened up, but the colouring is different all over her body. Her brindle pattern being more defined now. Not necessarily darker or lighter all over. I'll have to find a recent photo to post, but if you look in my thread 'introducing Haruki', there are some photos in there from puppy age up to about 8-9 months I think
@poetikdragon thanks for the info, makes sense
Also update:
He is progressing really well with house training and basic obedience commands like sit down stay come leave it. However he HATES his crate at night and trust me I've tried everything. From feeding him there, luring him with treats, systematically introducing it to him during the day, and he seems to tolerate eating inside and getting treats and praise etc. also to note I'm familiar with a lot of principles of dog training due to my psychology and behavior modification with kids background, but..
I would LOVE any advice with this issue. Is it simply more time that's needed? He
simply howls in it at night if crated to sleep.
Also he seems to love to bite me on my knees as I walk by and it seems to be his way of getting my attention. I've been conditioning him to do it less and he has gotten much better but still occasionally likes to nip my knees or hands as if it was a game. I make sure to leave him be and stop interacting and he gets the point and stops but, will he ever get to the point where he/they won't nip at all? Or is it something that simply comes with the territory of a 2-3mo puppy -__- Despite my behavior modification background this is my first puppy in my adult life, and as we all know having them as kids can be vastly different.
Additionally my parents tended to use certain methods on our dogs as children which I wouldn't personally use and consider to be detrimental to the dogs psyche and attitude. Id prefer to stick to positive/negative reinforcement and negative punishment while avoiding positive punishment. Anyways just ranting and looking for advice.
If you a member of either Akiho or JACA I would post these questions on their internal facebook pages. Lots of people discuss their JA and training there you might get a more indepth response there.