Meet Amaia
Japanese Akita, 2 years old
My favourite thing about Amaia is...
She’s very playful and fluffy
The biggest challenge with Amaia is...
training
The most surprising thing about owning a Japanese Akita is...
they are not always as silent as thought, mine is very vocal and protective at times
What I wish I’d known about Japanese Akitas is...
they are very stuborn when it comes to doing things
Did you know
The most famous Japanese Akita was Hachi, the loyal companion of a Tokyo professor Eizaburo Ueno. Each day Hachi would accompany his master to the train station and would also be waiting for him when he got back from work. On 25th May 1925, Professor Ueno died in his office but for the next nine years and until his own death, Hachi made the lonely journey back and forward to the station waiting for his master who never came. There is a statue at the station in his memory.
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