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The Akita: An Owner's Guide to a Happy Healthy Pet

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especially if you want a book that is devoted entirely to the Akita!! Half of this book is about dogs in general. The information is good, just not what I expected from a book entitled "The Akita: An Owner's Guide..." The real title of this book is what you find between the parentheses.

This is an excellent reference book for people who are looking to buy an Akita, or the first time owner. The pictures were beautiful, and the text was straight forward and did not try to hide the goods or the bads about owning an Akita. I would recommend this to anyone interested in the breed.

If you really want specifics and in depth information this book is barely the tip of the iceberg. This reminded me of an infomercial for petfood and veterinarians and retailers.
*Training issues and strategies were all but ignored.
*Dietary breed specific info was generic at best and IMHO potentially harmful.
*The whelping and puppy selection was just repeated info you find in any dog book.

I found more info by visiting the websites of Akita clubs. Friends of akitas, for example, is a great online community out of the UK, with in depth treasure of easy to access, online, free breed specific information.

As an individual considering the purchase of an akita, I was hoping to find a book that would offer me an indepth look at the breed characteristics, and specific items which would help me better determine if the breed is for me. While the book offers a nice introduction to the Akita breed, it offers no real insight into specifics that could help in my decision. The second half of the book is a generel overview of raising a puppy and training dogs. A great overview, but not what I was expecting.

Our Akita is now 8 years old and has developed, magnificently. This is in no small part due to reading Barbara's book in preparation. As wonderful as the Akita is, this breed best requires the owner some self-education before purchase. This book helps one getting it right from the start (which is imperative).

Bull Terriers are my favorite dogs and suff like that. Im getting that dog next week on a saturday. I hope everyone of u people gets a dog tooÜ