Update Akita Husky

So Oreo started training last week. The method of training we are using is called Ttouch. So far so good. Oreo has seemed a lot happier lately and we have only had one accident but it wasn't her fault she had really bad diarrhea in her sleep I did not know this was possible. I checked the dog food recalls and it's not that so maybe she got ahold of something she's not supposed to have. The baby likes to feed her cheezitz.

awwww she's a pretty dog, good luck with the training i hope it helps

She's lovely bless her!

Are you sure she's akita x husky? It's just she's merle, and neither of those breeds carry merle I don't think? I know it sounds irrelevant, but breed can often come into training needs, and it looks like she has some heeler or collie in her?

Good luck with everything!

She's a beauty - and those large ears

Akita's do actually come and a large range of brindle variations - so might just be one of those where the colouring comes from

Well it's kinda weird when I went to see her they said the dad was akita husky and the mom was a lab. The mom was a really tiny yellow lab and the dad looked just like the mom but had a white ring around his neck. All the other puppies were yellow then there was oreo. She really stood out she didn't look like her parents or any of her siblings. Also neither of her parents ears stood up.

Shes lovely, but if shes an akita x husky then im a monkeys uncle!

Whilst huskys do carry merle its rarely expressed in that pattern, im fairly certain that akita's dont carry merle at all!

In any case, she looks like neither breed - she really does look like a heeler or collie type. And you would expect to train a spitz breed and a herding breed very differently - might account for why she is so sensitive.

Ttouch is great and should really help her, you can use positive reward based training along with this - she should come on in leaps and bounds!

Id hazard a guess that 'daddy' isnt daddy at all then.

Or, he is some kind of a heeler/cattle dog x?

If neither parent show the merle gene then the dog cannot be merle and she is, so unless daddys coat pattern was a really minimally expressed merle (ie hardly looks like merle at all), then he aint daddy!

Its totally possible for a ***** to produce pups in the same litter who have different fathers, so that is the most likely explaination!

Bloo said:

Akita's do actually come and a large range of brindle variations - so might just be one of those where the colouring comes from

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Brindle and blue merle are very different colourations. I'd say she was a heeler type crossbreed. It doesn't make a blind bit of difference to how gorgeous she is (and she really is!), but it may help training wise.

Wot?

Brindle and merle are TOTALLY different genes.

Brindle i think is the application of black barring to wotever colour coat is already there.

Merling is the dilution of patches of coat.

The two are not the same thing at all, and the presence of one will never lead to the presence of the other - a dog can ONLY pass on merle if it carries merle and if it carries it, it expresses it afaik!

Does she look remotely like this?

No she doesn't look like that at all . Thats what my male is ACD with Dingo. She is very skinny and her hair is kinda long. Here is a better pic

Looking at that pic, she looks collie-type cross. Merle is quite common in collies too She's looovely

Yep, try collie x lab!

I just thought more akita than anything because when I look up pics of brindle akita's their like twins scruffy neck curved tail huge ears

Canis-Equus said:

Wot?

Brindle and merle are TOTALLY different genes.

Brindle i think is the application of black barring to wotever colour coat is already there.

Merling is the dilution of patches of coat.

The two are not the same thing at all, and the presence of one will never lead to the presence of the other - a dog can ONLY pass on merle if it carries merle and if it carries it, it expresses it afaik!

Does she look remotely like this?

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Crikey you have a way with words - I'm not deaf neither blind. Shouting isn't neccesary.
Thank for your lecture though

I can't see any akita in her - her coat texture isn't bear like, brindle is not merle (she is merle), she's not as heavy build, she has bigger eyes and different ears.

These are merle collies (can be short or longcoated, ears erect or floppy):

http/www.finchester.org/dogs/dog_diary/u...x_wb-740569.jpg
http/upload.irishanimals.ie/Uploads/22_Merle_Collie_2.jpg
http/www.doglost.co.uk/data/Registered/mayhew%201.JPG
(last link is a merle collie cross)

Catahoula Leopard Dog (a US breed, so I don't personally know how common they are, etc):

http/dogs.about.com/library/gallery/smal...ahoula00564.jpg

Her tail looks collie though I think *lol*.

Brindle akita to show you the massive difference (there is a big genetic difference too):

http/home.online.no/~geilis/Akitabilder/Akita-BRINDLE.jpg

An Akita is also a very big dog - I would expect a cross of an akita and a medium sized dog (if the mum is the real mum) to be a lot bigger and broader than her.

Sorry i dont mean shouting by typing in caps - its because im genetically lazy and really i should do italic tags instead.

My apologies!