akita "Obedience" 2

Rocky's 2 new tricks, "speak" and "monster". Note that I show him who's in charge of the food by making him work for it, then wait for it. We have never had food aggression issues with him, even when the cats try to get into his bowl. He simply nudges them away if I don't notice...

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[Shelbss103]

Your dog is awesome and gorgeous! I am in search for a new dog and am considering an Akita, but I have been told it's common for them to not be so friendly with strangers and other pets, I see you have a cat in this video so there must be an exception. What your opinion?

[AkitaPullin]

Rocky was socialized from his first day home. He was raised with 4 cats that he grooms and plays with. Socialize your dog with people and other animals and train basic obedience . he's trained to lay down to greet kids and small dogs, because he is big and be intimidating. He goes to the dog park and petsmart once a week for socialization, even though he is 3 now. We took him into crowds of people and always encouraged him to "say hello" whenever someone wanted to pet him on the street.

[AkitaPullin]

about 10 minutes for "monster"...I held up a piece of food so he would jump up for it, but not jump off the ground and said monster. Speak took a couple days of having him really excited so he would bark almost out of frustration for the treat. This was hard to teach because he was bred to bark very little : )

[AkitaPullin]

LOL!! our neighbor loves that, too :) the *other* neighbor has barking pom poms that are very obnoxious!

[AkitaPullin]

The best vid I've found for the command "wait" is this: Dog Training - How to teach your dog to wait at the door

I did something similar with Rocky where everytime I would go to put down food, open the car door/house door/front door etc that if after I told him to wait and he moved toward whatever, I would "reset" the thing and give the command again. Hope this helps...it is a good command for him also when we get to a crosswalk and he's pulling me in the wagon :)

[AkitaPullin]

thanks a lot! he is such a ham...

[tamiyaclodbuster]

the akita making any noise is shown as weekness you them... so there for you made your akita a bitch,

[hleaning]

@AkitaPullin i don't know about you but i despise the reputation Akitas have

i have always said that a dog is as good as the owner who trains it

as you are an akita owner i hope you agree

its also a breed of dog i would just die to own

[lockateard17]

mine does all the same tricks but wont do any unless i have food

[xHOTSAUCEx23]

they are very friendly with other people, not so friendly with other pets sometimes. haha i have one i know from experience.

[ashaw820]

Yay! What a good boy! Nice job with him. I have two akitas. They are fun!

[cupcakeTM]

nice job man, good connection you guys have

[billy27boxer]

aww i hav the same akita but my akita has more black on it body and leg but ur dog is so wsmart and so gorgusm i hav 2 akita one is 8weeks old and onle is 3 years old they both r good bye

[rinad2]

aww what a good boy, we have a 6yr old akita cross rottweiller and he is very well behaved - more akita in him than rotti i think and he does all the commands - sit, speak, wait etc, and he's so loyal n loving and it's so true about them hardly barking - only when there's really something to bark about - i'd be lost without him xx

[jesseoliveto]

Such a good boy. I know what you mean about teaching them to speak. we actually had to make a barking noise at our boy until he finally would bark. now he does it on command..but they don't bark, unless there is REALLY something to bark about. We just had Akita puppies...5 in all, we got a short video,kinda looks like your big boy...but smaller of course

[katrinalouise1991]

Aww what a good boy...I couldnt help but notice a couple of pussies trying for a cameo role in that lil movie :P

*love chelle

[trianglFTW]

how long did it take you to train him like that?

[Theresa1057]

In the Akita Book it say's Akita's are a Non Barking dog.

My Akita almost never Barked and The nieghbor's appreciated that.

[ruckuskrew089]

ahah I love AKITAS!!!!

[PMolk]

He's a nice boy. I see you trained your cat to sit too :)

[Shaezen]

I think "wait" is the best thing you can teach to a dog. How do you do it?

[heartlesskiea44]

Whoa!!!That's a massive bark he's got!I had a girl so her bark wasn't as loud but she could tango with the best of the best!That's a great way to train!I like your style.I think I'm going to subscribe to your videos!

[AkitaPullin]

check out akita obedience. he plays dead already, but is a bit to heavy for the "prayers" we tried to teach him...maybe another approach :)

[lile2steppin6]

try to teach him to play dead or say prayers thats a cool trick

[AkitaPullin]

Thanks so much! Does anyone have any ideas for what we can try to teach him next?