Our boy just had his 6th birthday when things started to go south very quickly. Overnight he started vomiting and couldn’t get up for his walks. The vets were able to help the dehydration, but they found that BOTH his kidneys were very small and deformed.

We purchased our Akita puppy, Ronin, from Alaska Akitas in March of 2016. Both his parents were from Royalty Akitas in Lincoln, CA. He was one of 11 (10 surviving) of his litter. I would eventually find out that his litter was the third consecutive litter for his young mother. Alaska is on the other side of the country from us, so we were not able to visit the puppies or meet the breeder ahead of time.