A small but still important supplement to our Akita group photo yesterday.
Our Jane was a birthday Akita. Our girl is 8 years now and enjoys excellent health. After her castration last May she got a thick, soft fur and we have to pay more attention to her figure. In our house, she has become calmer and more balanced and lets Shadow play the boss. Only when he is too cocky, he'll get an announcement of her and then he knows.
Happy birthday, our lovely Jane.
Hello dear Akita friends,
We wish you all a happy new year 2012, and especially health, happiness and above all joy with your doggies.
Enjoy the hours with your four-legged friends as well as our good old group of Akita dogs in our dog school, which you can see in the photo. And these are, from left: Ute with Eishinyoo, Heiko and Akyo, Carmen with Bea, the two of us with Shadi and Jane, Jens, Raina with Ginkou and Christoph with Eichi.
In beautiful sunshine, we went on the way to a bit longer walking tour yeasterday. Our usual Christmas Walk with friends and Akitas had failed this year, apart from that we only had rain here in Saxony.
The Geierswalder Lake, an artificial lake that was created from a former lignite mine is located northwest of Hoyerswerda. It is the first usable tourist lake in the future Lusatian lake district. The opencast mine was flooded with water from the Black Elster and the recent renovation work ended in 2004. In 2006 the lake was opened to the public. Investors argue about the public use of the land and it remains to be seen how much the environment of the lake will be exploited commercially. At the moment, the landscape is still pretty wild and unrefined.
A beautiful bike path leads around the lake and so we thought that this tour could also be ideal as a dog trail. Finally, we walked significant 21 kilometers. Jane and Shadi have enjoyed the trails right on the water, as can be seen in the pictures.
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The Christmas holidays are behind us once again and we hope you all have spent with your loved ones a few relaxing hours.
There is always our junior’s birthday that falls on Boxing Day and so we celebrated yesterday his 27th.
Meanwhile, yesterday we received some sad news from Ohio: Jane's mother Sonia Red Frerose Arbor Lane has gone over the rainbow bridge. She was 13 years and 4 months old. Jane's breeder Karen Gerner wrote us: “I wonder now how to live without an Akita.“ Goodbye sweet Sony and rest in peace.
We want to thank you today for the many Christmas greetings. There were only a few with photos, but very pretty. Of course, we want to show them, you know, the same procedure as every year.
Christmas greetings from Sandra and Stefan with Goya, Mogli and Kenzo
Merry Christmas from Freia, Joachim and Fumiko
Christmas greetings came from Hanko with Ute and Werner from Schwelm
All good wishes from Petra and Markus in Austria with their four Akitas
Merry Christmas from American Akita from Katana-Ken.
Christmas wishes from Doris with Ally and Annika
Merry Christmas from Heiko and Carmen with Bea and Akyo.
Wir wünschen allen Akitafreunden frohe Weihnachten und ein gutes, erfolgreiches und gesundes 2012!
Merry Christmas and a happy 2012 to all American Akita friends!
Joyeux Noël et Meilleurs Voeux de Bonheur pour 2012 par les amis de Akita!
Zalig Kerstfeest en een gelukkig 2012!
God Jul och gott 2012!
Feliz Navidad y prospero 2012!
Glædelig jul og et godt og lykkebringende år 2012!
Buon Natale e Felice Anno 2012!
This is the way it looks when our Shadi is asking Jane to play and sometimes he is lucky and our Jane chases with him back and forth across the garden. Not in a dream we would have expected that at the end of that day our Shadow’s life was in real danger.
In the evening when we went for a walk with our two Akitas, we noticed that Shadow was different than usual, he turned around again and again, did not run as rapidly as usual, was not as enthusiastic as usual. Back home he did not find any rest, laid down, stood up again, ran through the apartment and started to whine. This restlessness got stronger in the following hours, so then we already knew and suspected something serious, we could not wait for the night. At half past 11, we drove to our vet and after x-ray our assumption was confirmed. Bloat (stamach torsion) - a nightmare for all dog lovers.
The good thing was that Shadi’s circulation was still reasonably stable. But nevertheless, the statistics say a quarter of all the dogs with a bloat do not survive. Shadow was operated immediately and you can hardly imagine how bad the time was that we had to wait now. And then finally, the vet called and redeemed our tension with the news that Shadi had survived the op well and was waking up slowly.
This nightmare was 9 days ago. In the last week it went better with Shadi , every day a bit, and now he is almost the old one. Almost, because he eats his food slowly and with caution now. Our vet even joked that we had spoken a serious word with Shadi, that he no longer swallows his meals.
Right before Christmas our greatest wish has already come true, we have not lost our Shadi and we wholeheartedly thank our vet doctor Mr.Dziwok and his team.
