Clever Toka earned his first title this month, and is now a Novice Trick Dog.  Scroll down to Akitas – it’s official!

We haven’t received his certificate yet, though that should be arriving shortly.   I’m proud of my little guy.

He’is slowly making progress in obedience.  We’re working on heeling & stays.  He’s fairly solid with sits and downs, and is learning the automatic sit when we stop heeling.  ‘Come!’ is still a game, mostly with him chasing me or with me tossing cookies between my legs.  His fronts and finishes need work!

Toka is tearing up the turf with tracking.  Here’s a video of one we did several days ago:  Toka Tracking at Taughannock

His Royal Redness is also rocking at nose work.  He’s easily finding the hide in 3  or 4 containers.  This is of practice on December 13.

I stopped in at the local vet’s office a couple of weeks ago to check his weight.  80.6 lbs a week before his 8th month birthday.  Despite his size, he’s still very much a puppy.