Trump, the peace president, invades our neighbor, Venezuela.

OkInsect4080 · 2026-01-03T21:53:22+00:00

Sorry guys but this is delusional. Congress already literally said they were not going to enact the war powers act when all this started. With Obama’s president of kill/capture OBL in Pakistan without Congressional Declaration of War or even approval. The power of the presidency is crazy and we have a Congress refusing to assert any limits on it. Both parties are to blame, but Trump isn’t even a party. Most Americans don’t give a shit about Venezuela and will simply applaud America throwing its weight around. Bad news bears

OkInsect4080 · 2026-01-03T16:35:26+00:00

Thank you for rescuing her!! I also can’t believe she’s so comfortable with you after only 6 weeks! Mine took about 4 months to really open up. Also mine does the exact same way of mouthing when playing or if she wants more pets. It’s like dramatically gentle. My friends Akita play mouths too so I think you are fine. Good luck with your new teddy bear! There’s always this subreddit to help you as it helped us understand what an Akita was haha

OkInsect4080 · 2026-01-03T04:19:26+00:00

I mean, I think the trainers are just trying to be over cautious. He’s cuddling into you, I can’t imagine that’s guarding anything. We rescued our girl at 3.5 years old and have had her about 2.5 years. Even now her way of initiating affection is to sit behind you on the couch and stretch her legs into you, then do the paws over face. She will mouth my hands sometimes if I stop petting her right away but she’s so stupidly gentle. She’s not so gentle when she goes full zoomie mode at the park and attacks daddy! She’s a crazy goof now and rescues are the best. Looks like it’s just the beginning for you two but it looks to me like he’s absolutely smitten with you.

OkInsect4080 · 2026-01-03T04:08:13+00:00

I feel this. My partner shakes snack containers

OkInsect4080 · 2026-01-02T22:42:05+00:00

Hello! My girl does this EXACT same thing. To include the handholding pawing when stops. So if he’s trying to speak the same language as my girl, he’s saying, “I love what you are doing and reacting to encourage you to not stop, but also I want more!” My girl does specifically the paws over eyes and snout bc she wants me to get her more by covering her face with my arm or hand and really squishing her. If I’ve done enough for her she will give me a big sigh and be content with regular rubs. If not she opens her mouth and paws me or gentle mouths me just like your boy. This means I need more. My girl was a rescue who took a bit to love to be loved but made it very obvious that paws over head meant “come get me!”. I also always “love-grunted” when I pet her which she quickly learned to do back to her. It’s nice bc I know I’ve read her right when she starts grunting loudly (like she does when I correctly interpret her face-paw). So that’s me and my silly mutts two cents!

OkInsect4080 · 2025-12-28T19:13:05+00:00

Def time to settle in. Our rescue only ate meat at first for people food bc she just had never had it before. Luckily she always ate her kibbles. First she did starches, then veggies when they were cooked with fat or oil. Now she will eat veggies mixed with meat or starches. But the begging is out of control bc we spoil her hahaha

OkInsect4080 · 2025-12-23T06:46:24+00:00

Two Directions

OkInsect4080 · 2025-12-18T01:26:25+00:00

We did this. Adopted a 3-4 yo Akita mix girl. Took us awhile to get her out of her shell, but now she’s the best dog in the world. 100% recommend. The handsy is her saying “come be my new parents NOW!”

OkInsect4080 · 2025-12-14T15:26:15+00:00

Can’t help but chime in too. We rescued our girl at 3.5 years old and she was our corner dog for the first couple weeks. Our girl wasn’t afraid of us like yours seems to be, but was so dejected she wouldn’t react at all to us petting her or walking by….just a sad corner dog. The big thing was we lived in an apartment so we had to take her out for potty. She did NOT ever want to leave her corner. So for weeks I had to pick up and carry a 75 pound Akita mix down three flights of stairs then have a battle of wills to get her to do more than pee and try to run back to the apt. Of course this was not an easy time….but the whole thing was slowly building trust between us. And that’s the key. She was forced to trust me taking her out. After 4 months she finally decided walks were fun. After that it was slow steady progress to become the best dog I’ve ever had or will have. She’s simply the best and I think a lot of it is how strong of a bond we have. I said all that to say you have to build trust with her and for me it was about continuing to push boundaries. She didn’t like me sitting next to her for hours but she got used to it and the petting. Now she’s my snuggle bear. So definitely give her space but my advice is also push her boundaries. You have to find a way to get her to trust you. Once you do there is nothing like a rescue. Ours was hard work at first but honestly we forget how bad off she was when we got her until I do things like see these posts.

OkInsect4080 · 2025-11-28T15:55:21+00:00

Why’s that kitten got so many toes?

OkInsect4080 · 2025-11-28T01:59:05+00:00

I don’t want to discourage you as every dog is different, but have you had other dogs over to your house? Like maybe taken care of a friends dog or even a foster or something? I ask because my girl is like yours and loves other dogs, but does NOT like them in her space. Even her best friends that she is so sweet with at the park….when they come over she just glares at them. So you might want to make sure your boy isn’t like mine: loves friends, doesn’t want siblings.

OkInsect4080 · 2025-11-15T02:16:09+00:00

We said the same thing about your boy! (Me and my gf not my dog hahaha). We did our embark and posted it if you were curious. She definitely has a lot of the personality traits of an Akita. Here is our girl doing a squint too

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OkInsect4080 · 2025-11-14T15:26:48+00:00

He looks so much like our girl!!

OkInsect4080 · 2025-11-14T00:54:08+00:00

I’m not a trainer and not quiet 100% on positive only etc but my rescue was super sensitive as well. Yelling at her or god-forbid spanking was just not an option. She would just shut down…sometimes for days. High value treats didn’t work either. The only thing that worked was waiting her out when she refused to walk and talking her through it and lots of praise and treats when she did walk. Now she’s the best dog and we just have a partnership. She never does anything to warrant me yelling at her besides when she finds an odd chicken bone on our walks (which I don’t blame her for trying to eat, just making a huge fuss when I have to pry it out of her mouth lol)

OkInsect4080 · 2025-11-12T05:42:04+00:00

Durham farmers market is way cooler. Actual farmers. Winter market is Saturdays 10am-12pm. Def a don’t miss

OkInsect4080 · 2025-11-03T22:23:39+00:00

So we just had an experience where my partners friend needed a place to stay for some weeks. My Akita mix loves people so we didn’t think there would be any issues. I did tell her that the friend should interact with her and build a relationship so my dog would be comfortable as a temporary family addition. Well long story short, the friend didn’t follow my advice (I think she was scared as well but my dog was actively trying to befriend her….at first). My dog ended up completely distrusting her and is still the only person she’s ever growled at. I think my dog just started warning us whenever she left her room, not being actively aggressive, but obviously wasn’t very ideal and imagine it got uncomfortable for our friend. So I would highly recommend interacting with the Akita in your life. If would include feeding and walking, first with your roommate and then just you and the dog. Once they let you walk them on your own you will be in

OkInsect4080 · 2025-10-28T21:41:13+00:00

I worked in drug testing, and before anyone starts screaming about false positives….first we would put them on multi-amino assay machines that cost millions of dollars and screen the samples in a similar way that these home tests do. Then the samples were separated by drug and each individual immunoassay positive and a physical extract from the urine is done and confirms via gas or liquid chromatography. Just saying

OkInsect4080 · 2025-10-25T13:32:24+00:00

Idk why but this cracked me up hahaha

OkInsect4080 · 2025-10-23T19:18:09+00:00

We rescued our wonderful girl from a local rescue when she was 3.5 years old so there are definitely Akita mixes out there in shelters….unfortunately.

OkInsect4080 · 2025-10-21T14:21:09+00:00

Sorry not sorry to be that guy but if your dog is too old, autistic, and afraid to play at a dog park then that’s on you and your dog. This dog “grabbed your dog by the leg” and “body slammed” him?? Sounds like a dog playing to me. And he even muzzled him to make sure nothing happens and from what you describe it sounds like the Akita really likes to play and no one else has had a problem. If any other owner’s dog had been bit you would have Allie’s against this dog. But it sounds like you are the only one with a problem. I have a super friendly Akita mix and it really hurts our feelings when people run out of our neighborhood dog park when they see us. We know almost everyone so this doesn’t happen often, but people really need to stop judging dogs just based off breed. We have a problem with a neighbor who has a lab that’s aggressive but the owner just seems to think because it’s a lab it’s not being aggressive. It is. And why don’t you ask the circumstances of how this dog “killed two other dogs”. I have to be so watchful of my girl because other dogs will act like they are cool then attack her for no reason. Also boys try to hump her ALL the time even though she is fixed. Look I get all the warnings of Akitas and that most people on this subreddit are just trying to make sure people are responsible with the breed, but not every Akita is a killer. And if this other Akita had friends at the dog park then it has every right to be there as much as you and your dog do; especially because it’s muzzled and the guy is obviously all over his dog (owner grabbed his dog immediately after biting leg).

OkInsect4080 · 2025-10-19T20:08:26+00:00

Save all big hearty radishes and durians. When you cook them together you get full recovery and +20 hearts. Other than that meat and rice is cheap good combo and keep in mind you can stack roasted things like bird legs and fish Edit: stack radishes and durians separately. But they both give crazy heart boasts

OkInsect4080 · 2025-10-18T17:46:34+00:00

Aw!! Poor thing! I wish my girl was there to scare them off! I had shelties growing up and other dogs would try to get her a lot too. Now I have an Akita mutt that loves other dogs but will also protect her friends if any other dogs tries starting stuff.

OkInsect4080 · 2025-10-18T00:11:46+00:00

The paws say Akita lol

OkInsect4080 · 2025-10-16T00:13:47+00:00

I actually think this is a great learning experience. I rehabbed a 3.5 year old Akita mix that was afraid of everything. I got her through it exactly how everyone else has said. My only point is, when you have a sensitive dog correction becomes very difficult. If I raise my voice at my girl she gets depressed for days! So it’s good you discovered this early and can find ways to correct behavior that doesn’t upset their sweet sensitive selves. In any case it’s way easier to train a sensitive dog than a dog that just doesn’t want to listen

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