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Akita puppies

Akita puppies and litters from UK breeders, with the parents’ health tests and licence details.

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Advertise Akita puppies for sale

Have an Akita litter due or ready? Advertise it here with the mother's details, health test results and your licence number, and link it to your free breeder profile.

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Is it free to advertise here?

Yes. A breeder profile and your litter and stud dog adverts are free. Premium profiles, featured placement and sponsored articles are optional paid extras; see pricing.

Do I need a licence to advertise puppies?

In England you need a dog breeding licence from your council if you breed three or more litters in 12 months or breed and sell dogs as a business, and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own schemes. Licensed breeders show their licence number and issuing council on every advert. Puppies must be at least eight weeks old before they go to new homes.

Is my listing already here?

We add licensed breeders from councils' public registers. Search for your kennel name; if it is listed you can claim it and edit everything.

Buying an Akita puppy

Akita puppies for sale

The Akita puppies listed here are advertised by UK breeders. Before contacting anyone, check each listing for health testing: for this breed the RKC recommends hip scoring and eye testing of both parents, and you can confirm results for registered dogs on the RKC Health Test Results Finder. Ask whether the litter is RKC registered and whether any endorsements apply.

An Akita puppy grows into a large, powerful adult with a coat that sheds heavily twice a year, so plan for secure fencing, more than two hours of daily exercise and training classes from the start, and expect a responsible breeder to question you closely. Licensed breeders in England must show puppies with their mother and cannot sell them under eight weeks, and all puppies must be microchipped by then. Do not pay a deposit before seeing the puppy and its mother in person. See our safe buying guide and the Akita breeder directory.

Health tests to ask about

Akita health and testing

On its Akita breed page the RKC sorts pre-breeding health screening into good practice, which it strongly recommends as a minimum, and best practice. For the Akita, good practice is prioritising genetic diversity: check a planned mating on the RKC inbreeding coefficient calculator and aim for puppies at or below the breed average, and ideally as low as possible. Best practice adds hip and eye screening under schemes the British Veterinary Association (BVA) runs with the RKC.

The hip scheme scores X-rays of dogs aged at least one year from 0 to 106 in total, with lower scores better. The RKC advises choosing breeding dogs with scores around and ideally below the breed median, and suggests using estimated breeding values (EBVs) where they exist. The eye scheme is a clinical examination by a BVA-appointed eye panellist, and the RKC advises examining adult breeding dogs within the 12 months before a mating. Results for registered dogs appear on the RKC Health Test Results Finder, so you can check them yourself.

The Akita is in Breed Watch Category 1, meaning no breed-specific points of concern have been flagged for show judges. That relates to conformation in the ring; it is not a statement that the breed is free of health problems.

  • Prioritising genetic diversity (RKC good practice): inbreeding coefficient checked against the breed average
  • Hip testing using the BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme (RKC best practice)
  • Eye testing using the BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme (RKC best practice)
  • Breed Watch: Category 1

More for Akita owners and breeders

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