Our Story

Once upon a time,
The Tesch family being complete of `rugrats`, three of the little buggers, and the eldest two Abi who is five and Josh who is three being absolutely terrified of dogs.
The time had come; the master spoke “It is time to impregnate me again Simon!” So being the dutiful husband I started to draw Nikki's attention to a puppy.
It worked!!Her mind now elsewhere feverishly scouring the Internet for puppies at every free moment afforded to her, gave myself more energy and peace, for a little while….
Simon oh Simon” Nikki called, “ What about this cute Chihuahua?”, seeing what looked like a half staved almost drowned cat I screamed “You have got to be joking girl, it doesn’t even look like a dog!”, so on she continued scouring…
A week came and went looking at pictures and reading up on some of the most favoured dogs, we were both thinking “This isn’t to be, we just cant find a dog we both like”, whilst Nikki kept looking longingly at the long staircase leading to the master bedroom, I managed to keep her attention fully on the matter in hand. (Sounds rude!).
Then all of a sudden Nikki finds a great website called findit and comes across an advertisement for Akita puppies and the link led us to www.dayamiakitas.co.uk seeing the amazing Akita pictures on Suzanne’s website led us to research the breed, we were hooked, this is the dog we wanted, this is the dog we wanted our children to grow up not fearing and in turn learn to respect other dogs.
Nikki emailed Suzanne enquiring if there were any puppies available or planned, we received one back “No sorry, but I will keep your email”, both disappointed we emailed several other breeders, who I must say the majority of were helpful in pointing us in the right direction if they didn’t have any pups, but still to no avail, we couldn’t find a breeder in the Uk with puppies available.
Then out of the blue an email arrived from Suzanne, she had two puppies available, we got excited. We jumped at the chance to own one of these beautiful creatures.
Suzanne then sent us pictures giving us a choice of which one we would like to have, kind of hard choosing by pictures, by then, their was no other choice other than a 2 hour round trip!
So we made our choice and Suzanne (bless her) kept us fully up to date with his progress with regular pictures and information, then the time had come our “Kuma” was to get a visit from his new Mum and Dad.
It was a Saturday, we arrived at Suzanne’s house, (Nikki’s co driving lleaves little to the imagination!) and we were welcomed into Suzanne’s home and our first up close and personnel meeting with a fully-grown Akita. Kosumo looked a fearsome dog hanging over the baby gate from the kitchen, but you could see in his eyes the inquisitiveness of him, a kind of gentle giant but with an air of arrogance, my first thought was “What a great looking dog”, Suzanne then showed us through to the “run” (would have been good enough to have a five-a-side football game in!!) to meet Kameika, Kuma’s mum, smaller than Kosumo, but still with that “all knowing look”, we recognised Kuma straight away had some cuddles and just sat around the run with Kameika and her pups chatting to Suzanne.
We didn’t feel the need to “interrogate “ Suzanne about how the pups where treated, where they lived, it was all very obvious they where being introduced to this world with some great feelings of love, surrounded by Suzanne’s own children, allowed in the house, we just knew this was totally right for us. We just asked Suzanne questions we had read up on for her to clarify the answers about Akitas, Nikki and I both felt at ease with Suzanne straight away.
When the time came to pick Kuma up it was exciting but to see his surrogate Mum (Suzanne) get upset at letting another one of her litter go left us with a feeling of guilty pleasure, a weird feeling but I think one I can sum up by saying give up something you love and respect for an almost total stranger.
Thank you Suzanne for introducing us to your family, we know we bought a great Akita (with training lol) from a great breeder and loving owner, I would recommend you to any of my family and friends if they want to own what we own and cherish!!
The Tesch Family
Simon, Nikki, Abi, Josh, Kloei and of course Kuma.
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