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Type
Dog
Mammals
Kingdom
Animalia
Class
Mammalia

Description The Akita is one of three spitz-type dogs native to Japan. At one time, only the Japanese aristocracy was permitted to own the formidable hunter. The breed has changed little since the seventeenth century.

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    Photo of a Akita
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