The Apexx Akitas video archive is a curated collection of championship show footage, male-on-male temperament proof, kennel life, and daily moments from over 20 years of American Akita breeding in Sussex County, New Jersey. Watch Champion Esther win Best of Opposite Sex at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, see Grand Champion Asa competing at Westminster, watch two male Apexx Akitas (Grand Champion Asa and Champion Ash) run freely together in the snow demonstrating the stable temperament this program is bred for, and see the everyday reality of raising champion American Akita puppies on the Wantage, New Jersey kennel property. For the full ongoing library, subscribe to our YouTube channel at @apexxakitas8716.
The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is the most prestigious stage in American dog sports. Champion Esther, an orange red American Akita female by Grand Champion Joe and Champion Carrots, won Best of Opposite Sex against the country's best. This is what independent, judge-verified breed type looks like.
Championship credentials are not marketing claims. They are outcomes from independent judges evaluating each dog against the AKC breed standard in the ring. Every titled dog in the Apexx Akitas program earned that title in competition. Here is Grand Champion Asa, our foundation sire, competing at Westminster.
The internet says two male American Akitas cannot coexist. It is one of the most persistent myths about the breed. Both videos below show the actual outcome of 20+ years of breeding for stable temperament: two Apexx Akitas males, Grand Champion Asa and Champion Ash, running together in the snow, calm and collaborative. This is what stable male-on-male temperament looks like when the breeder selects for it across generations.
Ron Durant working with two Apexx Akitas at the kennel. Behind every title and health clearance is the daily relationship between breeder and dog.
Two Apexx Akitas males running together. Male-on-male harmony demonstrated, not claimed.
The American Akita was developed in northern Japan for cold, snowy, mountainous conditions. Everything about the breed's dense double coat, heavy bone, and cold-weather metabolism was engineered for exactly this environment. Nowhere else does an Apexx Akita look more alive than in the snow. Four Apexx dogs, one snowfall, one very happy pack.
A serious breeding program is not photo shoots and show ribbons. It is puppies waking up, being handled from birth, learning their environment before their new families ever meet them. It is Prosha, our Winter 2026 sire, integrated into daily family life so his temperament is a lived reality rather than a documented claim. These are the moments between the championship credentials.
Puppies at the Wantage, NJ property. This is the environment every puppy is raised in from birth through placement day.
Prosha, our Winter 2026 pairing sire, in an everyday family moment. Half-brother to Grand Champion Asa through European Grand Champion Joe.
Watch new litters grow up, training sessions, show ring footage, and everyday moments of the Apexx Akitas program. Subscribe to see new videos as they are published.