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My ex-neighbor's Akita "chewed" on my wife's cat.

It came into my yard, caught our 15 year old cat, tossed the cat up into the air, then caught it in it's jaws, and while my wife saw it all. She was screaming and crying.

The cat didn't even make it to the vet before he died.

The lousy neighbor still didn't keep control of the dog. It got out fairly frequently until the judge fined them and warned them about seeing jail time if the dog gets out again.

Since we didn't have a cat anymore (we do now), it was no longer fear for the cat, but fear for the kids. If the dog would do that to a cat, who can trust a dog's judgement around kids.

The dog's owners were rude, inconsiderate, and willing to endanger other people and their pets because they didn't think their dog was a menace.

Akitas are agressive, and for centuries they were bred to be that way.