Yeah, they have a fighting history. My old man's first akita was a nightmare with other large dogs, mangled loads of dogs, rottweilers, shepards, mastiffs, he once snapped a german shepards dogs leg when it bolted out the house and went for him. He was too dog aggressive and could do a lot of damage. I had one of my lurchers when he was alive at the time, it was around 4 year younger than him. Every now and again we'd hear the lurcher squealing, it sometimes used to try and eat his snap that he'd left but when the mood took him right he'd thrown the lurcher to the ground and pin him there. Lo