About Us

Our names are Scott and Marian Heald. We live on a small 10 acre family farm in Montrose on the western slope of Colorado with our 3 children, Mariah, Sierra and Dakota. Our activities range from vegetable gardening, raising pigs, cows, chickens, turkeys, horses, and of course Akitas. Our 5 year plan is to open a pet hotel and spa. Sierra would like to become a veterinarian and continue with the love and care of all animals.

Our family is devoted to our beautiful Akita’s as well as all of God’s creatures and to all of those who live here with us.

Fifteen years ago, on a country walk outside of Flagstaff, Arizona, two dogs crossed our path with their people in tow. We were awestruck! We had to ask what the breed of these dogs were; they were so majestic! ‘Akita’ we were told. Smitten can not even begin to describe how we were affected.

As we read and researched about the Akita, we knew this was the dog we must come to know, love and respect. We never get tired of learning, reading about, or talking to people about the wonderful world of the Akita.

Our first Akita came to us several years later as a foster dog. She was five years old and her name was Cosmo. She so quickly became a part of our family I could not remember a time when she was not with us. In the 9 months that Cosmo lived with us she cared for our small children, she guarded our apartment and shared space on the couch; all without questions or expectations.

In 2002 we moved to Grand Junction, Colorado and bought our first house. As the last nails were going in to the fence around the backyard, phone calls and emails were going out in search of the perfect Akita.

After traveling 350 miles one way, we met the 8 week old Akita that would change our lives forever. In the next few days it became clear our family had been blessed in ways that could only be imagined. Tyberius did not need to be taught how to check on our kids while we slept—he volunteered for that job and did it without ever being asked. He was smart beyond his years, always eager to learn new things, go new places, and meet new people. He also had an incredible desire to learn the English language. He always greeted us with a sentence of his very own that sounded a lot like, “WOW! It’s great to see you! What are we going to do today?”

Tyberius is our foundation and his characteristics are what we look for in all of our puppies. We have been breeding the Akita for going on 8 years now and through careful selection have staffed two fine stud males and 3, soon to be four, beautiful females we use for breeding. Our breeding is very controlled and very limited so as to promote and enhance the breed, not exploit it. We have three generations on site and with our next planned breeding we will have the 4th generation to carry on the Akita tradition.

There will be an Akita in our family for generations to come!

We are so enamored with the breed that is held in such high regard in Japan. Once you own/care for an Akita, you can’t go back to another breed. They are such a wonderful treasure and we are extremely happy that we can share this gift with others. We look forward to talking Akita with you.

If it isn’t Akita, it’s just a dog!