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- [Brad] My name's Brand Anderson of bradanderson.org.
I'm a big dog lover, especially like rare breeds.
I'm a published member of Pads,
the Primitive and Aboriginal Dogs Breeds Society.
We just purchased this house here in Carson, New Mexico.
It's 20 acres of land.
We wanted this property because it's pretty secluded
and it's a large piece of property.
The more private, the more remote,
and the more land we have the better.
So that's why we chose this property.
My wife and I met in Georgia.
We've been together for more than 20 years.
When I started becoming interested in dogs,
then she also enjoyed the interest.
And so the Japanese dogs in our preservation
with the Japanese dogs, for us
it was a hobby that we did together.
I'd started getting more interested
in the larger breeds and my focus shifted
more towards the landrace breeds and the larger breeds,
while my wife stayed interested in the Japanese breeds.
We have a great life.
What makes it great is the fact that I
get to work from home, in the middle of nowhere,
and enjoy all these rares breeds.
And I'm definitely not a rich man,
but I make a decent enough income
to where we can afford to have all
these dogs and do the things we do.
And then I have a beautiful daughter and a beautiful wife
that both also appreciate living
the way we live, but it's not without stress.
Owning all these dogs, it's expensive
and that puts stress on our life.
It's worth it in the long run for us
to do it though because we're helping
the breeds love in a way that we like to help.
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I do think it's a positive thing
that my daughter gets to grow up around these dogs.
Owning aggressive dogs is a liability
and it's dangerous and we had to be
very regimented with our daughter
early on to make sure that she was kept safe.
Not to imply that any of our dogs
were dangerous towards her, but dogs make mistakes
just like people make mistakes.
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The biggest regret that I have with the dogs
is the fact that Jen and myself and Chase
have not gone on a vacation together
in a really long time because it's
hard to find people that will take care of aggressive dogs.
So, I'd say we're in a perpetual
state of trying to reduce our dog count
without throwing the work that we've done,
without throwing the baby out with
the bath water so to speak.
So, that's a frustrating thing, but I hope that
we can get to a point where we have
the infrastructure in place and the contacts
that we need where we can travel the world together.
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Our core focus is and will always
be our Japanese breeds, especially the Kai Ken.
We started a nonprofit effort to
reintegrate the North American
population with the Japanese population.
Before we started our work, there was 11 dogs
that were imported in the '90s for the Kai Ken breed.
But I made it my focus to do that.
And in order to do that, I had to become,
and wanted to become, a Kai Ken Aigokaii memebr.
The Kai Ken Aigokaii is the Japanese
Preservation Society for the Kai Ken.
It's existed for about 90 years.
I'm actually the first member of that organization
that doesn't reside in Japan and isn't Japoanese.
And then I started working with the Kishu as well.
I was drawn to the Kishu Ken because
they're a serious hunting breed.
I believe I was the first to import
the Shoku Kishu Ken to America,
which is the colored Kishu Ken.
Most Kishu Ken are white, but the colored Kishu
are acceptable within the Neapo Standard.
They're just not as popular.
That then kind of moved on to the Tosa,
I did the same thing, I mean my interest
in the Tosa Inu was purely curiosity.
I wanted one from Japan and I wanted
one from a fighting kennel.
I wanted quote unquote the real Tosa.
I imported Sakura, my female.
She ended up being a really beautiful
great example of the breed and so that
made me think hey, maybe I could help the Tosa too.
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I have two kennels, one is Yamabushi Kennel
and that's our Kai Ken kennel,
that's our Kai Ken Aigokaii registered kennel.
And then we have Hakuzan Kennel,
which is our Neapo registered kennel,
which we do the Kishu Ken through and the Tosa Inu through.
The Japanese breeds that I have is
I still have my old Shiba Inu Kaia,
one of our first dogs, she's 15 years old now.
And then I have Shikoku, that's Lola.
And Kaiju will be coming back eventually as well.
Then we have our Kishu Ken and our Kai Ken and our Tosa Inu.
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We got into livestock guardian dogs
because the first time we lived Taos,
we had a little bit of a predator problem
with eagles and hawks and coyotes.
That's what got me into the Caucasian Ovcharka.
They were a dog that I felt fit the mold well.
Slowly over time though we started adding livestock
and my interest grew in the LGD breeds.
I've had Kangals, I have Central Asians now,
I still have a Caucasian, I have Gamper,
I have a Serabi dog, those are all LGD breeds.
I own several Cane Corso, I moved out
of that breed, so I got my first Boerboel.
The livestock guardians that I prefer are the
landrace breeds, specifically the Central Asian shepard.
I have a fascination with fighting dogs.
I actually don't like dog fighting
and I actually don't like dog aggression,
I actually hate dog aggression,
which I guess seems really counter intuitive
to me owning so many fighting dogs.
I think the reason why I'm interested in them is the hype.
I own Tosa Inu, obviously is the Japanese fighting dog.
As far as my impression goes with them,
they're big goofy dogs.
The size of a Japanese Tosa is
typically 100 to 150 pounds or so.
I'd say that's a large Tosa in Japan.
My American Pit Bull Terrier, Gumbo, is from Boudreau lines.
He's a dog with game bred lines behind him.
I also have, I guess you can consider
the central Asians a fighting breed to some extent.
I've owned one that was definitely from fighting lines.
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I own a lot of hunting breeds as well.
My entry into true hunting breeds
was the West Siberian Laika.
Well, I guess all of the Japanese breeds are hunting breeds,
but I don't use them for hunting.
The ones that I've used for hunting
are the West Siberian Laika and then that led me
to become more interested in some of the
other hunting breeds, specifically the Dogo.
I have some of them as well for hunting and I use them
as kind of back up for hunting, hunting lion with my Laika.
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The most important things in my life right now
are my family, my daughter, by far.
My preservation efforts with the dogs
and caring for our animals and letting
my daughter learn how to care for animals
and love animals is very important to us as well.
So, moving forward with my preservation efforts
and everything, I'm going to start,
well I feel like I've experienced enough breeds.
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I'm actually going to start focusing
less on acquiring various different breeds
and focusing more effort back on my Japanese breeds.
And I'm going to start looking at smaller dogs
that can fill the roles that I need in hunting,
so that I can retire some of my larger dogs,
which is very sad for because I love all my dogs.
But, something that you have to understand
about Jen and myself, we love our dogs
but we also realize, when you have a lot of dogs,
you can't give them the individual
care and love that they deserve.
That's why we retire our females
so early and our males so early,
and that's why we're in this perpetual state of
trying to find good homes for dogs that we're retiring
because we want those dogs to go on
and have that life that they're supposed to have.
We don't want to feel like we're neglecting them.
So, moving forward I'm hoping to reduce our numbers
and maybe focus, maybe not have quite so broad of a focus.
Narrow it down to maybe the Central Asains,
our Japanese dogs, and my Karelian Bear dog.
This is Brad Anderson, you can follow my work
at brandanderson.org, you can send me a message
if you have questions or opinions or comments.
Thanks for watching.
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