Hi Cornelio, I do not know what that breeder was saying. However, I have owned Akitas since 1995. When I got my first Akita puppy a 2 months old male in America, the first thing the breeder told me was that I would need to get rid of my 2 year old male Weimerreiner. I also noticed that when walking the dog, we Akita owners were prone to avoid each other in my neighborhood back then as well. It may be that we did that just because of all the rumors of aggression, but I know that my male Akitas always wants to fight other dogs back then, I can tell because the hair on his neck area stands at that point. Even though he went through obedence training as a puppy. Right now, I have one male (T-Bone), he is almost 11 months old, and wants to play with other dogs in the neighborhood. However, at 4 months old, not even a 3 year old German Sherperd can come close to this same Akita's food. So I have been wondering, will he play with other dogs when there is no food involved? But to say that the Japanese breed is the agressive one and that the American ones are the teddy bear, can be misleading in my opinion. THanks