Dog owners

[Davison]

I think it depends on the local laws pertaining to large breed dogs in the city were you live.Where I live, there are a lot of people fighting their pitbulls and there have been a lot of pit attacks on young children,as well as police officer's. Being a former animal control officer, I have been asked about the muzzle question many times and all i can say is that when you muzzle your dog, it takes most of the fear away from people when they come in contact with your large breed dog and if thats what it takes to ease people's stereotype of big dogs than so be it. When you muzzle your dog,you are not being mean to them.The dog doesn't know the difference and when you use positive reinforcement to teach them to wear it,it becomes fun for them. My rott will go and get his muzzle if I ask him to because he know's that we are going to go outside and play.Some people just will never understand because they have never had experience with a big dog. I also think it depends on if your dog has been socialized around other dogs and around people. Any way you look at it, a dog always will have the potential to bite,even if you think your dog would never do that. I love my dogs and would do any thing for them but I know that there is always that chance that they might attack someone if they feel its nessecary.

[Jazzstorm]

I have a full-blooded German Shepherd named Jazzy- 6 years old, and a small 11 year old mut (ankle biter) with lots of terrier in her named crackers (yeah, we hate the name too..but we got her from one of my mom's customers)..haha

 

My german shepard's name was Jazz(he passed almost 11 yrs ago) I still miss him!

 

I have another shepard now,his name is Storm

 

They are my favorite breed! Smart,well behaved,handsome and dangerous looking!

[senna_trem]

Davison---- Thank you for saying that!

[pineapple]

I once owned a white German Shepard that developed severe hip problems at 10 years old......I was advised by my vet to put him to sleep due to the severity and his age.

[1kickKO]

Yeha, Shepperds to tend to have hip problems, it runs in their genes. Did you know that German Shepperds are hte 3rd smartest dog on the planet? P.s. how many of you guys have trained dogs...my shepperd is but my little dog isn't...we've also taught jazzy how to close the toilet seat once she's done drinking from the toilet, and how to fall once we play ''shoot" her thens he rolls over and dies.

[pineapple]

once she's done drinking from the toilet,

 

YUCK!

[1kickKO]

Hahaha, hey she's a dog...and yes, we do flush...LOL

[Pacificshore]

I had a Red Bone Coonhound named Granpa, and I also had a female Samoyed named Kelsey. Both passed several years back, but they were both very cool lovable dogs. We adopted them from the local shelter

[ShotokanKid]

I have a female collie who is 3 inches over the breed standard which is why we got her from a great breeder for less than what she's worth. I really like my dog.

[Jazzstorm]

Yeha, Shepperds to tend to have hip problems, it runs in their genes. Did you know that German Shepperds are hte 3rd smartest dog on the planet? P.s. how many of you guys have trained dogs...my shepperd is but my little dog isn't...we've also taught jazzy how to close the toilet seat once she's done drinking from the toilet, and how to fall once we play ''shoot" her thens he rolls over and dies.

 

My first shepherd and I trained with the head of the k-9 division(in my area) Complete with german and hand signals. I even showed him. I looked into doing schutzhund training with him,but decided against it,because he was very dominant.(and very large) At the time I only outweighed him by 3lbs!

 

Of course I carried my training over to the dog I have now.He is very well behaved.

 

Kick1ko: Please don't let your dog drink from the toilet. Many household cleaners are dangerous to dogs. Bleach and pine cleaners especially(even if just used in their areas,on the floor etc) Some cleaners are known to cause seizures and other illnesses in dogs. If you do a serach you will find a list of dangerous cleaners.(Just wanted to pass along that info)