/r/germanshepherds
For all things German Shepherd Dogs, GSD-mixes and anyone interested in the best dog breed on Earth. Guardians, breeders, enthusiasts, and general dog-lovers, share your German Shepherd pictures, training tips, videos, questions, and concerns here!
For all things German Shepherd Dogs, GSD-mixes and anyone interested in the best dog breed on Earth. Guardians, breeders, enthusiasts, and general dog-lovers, share your German Shepherd pictures, training tips, videos, questions, and concerns here!
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Have an opportunity to adopt an 18 week old female GSD that is deaf. Her owner is a trainer friend of mine. She trains dogs for IGP and this puppy is from a great bloodline. I have a male 2 yr old GSD already. Question: has anyone worked with and trained (basic obedience mainly) a deaf dog. Looking for any hints and tips you have. Thanks. Oh…this is my guy, Doc.
Hi all,
So this is the first time my fiance and I have had a GSD and it's been a wild but rewarding year. When we first got our pup he was a bit reactive and a bully towards other dogs but over the first year we were able to completely turn him around and into an extremely well behaved dog.
Fast forward, we moved into a housing development where a neighbor has their little tiny dog that runs away and tries to hype up our dog to be aggressive. The parents of the kids with the dog never were around and all we could tell them is please keep your dog away.
Saturday, my dog runs off leash (I know, not right, I take part blame) however my dogs recall is on point. We're playing ball and having a great time on my side of the yard, when suddenly here comes that little dog running at me and my dog going crazy. My shepherd within seconds took a bite out of little fluffy and left him needing some stitches.
The owners come over and got extremely aggressive and told us we need to pay the vet bill so we did. We have ring videos of these incidents happening DAILY while my dogs on leash. What would you all do in this situation? Sorry for the long rant it was a crazy weekend lol.
Hello everyone me and my wife have decided to get a German shepherd puppy soon we just don’t know if we should get a male or female. We do have a female shitzu and 2 kids at home. What gender would u recommend we get ?
My lovely wife and I are hoping to adopt a new member of our family. We have Bastion and Acheron. I personally am ready to have my own pup. Some context for that is about 3 or so years ago our first GSD passed due to a fairly aggressive cancer. It hit me pretty hard as he was my first good boy. A year after that we adopted Bastion and while I love Bas to bits and wouldn't or couldn't imagine life without him, I've not really considered him /MY/ dog. More my wife's dog. And it shows he follows her like her shadow and in general acts like a Shep for her. Which is fine, no problems with this. In a sense Bas has helped me heal from the loss of Thor.
Which brings me to now-ish. We're looking to add a young puppy (approximately 2.5 months old) to our family. The rescue company has a Policy to do a meet and greet with the prospective family... In our house.... Sounds good on paper. But now I'm worried. Our house is lived in. That is to say it's not a show house. There's things around, and out. Wife and I are used to things getting eaten by Bastion and 99% of the time harmful things are kept out of reach (we are only human after all mistakes happen).
I'm worried they'll see the house and not let us adopt the sweet girl.
Secondly: we also live in a city. We own out home but the backyard is.... Well we live in a city, it's not large (Shep large is what I mean) but less than a minute of drive time and I'm at a huge giant fenced in double soccer pitch.... Yes DOUBLE! It's easily 2 acres of open green space that's really only used on weekends. All the local dog people take there pups there to throw the ball. Bas has made friends there, I've made friends there. It's awesome. The adoption lady expressed concern about space for the little girl to be able to exercise in... That's got me worried too... Like Bas and I go there all the time, why not take the new girl too.
Ahhhh it's got me nervous. Cause I'm sure they hear lies all the time and I'm not fibbing when I say /I personally am ready/ for another pup, one to call my own. I don't plan on loving Bas any less. Just finally ready to move on from Thor and have my own shadow.
I open the floor to you guys. What do you think? Am I unfit to have another pup or....?
I have lost a few pets over the years. Some of them I have had for years and some not as long. I have been breeding GSD now for about 6 years. I don't care if you have had a GSD for 15 years or 15 weeks or 15 days, when you lose one it still stings.
It will bring a grown man to his knees.
"Good bye little Levi. I know you never got to meet Peter or Ray Ray or Buddy, but I promise they will look after you"
I am in search of a good breeder to pick a service dog prospect from. I’ve been doing loads of research but thought it’d be a good idea to reach out on here and see if anyone has gotten any dogs for this purpose around my area (Montana/Idaho but I’d be willing to go farther for the right dog) this dog would be used for cardiac alert, deep pressure therapy, and a mobility aid as well as some other basic tasks like picking items off the floor and handing them to me. Any advice would be amazing!
My German shepherd seems to have allergies to grass, but also allergies to food?? Any dietary changes that worked for your pup ?