Category Archives: German shepherds

more tracking…

Since Samie had to go get ready for the GotDog agility trial, I got to track Dax this morning along with my girl Lexi. I laid about a 100 pace serpentine in dirt for the boy, and he got all but about 8-10 food drops, worked at a consistent focused pace, and needed only the [...]

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Clipart

I’ve been playing with some Photoshop effects… Here’s a pic of the Dax Man.  The black background is an artifact of the .png format being compressed into a thumbnail. Click on the picture to see it full size with a white background…

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King needs a home for Christmas

This is King.  He’s a 5 year old purebred German Shepherd that  was placed in a home a few months ago and he’s been returned.  He is an excellent dog – well behaved – very happy.  He has some minor lameness and he was in a home with small children (one under 2) and they [...]

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Saga

born 17 June 2000 – died 13 December 2010 Saga seemed fine when Warren got home from work. Greeted him at the door, mugged for pets, acted normal. An hour later, he found her lying under a table, and very weak. It was hard for her to get up, but she did. Warren made a [...]

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Conformation rants

Working dogs should be physically able to work. Herding dogs should be physically able to herd. This should be the first thing a judge takes into consideration when initially evaluating dogs: is the dog being judged capable of performing the task for which it was bred? In Blackfoot, I saw a Rottweiler so fat, that [...]

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Why you don’t want a German shepherd

I spend hours on the phone, counseling people who are enduring problems with their adolescent German shepherd dog. It barks and lunges at other dogs, stalks and even nips visitors in the home, attacks other puppies in puppy class, and drags the owner down the street on walks. In the worst cases, the dogs are [...]

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Stoopid Dog!

The same [expletive deleted] dog who broke my toe last time has done it again! That [expletive deleted] Dax has to be first for everything. If you want to walk down the hall from the kitchen to the bedroom, he has to lead. If you want to walk back to the kitchen, he has to [...]

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Note to German shepherds

If you don’t know where we’re going, you don’t need to lead!

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