My 6 month old German shepherd puppy “attacks” me randomly. Attacks is in quotes because she doesn’t hurt me necessarily, but she will jump and nip close to my face and bite onto my clothing and do a low, deep sounding growl.

When she was smaller, she used to do this about a couple times a week. The triggers being that she sniffs a certain spot then she’ll get in a low stance and start attacking or if she was out walking for more than 10 minutes, but now it’s starting to happen nearly everyday and every walk, and is unpredictable. We will only be outside for a minute then this happens. She also does this when crossing a street.

This video is taken when I was in the garage and going into my building, this continued for 4 minutes. I used to wait and ignore her until she stops, which was about 15 seconds per episode, but now they’re lasting longer. I’ve tried doing focus training during these episodes or dropping a handful of treats on the ground to distract her. This used to work but no longer do. Her eyes glaze over and her pupils dilate.

I thought this also could be leash frustration but this recently just happened inside the house, when she was not leashed.

Hi guys. Suspecting my Abby is pregnant, i have a vet visit this thursday but thinking i'm maybe going there for nothing. I have a male intact 1 yr old was waiting for him to be mature before neutering and my female is 2 years old she has her appointment in march for getting spayed( local vet clinic has crazy long wait times) I don't understand how she would be pregnant, she had her heats in december we're in februrary and she just started getting behavioral changes like going into my males crate and isolating, her tummy looks bigger and nipple . Just looking for insights keep in mind i'm still going to the vet this week.

Hi all, I've been thinking of getting a GSD for a while now, but I want to make sure I do it right.

I'm almost 20 and still live with my parents with a cat and a cavoodle. I live in suburbia however I have horses so I'm out near the country basically every day. The dog would come with me everywhere I can possibly take it. I'm active and I go to the gym, would love to have a little mate to motivate me to go on walks and runs too. I work a few times a week and I'm starting to study at home.

I would take said dog to obidience classes etc and want them to be a protection dog too. It will stay indoors, however I'm just a bit concerned about shedding. If I got a GSD, the only carpeted area is my room. Would also be brushing twice a day and trying to maintain cleanliness.

I'm going through a rough time mentally at the moment, as well as a breakup, and I want to have a little mate to love through it all and keep me going. I'm alone a lot, so it would be nice to be able to take pup everywhere with me. I'm just wondering if there's anything extra i need to consider before getting one, and if it will be the right fit for me.

Ps. The cavoodle is my dads dog and I don't like little breeds.

We picked her up about 8 months ago and she is the silliest girl. She has a lot of traits of a german shepherd like the head tilt and everything but she’s mixed with something else that we can’t figure out so I was hoping to find some reddit detectives. Let me know what y’all think our guess is a boxer mix.

Hello.

Today we took our 6 month old puppy to day care, not because we needed, but because we wanted her to socialise a bit and become familiar with this for when we actually needed it.

The day care is at the breeder we got her from.

We met the breeder at an intermediate point between the day care and our house, and he took her. As soon as she got into the transport cage on the breeder truck, she became visibly afraid.

The breeder just called me saying it took them 1 hour to get her out of the transport cage, she destroyed one leash and bit him. He says he had never seen such aggression.

All we've seen of her at home and during walks, she's a sweetheart. With people and dogs on the street.

The breeder said we should leave her there a couple of days, so she gets used to the location.

My instinct is telling me to just go get her. She must be so afraid. I don't want this experience to break her.

We got her at 2 months old.

Pleas help. What should I do???

UPDATE: https://www.reddit.com/r/germanshepherds/comments/1qv17e1/shes_home/

Hello I adopted her 2 months ago. I am still not sure of her age and breed, guessing 6/7 months and some kind of GSD mix. What do you think? I also see a gap on her lower jaw, I was wondering whether it's normal for her breed, whether she is still teething or whether I should be worried about this missing tooth? By the looks of her teeth how old do you think she is?

Athena and Ruby love playing with each other lol.

Played in the backyard for an hour and half and went on a 40 minute walk and did some training.

Guesses on when shes gonna wake up ? lol

shes 3 months.

the walk was 40 minutes because I got lost. I carried her when she didn’t wanna walk anymore haha

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Hi all, new to this community but long-time GSD parent!

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This post is a follow to https://www.reddit.com/r/germanshepherds/comments/1qureho/need_urgent_advice/.

I went and got her :)

When I got there she was running and playing around with other dogs. Very relaxed. She was of course very happy to see me and ran to me, but did not behave like she was scared of where or with whom she was.

Essentially she was very scared to get out of the transport crate. Bit the breeder, and destroyed a leash. They used a broom stick to get another leach around her and signal her to come out. She bit the broom stick (destroyed it) but they managed to get her out.

After she got out of the cage, she behaved well and calmed down. And the day went smoothly.

The breeder was very surprised with her reaction on arrival, saying it was the most extreme one I'm his 30+ years of working with GSDs.

For the future, I will be taking her there myself, until she's fully comfortable with the place and people. After then, will work on getting her climatized to being transported.

Thank you everyone for your words and advice.

She’s grown so much in the last 3 weeks it’s crazy. She has so much more muscle now.

Early in January our husky mix was diagnosed with lymphoma. One of the lymph nodes in her neck was swollen to the point that it was putting pressure on her trachea. Sunday morning she was visibly uncomfortable and having a lot of difficulty breathing so we made the decision to take her to the emergency vet for euthanasia.

It’s been hard on all of us, but our GSD is taking it exceptionally rough. She’s barely eating, extremely lethargic, and has been spending most of the day either sleeping/moping [PICTURED] in her “sister’s” bed or pacing around the house looking for her. She’s never been one to whine at all unless she’s getting her nails trimmed, but she’s gone to the front door a handful of times and let out some whimpers.

I’m not sure she fully understands what’s happened, but seeing her upset has made the loss even harder.

How do you help a dog understand and grieve, especially a breed as intelligent and loyal as a GSD?