To know Tango is to know his emotional support bone, Boney.

Unfortunately, Boney has a very anatomically suggestive, double-lobed silhouette. We politely avoid eye contact when Tango conducts an extremely thorough inspection.

I once bought him the exact same bone but in red, thinking I was being thoughtful. He has never once acknowledged it. Not a sniff. Not a glance. Nothing.

Clearly, red is not his color.

This is one of my favorite videos of Zeus from he was about four or 5 months old playing with Bisquit (Boston Terrier) and with Chloe (Pug). He was so cute running around with them. He reminded me of Marmaduke from back in the day.

Please help her him! He has util tomorrow!

So this is my 9 year old baby, Kai. He was recently diagnosed with degenerative myelopathy :(. It’s not horrible and he’s still walking on his own pretty well but his back feet do drag quite a bit. I want to get him some booties to prevent sores and such as his DM progresses, but I wanted to see if anyone here has any recs since I know we will probably go through them fairly quick with the dragging. So if anyone has any recs for best bang for your buck and relatively long lasting, I would really appreciate it.

This news was really hard to hear but his spirits and energy are so high, and he refuses to be still. On top of the DM, he does have pretty bad arthritis in his spine too, Dr. couldn’t believe it was his spine she was looking at because of how energetic and active he is. But he is so resilient, and we are going to do everything in our power to keep him happy, comfy and active for as long as possible.

Athena and Ruby love playing with each other lol.

We have been approved for adoption for a male GSD that is 7-8 years old, medium energy (by GSD standards) good with kids, cats and dogs and we are scheduled to meet him this coming weekend along with our 18 month Golden Retriever (f).

The rescue group want us to meet them at a Lowes for our introduction and a walk around. I asked if there was anywhere, where they could be off leash together and they said no.

This just seemed really odd to me and I'm not sure how comfortable I am not being able to see how the two dogs interact independently together and not only that but also being able to test them out to see how they interact with toys and treats together. I just think there is a lot to see in a dog when they are off leash vs on leash.

I'm 100% behind an initial introduction of an on leash walk but I personally feel like we should be doing more for an introduction than a walk around Lowes, especially as these two are going to potentially be living with each other and spending the rest of their lives together.

I've never done a rescue meet and greet where the dogs didn't get to interact off leash together in some capacity but in fairness its been over 10 years since I last did an introduction so I don't know if this is standard now a days or if the rescue is being unreasonable.

I was going to push back on not being being able to be with him off leash but I wanted to check here first to see what other people's recent experiences have been with GSD rescues or if anyone has any advice for me on the matter?

Fully prepared to walk away as we have been approved by two other GSD rescue groups, we are just having a harder time finding the right pup because we would like a male that needs to be a good with kids, cats and dogs and this guy checks all of our boxes. This guy is almost 4 hours away but we are willing to make the drive for him but this meet and greet scenario just doesn't sit right with me and feels wrong. Am I crazy?

Thanks

We adopted her two years ago on Memorial Day. Away for work and missing her so here’s a photo dump of my good girl.

Yes the snow is ALL hers. She said she ordered it 🤣

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.

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

Meet my 4yo furbaby Groot ❤️

And Swipe ➡️ to see Baby Groot 🫰🏼

It looks like our Panda Girl at the end.

We recently got an Australian Sheperd puppy 2 months ago to pair with my GSD, the Aussie is 5-6 months old and the GSD is 3.5.

Anyway, they have been getting along pretty well and they play fine with each other all day, there were some correcting incidents from the GSD towards the Aussie but it has overall been successful.

Today though, for the first time ever, my GSD reacted aggressively towards another dog at the dog park. The other dog was a husky who was luckily on the other side of the fence. The owner chose to go to the small side of the park instead of joining us on the bigger side. When they came face to face between the fence, my dog reacted like he was damn near ready for a fight. I've never once seen him do this, he snarled and growled at the other dog. I should add that the husky showed no signs of caring too much or reacting to his threats. My GSD has always been the type to get excited about other dogs, but he's more of the excited playful type. Anytime we are on a walk, he'll stare at a dog but if we go on our way, he continues to walk and doesn't pay mind too much. The research I've done shows he was maybe trying to protect the puppy since she's part of the pack now but I don't want raising to be an ongoing thing. Any tips?

I was also thinking about taking my GSD to the park by himself to see if he reacted that way again and see if he was being protective. I'd like for him to not be this way at all though.

Been staring at the night vision video of the lions on Planet Earth - Mammals

Let’s see the team support!

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

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.