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[foszoe]

German Shepherd?

 

[BigRed]

German Shepherd?

Cattle dog.

 

[BigRed]

German Shepherd dogs are outstanding dogs as well.... grew up with many of them.

 

[foszoe]

German Shepherd dogs are outstanding dogs as well.... grew up with many of them.

Have my first GSD. Had Labs most of my life.


GSD is a little different but he's a lot of fun. 33 weeks old and 75 lbs.

 

[BigRed]

Each is an outstanding dog. Different "traits", "insticts", "purposes", and such....and each outstanding dogs.

Along with with "working dogs" comes the responsibility to work them.

 

[foszoe]

He is getting agility courses set up around the house. He walks the woods when out on the tractor. Also has a tactical harness and gets used as a pack animal when we walk up to get the mail (a 1/2 mile walk). He carries the mail back in his pouch. Plan to have him carry his own supplies when we go hiking also. He roams all over the property when I am outside. Have a GPS collar on him but he doesn't go out of visual range, yet.

 

[BigRed]

These pups will be spending most of their life running around acres biting heels of cattle.

 

[BigRed]

He is getting agility courses set up around the house. He walks the woods when out on the tractor. Also has a tactical harness and gets used as a pack animal when we walk up to get the mail (a 1/2 mile walk). He carries the mail back in his pouch. Plan to have him carry his own supplies when we go hiking also. He roams all over the property when I am outside. Have a GPS collar on him but he doesn't go out of visual range, yet.

Dogs were not created to be on a leash.

 

[foszoe]

Dogs were not created to be on a leash.

yeah. The GPS collar is also an E-Collar. I used to be against those 30 years ago, but the technology has come along way and used correctly lead to a much more pleasant off leash experience for the owner and the dog much quicker than traditional training methods.

Have always used Monks of New Skete methods since late 80s and last year they introduced and formally condoned using E-Collars after 10 years of developing the methods and put out a new book on it in October 2020 which was the same month I picked him up

 

[BigRed]

You spend enough time with your dogs and your dogs with you, you all figure out what works.

 

[foszoe]

Well I love my dogs more than most people and this dog is turning out great so far. First dog I ever got pet insurance on.

 

[BigRed]

German Shepherd dogs are truly intelligent dogs.... keep it challenged and working like you are doing and planning... bring out its best.

 

[foszoe]

The first Lab I ever trained back in 1992 was a wonderful dog. Miss that one. I could put her on a sit stay in the front yard and come out 30 min later and other than swiveling to see the front door, she wouldn't move.

Clawed the heck out of me one time though.....

I was fishing and wading in the water. She decided to come out to me. Well the stream was swift and the water was up to my chest and I saw her start to lose ground so I moved to "block" the water flow upstream of her and she started gaining a little ground. When we met up he front paws were on my shoulders but as I pulled her into my chest to carry her to the shore, her hind legs, still churning away clawed right into my belly.

Boy did that hurt.

 

[BigRed]

Dogs and masters teach each other!

 

[BigRed]

Telephone conversations are not near as good as in person conversations, but they still beat the hell out of "texting" and such.

 

[Nazgul]

Daughter has a Newfoundland. He is HUGE but I would take him in a hot minute. Very eager to please, all 175 lbs of him.

Don

 

[tbhausen]

All my troubles seemed so far away…

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Just had something pop into my head. I was just thinking that my parents' generation (Dad born 1917, passed in 98, Mom born 1922 - and she turns 99 on April 19th ) were the real "green" generation. Think about it... all pop bottles were returnable, and glass, not plastic. There was no "paper or plastic" decision to be made at the grocery. You were gettin' paper! And Mom would save those, and Dad would re-use them at Aldi.

But anyhow, the memory that really got me thinking about this was Mom rinsing out and re-using plastic bags. And these weren't Ziploc bags. I'm talking about the thin "baggies" with the long flap on the top that you kind of tucked back under an extra flap just under the "front" edge of the "baggie".

 

[maxwelhse]

Just had something pop into my head. I was just thinking that my parents' generation (Dad born 1917, passed in 98, Mom born 1922 - and she turns 99 on April 19th ) were the real "green" generation. Think about it... all pop bottles were returnable, and glass, not plastic. There was no "paper or plastic" decision to be made at the grocery. You were gettin' paper! And Mom would save those, and Dad would re-use them at Aldi.

But anyhow, the memory that really got me thinking about this was Mom rinsing out and re-using plastic bags. And these weren't Ziploc bags. I'm talking about the thin "baggies" with the long flap on the top that you kind of tucked back under an extra flap just under the "front" edge of the "baggie".

Uhhh... I watched my grandparents do some straight up heinous stuff. Like pour sour 2 cycle gas straight into the lake. Burn all the trash (including all of the plastic). Burn old tires or also just throw them in the lake. On it goes.

Back in the day that's just what you did, but... I wouldn't say they were very "green". Cheap/thrifty, resourceful, etc? Sure.

Some of the old ways probably could, and maybe should, make a come back. But many more of them should not.

 

[BigRed]

I always enjoyed the "burn barrel" we had out back when growing up.

I always get a throwback to that time in my mind when I smell the paper burning as I fire up a charcoal chimney for the grill.