For Fun Post: How Many GSD - Page 2

Was 4, now 3 with an adopted one who lives here anyway, so I guess till 4.

2 rescues GSD 1 male Trick pound puppy now age 8, 1 female Bax GSD rescue adopted now age 7

1 workingline beast Baden 10 months

1 Piston his little sister 7 1/2, who is owned by Get a real dog. I have to deal with her every day, so I will count her too.

hello all,

 i also at this time we have 3. first is ernst  at 17mo. then the wifes female vanta at 14mo. then we have beta my new addition at 5 mo. thanks barb beta is doing great and kara and the girls really love her. all are inside dogs. probably add 1 more after we move back to wa @ the beginning of the year! but post housing rules only allow 3 dogs for now.

I have three GSDs living in my house.

Libby is my 10 year old retired SchH dog.  Then I have her daughter Brat who is my current 5 year old SchH dog.  Then I have a Brat daughter Drama who is almost 8 months old and my up and coming SchH dog.  All three are 24/7 house dogs.

We also have a 1 1/2 year old Pug, he is actually my hubby's constant companion but gets along wonderfully with the GSD girls.

I do co own one other female GSD, but she lives with her handler/co owner in another state.

Valerie

www.vomhausweinbrand.com

I have Cody 3 year old sch 1 that is my competition dog.

Cora 2 year old bitch that is bh and tr1 ready currently bred.

Patron 20 month old male that I do a little sport with but am starting on narc work.

Belle my 13 week old puppy who is a toe biting cat chasing prey monster.

Terra who is my 14 month old female that will get her bh soon.

Bud 11 month old male that is a sport prosect.

Mister 6 years old sch 3 dog retired.

Bessy 5 years old sch 2 breeding female.

Plus my parents have my older 8 year old last Quinnie daughter Reagan because I was way over the limit for dogs.

so I guess thats 9

Uhoh, looks like I'm a nut job..... we currently have 7 here (2 are co-owned with my business partner)......

Rio, retired MACH3 1 double Q short of a MACH4 (he would have been the first if his body would let him) and a whole bunch if other agilty titles and honors and a certified therapy dog, almost 10 1/2

Kaela, my first Schutzhund dog and we went to SchH3 and a certified therapy dog, 9 years old

Yarra, Belgian import, SchH1, KKL1a, 8 years old, retired breeding female (co-owned)

Kiva, our import from the Netherlands, SchH3, KKL1a, 7 years old.. still being a mom for a short time(co-owned)

MACH Frenzi, hubby's current agility dog..  almost 5

Aska, BH, AD.. my current competition dog  almost 5

Ex, 15 months .. agility dog in training, professional shriek! machine

Not named yet puppy boy.. coming in a couple weeks... my next hopeful - a Jabina Falco son

Kiva will be going back to the stay with the business partner soon, she has lived here for the better part of 2 years but we often switch them around as we need to.. Kiva came back to meet someone who was thinking of a puppy out of her....

They all live in the house, we do have kennels and a few of them are outside when days are good and timing is ok.... we have a crate area for some and the others are in the master bedroom......

I currently have 2 GSDs.  Sadie, who is 8, a combo of work/show lines.  CGC, HIT, BH  And then there is Nashoba who is 2 1/2 .  So far his only claim to fame is he was prelimed Good.  He is working/DDR lines.  They are both inside/outside.  They have a doggy door opening into over 1/4 acre.  I also have a 14 yr old rescue cat which is a GSD in disguise. LOL......................

Currently....10 German Shepherds...1 Australian Cattle Dog...2 Jack Russell Terriers...10 Yorkshire Terriers...2 Shelties...1 Bologense...2 Papillons...9 Himalayan Cats...2 fish...and a bunch of mice in the field...

~Bob~

I have nine female dogs currently, no boys.  Six are with me in Anchorage, three are in Europe, either being trained or waiting to be bred. 

I plan to retire one or even two dogs this winter to a home where they can have one on one attention, and I will probably sell a young dog, already well started in all three phases in Schutzhund.  So after I do that, I will be back down to six. 

My main thing is Schutzhund, but we do other things that are recreational, though not as often as I would like, as I would like to do much more than I have been lately.  I purchased a dog sled so that I can start exercising all the dogs at once this winter and wear them out to happy exhaustion. It's easier and more fun for me to mush than to go skijoring (A dog or three in harness pulling a person on skiis). 

I usually skijor with two dogs--- more bang for the buck :-) I didn't skijor much last year.  One of the reasons is that I got discouraged because of all the off leash dogs on the multipurpose trails who either started a fight with mine, or run up and suddenly stop them, so that I have "crash and burned" pretty seriously while going along at a good clip.

I asked the Dave, of Laughing Huskies, dog sled builder, about slowing down my team when we go mushing....his response was that he'd never met anyone concerned with making their team slow down, all the other mushers want to go faster! 

I guess I am breaking new ground in training dogs that are supposed to run slower! LOL.

Interestingly enough, the mushers I have met were excited at the thought of seeing me mushing a team of European working-bred GSDs, exclaiming at how strong and fast the dogs would be, and then they were very disapointed that I was not interested in racing.  That acceptance from experienced racing mushers made me feel very good, you don't always see that acceptance in dog sports.

Veronica