Black and Red GSD - Page 2

I miss my white shepherd Kane,..............here he is at 10 yrs. old......we did paint him for halloween parties........

Lol,  I got blasted in a pet store with my sable working line girl too,   "I hope you didn't pay a lot for her because she's OBVIOUSLY a mix, she's too small and not the right color"  the woman said, butting into my conversation with another customer.  Sheesh, I wasn't even talking to her, and no my girlie is NOT a mix.   And she happens to be a quarter inch OVER standard.

Heather

Oh,  and I think I would help this person, maybe focus on health issues instead of performance or lines?   No one wants a sick or disabled dog,  even pet dog owners.  It might get him started thinking about quality differently.  Give him a couple of names for breeders that he can go to that will add another piece of his education to the picture.  Otherwise this guy is off to a puppy mill pet store to by the first black and red dog he sees.  Sometimes people need it fed to them in small amounts instead of seeming like a big educational lecture.   Just information tidbits.  They do accumulate eventually!   Maybe not this puppy,  but maybe his next one...

Had my female at the vet last week and a lady came out and said it was the nicest Golden Retriever she ever saw.

I just said Thank You...............

I was in Home Depot when my sable female was 10 mnths old. A dad with his 4 kids in tow walked past us, the kids wanted to pat her but the dad told them to "stay away from that coyote"......

Many people have asked me if my black female was part wolf.......lol......

I hear alot from people that they didn't realize gsd's come in black.....

Most common for me and most suprising is What kind of dog is that?

Two moons, tell him how demanding a GSD is, because they are.  Talk him out of it, but helping him??? I wouldn't get involved.   That is an accident waiting to happen.  And what is that saying again?  Good deed never goes unpunished.   They way he sounds he should not have any dog. 

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ha ha ha about getting dumb questions like that one its obviously a mutt.   Never had those (yet), but i had a gorgeous pup with me the other day,  and this arrogant woman said to me, 'oh a GSD puppy' and ' he is dirty!' 

I go, you can't see the difference between paper shavings and dirt?  I guess you  have a house keeper eh.... 

I had just taken him out of his car crate and put him in the shopping cart of Lowe's and he dragged the shavings with him.  So she goes on as follows

'I used to have a schutzhund trained one' 

OH really, a one two or three?  yes,  this pup comes from titled parents, all the way back to 1899.  (no answer to that)

She says:  Oh I want one (pup) again. 

My reply : well this one is sold  and walked off. 

Kersch, thats too funny......the ol' saying is true "you cant fix stupid".

We talked today,

What he need's is a Black and Red couch potato as long as it looks like a German Shepherd he will be happy.  

I explained everything, even showed him Schutzhund video's on youtube.

I gave him a book on obedience training to read.

He's looking thru local paper's pet's for sale.

Moons -

You may want to try the local GSD rescue.  I have 2 GSDs - one workingline girl (rehome from her breeder) and one male of unknown origin that we adopted from animal control.  Looking at him he is definitely purebreed, but poorly breed.  WAY too big and NO drive.  I joke that if Georgia is working line, then Remy is couch potato lines.  He's a good dog, stable in all environments, alert and big enough to scare somebody without having to do anything, but he has no ball/prey drive and is happy to sleep all day.  Our trainer actually thinks they know who his breeder was since they had rescued a breeding female from a local person; she had two huge litters of 12 and 13 puppies and none were tatooed or microchipped.  It's unscientific, but looking at pictures of the bitch there is a striking resemblance and he is the right age.  The bitch has since passed on, but it's nice to know where he may have come from.  All that to say, rescue may have a dog with the energy level to match what this guy wants.

Opal