What I love about my German Shepherds - Page 2

  I like you Pack, you are a wealth of knowledge but you remain so humble. You have a great dog and are obviously a great trainer.  I hope you share more of what you know, I think many of us could benefit.

Thanks.

I gotcha.  I view recall as a taught command not an inborn trait.  Good to see a thread like this...thank you

Yes, I agree, but the speed seems to be genetic, from the limited experience I've had. These dogs do everything in high gear.

Man............... like pulling teeth. Funny how some threads will be flooded with responses and others will have hundreds of hits but NOT ONE response?????

What I love about ny GSDs;
First they're my best friends.......... We'll start with Reiker; Couldn't ask for a better dog, A little human is in that dogs' body. Fierce on the field, bitework is awesome, fast as the wind. He was supposed to be a police K9 but the department didn't want any K9s. Did the work, unfortunately never had him titled due to a death in the family. Initially a little iffy on the long coat but love it on him. When I want it he can turn it on and in the same breath he can be playing with my friends' pomeranian or little (little) girl. My friends will comment sooooo many times saying how intelligent and well behaved he is. How awesome of a dog he is, they've never seen a dog like him, etc; etc. I don't know any different. Even my cats (when I have had them) mind. My dogs are tools and yes I give them uncondtional love because that is how I am but they serve a greater purpose than just pets. I can grab the prong collar, harness and Reiker is bouncing off the floor like he's jumping on a trampoline anticipating training. He barely lets me open the tailgate and he's flying through the air to get into his crate. And as soon as we pull onto the field he sounds like a wolf howling letting everyone know he's there and it's time to work. He's getting up there in age but he's everything I could ask for .

Anastacia;  Sooooooooooooooooooooo much personality, training her for explosives. SMART, SMART and more smart. It's amazing that you see can see with your own eyes when you have multiple dogs just how good GSDs really are and that different dogs are good at many things.  She has a nose, endurance and drive. She just wants that find. And sometimes it's like she was with you when you hid the hide. She'll go straight for it with very little searching. She's still training. So fast and so head strong. Was going to do some bite work but I'm working on each dog, per se, and trying to hone their skills without putting too much of everything else into them. I want her to get certified first. She is so loving towards Arabella, almost as if Bella was her daughter/sister.

And then Arabella; this little girl is fearless and will take on Ana and go head to head, playing/roughhousing,  running, tugging, everything. She can't do that with Reiker though...... only for a few seconds. She'll be trained for explosives. Right now a little tug work, a little OB and mostly just being a puppy!  I hate to think she is better than the others because I look to them as equals but she will probably need more than just explosives under her belt. I'll concentrate on some titles for her and I think she will soak up multiple aspects of training like a sponge with water. But we'll see. These three are everywhere with me. EVERYWHERE! The hardest thing for me is to seperate them when I go places. I had chows, (and before that GSDs) for 17 years and I never seperated them ever. Then one day I had to put the female down and within a week the male died. I can only think of it from a broken heart? So now I seperate them at times. 

Well that's a start......................... hope others comment. Especially when others can comment a hundred times say on (say something not worth commenting on)     

Thank you Alboe! Will  you show us their pedigrees?

Red Sable, thank you. I know some things and still I have people help me all the time with training. I always say: if you want to succeed in the dog sport you need a good dog, good handler. Good dog needs a good helper and good handler needs a a good spoter/trainer. So you need a team to succeed... Even for the small things so I rather listen what others have to say than give an advise. I like to show what I learned on the field and truthfully many helped me and many are the reason I am still working dogs.

I advise to who will listen. Those who listen will know when I advise, the rest will skim it and hopefully make a note at least.


My father's theory... I just try to follow as it has worked for me.

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 What I love about my GSD? 

When it's freaking freeeeezing outside, pitch dark, and I'm looking for a bucket, freezing my butt off, wandering around muttering "where the hell is that damn bucket?" and not 10 seconds later, that damn bucket's handle is placed in my hand. I looooove that dog. 

Red Sable,

Don't know how to put the pedigree up like others did.
There's "Reiker Vom Young McDaniel", "Anastacias' in Czech, still working on that one and Arabellas' is "Bella Vom Hayes Haus"

 What I love about my German Shepherds.

The first thing that comes to my mind is they are pure bred and from good known bloodlines, the number of pure bred GSDs in Jordan is small. I love the fact they are beautiful and healthy.
What I love about them is they make an excellent deterrent to thieves and intruders in the area, every body knows there are (wolf dogs) in this farm and it is not likely any would dare and try to steal something from the farm, I have a big store in the farm for my work tools. Our third and 4th neighbor farms were stolen few months ago. I also love the fact they are not dangerously aggressive, meaning if there would be an intruder I expect they would watch and drive him to go out or get caught by the farmer without actually hurting or killing him. I have 4 GSDs owned by me personally and living in the farm:
Erri od Roubenky
Orwell z Noveho Draka
Xaro von Nimbus
Biene von Haus Pharao

I had a male Kai-uwe vom blackwood castel and a female Orsula von der Eschelbronner Schloßwiese but sold them before I got Xaro and Biene.

I love their loyalty, none of them tried or thought of running away from the farm, when we go for walks outside the farm in the neighboring fields and hills we take 2 dogs at a time and do not keep them on leash, on the way back they run ahead of us and we find them in the farm waiting for us.
I love their friendship, they know and recognize  us and when we have company they stick to us and at the same time show friendly attitude towards others.
I love their company, the best time I have is when playing with them or having a walk with them. I love the fact that they wouldn't hurt a family member no matter what, I feel my young daughter is safe with any one of them.
I love their nobility and self honor, all of them are like that I love their not being dog aggressive, they get along very well but when no one is available to keep an eye on them we keep them separate.
They are protective and have brains, when I and my daughter take Erri and Orwell for a walk they play all time, run & walk a little far from us, when one of them accompanies my daughter alone he keeps close to her, never keeps a big distance and watches for her very clearly, and on the way back doesn't leave her and keeps her company till they reach the farm together.
Due to the fact that Erri has lots of energy and is a bit destructive the farmer came out with an idea to lend them both to our neighbor for herding his sheep and that was an excellent idea, so now most of the week days they leave the farm at 6 in the morning and come back round 4 pm and the neighbor says they are doing an excellent job, they learned from his dog and now are both better than him, he is even asking for a son from Orwell in future.
After few months we will start sending Xaro and Biene too to learn herding and to see if they have it in their genes or not, the only bad thing about herding is giving more attention to fleas they get from the sheep, but the benefits are more as Erri is now more a gentleman than before.

Ibrahim

 

That is wonderful about them herding the sheep Ibrahim, I guess that puts to rest the myth that Czech dogs are too civil to herd.  Congrats!