my gsd walks around me in circles - Page 2

What about following you around? My girl will follow me all day. She could be sleep and here me walk past her and she will follow me or if Im in the bathroom she will sit at the door with her paw underneath it. Anyone have any ideas why she follows me like that? And when I sleep she wants to sleep right on the side next to me.

SHe's in love! Seriously..Some dogs are just more people dogs than others.

So true DR. My male wont let me out of sight either. He can be asleep or content with a ham bone, I get up, poof, he is right up my butt. When he is inside, he sleeps on my side of the bed, on the floor of course and I trip over him all of the time because he is right behind me when I turn around. The others could care less what I am up to, they do there own thing.

We have tied ours out but under very controlled and special circumstances. As youngsters, when they go to the barn they get tied out as we do chores. Talk about learning the platz under distraction! :) Not a good thing in a neighborhood situation though I agree. Too many nasty people out there to tease them, then it's YOUR fault and the dogs fault when they bark or bite somebody.

He used to follow me everywhere when I first got him. I was always tripping on him and stepping on his feet. He finally decided his crate was the best place to hang out and pretty much stays there now though if he hears a loud noise he comes out to investigate. Or if our tabby cat crawls in there to lay on the memory foam dog bed Nenz comes out, looking confused......why is there a cat in my crate? his face says. Sometimes one of my pet rats runs in there too and he doesn't like that either so he comes out. If I call him out and say platz he will hang out in the living room for awhile but eventually heads back to his crate. I watch him when he is tied out and he won't bite anybody. We just moved out of a place where the neighbor admitted publicly that she hit him with a stick every time she came in the yard (she lived upstairs) because he was "so vicious, always snarling and trying to bite everybody that went by on the street". He does his woof woof but backs away if anyone tries to come up to him. He thinks everybody is going to hit him.

Now why would the moron come into your yard and then hit him with a stick because he's vicious?!? If she admitted this in public she should have been arrested for animal cruelty! Too damn bad he didn't bite her. I am sure glad I live in a fairly isolated location, if I found out anybody ever hit one of my dogs I'd go ballistic!!

I've had working breed dogs that wrapped themselves around me when they were on lead. It was due to their not being properly trained to heel, not a herding instinct.

One reason why not to tie a dog out: When my husband was alive, we rented a house on a large lot. It was screened by a hedge at the front, so we used to tie our GS to the front porch on a long rope. She could sit on the steps, under the shade of the roof of the side entrance, and watch the world go by. She also learned to push the door open if she wanted in. I was coming home from work one day, and I see this Siberian husky racing down the street towards my car, running as only a husky can. Hot on his heels, was my female shepherd, trailing 15 feet of broken tie-out rope. He had come over to play, and she'd gotten so excited, she'd lunged at him hard enough to break the rope. I called her to me, and hustled her into the back seat of the car, then called the dog catcher to see if they could corral the loose husky. I guess they eventually chased him down, because he stopped coming over after that. But it really was a pain renting and not being able to put up a decent fence. :(

Sparrow, That neighbor used to be my best friend, or at least pretended to. She manipulated me into helping her financially and otherwise, then when she had no use for me, called Child Protective Services with a pack of lies about me, then denied she did it and quit talking to me. My dog Bandit who died last year loved her but of course Nenz never met her other than having her scream at him every time she came in the yard. Here's how I found out she hit him: the last night there I was moving stuff out and he was laying in the yard. She came thru the back and I heard him bark. I looked out and with his hackles up he circled her three times, barking loudly. I saw him lunge at her and jump back quickly. She called the cops saying he bit her. I denied it but had to go to court for him running at large in my yard. She stood up in court when the alleged bite was brought up and that was when she said she hit him with a stick every time he came in the yard. So I got a ticket for him running at large and she got nothing but feeling smug I got in trouble. Nenz was there also, as he is my service dog. He lay quietly at my feet during the trial and the judge kept looking at him during the description of how vicious he was. He certainly did not look anywhere near vicious at the time!

Seems she would have had to show animal control a bite mark. Thats what is done here. You can't just say a dog bit you and not show proof.