Facility needed to house a Sch titled dog - Page 1

What facility is needed to house a new adult titled GSD to whom I am a stranger?

I suppose I have to keep it in a dog run for a few weeks to slowly start bonding with it. I suppose I don't want to walk into the run to clean after it too soon after acquiring it.

How long should I wait before walking into the dog run to clean after it? Suppose it is seems to be calm and accept treats.

Does a titled GSD tend to scale a wood fence about six foot three inches tall? Must the top of the dog run be enclosed to prevent escape by jimping or scaling? This will be a bit hard. I will have to section a small portion to have the top enclosed.

I have a dog house in mild climate, my area never gets below 20F in the winter, usually right at freezing in winter nights.

Thanks in advance

From your questions, you are quite new to dogs.    To house a Sch.h. titled dog of good nature, you should not need to do anything but keep the dog - preferably as your companion.

A Sch.h. titled dog works its sch. as a sport.  It is not an aggressive dog, and should not be unreliable, and as for keeping it in a run for a while to bond with you, it will bond with you much closer in the home, or if you HAVE to keep it outside, you must be outside taking it out, and playing with it much more than looking at it through the run.
Also you ask how about going in to the run to clean from it.   What are you anticipating?  Put yourself in the dogs frame of mind.  A new owner, pujt into a compound, the new person looking at you and wondering  -  spells problems before he even knows you.   At the very least it spells an unhappy start to your relationship.

Get your dog home, open your doors and take him in with you, and make him know that you got him to love and cherish, he will reciprocate.  If he has temperament issues, then you are not getting a good deal as  a well trained Sch.h. dog.

I have three dogs here all titled and work well when asked, but otherwise will wander around my gardens, or my house and greet everyone as a friend if I am at home with them.   I can switch them to the other approach at a word, but would never do this unless it was dire and desperately needed, the bark up is enough to startle would be intruders.   

Ask yourself why you are getting this dog.  If it is as a companion to pursue the sport of Sch. then great, do as above, but if you are getting it as a guard dog, you are definately not sounding experienced enough to start off, and secondly, you are not buying the correct dog, you need a pp dog from a good source. Sorry to sound negative, but wish you well.

Mo.

A sch. title does not mean a dog is an axe murderer. Sometimes it does not even mean the dog is sch. trained. For me, I would keep the dog as close as possible every minute I could. In the house, walks etc. I would not allow him off leash (in unfenced area) until I was sure what to expect.

I would give him some space for a couple of days, but if he is sound, he will warm up pretty quick.

Ever seen the movie King Kong? I would do like that. Get extra thick chains and make sure it is restrained. You never know how many kids it will eat. Honestly, if that is your picture of what you want, why?

dont put him off writing more Don.   I know you porbably mean well, but so does this chap if he came on the board to ask questions.   Perhaps he has been given bad information, we should then bo looking to help and encourage, I was even sad to be negative about things, but at least it was constructiove.  Mo

OP, I think you are getting mixed up between titles and temperament.  A SchH titled dog just has SchH titles.  Mine live in my house.  They are not rabid wolves, they do not bite or scale anything, they are just normal dogs that do Schutzhund on the weekend and for 10 minutes a day at the park.  It sounds like what you have in mind is the exact opposite of what I would do.  Do not segregate the dog outside by itself, keep it with you so you can bond and he will learn to respect you and mind you.  It sounds almost as if you are afraid of the dog?  Or maybe there are problems with the dog's temperament?  If that's the case, then you may need to make other arrangements but just by virtue of having a title does not make this dog any different from any other dog.

I am sure you are right, but my question is that if this the mental picture of what he perceives he is getting, then why would you want it?

Well I wouldn't say a suitable SchH dog is just like any other. So I can do SchH easily with a Bull Mastiff or a Basset Hound?

I am sure you are right, but my question is that if this the mental picture of what he perceives he is getting, then why would you want it?
  That is my question as well.  Maybe there are issues we don't know about?  But that is another matter than the dog having titles.

 
Well I wouldn't say a suitable SchH dog is just like any other. So I can do SchH easily with a Bull Mastiff or a Basset Hound?
That is not what I meant.  I keep and care for my SchH dogs the same way I do my pets that don't train or title in anything.  The SchH dog is not banished to a dog run and ignored by me.  They live in the house and get the same amenities and interaction with me as the non-SchH GSD and the mutt dog.  How the dog is treated and kept should be based on the individual needs of the dog, not on what titles it has.
 

I understand. Just don't want the OP to think he's getting a couch potato.