r/germanshepherds

Ms. Pixel got an upgrade to her bed. A full sized elevated wooden one! Hopefully this helps take some pressure off her old lady hips and she gets plenty of rest.

I PERSONALLY wanted it pushed up against the wall because it looks better there - but SOMEONNEEEE likes it over to the side and right in front of the balcony sliding door. So I guess we'll just live our lives with a bed in front of the door and shimmy around it when we want to go outside.

Ive never seen her more relaxed and melted than this probably the best investment for her happiness in a long time.

These are my two 10 year old female German shepherds and they have lived together their whole lives. We saw her doing this to her sister occasionally over the past couples of years, but it was rare. We recently got a pet camera and I’ve been watching it over the last couple of months and she does this to her 5 or more times A DAY. Sometimes it seems like she wants her to do it to her?She will walk reallyyyy slow right next to her, when she could just walk around her or be normal. Why? If it’s just a soothing action then that’s okay. But if this is causing her stress then I will not allow them to coexist while we are gone.

Does your GSD also huff at you when you’ve displeased them? Baron is 8 months old and his huffs are at a record high as of late, haha. This was right after I corrected him for trying to chase the cats. Take too long to put on his leash? Huff. Brush him too long? Huff. Tell him to stop biting me? Huff. He’ll look me straight in the eye when he does it, too. He’s so over my nonsense. 😂 I’ve had other breeds and some have been quite emotional, but never this hilarious defiant back talking. He also is still partial to his sassy air snapping when he doesn’t like me correcting him. I kinda hope he always keeps this spunk!

Someone was excited to lay down....for 15 minutes. Then it was time to go play. Nova makes the rules

My old lady is 12 now but still a hoot

I adopted my boy when he was 1 year old, it’s been around 3 months, he’s been great and has done a change to my life, however he has 2 main issues that I am trying to fix 1. Is separation anxiety, which is a topic for another day but the one I am trying to work on now is leash pulling. He walks perfectly IF there is no distractions or if he isn’t too excited, but the second he sees a stray cat (which is very common where I live) he lunges and pulls as hard as he could with the sole purpose of catching said cat, I even noticed that he sometimes walks while looking under cars and in bushes just scanning for cats, he is also reactive to stray dogs (which are also common where I live), I wouldn’t say in an aggressive way but he definitely carries too much energy and excitement to have any other dog on edge. So how did you guys fix pulling? He currently walks on a flat collar, I got a prong collar but the prongs aren’t rounded so I am very hesitant to use it and herm sprenger isn’t available where I live, I’ve tried using a slip lead though it’s effective if he’s already calm it can’t hold up for actual pulling and ends up just slipping down towards the chest, I’ve got an ecollar but it doesn’t work with him because the pins are too short and his hair is too long. I know it’s not something that gets fixed overnight but how do you go about it?

I’ve tried stopping and putting him in a calm position (sit or down) but even though he does the command he’s locked on target and gets back to pulling the second I release him, even if the cat or the target is gone he just lunges where he last saw them. I’ve tried changing directions but once he starts pulling it amps up even after direction change. I’ve tried leaning back and bracing my body the moment he starts pulling in order create a pop correction but he either doesn’t feel it or doesn’t care.

We have a long haired female named Khaleesi and we are bringing this sweet baby home in 2 days.

We are thinking of naming her Nymeria and staying with the GOT theme, we originally had planned to get a boy and name him Khal Drogo but our girl is so sweet we decided to go with another female.

Anyone have any other ideas? We really like feminine names. I thought about Meleys or Missandei, but I def prefer Nymeria over those two.

Goob tends to not learn from her mistakes. Neither do i.

So supposedly dermatitis is fairly common in German Shepherds, so we need to apply some steroid bits to his inner back leg for a couple of weeks, or until cleared up.

His group walker has let us borrow the doughnut to try out, hoping that will be enough as that cone is big! Shadow certainly won't enjoy it.

Anyway, he is him wondering "why we have done this to him" during his test run of the doughnut last night.

No bush trimming this year..Annie O is making sure all dead flowers and bushes are all over the yard

My Girl's Halloween costumes over the years...

Just noticed today that my boy Kevin appears to have double canine on the bottom. He’s 6 months old. Right side is pretty swollen but not tender. They don’t seem to bother him. Wondering how common this is, and how long I should wait before having vet check it out.

Thanks!

Update: Vet is very booked but managed to squeeze an appointment tomorrow evening. Hopefully no dog braces.

We had to put him down today, it really hurts my heart but I know we gave him the best life.

My GSD is 18 weeks old (almost) and he has been on Acana large breed puppy food but I think I want to switch him. What kind did you feed your pup if they did good on it and if they are a healthy adult?

Thank you!