r/germanshepherds

Almost exactly a year ago, we said goodbye to my sweet boy Tejón. We had 6 weeks from the time he was diagnosed with cancer until we had to let him go.

Now a year later, I'm about to load his littermate brother Yuba into my car to send him over the bridge too. Cancer again.

We'll be bringing him home to bury him next to his brother.

My heart is so broken. Please love your babies extra hard today.

Edited to add

Yuba wasn't really himself the last 24 hours. He nearly bit the tech who sedated him- it took both me and my mom to restrain him so she could inject him.

But after the sedative kicked in, he was peaceful and the rest was calm and painless.

We brought him home to be buried next to his brother this evening.

Thank you for all your kind words. I can't reply to you all but I'm reading them and I appreciate them.

Yuba was never really the same after his brother passed last year. I hope he's running and playing and chatting rabbits with him now.

Hey yall! This is Rhaen, my (estimated) 3.5year old gsd mix! She was in a rehoming situation where her previous owners did not want her anymore and were planning to dump her back in the shelter if no one responded to their post, and my family drove over 2 hours to go get her. I have had her for a little over a year now, and she is here to stay! However, she doesn't like to play much, and I think it is just me not correctly knowing how to play with her. I have had a tree walker coonhound mix before, and we played all the time, but my guess is that she really didn’t play much for the majority of her life and does not know how to play well. I was wondering if any of yall would have any tips or advice for how I can get her to play with me? She quite likes to chase prey, but not other dogs or people, and did not like a flirt pole, but I could have been using it wrong. She seems to be extremely soft-mouthed, not showing interest in tug, and she hasn’t shown interest in fetch either. Thank you in advance!

Hi everyone,
I have a 2-year-old German Shepherd who has always been completely healthy and has never had any respiratory problems.
In June, he inhaled a grass awn (foxtail/grass seed) and had to undergo a rhinoscopy to remove it. Since then, his breathing has never returned to normal.
Even when resting, he breathes noticeably faster than normal and seems to put some effort into breathing. It becomes particularly noticeable after physical activity or during his usual daily play.
He has been under veterinary care since the beginning. After the rhinoscopy, blood tests were done and parasites and bacterial infections were ruled out. He also received oral medication, including corticosteroids, but there was no significant improvement.
He has been using a Ventolin (salbutamol) inhaler since July. He has had three chest X-rays, and all of them have shown obstructed/poorly aerated lungs. There has only been a small improvement between the X-rays.
Despite all of this, he is otherwise completely himself: happy, energetic, eating normally and still interested in playing and exercising.
At this point, our vet is recommending a CT scan followed by bronchoscopy with bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) to investigate what is going on.
Has anyone experienced something similar with their dog after inhaling a grass awn/foxtail?
Does a CT followed by bronchoscopy and BAL sound like the appropriate next step in this situation? I would really appreciate hearing from anyone who has gone through something similar, especially with a German Shepherd.
Thank you!
PS.: English is not my first language, so I used a translation platform.

puppy tax
My puppy will not sleep or relax unless she is in her crate. even if she’s visibly very tired she would rather DIE than sleep. its a good thing that she can self soothe in her crate very well but id like to sometimes be able to have her out of her crate and be able to pet her and not get my hands eaten (bitey phase rn). Should i teach her how to settle outside of her crate? or should i just leave it as is and hope for the best when she grows up (3 months rn) She used to be really good at relaxing with me when she was a lil puppy but ig everythings more fun for her now hehe

Ruby absolutely does not trust those sneaky squirrels.

(The offender is sitting on top of the white fence post closest to the wooden fence)

Do most of you guys have this procedure done? My male gsd will be 2 on September 13th. He is scheduled to be neutered and have the gastroplexy done on the 10th. Just worried about his recovery.

A sophisticated gentleman & Derpy what ya up to and why isn't it involving me

GSD x Lab (sheprador) Bjórn

Oh how I adore my baby🥹

So looking back at pictures from pup till now, I'll noticed again what a color-changing sable GSD's are. The second picture was really like "wtf is happening" but it is really the same dog. And I think it's adorable. Are your dogs looking still the same as they did as pups?

Three human and one dog.

This is Piper, she is almost 19 months old and boy are we being a proper menace about it. Just like our human teenagers, everything is the biggest deal and we have to push every boundary, even ones that dont really even exist.

Shes generally a good girl, but the hyper arousal and needing to be directly involved in everyone's everything all time even when nothing is going on is... a lot 😅.

I know we just need to push through but if anyone has any advice for navigating these peak teen months, id appreciate it!

Oh, Lily Belle, my deaf and almost blind dog. She uses vibrations as her way of listening to commands as she can't really hear anymore, and she's going blind.

Lily lays on a specific couch in the living room. In the picture, she's on that specific couch! Lily only lays on this couch. She doesn't lay on any other couch unless it's the one at the camp in the same direction as this one.

I come downstairs every day to see Lily on this couch. She loves laying on this couch (she's lying on it right now, actually).

One thing about Lily is that one time she (and Nova) tore a rabbit's head off of it's body (psychopaths...).

Lily is a very silly dog. During the winter, Lily loves to roll in the snow, it's her favorite/favourite thing to do!

But now, since she's going blind, she may have trouble knowing when the snow arrives unless she feels it.

Lily's middle name is Belle, as like a Lily of the valley.

Lily whines for no reason, we've tried everything, yet she still whines... We'll figure it out, hopefully!

Hope you enjoyed learning about Lily!!

Anyone else's dog just hate being brushed? If so how did you get them past it. He is still a puppy