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Dog ?

dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
edited August 2012 in General Discussion
I am thinking about getting a female German Sheppard. My friend raises them and i can get it for free so the price is right. His Dogs has good hips. Some of his retired dogs are 12 and up and get around fine.

My ? is which German Shepard is hyper. Someone mentioned it but i cant remember who or what was said. I know the dogs are black and tan and the other brindle colored i think.

Just looking for someone to hand out with. LOL
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My german shepherd is 6 months old now and weighs 65 pounds. For some reason if i am at the computer she will lay under the desk and on my feet. She is good for putting her head on my feet.

    If i lay across the bed and read or watch tv she will follow me to the bed and lay beside or on me. I cant get away from her.

    Any ideas?
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My dog is constantly gnawing on my wifes and my hand. My wife is getting tired of the gnawing and carries a sales paper around with her and pops her with it.

    Firm no does no good. What next?
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What kind of dog has little ears and a big head with lots of extra skin around his neck and flappy meat along the side of the mouth. Also he is a mutt.
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My puppy German Shepherd is 8 months old. For some reason if someone leaves my house and the dog is outside she will follow the car down the road. What is the best way to stop her from this?
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We have 2 dogs. My dog Bear is a 100 pound 2 year old male Bull Mastiff/German Shepherd. My wifes dog is a black lab/pit mix about 35 pounds.

    They both have been fixed. For some reason that i can not understand the lab/pit has always messed with my dirty clothes. Mostly my socks. I can not feel my face and drool a lot and i keep a wash rag with me to wipe my face all the time and she loves to get that also.

    Every time she takes something she will take it and put it by my wife. I have tried everything i know besides spanking her and i will not do that.

    Any idea how to make her stop? I tried fly swatter, water, talking firm and nothing works.

    She is solid black and sometimes out of the corner of my eye i will see something white going by and she has my sock again.

    What is worse sometimes they play tug of war with my sock or underware and then they are trashed. She never messes with clean clothes just dirty.

    We bought a new clothes hamper with a lid and she will turn it over to get my clothes.

    I just do not know why she will not mess with my wifes clothes. Any ideas?
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    How old should a dog be before you try and teach them to sit and stay. Thanks David
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My German Shepard was 8 weeks old Saturday. She was sleeping on the bed with me and would let me know when she wanted to go out and i would get up and take her. Monday night i took her out before bed and she did not do anything. 30 seconds after i put her on the comforter she peed on it. So we get another comforter and my wife says to put the dog in the bathroom.

    So i put her in the bathroom which is about 24 ft x 30 ft. I put pee pads around the tub. 4 of them. She peed 3 times and never hit a pad yet. Same thing the next night. Any idea except getting up every 3 hours to take her out.

    She is funny though every time i take her out and she pees or poops and we come in she runs straight to the treats. She has that down pat.
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My 1 year old German Shepherd has threw up for 3 days in a row but she is still pooping. I have not changed her food. Just looking for ideas. 1 more day and i guess i will have to take her to the vet. She is running around like nothing is wrong. Oh she is still on puppy food. She has ate the same food since she was born.

    I am still paying off my lab that died this year. She cost me almost 4000.00 and didnt make it.[:(] With Christmas coming i cant really afford to take her to the vet but will if she throws up tomorrow or Thursday.
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My puppy has been throwing up for the last half hour anything i can do for her. Its amazing the amount of stuff in her. I gave her some crackers and extra water. Thanks David
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    One of my female golden retievers is blind. She has been blind for about 5 years now. She is 13 years old. If we let her out of the yard could she find her way home through scent? I live by woods and swamps. Haily is so blind if we put her on a leash to take her riding when we bring her in the house she will bump her nose on the first step because she cant see it. Im thinking of putting her on a chain in the fence. Im scared of her digging a whole and getting out and not being able to come home.

    All my other dogs run around the property with shock collars. I have my pen set up where my dogs can get in the pen but i have to let them out. My pen has a doggy door that will only go one way in not out. Scared Haily will get gone.
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have a Chow mix that was dropped off at my house when he was a puppy 10 years ago. He comes in the house some and has never used the bathroom in the house. He is real shy but lately he has started doing crazy things like getting in the trash and putting his paws on the kitchen table. He has food and water in the house and outside. It started about 3 weeks ago and now my wife will not let himn in when she is home. I sneak him in when she is at work but i just dont understand why he is acting up.

    Any ideas?
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have had my German Shepard since about Sep 30th. She will not leave my side for anything. She goes just about every where i go. If i go to the bathroom she goes with me. If we are with friends she is beside me. If i leave a room she will go with me. The only time she is not with me is when i go to bed i put her in her crate. People laugh at her because its like she is scared to be by herself or she is protecting me. I love my dog but i want her to be more than 10 feet from me some time. LOL
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    We have 2 dogs Bear is a male bull mastiff/german shepherd and weighs 100 pounds with no fat. He is about 3 1/2 years old.

    My wife and i have a king size bed. Bear will get on the bed once and a while. When he does he will get on the end of the bed and curl up. After about 45 minuets he will get up and go lay in his bed.

    Daisey is a black lab/pit bull and she weighs 50 pounds. She has to sleep beside me every night. If i go to bed before my wife Daisy will go to bed with me. She sleeps by my knees and sometimes will use my knee for a pillow.

    I am going to have to figure out a way to get Daisy out of the bedroom while my knees heal.

    I go Tuesday for the first of my knee replacemnts.

    Only thing i can think of is a baby gate to keep her out of the room. I am just hoping she does not whine all night.

    Any other ideas?
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I got my dog Bear from the pound about 2 years ago. He was almost 1 when i got him. He is a mix of German Shepherd and Bull Mastiff.

    The family moved and they could not take him. He loves kids to death. He is 100 pounds and will lick the skin off of a baby and never touch the baby.

    We remodeled our bedroom right before Christmas and we are still getting the bedroom back like it should be.

    After Christmas Bear has been acting crazy. He hates to be outside. He will go out and use the bathroom and be back in the house in less than 5 minuets.

    Now he will go outside and not come back in for hours. He is also shaking real bad.

    I think he thinks we are moving and he is scared we will leave him. Either that or he misses the grand babys. After all when the people moved last time they dropped him off at the pound.

    I hate to see my buddy shaking and thinking we are leaving him.

    I have no idea of how to make him understand we are not moving. We have put our furniture back in the bedroom. So there was no reason to act out today like he did.

    My wife let the dogs out before she went to the store and Bear would not come back inside. When she came home he still would not come in.

    When i got home he was whining to come in before i could get inside.

    Only thing i can think of is dog valium.

    Any ideas. I hate to see him shaking and upset.
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have 2 dogs Bear Shepherd/Mastiff mix he is 100 pounds and Daisy Pitt/Lab mix she is 50 pounds.

    Bear will take my dirty clothes out of the dirty hamper and make a bed when i am gone.

    Daisy just does not care and she will take my socks and under ware and run around the house with them. She will tear them into pieces.

    Bear is gentle and never hurts my clothes. Daisy is wide open and does not care.

    For some reason they love my clothes and will not touch my wifes clothes at all.

    Why? LOL
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  • guns-n-painthorsesguns-n-painthorses Member Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Take him to the vet for a health screen. He may be trying to tell you something.
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  • dav1965dav1965 Member Posts: 26,540 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I was thinking that he might be missing a vitamin and is trying to compensate for it.
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  • JohnTJohnT Member Posts: 384 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Maybe a light stroke. Their normal personality usually goes haywire, an they do things that they wouldn't normally do. Turning in the wrong direction in response to calling him is an indication of stroke. Leaning against a wall as he walks is another one. Check his pupils for normal reaction to light. Especially make sure that both react equally to shining a light in one.

    The good news is that most dogs recover from a light stroke with little or no lasting effects.
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  • guns-n-painthorsesguns-n-painthorses Member Posts: 6,462 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Again, take him to the vet. Get it?
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  • searcher5searcher5 Member Posts: 13,511 ✭
    edited November -1
    Any other dogs hanging around? sometimes they get terrirotial if there is, and act up.
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