Meet Bruce!

[ebikeerwidnes]

Someone looking guilty for being in Dad"s armchair without permission!

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My dog never did that - she was not allowed on the chairs or beds at all

Funny thing is that there was an armchair that I never sat on - and if I sat on the sofa then it was always on the right hand side

now - just to repeat - she NEVER went on the chairs!!!
that is clear - she told me
however - for some strange reason - when she was moulting (which is about 400 days a year for an Alsatian) then a small ring of hair would somehow form on the chair and sofa - but never in the places where I sat
but is was not her - no no no no no

 

[Drago]

Bruce spends half his day cuddled up to me on that armchair. He's allowed on the bed but he's very good - he'll be up there while I'm reading or watching TV, but he knows to hop down and go in his basket at lights out.

 

[Drago]

Looks like I'm stuck here for the afternoon again.

He's well gone, making some wonderful sniffling snoring noises. He clearly loves his old Dad...who loves him in return.

 

[gavroche]

My wife always goes to bed first and Molly goes with her. I go maybe half and hour or an hour later and Molly then goes into her bed by my side of the bed. In the middle of the night, she licks my arm as if to ask permission to get back onto the bed between the two of us. She always wins as I can't say no.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

When I had my dog she never went on the bed
In the last few years her back legs wouldn't let her - but she regarded it as my territory
like her basket and the space behind the sofa was her territory

she had her rules

she did get very anxious when I hovered - partly because she hated the noise of the hoover - but also because I insisted - most unreasonably - on shaking out her blankets and hoovering in her spaces!

(NOTE- when I say she never sent on the bed - there was sometimes a circle of dog hair on the sheets at the bottom of the bed on days when she had been alone in the house for a while
but this was due to strange air currents - not her having a snooze on the bed - no no no
she told me)

 

[Drago]

Guess what?

 

[raleighnut]

Fetch is a great way to exercise them

Unfortunately when I had my Alsatian she never considered it worthy of her highly tuned hunting instincts
She would just sit there and watch the ball/Frisbee or whatever and look at me as if I was stupid

Now if I had got hold of a remote control squirrel then she would have been all for it!

(when I say "highly tuned hunting instincts" I mean she loved chasing squirrel and cats - never caught one except once - a squirral that was a bit to slow - she got to it them stopped looking confused as the squirrel shot up a tree
caught it but has no clue what to do next!!!
Every Alsatian I have ever known has a high opion of themselves - and are total wimps!)

That's one thing I hate, calling a German Shepherd an 'Alsation', they're a herding dog, renamed during the world war but they are a sheepdog.
I was up in Derbyshire with my 'Sabor' and the guy behind the bar wasn't very happy until this fella came in and made a fuss over my dog, told me he was fantastic then the barmans attitude changed. After this bloke had left I asked who he was, his name was Chris and he was one of the last Shepherds who worked the hills above Edale

 

[Drago]

Indeed, they were informally renamed "Alsatian" due to a little dust up with the nazzies, whereupon anything vaguely German was frowned upon.

Even BMW were sold as Frazer-Nash for a while after the war. Hell, even German-Measles was oft referred to as "Liberty-Measles" for a while following WWI.

 

[raleighnut]

Indeed, they were informally renamed "Alsatian" due to a little dust up with the nazzies, whereupon anything vaguely German was frowned upon.

Even BMW were sold as Frazer-Nash for a while after the war. Hell, even German-Measles was oft referred to as "Liberty-Measles" for a while following WWI.

Indeed, a mate had a 'grunwhalde' also known as a Belgian Shepherd, similar to the GSD but black in colour ............same temperant though

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Nah - they were Alsatians when I was growing up so that's what they are to me

same dog anyway - they don't know either way

 

[Drago]

No, no, no, they're not shepherd's or alsatians. They're landsharks!

 

[raleighnut]

No, no, no, they're not shepherd's or alsatians. They're landsharks!

Nah my big lad never ever put his teeth to anything, apart from giving me the odd nibble* as he passed me, all the 6 grandkids trusted him and could give him 'treats' without him snatching at fingers.

* he used to'mouth' me either on my hand or my leg as I walked past, not a bite but a gentle grip and this was a dog that could crack 'filberts' (Hazlenuts) spit the shell out and scoff the nut..............this wasn't something we taught him it was one Chriggy where we had a bowl of nuts and a cat knocked some onto the floor, he just jiggled it around in his jaw, cracked the nut then spat it out and ate the kernal. Supposedly a GSD can exert around 2 tonnes of pressure with it's teeth.............far more than any other dog.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Nah my big lad never ever put his teeth to anything, apart from giving me the odd nibble* as he passed me, all the 6 grandkids trusted him and could give him 'treats' without him snatching at fingers.

* he used to'mouth' me either on my hand or my leg as I walked past, not a bite but a gentle grip and this was a dog that could crack 'filberts' (Hazlenuts) spit the shell out and scoff the nut..............this wasn't something we taught him it was one Chriggy where we had a bowl of nuts and a cat knocked some onto the floor, he just jiggled it around in his jaw, cracked the nut then spat it out and ate the kernal. Supposedly a GSD can exert around 2 tonnes of pressure with it's teeth.............far more than any other dog.

If this is to be believed, it's Top 10 but not at the top

https://gsdcolony.com/blogs/news/how-hard-does-a-german-shepherd-bite

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Indeed, a mate had a 'grunwhalde' also known as a Belgian Shepherd, similar to the GSD but black in colour ............same temperant though

There's a brindle one in the village - ex military/police and it's a liability, and has bitten. They're lucky to still have it tbh.

 

[raleighnut]

There's a brindle one in the village - ex military/police and it's a liability, and has bitten. They're lucky to still have it tbh.

I'd never have a dog that bit anyone, totally unacceptable, like I posted Sabor would mouth me but only gently in playing he could have done damage but never did. He was really well socialised from 14 weeks old when I got him and after his jabs went down the pub, on busses and trains just the perfect 'wooloff' and like I said we have 6 grand daughters (we've got 5 great grandkids now too) so a biting hound was not an option, in fact the only dog that ever bit me was my aunts Yorkshire Terrior (a nasty little begger) that nearly killed me (Septacimea)
My former neighbour had a Staffy that was a bit of a pain but she played with me just like she played with Scott but then if you're not afraid of a dog they know and don't even try, Ruby was OK with me and Scott's mate John but could growl and be aggressive with other people but it is a 'pack' thing with dogs, if you are dominant they recognise it and behave themselves.
Some say it's pheromones but dogs can sense if you are scared and will then try to be dominant but if you aren't frightened by them they accept it...................no such thing as a bad dog, just bad owners