I have a female GSD puppy of 16 months old , worse dog I’ve ever owned and I now have a broken wrist because of her , she decided to bolt with me and her on a leash , chasing a cat who suddenly came out of nowhere and ran behind us , I was dragged by her on a concrete car park floor etc my leg all scraped and I eventually fell onto my arm and wrist. These GSD dogs are a nightmare even when training them they need to be trained every single day.yesterday she decided to start barking none stop at this nasty French woman, who was being verbally annoying to me , it was this woman’s cat who ran behind us and she comes out of her entrance building rattling her set of keys , and that’s how I fell last time? As the cat ran behind Me and my dog, and my dog went crazy, ! In any case I think GSD dogs make terrible family dog, terrible companion
GSDs are the worst
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It's a Berger belge Laekenois.I spoke too soon - googled and found this:
but there aren't any photos of the results.
Malinoodle: Belgian Malinois Poodle Mix [Breed Guide]
What do you get when you cross a Belgian Malinois with a Poodle? A Malinoodle! Read all about this unique Doodle dog and see if its the right mix for you.floofydoodles.com
This one says it's a malinois/poodle mix:
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Ha ha ha malinoodle sounds like some sort of spicy noodle dish and now I am hungry.
In all seriousness- mixing a poodle and a malinois is a terrible idea- but the really sad part? I could probably sell them for $4500 and if I didn't care, I'd make some serious cash!
My pups out of titled, health checked imported parents are $2K right now (I do not make a profit).... it's amazing what people charge for unproven, unknown mixes.
In all seriousness- mixing a poodle and a malinois is a terrible idea- but the really sad part? I could probably sell them for $4500 and if I didn't care, I'd make some serious cash!
My pups out of titled, health checked imported parents are $2K right now (I do not make a profit).... it's amazing what people charge for unproven, unknown mixes.
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Yes; yes ... that was a joke. I don't have a Mal. Don't have a poodle. Don't plan to get either. We have two GSDs, and at least three vacuum cleaners.
But sounds like someone is already on it, per the photo Buckelke found.
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While the poster may be messing with us, I can relate somewhat. I was in over my head with Kai when she was little and didn’t particularly like her. The reactivity was over the top and no amount of threshold work, focus work, exercise, or food was helping. I was angry a lot after our outings (interspersed with laughing at her other antics). It wasn’t until one particularly bad outing that I showed up at a training facility and asked for help. Not long after we had our first session and they transformed our relationship through new tools and proving that she could be moderately calm around other dogs. My attitude changed when I started seeing some hope and I had more fun with her after that.
I thought I knew what I was getting into, especially with a Schutzhund club all lined up. It was still a rough learning curve.
I thought I knew what I was getting into, especially with a Schutzhund club all lined up. It was still a rough learning curve.
What had you originally asked for in a pup an do you feel that you were well matched (at the time and now)?
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It's amazing what people will pay for them, too.
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I believe I got exactly what I had asked for, I just hadn’t had previous experience with what I wanted 😅 I’d requested a confident pup with the potential to do well in schutzhund (the breeder confirmed I’d already contacted a club) but that would also be living in a home with regular guests (this ruled out her brother according to the breeder). I was already fairly active and regularly training pet (easier) dogs at the time.
I approached the breeder when he was accepting deposits for the litter. I had witnessed a grandsire and two other dogs one generation back work and liked what I saw (with inexperienced eyes). What I hadn’t seen was that the elder dogs all had that same reactive issue at one point or another, and tended to be more “oh you said no? So what?”. Prior to Kai, most of the dogs I knew were softer and happy-go-lucky.
I believe the breeder gave me exactly what I wanted, and I like to think we’ve done quite well. I also believe I’ll do it all over again when the time comes for another shepherd (I’m hooked now haha).
Those first couple of months though still had a steep learning curve. I have to give a lot of credit to my club members encouragement and the help from the trainer (he used to do IGP so he knew what not to teach Kai as to not contradict our club training).
Editing to add: to actually answer your question… at the time I believe we were well matched for sport, but not for regular life. Now I think we have found a good rhythm. Maybe not a perfect match, but darn close and I adore her now.
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Very well explained IMO. I had been well experienced with the GSD breed but Gracie was my first West German Working Line. First few months were very tough but after hooking up with a good trainer, it made all the difference. I was too over confident since I was familiar with GSD's but the trainer taught me the things I didn't know. Since then Gracie and I have been doing wonderfully together.
Great answer, thanks.
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We were thrown right into it with our first GSD puppy. She kept waking me up and night and biting my children during the day. I considered returning her but we were already attached and I never give up a dog. We stuck with it, started training and suddenly we were better owners. Once we figured out what we were doing, she became the perfect dog. 90% of it was our fault, 10% was the dog being a normal puppy.
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@LuvShepherds Hearing stories like yours when I first brought Kai home, helped. There are more than enough “GSDs are great dogs” stories to go around and not enough “They can be HARD at first” stories. One of my club members told me she hadn’t really liked her last shepherd either until he was older and the work she was putting into him began to show. It was a relief being told this feeling wasn’t abnormal. That there was hope.
There is a line though between sticking it out and showing the dog love while still being irritated with them during those initial months, and actively hating your dog like the OPs (false?) post.
There is a line though between sticking it out and showing the dog love while still being irritated with them during those initial months, and actively hating your dog like the OPs (false?) post.
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The OP’s post might have been sincere. I hope not because it made me sad. I was lucky enough to find a first trainer for our first dog who worked with K9s. No one had ever told us it takes 3 years for a German Shepherd to grow into maturity. On the ride home she was sweet and cuddly, but that was because we had played with her for a while before getting into the car. She was exhausted. We expected a cute, cuddly little thing for at least a few weeks but she was 12 weeks when we got her and even the cuteness didn’t last long. In a few weeks she was gangly and big. I didn’t get her into training until 5 months, where the trainer set us straight on expectations. She insisted I use a different collar to train and said if we put in the time then, we would end up with the dog we wanted later. By then she was sleeping well at night and wasn’t nipping at all. I stopped the biting almost immediately by sheer determination. I noticed she only nipped them when they stuck their hands in her face or ran around screeching in the yard. So we set up a system where she got a toy if she didn’t bite and where they had to decide if they wanted their ankles nipped or not. They chose to be calmer around her. We also had a lot of children here because I had that kind of house. I worked from home so I was there a lot and children liked to be there as well. She thrived on commotion and attention once we got the basic problems out of the way and came to an understanding.
The other shock was that we bought a mostly all black puppy and ended up with a traditional black and tan. Since it was our first purebred puppy we hadn’t experienced the color change before. We had a rescue when I was a teenager but he was sable and was already full grown when we adopted him from someone who couldn’t keep him due to moving.
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Well idk about you but, I spent the first half of my gsds life putting in some training and she’s an angel that can do no wrong now at little more then 1.5 yrs old. She lives with 4 cats and has never had any reactivity or aggression….. Maybe you just suck? OR maybe karma is a b*tch and you cut some guy off in traffic a few years ago and god decided you needed a dog to right all your wrongs. Idk. Maybe give the dog to someone who will actually love it. Like me or someone else on this website
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As someone who owns a fish store. I commend your sailfish tang.
Paddy, Indy, Zoe, Mia, Rudy, Louie, Mocha, 2 Lovebirds, 600 gallons of saltwater fish tanks
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Paddy, Indy, Zoe, Mia, Rudy, Louie, Mocha, 2 Lovebirds, 600 gallons of saltwater fish tanks
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Thank you.
It's exactly like keeping a GSD. Knowing what to do and when makes all the difference. You can't brute force it.
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You make me miss my saltwater tanks!
I had a fairly large tank, but the 10 gallon Nanocube was my favorite. It’s very hard to keep that small amount of water healthy. I got ridiculously addicted to soft corals. I haunted the fish stores. I spent too much money, lol. I finally gave them up because the temperature in my house fluctuated so wildly, that it was hard to regulate the tanks.
Paddy, Indy, Zoe, Mia, Rudy, Louie, Mocha, 2 Lovebirds, 600 gallons of saltwater fish tanks
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With saltwater bigger is less work. No water changes, no filters, runs itself with my assistance.
I started with small ones.
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who knew we all had the same hobbies. Geez folks
I’m team deep sand beds and less water changes and our lps has been really growing with consistent dosing. running a few reactors atm to keep up with bio load but hoping to really go the Reef Moonshiner method in the coming months since we will be starting with acros and sps once the tank is remodeled. I wish I knew you guys were reefers too. I wouldn’t have shut up about it. We had a booth at Reefapalooza Ca this year Kira there saying hello to our online friends too for a short while!
who knew we all had the same hobbies. Geez folks
I’m team deep sand beds and less water changes and our lps has been really growing with consistent dosing. running a few reactors atm to keep up with bio load but hoping to really go the Reef Moonshiner method in the coming months since we will be starting with acros and sps once the tank is remodeled. I wish I knew you guys were reefers too. I wouldn’t have shut up about it. We had a booth at Reefapalooza Ca this year Kira there saying hello to our online friends too for a short while!
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