German Shepard's are what middle class white people buy when they want a big scary dog but they feel too white and middle class for a Pitbull, Rottweiler or big ugly mongrel dog.
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What's the mastiff demographic?
mutts
>3-4 years of puppyhood
>dies at 8 years old
this thread reminded me to go play with my shepherd puppy
thank you
You can still get German shepherds that are very close to the original conformation.
Awww... my dog does this too!
She loves chasing the hose around like a cat with a laser pointer. Reacts to the word "hose" these days like most dogs react to the word "walk." Such a good soul.
Garden hose has been her favorite toy since she was a little puppy.
That's adorable! Is this dog yours?
I think I have some footage of my own dog I could try to compress & post, if you guys want.
Yeah she's mine
Adorable! Here's my own dog, as promised:
German shepherds are NOT naturally aggressive. But they are not complete pushovers either, but I'd say out of all dogs, they are on the friendlier side.
The only aggressive ones are either:
- bred to be police/protection dogs or have such ancestry
- due to the somewhat anxious nature of the breed, poorly bred or inbred ones can become neurotic nervous wrecks
- GSD's pay EXTREME amount of attention to their owners, so I guess shit owners who are either uncaring or have poor impulse control will pass on those traits to their dogs
1913 champion Jung Tell.
Claudius von Hain brought a lot of sharpness and active aggression in the breed
Love the old lines.
I had one and she was the cutest, most gentle animal I've ever seen, not at all scary
didn’t ask, shitskin
>people with good taste have good taste
shocker
>middle class white people
>having good taste
I don't know if I would say that having a slope-backed gsd slowly losing feeling in its back legs in your mcmansion is good taste.
>mcmansion
those are upper middle class doe
What about a giant schnauzer?
They're very similar breeds, but malinois have a more prevalent gene for neuroticism which is why mentally they want to work all day, besides that many breeders have bred for police work and igp competition (obedience, scent, protection) so the malinois tends to be more quick to bite. This is just a generality, but working line gsd's are more similar in behavior to malinois than showline gsd's are. Showline dogs are more of the chill house pet, vs the working machine. The differences are mostly in temperament, not as much in behavior because the two breeds are intended for similar purposes. Like comparing a lab to a golden.
Interesting, so does it just depend on each police units discretion if they want to use a Malinois vs a German Shepherd?
Also is there a reason why Boxers and Rottweilers aren’t used in the force anymore?
Police departments don't all operate the same, and might have different priorities, or standards for what dogs they accept, and for what jobs. I know lots of departments will get a puppy and train it themselves (with additional 3rd party training) especially if the dog is going to be used for biting criminals, but for scent work I've seen any dog with a good nose be used. When it comes to in house training departments will go with what they are most familiar with. Not to be forgotten is insurance, which has major sway on any safety related decisions especially for municipalities.
When I was really little like pre kindergarten I think there was a huge shepherd with a family at the end of the street. Every day one Summer I would walk down there and the dog would be waiting for me
There was an old dead tree in a common area that I would climb and rip off pieces of bark then throw them and the dog would run and catch them in the air
One day I went down there and there was no dog
I found out that family moved away
why is huskoid an established term but people never say shepoid
It's what women buy for you know what
interesting obsession, anon. Would you describe your father as a "dog-like" man?
>which are beautiful
Cmon dude. Everyone else already said it but still.
>They were literally bred to be repulsive disposable beasts and evoke no feelings of sympathy if they died horribly.
Goddamn, seriously?? That’s actually really fricking genius. I’m kind of a softie so I’d probably still feel sad somehow but it’s good to know this was a big enough concern it was even accounted for through breeding
He was being hyperbolic anon. They are bred to look threatening and to facilitate the singular function of guarding buildings.
he is talking out his ass. They are wrinkly like that because they can't be latched on to as easily by an animal biting down on them. Its like how baby animals can be grabbed by their neck without being in pain like a human would be.
I know they're so objectively ugly and having that many folds is objectively unhealthy but god I love them so. They'd be perfect if they had a lot less wrinkles and no cherry eye.
>Beautiful
It looks like a dungeon monster from a shitty video game or horror movie meant to be the source of a plague or a replicating army of all-consuming blobs. They also stink like shit and die at 6.
They were literally bred to be repulsive disposable beasts and evoke no feelings of sympathy if they died horribly. The dog version of a fat frick ugly ass domestic meat pig totally removed from its lean, mean boar ancestors.
GSP is the thinking mans dog.
No.
>"Toby is a dog which is used by Sherlock Holmes. He appears in The Sign of the Four and is described by Watson as an "ugly long haired, lop-eared creature, half spaniel and half lurcher, brown and white in colour, with a very clumsy waddling gait.""
Low income areas like big dogs and GSDs are some of the cheaper street cred big dogs you can get if an XL shitbull is not available. Middle income areas like small dogs like terriers, bassets or poodle crosses because they want companionship and not a deterrence/status symbol like in the hood, also they are cheap maintenance cost wise but you will get occousional labradors or retrievers. High income wrap back round to large dog breeds again because the status of owning a large, exotic and difficult animal to train shows you have the disposable income to afford to do it.
It is like a bell curve of sizes. But that is my personal experience.
everyone should have a Maligator
Mali with German Shepherd solves all of the Health issues
Well bred GSD can be very healthy dogs. The ones from my breeder live to 14 years old on average.
I don't think most people are responsible enough to own any dog, much less the most physically and intellectually demanding breed on Earth.
>the most physically and intellectually demanding breed
How’s that?
He is talking out if his ass.
Needs a job. Needs training. Not a pet.
Nope, Mal is a monster if left in an apartment, moreso than other dogs.
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real homienigs get em ugly murderous feral shitbeasts cuz we be nignogs
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For me it's the Doberman, white's man dog
>wypipo
>wypipo
>wypipo
I don't think I have that meme anymore, but you do need mental help.
german shepards are beautiful and good like the country they are named after
pitbulls are black people in dog form
>grew up as white trash and always had rottweilers
>realize later on my parents were just pitbull owners of the 80s
>wypipo be wantin a animal dat don’t be hideous n maulin dem and dey kids and shiieett
Yes? Didn’t realize that was exclusive to Whites.
>Get GSD
>Well trained good family pet that has been trained to defend the family and the house
>Get Pitbull
>Mauls your children
I have a feeling the world would be a better place if everyone was white and middle class from the way you're putting it, anon.
I've know one golden retriever in my life, and she was the sweetest dog ever. One day I was over at my friends place sitting on the couch, and she jumped up on my lap and laid down on her back, completely vulnerable and trusting, just so I could give her pets. I was a teen, so my friends mom made some joke along the lines of that "no girls in the room with the door closed" stereotype. It was pretty funny.
This is Wauf, so I feel like I have to say that, obviously, I wasn't doing or thinking about anything untoward, but that's what a sweetheart she was. She'd just throw herself at you, but not at all in an aggressive or demanding way or anything. You couldn't help but love her.
I think that's the Golden Retriever thing. They're the kinda dog that if someone broke into your house, they'd run up to them just to say hi and get some lovin'. They're the ultimate pet, because who is really using them to retrieve? They're just big, dopey, loving accessories. Purely for fun. Purely a luxury.
And then they're also moronic enough to have a deformed fake GS. Or is OP also moronic enough to not know the difference?
Hold on... is THIS what caused that whole hip-problem American GSDs have? It was just some stupid beauty-pageant thing??
>It was just some stupid beauty-pageant thing??
it's responsible for every deformed pet lineage available
Bloody hell. I had no idea
Why else did you think they did it? just for the lols? just to be cruel for the sake of being cruel?
Carelessness, really. That's what I assumed, anyway. I thought it was just the result of overbreeding; not something they did DELIBERATELY cuz they thought it looked cool
People here are confused because they like comparing dog breeds to people, but like any other domestic breed you can't really compared it to any human because everything on a breed is deliberated, that's how selective breeding works.
And that's also why trying to do the selective breeding with people doesn't work (besides de free will issue) because a lot of people go for aesthetic shit that don't really do anything and takes a bunch of dangerous inbreeding to get consistently.
>Why else did you think they did it? just for the lols? just to be cruel for the sake of being cruel?
yes, you see, americans are capable of mutilating their own children for stupid reasons, so deforming pets is not a problem for them
I think it's like when they used to bind women's feet.
You literally cripple your dog with a shortened snout (RIP, pugs) or some spine issue, just to show that you can keep this fricking weakling alive with your resources. This is no "working" animal, how crass!
Heres the breed standard for gsd. Like many things on the internet it is over exaggerated, and memed on pretty hard.
Nah.
Yea, I don't see that weird low hip on gsd that much even among gsd in the states (from looking at a gsd at a rescue I volunteer at). It's exagerrated by the meme for sure.
However, hip dysplasia, which is separated and still occurred regularly without the breeding for the low hip, is still an issue with the breed. This is a genetic defect caused by the breed popularity so backyard breeders are irresponsibly breeding them (sometimes even inbreeding).
It looks like the german shepards are becoming SMASHED and SLAMMED legs first.
The only German Shepard I've ever known hated colored people and my white friends who have like 2% israeli ancestry. She was real nice to me. Cool dogs.
My neighbors are low class trash and they own a german shepherd. I love it so much, its constant barking at all hours of the night and early morning are like music to my ears. I feed it raisins 🙂
So when they want to reduce their chances of being mauled by their own guard dog because GSDs are actually intelligent. Like, husky/collie smart, but they want to listen for the sake of it due to being german instead of russian/scottish.
Gotcha
>wanting a more trustworthy and intelligent dog is “white” implying that being unreliable and stupid is a nonwhite trait
Epic antiwhite lib self own kek
German Shepard's are still pretty high up on the dangerous breed list.
Also you're kinda talking to yourself and arguing against imaginary points nobody even said.
Gsd used to be the most popular breed in the US. A lot of the health and temperment issues stem from over breeding by dummies looking for a quick buck.
Get a good GSD and it will be an amazing dog. Mine sure is!
You should really let a retriever retrieve! It's what makes a lot of them happiest.
uncle had a golden retriever that didn't innately know how to play fetch. any attempts to teach it failed. absolutely unreal. maybe it was moronic.
many dogs are actually moronic because their ancestors were bred just for looks without any consideration for mental problems that were being spread
Wow they are just like us
I've tried to teach a shih tzu to turn in a circle. It's the most simple thing. Hold a treat and have the dog follow it in a circle while saying the command. It took doing that a couple of times for my terrier to learn what to do but the shih tzu just cannot grasp it.
I taught my goat to spin in like 5-10 reps, lol.
I also taught a duck to touch its beak to my hand for a treat.
I just don't like big jowls or neotenic features like droopy ears.
I used to have a cat that could do heel work, recall, sit, and down after a couple of training sessions. I would've done more with him, but he had hip dysplasia, and I didn't want to push it. It was always weird to me that my cat had worse hips than my GSD, but that's life I guess. He died a couple of years back from kidney issues, but he was a great cat.
>Gsd used to be the most popular breed in the US. A lot of the health and temperment issues stem from over breeding by dummies looking for a quick buck.
Yeah, but when that happens to p*tbulls then it's a whole different issue innit?
Grey workingline with big blocky head. Almost certain from East (DDR ,Czech, Slovak ) bloodlines.
Love my Czech dog, prototypical working shepherd, tons of drive, learns very fast.
How about natural and territorial sharpness ?
She is a natural guard dog, particularly protective at home, very skeptical of new things or people, and she must inspect them. She has low fear but high confidence though which is good, makes her very reliable and trustworthy not to overreact and bite a stranger.
moron rightoid.
>husky
frick off dog fricker, theyre dumb as hell
No, huskies are smart as hell
They just dont listen unless you are holding the food in front of them, and "dog people" conflate total submission and mindless obedience with intelligence like a bunch of 1950s boomers
Thats because the average dog person is just less intelligent than the average cat person
Your post is wonderfully moronic. I appreciate your effort.
>"dog people" conflate total submission and mindless obedience with intelligence
They unironically do
>My dog is so smart, he does what i tell him the first time every time even though he hasn't gotten the treat in ages
If your dog is like this, they are not smart. They are extremely stupid. They can't remember that they didn't get the treat and predict that you're not going to pay them again. Thats a basic mental skill (remembering the past and using it to predict the future) and they totally lack it.
Your dog is basically the dog version of an unpaid illegal immigrant who smokes so much weed they forgot yesterday was payday. They can learn how to do the job but you can trick them into doing it without pay.
Smart dogs DONT listen unless they absolutely know they are going to get a treat. If a husky doesnt listen unless they can see/smell the treat AND get it EVERY SINGLE TIME, that is a very smart dog. If I were a dog, I'd frick off the moment you made me sit without giving me my fricking beggin strip. If I liked you, I'd forgive you for forgetting it once, but if you forgot it 2-3 times in a row I would be fricking done with your gay sit speak roll over bullshit.
Ive known huskies and they can learn tricks, and they learn them just as fast as german shepherds, but its true, most of them just wont do shit unless they can see/smell the treat and are getting it every time.
Note I am not mexican, mexican huskies might be a different breed, i'm closer to alaska so i get to meet real huskies
Alaskan huskies, AKC siberian huskies, russian siberian huskies, and BYB common huskies (mutts with one husky colored parent) are unironically different breeds
AKC siberian huskies are dumb as frick. All of the others are smart.
Are huskies stupid because they will mindlessly and without treats pull a sled?
Most dogs will pull on a leash if you dont train them not to and it doesn't hurt. It's just instinct. You can use any dog to pull a sled just by not training them not to pull on the leash, even full blooded wolves. The hard part is getting 12 of them to be smart enough not to get their leashes tangled every 5 seconds.
Accurate. Overbred AKC siberians are an epileptic, moronic mess.
So instinctual behaviors don't make a dog smart or stupid?
Your metrics for intelligence are very rudimentary. You should look into some modern dog intelligence studies, and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Have YOU ever looked into those studies?
Sample sizes of 5, no control for varying bloodlines, absolutely no control for whether dogs are raised to think or to obey, which could influence results just like less educated people can not raise their IQ scores in adulthood as much as they would if the were educated in childhood, and mirror conditioned african americans pass the mirror test instantly while tribal children in africa do not until they are 7 due to limited experience with reflective surfaces
Someone with a slave border collie will never believe it was a smart dog, it would be submissive and not even eat if you put it in a room with a closed bag of kibble until it was on the brink of death
A scientist raised his border collie from birth to think and solve problems and got it to understand 1000 words with grammar.
Wolves are demonstrably way smarter than border collies and no one has ever been able to teach a wolf english because they do not experience as much of a dopamine/oxytocin hit form being told good boy.
Animal intelligence is poorly studied and even more poorly understood
One of the modern ones that says malinois are the smartest dog had over 1000 dogs and 13 breeds in the study. Not too bad
You should look at the sort of testing they used in their study.
And youre the expert on animal intelligence, or what? Also you didn't answer my question.
>sample size <100 per breed
>humans can be assumed to be raised in a relatively controlled environment that fosters thought. when they are not is a subject of study focusing on systemic racism.
>dogs may be, or may not be, with some breeds being more likely to receive proper education and others being mentally stunted by their environment from birth
hmmmmm. dog systemic racism kept the labs down. malinois should not be that smart, their owners just go nuts with dog sports and raise them to their potential, because the punishment for not doing that is an aggressive shitbeast that mauls your children. shepherd privilege. in the study you're referring to they didn't even study huskies because they weren't considered appropriately motivated.
when humans are studied they are always assumed to be appropriately motivated or given drugs to be temporarily motivated. curious? animal intelligence research is a fricking joke. the fact that the mirror test still has followers should be evidence enough for you to discount all of that "science".
Nice opinion. Lmfao.
This.
It's certainly poorly understood by you. Dunning-Kruger at its finest.
>Epic antiwhite lib self own kek
moronic Black person, OP himself is a rightoid.
seems unlikely probably just a troon