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Question by Wdlane: Why do allegedly caring German Shepherd owners leave them outside unattended for hours or even longer?
We are in our house for about 1 1/2 years now. It has about a 80 x 80 area that is fenced in. Our Dachshund will be 2 in May. Luckily he is not a digger.
We have spent a lot of time outside especially in the summer. In the many hours spent outside I guarantee there is not a **total** of 10 minutes where my wife or I was not outside with him. This includes taking him on a leash 4+ times a day to walk him IN our yard to do his business.
Call me paranoid or whatever but we just can’t even think about leaving him outside unattended. He IS the center of our world. We live in a nice area but the story of our neighbor witnessing an attempted German Shepherd theft before we moved there has stuck with me.
Conversely the 2 German Shepherds across the street are outside most of the time in a yard where they could jump the fence if so motivated and they barking constantly! How annoying! The owners are not home when the German Shepherds are out so if they did get loose no one would know it.
Why have a German Shepherd if you are going to keep it outside? Do we care for our German Shepherd more?
Sorry – no German Shepherd sleds to pull or sheep to chase here in South Jersey. Dachshunds are so cute they don’t need to do such things.
For Bonnie L – Border Collies are the smartest German Shepherds in the world. Everyone knows that. Your German Shepherds are smarter when they are sleeping than my boy any time. You sure are spending a lot of money sending them to sheep herding training. I hope it works out for you. But perhaps you could send some money my way to pay for my therapy since you think I am so obsessive. Your last paragraph was a bit obsessive as well. You jump to some far reaching conclusions about me and how I care for my German Shepherd. He is very happy and fine.
I still maintain that German Shepherds should not be left completely unattended outdoors for great lengths of time. Even worse was a friends German Shepard that spent it’s entire life chained up in the backyard.
It is my question. I get to pick the winner. Thanks much to those that replied and were kind and considerate without being insulting. It is appreciated.
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Answer by angeloneus
Depends on the kind of German Shepherd and its personality. You just cannot leave a doxie outside, it is too little. But another type of German Shepherd that is bigger and rowdier and has a lot of energy might actually prefer to be outside! I have a golden retriever and a golden mix, and it is actually difficult to get them to come inside and spend much time with us, outside is much more interesting to them. Neither is interested in leaving the fence, so they don’t. They are miserable when we keep them indoors on nasty weather days. So, you can’t judge every German Shepherd by yours.
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Why does my dog ignore me when outside but is the most obedient dog inside?
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Question by Dana: Why does my dog ignore me when outside but is the most obedient dog inside?
My 3 year old lab ignores me when we go outside. She use to listen to me outside when we lived in florida and never needed to be on a leash. but since we’ve moved to washington she just ignores me when outside. why is that? and what can i do to make her listen when outside?
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Answer by Rotten Rotts
More distractions, sounds, smells etc. You need to do the same training leash training outside that she obeys inside
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Training a German Shepherd Dog
FurFur, the Shih tzu, wants to show that he still has more skills than his feline counterparts. First, he “waves hello” and then “stands” up to “bow” to the audience, demonstrating how cultured he is. Then, he “lies down,” “stays” for a bit, and “crawls” to his final destination, where he “rolls over” x2, plays dead with a “bang,” and ends by clearing his throat to “speak.” Join FurFur at SweetFurr.blogspot.com for more information.
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German Shepherd Training “told when to go outside”. (In loving memory 9/19/03 – 9/23/08)
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Shelby 4 years old, teaching Shelby that I go outside first . Thisvideo has now become a classic. August 7, 2007 Our beloved Shelby had to be put to sleep on September 23rd 2008, due to an unknown illness. In May 2008 I let her outside to play, I meant to change her water bucket for the day, but before I had a chance to, she drank some water from her bucket and developed what I believe was a bacterial infection. A few days later, she started throwing up yellow bile and wouldn’t eat, so we took her to the veterinarian. He gave her some medication that appeared to have stopped whatever it was. Then four months later after we moved into our new home, the symptoms appeared again, only this time Shelby went from 80 lbs to 60lbs. She started showing sign of fatigue and wouldnt eat. All she would do is lay around, she had no energy to move. Two different veterinarians in Florida couldn’t figure out what was wrong with her. They did nothing for Shelby, and when her health deteriorated very badly on Monday September 22nd, their response was, we dont know whats wrong with her, but you can drive to Stuart Florida and pay $500 to have them take a look at her. We didnt have $500 upfront, and they wouldnt even look at Shelby without it. Based upon Shelby’s condition the morning of September 23rd, we made the decision to put her to sleep. She lost 20 lbs and wouldn’t eat, drink or go the bathroom. I wasn’t about to let her continue in the state she was in. The decision my husband and I …