yeah i get frustrated because i've often felt -super- judged for buying Bones vs getting a rescue. i mean, i believe that there are a lot of awesome humans up for adoption but i don't give my friends who opted to have their own kids a hard time. sometimes you want what you want and having to put up with judgmental bullshit just gets tired.
from my own experience, having a german shepard was a fucking nightmare. it could've just been the one we had, or the fact i named it Loki, but good lord I never had a dog that was a bigger pain in the ass or required constant stimulation. plus they're one of the few breeds that always seems to get aggressive with the beat so i think that's also colored my view of them. but the american mastiff sounds great. we met one when we were in Seattle and it was seriously like a huge version of Bones, just more chill.
i know i give you guys shit on facebook about just getting a dog already but i really do think it's awesome that it's something you're not rushing in to
Actually, on that point - one of the biggest reasons I'm wary of purebred dogs is that they all seem to have really common, fairly severe health problems related to the fact that they've been so carefully bred to an aesthetic standard. Sounds like, with some carefully-researched exceptions, bulldogs are a bad choice, and the photos in the other article give me some clues, but it seems like the breed organizations themselves are probably the most unreliable sources and...how do you even do the research?
it depends on the breed organization, when i was younger and we had wolfhounds, we'd usually go to Irish Wolfhound AKC related meetups (which happened a couple times a year) and talk to other owners about their experiences with breeders. right off the bat that was an easy way to figure out what breeder had closest to what we were looking for since we got to talk to pet owners instead of breeders
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Thanks! We totally would have pulled the trigger last summer but Rachel's summer schedule suddenly went from "relatively easy and can be home all the time" to "insane and will never be home" so it didn't feel like good timing! And this semester is such that no one is home for about 10-12 hours per day. So we're just trying to arrange it so I can be home 90% of the time for the first week or two, and someone will be home for most of every day for the first couple months. Considering how much I talk about puppies on facebook, I certainly merit getting some shit about it.
My family/extended family has always had german shepherds and they should all always be named Loki, but I kinda love that about them. They are just so smart, big, and energetic that you REALLY need to be an assertive and present owner. May as well just have a baby :P
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from my own experience, having a german shepard was a fucking nightmare. it could've just been the one we had, or the fact i named it Loki, but good lord I never had a dog that was a bigger pain in the ass or required constant stimulation. plus they're one of the few breeds that always seems to get aggressive with the beat so i think that's also colored my view of them. but the american mastiff sounds great. we met one when we were in Seattle and it was seriously like a huge version of Bones, just more chill.
i know i give you guys shit on facebook about just getting a dog already but i really do think it's awesome that it's something you're not rushing in to
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My family/extended family has always had german shepherds and they should all always be named Loki, but I kinda love that about them. They are just so smart, big, and energetic that you REALLY need to be an assertive and present owner. May as well just have a baby :P
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