Let's See Your Dogs!!

Here is our latest edition to the family. About 7 months old and was a rescue. He had no fur when they found him, needed a blood transfusion and spent 5 weeks or so in recovery and to make sure the scabies had been cured.

 

Dog / German Sheperd Dog

Dept. of Redundancy Dept description. Never understood that. I see GSD and I have no idea what that is. I have a GSP, German Shorthaired Pointer, but it's not GSPD. WTF?

As for your rescue. A beaut. Are they sure it's all German Sheperd? Look at those legs! Looks like Great Dane legs!

 

Don't overthink life.

 

Yer nuking it hardcore senior

 

This is our pup, Theia. She is a 1 year old husky. This is also the cage set up that she tore through and has since been replaced.

 

This is our big guy, Dallas. He is getting ready for his 13th birthday next month.

 

CAn i PLaY wItH iT nOw??

 

That’s a good action pic!!

 

His siblings and mother were German Shepard for sure and he is about a 1/3 smaller than them and they all had the German Shepard coloring. He does have webbed feet and no one knows who the day is...

 

If you're worried about shedding, then I would not get a husky. We vacuum every day and sometimes twice a day and we still have fur everywhere. After a day on the trail with her in the back, I have pulled out massive furballs of my truck. Huskies shed a lot.

 

Well, he's still super cool. Probably just needs to fill out that body. Looks like a happy pup, Cone of Shame and all.

Hardcore? ................ Huh?

 

Definitely looks like there is Dane in there. And the name Astro could be a hint

 

Never thought of that...Good point. He was already named, and sort of kinda responded to it, so we left it as it was.
Love the Jetsons... I thought by the time I got to this age, we would all be zinging around in spaceships...

 

Most believe it is because the translation of Alsation Wolf Dog, who started as a dog that worked sheep to keep wolf's at bay at a distance it is hard to see what is a wolf and what is a dog in the case of GSD. I believe it is the first breeders that named the dogs and the American kennel club that kept the translation from the German breeder's and the English version that the English used witch is Alsation wolf dog too keep both happy. It is the only dog with dog in its name and the purists want to keep it that way.

 

Saying I hate cactus and dry heat when are we going back to South Carolina.

 

The way they have "Dog/ German shepherd dog" is probably the way that pound uses on their forms, much like "cat/ Siamese cat". In which case they should of used canine / feline as the family order - imo.

The Name "German Shepherd dog" is translated from "Deutscher Schäferhund" where "hund" translates as dog (much to where we get "hound" today.) Dacshund or "badger dog" is another example.

Your dog could be called a Vorstehhund (pointer dog) but that includes German Long hair pointers (GLP's), German Wirehair (GWP's) and GSP's. GSP's go by Deutscher kurzhaariger, Deutsch Kurzhaar, or Kurzhaar in Germany; which is why it probably didn't translate over.

Large dog breeds (German shepherd dog breeds included) are known for "anatomically" long legs as puppies. That's why its usually important to keep puppies from getting too over weight since they grow very fast and their bones/joints can't keep up.

The Alsatian wolf dog got its name from tommy's in WWI that brought the dogs home to England from Alsace, France after the war. Britain was still very anti German at the time so they renamed them that, where America didn't have that much resentment. They are the same as a GSD and many breeders have dropped the Alsatian name and returned to GSD. But today no matter where they come from, most show dogs are messed up, imo, compared to how the breed started.

 

I do not have a dog, but I used to explore and camp with my cat.
I came up with an excellent method for water and food in the truck bed under a camper shell (topper).
I no longer have the cat or the thing that I made, so I do not have pictures.
Let me describe what I made:
I went to a landscape construction yard and asked for scrap perforated 3" PVC drain pipe (white triple wall).
I took the pipe and cut it at a slight angle to a thin height (3/4")
I ended up with two pieces (one for water and one for food)
I then took a "strut" nut (you can use a 't' nut) with a short bolt through one of the holes on the pipe and attached each of the cut pipe pieces to the bed rail mount in the truck bed.
After you get them dialed in, you can buy disposable "cocktail" clear or red cups and they jam right in, keep em loaded high enough for pet to feed/drink.
You could also use the truck bed cup holder mounts that are pretty common on this forum.

 

If I only had thumbs!