When a cop friend first stopped by our home to visit, two fairly large chow-mix poochies greeted him, barking and snarling, and acting like they wanted to leap over the back fence and chew his lips off.
He commented to me, "Well, I see you've got the best security system of all."
Yep, dogs are good. We're going to start out with one adult German Shepherd, and later on get a GS puppy. I haven't had a dog since I was a little kid, so this will be an adventure for me. I'll need to learn how to properly train and manage a dog, especially one like a GS. We don't want one that's going to bark incessantly, nor bite anyone we don't WANT him to bite, like friends and neighbors, unless said neighbors decide to crawl over the backyard fence.