versus the later Greyhound infused lines from the 30s
Posted on 03/31/2022 1:04:37 PM PDT by DallasBiff
Thinking of adopting another rescue, still grieving over the loss of my rescue of 12 years, she died in 1/21.
She was a 45 lb. bundle of joy(hound,lab,pit mix) never barked.
I still miss her, but maybe it's time to renew.
Consider a bird. There are rescue classes for big birds, because they do take learned maintenance and people don’t know how to do it. They will outlive you.
It’s actually more complicated than that.
Northern/Southern Dobe breeders, at the beginning, used different breeds to create their lines.
One part used Greys and the other didn’t.
The biggest influence on the breed was the Beauceron and a now extinct variety of German Pinscher.
I have ancient books written by the people who homogenized the breed types and it’s really obvious which lines used Greys and which didn’t.
FWIW, my favorite Dobes from ‘days of yore” are the ones with obviously Greyhound type heads.
I read and study pedigrees and Dobe history like some women read romance novels.
:)
versus the later Greyhound infused lines from the 30s
If it were at all feasible, I would go feral and join up with a pack of wolves.
I had no neighbor playmates as a kid and my companions were dogs.
We ran the ridges and forests as a pack and those were the happiest days of my life.
/raised by dogs and barely domesticated
Someone I know admired my Dobe service dogs and got one for herself.
Had him for almost two years and he was really biting her.
*Hard*.
She spent a fortune on medical tests, behavioral and obedience training and he still bit her.
She gave him to another woman and they live happily now.
Sometimes, a dog just does not like something about you...although I have never experienced that myself, I’m an irresistible mutt magnet. :)
[and she was not really a A Dobe Person, anyway. we’re “different”]
I agree with you!
Something about red heelers. Kiowa was super sharp. I miss her.
We love kidgets/kittehs!
I’ve learned that bad behavior in a dog is more a fault of the owners than it is the animal.
Amen
Ki would hunt hogs with me. She never engaged them, but would distract them enough for me to let the air out of them. She even had her own way of catching rabbits, bury them for about 3 days, dig them up and eat them.
I can’t....
So precious!!
Thanks I appreciate that.
:-(
I’m sorry, if I thought this thread would make you upset, I’d not have pinged you.
But don’t be so down as to say you won’t survive your pet. Other dogs out there need adopting and a good life and they need people like you to give them that, and your dog would agree.
Check for fear-strike syndrome before you hand them the check.
Walk up to it in a friendly way and reach down to pet it.
Then have someone else do the same thing.
If at anytime the dog pulls away and then lunges....walk away.
This is a genetic condition caused by in-breeding with poor stock.
I’ve seen Great Danes, mid-size and small mop dogs with it.
Same here.
When we went to meet Boo, there were lots of dogs in very nice “apartments” at the shelter and volunteers were endlessly running dogs around a big track out behind the building.
He had to look at a 3 month old puppy and I let him, but I was there for Boo and it was agony walking away from the rest.
There was even a Doberman boy named Kevin, there.
Hardest walk-away, ever.
Everything upsets me of late.
I feel like I have no skin.
I’m glad you pinged me.
I really hope Biff finds a new dog to love.
Yes, Rowdy is now almost 12. His left stifle is blown out, he wears a brace on it. When he gives you all he has, it is only for a couple of hours now. Everyone tells me to get another, and let him teach the pup how to behave.
Oh, when I give him a big raw bone, he buries it for days. He is NEVER wrong on the location of a toy or a treat, even if it is under something, and his teeth in front are gone from tearing up his cloth octopus toys with a squeaky ball in it...He “Beast Modes” them. Which, BTW I taught him to do on command while watching football.... Marshawn Lynch.... he was just as tenacious. He does it to the fuzz off of tennis balls, and old T shirts we play with.
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