German’s always make good stuff!.......................
One of many reasons I don’t walk, hike or work in my front yard without my large, protective dog close by.
Too many idiots let their dogs out - I think on purpose, even though it is highly illegal here - to run around the neighborhood. It is infuriating.
Who wrote that C&W song - “rednecks, control your animals?”
I had a Chow which are supposed to be one man dogs and care only about that one person. She was a puppy when I shared a house with a buddy who had two toddlers. Several years later, he visited me and my neighbor’s dog got in his now 9/10 year old boys’ faces bearing her teeth and growling. My Chow shot across the yard and kicked my neighbor’s dog’s ass. She remembered those kids even though it had been several years since she’d seen them.
Pits are smart. I was once set upon by a pack of seven dogs. The ankle biters and standard poodles rushed in. The two pits held back. And, as in this case, the kid((me) wasn’t what they were after. It was my dog. The Shepard ( Malinois?) in this vid stops at its property line. Good dog.
When I was a kid, we had a boxer that was very protective of me and my sibs. Wouldn’t let another adult, other than my parents, in our backyard when we were outside.
On time I did something dumb and my Dad spanked me. As he was walking out of the room our boxer jumped up and bit him on the butt. That made my Dad love that dog even more!!
I have a German Shepherd that is about five years old. After our older dog died this past January, we got a dalmatian pup to keep her company. The dalmatian loves to bite my ankles and jump all over me outside, thinking that I’m playing with her just like the shepherd does. The Shepherd almost always attacks the Dalmatian, with some great sound effects, in order to “protect” me. They are GREAT dogs.
Not a Pit Bull, for a change.
When I was a kid, my pet Mastiff routinely did things like this. Delivery drivers never got out of their trucks without one of us there, and people always reported that she would NOT let them out of their cars if we were not home.
Color me dubious about a “German” German Shephard named “Tank”. I would suspect der Panzer, or das Becken or maybe Panzerkraft Hund. Nicknamed, “Panzi” as in, Komm Schon, Panzi, guter Junge!
Sorry, but the attacker looks more German Shepherd than the defender.
Never known a GS to be so purely yellow/white like a yellow lab. No black body color prominent at all. The closest to it, Belgian Malinois, still should not be that yellow and bulky, esp. the face looks too blocky for either breed.
I call both of them GS mixes at best.
Hard to judge from the photos but I think the dog is a German shepherd mix. He doesn’t have the big, tall ears typical of pure German shepherds and looks too big for being one year old.
The attacking dog appears to be a Doberman or Labrador retriever mix but once again hard to be sure.
One week they went to their cottage in northern Michigan on vacation and one day the dogs wandered off into the woods and obviously got lost.
Dad spent three days driving the logging trails trying to find them and even left his jacket on the side of one trail in the hopes the dogs would find it and stay by it. Unfortunately somebody found the jacket and took it.
On the evening of the third day, they went into the little one gas station, one bar town and went into the bar for dinner. There behind the bar were the two dogs sleeping. They had wandered into town and the bar owner, who knew my parents, took them in and rescued them.
The dogs had one hell of an adventure because both had porcupine quills in their faces and had tangled with a skunk and lost.......LOL!
If that were me, I’d be explaining to my neighbor that the next time his dog comes onto my property and acts aggressively, that I’d medicate at 9mm per dose.
“My dog would never hurt a soul.”
Good dog