Unlike pit bulls, I think german shepherds are actually trainable so if raised nice, they don’t turn. Never know with a pit no matter how nice you start.
For some unfathomable reason, white shepherds don’t fit the mold. They’re not trainable in the sense of being turned into bomb sniffers, but they are more docile. I have a relative with one who can be pushed around on their tile floor by anyone when it doesn’t feel like getting up. Contractors doing work on their place get a kick out of moving it out of the way.
Another relative had a shepherd great-dane mix. Looked shepherd but giant. Very friendly. My relative had it on their front porch figuring it’d bark when I showed up and I had never met it. I called out to it as soon as it barked and just walked right up to it and it propped itself on my shoulders and licked my face.
“Another relative had a shepherd great-dane mix. Looked shepherd but giant. Very friendly. My relative had it on their front porch figuring it’d bark when I showed up and I had never met it. I called out to it as soon as it barked and just walked right up to it and it propped itself on my shoulders and licked my face.”
Looks like the Great Dane part pretty much took over in forming the dog’s personality. I once met a GSD/labrador cross where the same thing had happened. The dog I had who most recently died, about 5 years ago, was a Great Dane. He still lives within me. He lasted 10 years. Since then I have been off and on looking for a cross between a Great Dane and a lab, but a GSD cross would probably work too, my goal being to get a dog with a longer life span than a GD. My only problem with the Great Dane Breed is they have such tragically short life spans and they really come to love you so strongly within that tragically short time and never leave afterwards. My late, great Canute still lives within me.