Not to be picky, but since I have one....
....this is a Belgian Malinois. They’re very different than a German shepherd.
This dog looks like my dog. Breaks my heart.
Funny, I have a German Sheperd, and this dog appears to be her twin.
Thanks for that.
I have two Malinois females , sisters ....
I think I love these dogs more than my own life .
I would just die if anything like this were to ever happen to either of them .
But there is also NO WAY I could forget where they were , as in: inside a car in the heat , or anywhere else .Plus, they’d never let me leave them like that , they’d break out a window or something . They are strong as an ox and smart as a human being (smarter than many!) and so attached to me . Like 4 legged glue!
very sad story ...I have saved the photo of this gallant dog.
Belgian Malanois are MAGNIFICENT dogs. According to a show I watched on Animal Planet, this is the breed most often trained to be military war dogs. A war dog has to do what a police dog does, only perform error-free without rest for 18 - 24 hours at a time.
I live in Phoenix. I simply cannot understand how anyone can leave a child or an animal in a hot car even for 30 seconds. The inside of the car skyrockets to 160 degrees within a couple of minutes. The policeman knew that!!! He gets in and out of his hot car all the time. It’s absolutely heartbreaking.......
Whatever it is, it’s a beautiful dog. How much do they go for and do you ever see them in shelters? I’d rather rescue a dog rather than pick one up at a breeder.
What was this cop thinking? From what I’ve read, the dogs are basically their partners; they’re supposed to watch each other’s back.
When I was a kid, we had a Belgian Shepherd. He had killed somebody, but my mom fell in love with him and wouldn’t let them have him put down, so we took him in. (That sounds strange today, but this was back in the early 50s.)
Anyway, the Belgian Shepherd is bulkier and stronger than either the GSD or the Belgian Malinois, and this dog lived up to that quality in spades.
Soon after we took him in, my brothers chained him up in the basement while we all went out for a while. Well, he simply broke the chain, and took out the entire metal casement window when he exited the basement. We found him shading himself on the front porch, waiting for us to come home.
He was very protective of me, keeping me from getting close to snakes, once on the front porch and once in the basement.
As a 4YO, I used to climb up on the kitchen counter to get a snack for myself, then slide my butt of the counter, and on top of the dog. That killer dog, feared by many, would simply go “oof” as I landed on him.