I am looking for a German Shepherd Doberman mix puppy. I just bought land for my homestead and will hopefully be moving onto it by the end of April, and will be living by myself for the first time, so I am looking for a personal dog, and one that will make others second guess tryin' to mess with me! I love German shepherds, but not so much the insane shedding. I know this is kind of a shot in the dark, but I thought I would try asking here anyway. If anyone in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, South Carolina, and up to and around Ashville, N.C. (as we are planning to go to the Mother Earth News Fair in Asheville) and you happen to have some puppies, or know someone who does, that will be ready to go to their new homes at the end of April, please let me know! I am willing to pay a reasonable adoption fee! Preferably no docked tails or cropped ears, but since the mix is hard to find I'll probably take one anyway!
Also, it MUST be a puppy. I would love to take an adult dog that is good with cats, but my cat is a jerkface and likes to pee everywhere when he doesn't like something new, and I think a puppy would upset him less. We kept a puppy for 3 weeks last year and he wasn't too upset by it, but when we got my mom's adult dog all heck broke loose! He eventually quit once he got used to her, but there was definitely a difference between bringing in an adult and bringing in a pup. I think he feels more able to assert dominance over a puppy, and therefor feels less threatened.
Also, it MUST be a puppy. I would love to take an adult dog that is good with cats, but my cat is a jerkface and likes to pee everywhere when he doesn't like something new, and I think a puppy would upset him less. We kept a puppy for 3 weeks last year and he wasn't too upset by it, but when we got my mom's adult dog all heck broke loose! He eventually quit once he got used to her, but there was definitely a difference between bringing in an adult and bringing in a pup. I think he feels more able to assert dominance over a puppy, and therefor feels less threatened.
we got her at 9 weeks old, 11 lbs, and now she is a year and a half and 85 lbs of wiggly, bouncy goof ball named Marvel. She is OBSESSED with soccer balls and gatorade bottles. Had to get her a $45 indestructible soccer ball cause she destroyed 5 normal soccer balls in less than a month and if she finds a gatorade bottle sitting anywhere she will take it, even stole one out of my stepdad’s back pocket once! She also barks at fireflies and races cars down the front yard fence. She respects the fences around the chickens, even though they are not hot. I had to carry her 85 lb butt over an electric fence wire that wasn’t even hot, and was only 6 inches off the ground (it was a pig fence we were setting up) then she proceeded to leap over a stack of lumber 2 ft high, 3 feet wide. She prefers to sleep on hard surfaces, and refuses to keep a bed or even a simple fleece blanket under her to sleep. She either chews them to shreds or shoves them out of the way. I finally had to throw away one chewed up blanket that my stepdad had named her “Flintstones Blanket” because it was so full of holes. She loves to eat chicken and horse poop, but knows I hate it when she does, so she grabs a mouthful and takes off running to keep me from stopping her. She drives my mom’s dog crazy, a chihuahua terrier mix who whoops Marvel’s butt when pushed too far. She is also scared to death of the cat, but wants to play with him sooooo bad. She is a great doorbell, especially since we don’t have an actual doorbell, but we can also hear her when we are out in the back pasture (she isn’t allowed in the pasture if the chickens are free ranging) in case the neighbors show up for a random visit. She refuses to not use her paws when getting rubbed on, and thanks you for rubs by licking every inch of arm that she possibly can. Bully sticks are gone in minutes, no chew I have found except for Himalayan cheese sticks last longer than a day. She scared the crap out of a cyclist once. The fence in our front yard is made up of 2 electric wires, and she will not even dare go through it, and it’s hard to see unless you notice the posts. One day she was under the porch, and a cyclist was going down the road and broke the tree line. She waited until he was front and center to charge from under the porch, barking, growling, snarling, hackles raised, and I hear “Oh SH!+ come from his direction. She stopped at the fence of course, but that was still hilarious. Though, if the fence wasn’t there, she would have stopped short and just barked at him like crazy from a distance. She is actually a big wimp, but looks and sounds scary, which is what I want. Well, not necessarily the wimp part, but at least most people wouldn’t test her when she has those hackles raised! Her ears still can’t decide what to do sometime they hold themselves up be leaning on each other, sometimes they are folded back, sometimes they are half perked, sometimes one is doing one thing while the other is doing something else. Oh, and she snores
I wouldn’t trade her for the world, even though she can be a pain sometimes. She is still a puppy though so hopefully she will calm a bit as she gets older.
