I thought I would revisit this topic, since it looks like the last was in 2002, and it proves to be such entertaining reading.
Ok I'll level with all of you.... "I think I was spawned of morons". Upon seeing a picture of Dixie with the kids my mother says "I hope you watch them closely, because once a big dog like that gets a taste of blood they turn viscious".<img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />
This has been my mothers stand on big dogs in general my whole life. Now ya know why I'm 36 and this is my first GSD, and for sure not my last.
So common folks lets here those dumb comments and questions you have had to endure as the owner of a big dog. And have fun with it.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always have what you've always had.
OK I'll play <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> Well my dog isn't huge by size, he is 45 lbs, but because he is an APBT he is huge in many minds, sooooooo...By the way a more gentle dog you could not find. So I am taking him to the vet to drop him off for his dental (11 yrs old)....I am sitting quietly waiting for them to take my Buddy back, a woman comes into the waiting room amidst several small dogs (I affectionately like to call "ankle biters") that start barking their little heads off at her, she looks right at Buddy, in a down position and says...."Oh my God, isn't that one of those killer dogs"....
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"That 'police' dog will turn on you sooner or later...they all do" <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />
Especially if you give them any raw food or bones and turn on their blood-lust. <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />
Not the dumbest thing I've had someone say, but the dumbest thing I've had someone believe... Last August I had my bouvier doing some security during Caribana. It's a time when Toronto gets a *ton* of visitors from the U.S. We removed someone from a bar, and while I escorted him away from the property he asked about the dog...
Told him that pit bulls have longer hair in Canada cause of the cold winters.
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend; inside of a dog it's too dark to read. -Groucho Marx
One of my unfortunate favorites came in the form of my g/f's mama. She never missed an opportunity to voice her concerns over the fact that I like/keep pit bulldogs. She would constantly retell the story of her uncle's brother's twin-neighbor's killer "pitbull" that they had to keep locked in a bedroom whenever company came over. This was until she showed me a picture of the ravenous beast, it turned out to be a...bull terrier! When I corrected her error, she simply replied: "They're all the same to me". <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
I love when I walk my 3 Shepherds and a woman that is walking her T-cup poodle on the opposite side of the road stops and says to me "Can my baby come over and say HI to yours?" (while her dog is lunging at mine and barking)
I have always wanted to reply " if you want my 3 babies to have a quick snack"
If you could picture that sight.
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I have been told several times that my Doberman's brain will never stop growing. Eventually the pain of his brain pressing into his skull will drive him insane and he will eventually turn on me!! <img src="http://www.leerburg.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />
Everyone should try to be as good as their dog thinks they are.
Don't know how many times I've heard similar things about Dobies. Usually people try and tell me that it's there skull that is too narrow to handle their mature brain. The pressure as the dog grows will make it crazy and unpredictable. Even my own Aunt has told me something like this when I had a Dobie for a short time.
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