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I'm planning on getting a working GSD in May. He will be a family companion and although we are an active family (i.e hiking etc) I was wondering what we could do with him beyond obedience training to challenge his mind and give him something where he feels useful. We don't have the time or knowledge to do Schutzhund or FR...so does anyone have any other suggestions?
Tracking or any scent work. I don't know much about it, but am learning. I do know that it is loads of fun for me and my dog is definately proud when he finds whatever we are looking for.
It can be useful too. Yesterday I lost an arrow while target practicing. It had my smell on it, so was very easy for him to find hidden under leaves where I couldn't see it. That's like 7 bucks!:laugh:
can i ask a dumb question? why are you getting a working line dog if he's going to be a family companion and you don't necessarily have a lot of time to train the dog?
does it take less time to do agility rather than SchH?
When I lived in California (in the high desert by the way) I took some agility classes and my shepherd loved it. I just did it for fun, I never really felt I would get into competition with it but he really enjoyed going and you can also make some of the obstacles so you can do it at home too. Look up on AKC.org website for info on Rally, thats good fun too. I have a shep that got his Rally Excellent title and it wasnt too hard to do. More interaction with the dog in the ring, you do different stations with different exercises, pretty neat.
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Jennifer,
There are many reasons why I want a working line GSD. One is that from the advice of the members of the forum they suggested to get a working line over a show line GSD even if he was just going to be a companion dog. It's not necessarily about the time because we will have plenty of time. It's more about we don't want to get involve in sports competition but would love to teach the dog something where he is exercising his mind. We have the physical aspect down because we're such a physically active family but we want to teach him something beyond the standard obedience training. What Kathy mentioned sounds great to me because I can teach him something he would enjoy but not worry such much about the competing aspect. On one of Ed's videos he mentioned coming out with a dvd on relationships and games and that's the kind of suggestions I was thinking of. I hope I made myself clear. Please let me know if I haven't.
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sorry! i wasn't sure how much time you would have when you mentioned it above. 
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