Joan McMaster Webboard User Reg: 05-17-2015
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All of the above is great advice when it comes to training on exercises.
As someone who has had GSDs for 30 years I would check a puppy for nipping kids. I had adult dogs herd toddlers and keep them from the street etc. This is helpful as long as the dog is doing it in a careful way and not in a using a child to satisfy a drive kind of way. My girl best with kids would just stand in front of a toddler heading towards the street and slightly lean weight until the child would go in a safer direction. She would not nip nor would she herd kids in circles etc.
Puppies need to understand that nipping kids is not allowed. Period. No reason to overcorrect but I would not entirely ignore it.
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Quote: Joan McMaster
As someone who has had GSDs for 30 years I would check a puppy for nipping kids.
Absolutely...
Quote: Joan McMaster
I had adult dogs herd toddlers and keep them from the street etc. This is helpful as long as the dog is doing it in a careful way and not in a using a child to satisfy a drive kind of way. My girl best with kids would just stand in front of a toddler heading towards the street and slightly lean weight until the child would go in a safer direction. She would not nip nor would she herd kids in circles etc.
Same here: when I had toddlers, my Father-in-Law's intact adult male GSD would keep them within very close range of parental supervision at all times, even inside the house -- I called his self-appointed human Puppy Patrol duty "mother hen mode" and I do not believe that behavior stems from Prey Drive at all ... IIRC wolf packs leave a subordinate adult "aunt or uncle" back at their den to Baby-Sit the Cubs while all other pack members go on hunting expeditions
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Puppies need to understand that nipping kids is not allowed. Period.
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