I had a really neat thing happen this week. I have a friend that has sheep on his farm, anyway, I went out there to help him out a bit. I had my male GSD Luke with me in the truck. We get out there and I see him (the friend) running through this field with a stick trying to get his sheep back into the fenced area, so I get out and go to help him, but tell Luke to down stay next to the truck because I know that the friend has a blue heeler female, and I don't want her pushing Luke's buttons. Anyway, she is OLD. So I'm helping him get them in and I ask him where his heeler is at? And he says that she is in the house as she is just too old for this stuff anymore as she is close to 15 years old.
So, a whole mess of these sheep decide that they are going to cut between us and go back into the field. My friend says to me "hey, what about your dog?" I say, he might run them into the next county before he runs them into the fenced area, and we laugh about it, but then he says oh well try it anyway. So I call Luke and he comes out to me, I point at the sheep and then tell him to bring me those sheep, and he looks for a minute and then just takes off. I'm thinking "here we go, those sheep will be across the road before I can get him to stop". Anyway, he runs out there, and "he starts pushing them towards me!" I am in awe, total awe. And even when a ram decides to challenge him rather than go into the fence he just snatched the ram by the back of the neck, sort of pulled him towards himself, and then slams this ram on it's side. The ram gets up and decides to push it again, and Luke just chest blasted him full tilt, and that was it, done. It was so cool because he has never done it before, EVER, and yet you could just see the cogs working in that head of his, he even herded the stubborn stragglers. My friend offered me a Polaris 4 wheeler for Luke! No thanks I'll keep the dog.

Well, how COOL is that -- Good dog, Luke !!! But where the heck was your camera-phone, so we could all see him herding ?

WOW - WOW - WOW!!!
I'm absolutely amazed, how cooool is that???!!!
Is there anything a GSD can't do???!!!
They are tops!

I was impressed! Luke weighs around 107lbs, he was around 96 until he hit 2 years old, and then he put on a few more pounds of muscle, you can still feel his ribs, and patting him on the side of his chest is like slapping a wall. and at that weight he still routinely jumps through the rear window on my Ford F-150 supercrew 4X4 without touching the paint. Makes it look easy.
The ram tried the stare down thing, and then tried walking towards him, and Luke just hammered him twice.
He did not do exactly what the heeler does, but you could literally see him thinking the problem through, it was just totally stunning to me to watch him push them towards me and the opened gate. Now he did also make a bit nervous because he bit one of the ewes in the hamstring when she was slow, and it was not a nip, it was a bite, complete with a head twist. But my friend said that she had it coming, and wasn't mad at Luke for doing it. No blood, but it made her limp for a minute. That can't be good.
Also, he has been out to a farm where hogs were raised and he just ignored them, maybe a sniff here and there, and a show of teeth when a sow got too close to him, but that was it. Now he will chase a deer in a heartbeat, which is what I thought was going to happen with the sheep, he'd just chase them into the next county, but nope, he shocked me.

GSD's CAN do it all!! Wish you had gotten pictures. How about a photo of Luke?

can anyone tell me how to post a photo on here, the meaty thuds you are hearing is this computer giving me a beating.