Tanka is a noise maker also, but he is pretty graceful in the house. he will carry a manure bucket onto the porch and just bang it around until you make him quit. Loves to walk on things that make noise.
He got put to work helping me with clearing brush and hauling dead trees up to the firepit........he also got very good at digging up tree stumps. That dog was like a bunch of different heavy equipment all rolled into 1
Dennis, get this perfected, and I'll wear out his fuzzy little butt (big butt).
Kinda sounds like you got yourself a serious working dog in need of a bit more mental/physical stimulation. Congrats!!!
Building an obstacle course does encourage grace and agility....but beware, that's not always a good thing...
I started working Ryuk on all sorts of playground equipment through the woods, etc...it doesn't solve the noise problem but it insures your dog will end up all sorts of cool places...like tightroping across the headboard of your lofted bed...or calmly laying down on the banister down the stairs (5 ft off the ground O_O)...or my personal favorite, perched on top of your car balancing on the roof rack...
Re: uncrating. I've had success with slow transition from crate to free but I've meet my match with a 5 yr old that I've had for a 1 1/2y. In the crate an angel: quiet/sleeps, out of the crate is a free-for-all. He is not destructive but non stop movement, no grace. Physical/mental exercise may get a 10 min nap. He does listen when free in house, but it requires 100% redirection from me. Teethered initally but due to no destruction nor settling, now I baby-gait him in the room I am in or in a room I can see him easily. So I've given up, labeled him my fovever puppy.
I know she's working line and not show line, but graceful is about the LAST word I would use to describe my GSD.
that's what confusing me, Roxie a working line GSD was a kennel dog most her life and when I brought her home she was silent as a cat moving around the house so its genetic
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