#Working Line GSD

[petportraitsbyheatherlovelace]

A portrait drawing I did of one of my own dogs, named Sam a German Shepherd. Polychromos and Luminance colored pencils used on 9"X12" toned gray Strathmore paper.

[saltpixiefibercraft]

First of a few videos I'm gonna do explaining the weaving process! This one covers the shuttle I'm using for this project, and the other boat shuttles I employ in my work.

Plus puppy tax, because little miss Rio has her kennel near the loom and she Must Be Paid Attention to!!!!

[floofboof]

Literally cannot handle how fast Beignet is growing. He’s six months old today! These photos are from a few weeks back.

[blackbackedjackal]

The vet tech thought Lobo was 8 months old and the vet thought he was 2-3 years old.

He’s 5.

[kangals]

working line german shepherd or show line german shepherd.

my favorite GSD i've ever met was a gorgeous american show line male, with a stunning red-and-black saddle and a huge head and a very sweet, calm personality. he was big and gentle and i loved him. i'd happily take a dog like a him!

also this always makes the GSD owners frothy but i still stand by my opinion that all of the working dogs look more or less generically identical.

[jimmystrudel]

5 year dog plan updates: I think I've identified a breed (and 3 potential breeders), I have more clearly figured out what I don't want and what my life style will not fit and most important I need more experience with dogs in general

[valoale]

I’m starting to be convinced my dog is having joint/structural damage pain and I’m scared

[kelev9]

While I love a working line GSD I don't think I could ever get one from a breeder because the registered/breeder names most of them have are SO DUMB

[gar-a-ash]

So my neighbor a few weeks back threatened to shoot my dog because he's "terrified of dogs and Reese keeps charging the fence and going onto their property" (not true, if Reese ever does cross over it's maybe by six inches to pee on the fence post) so as a gesture I patched the very tiny gap between the snow fence and property fence and considered the matter done.

Except.

My neighbor has always stared me and my dogs down whenever I'm out with them, which is annoying to all of us, but now he's started using a turkey call to try to bait the dogs into going over there, and while my dogs have a trained Leave It command and will ignore it the fact that he's doing this is infuriating and now I have to make sure I constantly have a camera on me to try to catch him in the act so I can go to the police. I'm losing my fucking mind, for a man that's apparently terrified of dogs the fact that he waits to see if I'm out with them and then comes out to stare at us, and now this, is driving me up the fucking wall. This man has played with Reese when he was a puppy. He knows Reese is a super friendly dog. And where I am I can't do anything about it without evidence, and I KNOW he's trying to bait my dogs into going near the fence so he can shoot them and claim they charged the fence.

This is what I mean when I say certain commands can be life saving, btw. Because my dogs are REALLY having a hard time ignoring that turkey call, especially when he's walking up and down his driveway to taunt them, and without the training they have I have no doubt they would have walked over to see what's up and been hurt.

[natopajas]

[bas-rouge]

GSDs have their problems but to be honest I've really gained a respect for show GSD breeders. A lot of those "working line" dogs have way too much drive and too little control to be actual working dogs, and a lot of people who go wild about the sloped back thing really don't seem to understand that a lot of GSD breeders actually DO work their dogs... and those dogs DO have sloped backs and stack in an exaggerated way in the ring. Or they're constantly touting the "European GSDs aren't like that!" have you seen a show line European GSD? Ime they have worse roach backs than anything I've seen in the AKC ring. Like seriously I get that GSDs have a TON of problems but demonising the entire "show line" portion of the breed while touting the "working line" portion as the only "true GSD" is ridiculous and I'm sick of it.

[vanmarkham]

ppl need to stop getting working line dogs bc they wanna feel Cool even though they can't handle it

[floofboof]

Someone’s getting big 😫🥹

[fossore]

Golden retriever boyfriend this, golden retriever boyfriend that. No. That boy is clearly a Belgian malinois

[shamelessshepherd]

One of my goals in life is owning two fully trained personal protection dogs

[twistedtreeau]

Tawnyclaw would be like a working line German shepherd dog