I just thought I show off my new Best buddy! She is a full breed german shepherd and is 9 weeks old. I still need to send in the paperwork to have her registered with AKC. I am currently working on get her crate/potty trained. I am also teaching her sit, down and come... she is picking up on it very quickly. Anyone have any advice for me about raising a GSD? My family is supper excited about having her in the family! Im always up for seeing photos of other peoples GSD's so show them off!

My 10-month-old GSD Lena. The most loyal dog I've ever had. Good luck with the training!

Achtung! (Ahk-toong’): Watch! Attention!
Aus! (Ows): Out! Drop It! Let Go!
Bleib! (Blibe): Stay!
Bringen! : Bring! Fetch!
Fass! (Fahs):Attack! Take hold!
Fuss! (Foos): Heel!
Gib Laut! : Bark! Speak!
Hier! : Here! Come!
Hopp! : Up! Jump!
Nein! (Nine):No!
Pass auf! (Pahs owf): Pay attention! Heads Up!
Pfui! (Foo-ey): Shame! Stop That! Drop That!
Platz! (Plots): Down! (Place)
Setz! , Setzen! (Zetze’n): Sit!
Such! (Zook): Search!
Voran! (For-ahn): Go forward! Take the lead!
Voraus! (For-ows): Go forward! Run out!

Cookie knows when I'm in the kitchen she gets a snack. She loves when I get the red hot pork rinds.
She's 6 in July.

Cute puppy. I wish you and her the best.



Buy a good vacuum cleaner.
Buy a better vacuum cleaner.
Replace carpet with hard floor covered with a rug.
Remove rug and do not replace.
Just kidding.

Since its spring and you live in Kansas, I would suggest getting her used to thunderstorms ASAP. When mine was a puppy, I would play out in the yard with him during a thunderstorm until I felt it was unsafe. No coddling. Make it a non-event. He never had problems with thunderstorms or fireworks after that.

She's my fur-baby..

Congrats!

Puppy obedience training sessions should be very short in duration (a few minutes at most) and all positive reinforcement.

Read the book Monks of New Skete classic on the subject of puppy training.

Never owned a GSD myself, but damn if Elvis isn't a nice looking dog.

Nice looking pup, OP! From the size of those leg bones and feet, she's going to be a big one.

Those are ALL some great looking dogs!

We had extremely great success with this book and the positive training methods

Before and After Getting Your Puppy: The Positive Approach to Raising a Happy, Healthy, and Well-Behaved Dog

Wouldn't raise a dog any other way.

Adorable puppy.

Buy a Dyson.

My 6mo old german bloodline GSD, had her since 8 weeks





Tips:
Be patient and consistent in your reactions and punishments.
Make sure everybody, you, the wife, kids works with the dog. The last thing you want is it not getting along with a member of your household.
Get it trained sooner rather than later, my girlfriend already was having trouble controlling her on the leash at 4-5mo. They grow very quickly.
The more tired the dog is the better

ours are very territorial which we found out last year when we bought our house. great dogs, super friendly on neutral territory, as soon as they see something they don't like that could be perceived as a threat to our property, they alert bark until I say something. with my wife they take no chances, and will continue until she bribes them into the house.

we've found that they are very prone to separation anxiety and work much better in pairs. since we've been leaving our female out of the crate, this hasn't been too much of an issue and the two of them are much more mellow and less in your face. they keep themselves occupied and out of trouble.

from a security perspective, our pair works well, a poster in another thread a few weeks ago mentioned about males being concerned with territory and females being concerned with people... this is very much true for us... our male will do perimeters at night until he feels comfortable, if he's only half sure he'll sleep on the landing of the steps, if he's totally comfortable he'll hop into our bed. our female will stay in our bed. if our male alerts on something, she will move from the foot of our bed up to our chest area, or even lay on top of us. if it's something very loud or "danger close", she will wake us up and stand above us.

make sure your pup is kept occupied physically and more importantly mentally. GSD pups are like bad kids... if they get time to think, they WILL get into trouble. Keeping them physically tired can help, but as i've said before, our two get bored on long walks and at the dog park, but enjoy being in the car, watching me do work around the house, our female watches TV (loves the Fantastic Mr Fox, Alpha and Omega, and Full Metal Jacket), and they love pulling apart soda bottles, trying to get treats out of toys, etc

I love our male, as he was a rescue from an inner city kill shelter, and there is a very deep bond between rescue dogs and their owners, he is very perceptive of our emotions. but our female is also a very loyal dog, we raised her from a puppy, and she is extremely compassionate.

after owning two GSDs, I can't see owning another breed. they are very intelligent, very emotional, and very loyal.