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I'm going to be brutally honest with you here, Beast. You might be able to be a decent Dutchie owner. Maybe.
But you're not the only one in the situation here. You also have a wife and children. You need to consider your entire family when getting a dog, not just what you are willing to do. A single person is unlikely to completely change their lifestyle to accommodate the needs of a dog, an entire family even less so. What will most likely happen is that either your wife will end up resenting the dog and you, or you will collectively decide that it is way more dog than you expected or can handle. There's also the distinct possibility that someone will get bitten along the way. Maybe your kids, or a neighbor, or one of your kids' friends. No telling.
Too many times, people pull a Veruca Salt when getting a dog, screaming "But Daddy, I want an Oompa Loompa NOW!!!" They get fixated on a particular breed because of something they saw, or read, or heard, or whatever. They don't really stop to consider if it's the right breed for them, or if they're the right owners for it. They want their Oompa Loompa, and they want it NOW!!! So they charge full steam ahead. If they do stop to think, it's only that they will be different than all those other owners out there that realize they can't handle the dog and give up. But in the end, they are no different, and another dog ends up bouncing from home to home to home.
Choose a breed for the life you have, not the life you think you'll have after you get the dog.
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I agree.
To be blunt, do you know what you sound like? A guy who has never owned a gun before who comes on this board and wants to get a M-24 Sniper Rifle because he heard they were THE BEST and he likes using them in Call of Duty, and he's just going to practice until he can shoot 1/2 MOA groups at 1000 yards because he doesn't want his equipment to be his limiter. Or a guy who for his first handgun wants a $5,000 custom built 1911 race gun.
Here's the other thing. Nothing is stopping you from investing similar amounts of time and effort into any of the other suggested breeds. For dogs, you get into them what you put into them, and it is an exponential thing. Put in just the bare minimum and you get back just the bare minimum. Put in a lot and you will get back a TON. You want to get out more and have a dog you can point to and say 'look what I have accomplished'. That's a fine goal, but it is no you. There is no need to get a hard headed land shark on crack to accomplish that goal. Have a NORMAL dog that obeys you 100% of the time, is obedient, heels perfectly, etc, etc, that's darn impressive. Add on to that a dog that can get top marks in obedience or agility (to say nothing of flyball, Search-and-Rescue training or any of the other demanding dog events where hundreds of different breeds compete) and honestly, while the top 1% of dogs in the Schutz world are Dutch or Mal, and GSD+Dutch+Mal make up probably 90% of the participants, MANY other breeds compete. So there is absolutely no reason if you want to get out of the house and train a schutz dog you can't do it with any breed.
Just like a guy who wants to get into handgun shooting can go really far with a stock Glock 19, you can go really far with an 'average' dog.
Thing is, if your plans don't pan out, you can toss that $5000 Les Baer in a drawer, or put it on gunbroker. What are you going to do with a balls-to-the-wall-cracked-out-sleeve-chaser dog if life gets in the way of your dog, or your wife puts her foot down, or one of your kids wants to do X and you have to put in extra overtime every week to make it possible, or or or a million things? Abandon the dog? Try and sell it on Craigslist? Because a real top level competition Mal or Dutch is not going to make a nice pet for a suburban soccer mom 9-5 minivan family.
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