That begs the question....what are these people doing to give their dogs an outlet for that energy?

Some trainers use ball and or food for EVERY aspect of training. If they don't do what they want, the don't get fed or get the ball.

I used food when my guy with a little pup, then more recently I've transitioned away from food and I'm using play as his motivation.

I read that stuff and I was very confused since I know what mine is like with little exercise and with the whole list of 'don't do' I started to wonder...

The move to the new house has her very stressed...

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Steve's getting much bigger...He'll be 5 mos. old on Nov 5th.
Here he is with Lucy and Frank, who are 4 and 12, respectively.

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Got this still from a video taken doing our re-pen at the end of our run.  We got first place on this run.

This was taken while our now 8 month old GSD was playing with our almost 11 year old Mal at boarding while we were out of town.  

My girl is 18 months old now. Time flies.

Nice.  How much does she weigh at 18 months?  Our GSD turns 9 months old tomorrow, and he weighed in at 69.4lbs today.

Good grief. I hope you named him Baby Huey.

I just stepped on the bathroom scale with her and got 70lb +/- 0.5lb. She’s about 24” at the front shoulders.

Yeah, guess he's going to be a big boy!  

My Mal is down in Austin right now. She's working with an ex Belgian high speed dude dog handler.

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Fuck it. Link is being stupid.

Half shepherd / half tolly retriever . Got her from @joker1 - Semper fi dog rescue


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Sent this guy to his new home yesterday, Moses! Going to @Realdealoo8 with ed the help of @Chowser and daughter.


Same meeting I handed the shep mix Hazel to PWA-Commando and wife.


Then I pick up Luca today.


I set up @mrrick with an interview with another rescue for Zoey.


Blaze, @44-40pros mother's shep/husky puppy.


A week and a half I get vetting done on Patch, @nondoz and Daisy, @troderts5-0

Great dog, her name is Auska. Best friend besides the Wife. Tears through soccer balls like nobodies business. Had her since 6 weeks old and she's three years now.

Moses was such a sweethart!!

Here is my Mal.  I took this in our pool.

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Love it!

Steve with the wife. He'll be 7 mos old Jan 5th and was 65 lbs yesterday

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Your dog's name is Steve?  That is hilarious!

Yessir, and this is Frank

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And Lucy
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My 12 year old GSD got bloat on the 23rd... Day before his bday.

Walks to my backdoor and makes the retching sound like he is about to puke. Goes outside, walks around for about 3 minutes trying to puke nothing comes out. I call vet, the front desk chick basically says if its unproductive just try to get him some bland food and water and monitor him. While i'm on the phone with them he is still continuing to try to puke. This is going on for about 10 mins before I decide fuck it I'm taking him to emergency vet. Get him in the car and he's occasionally trying to puke but seems to have maybe calmed down a tiny bit. Get stuck in traffic, at one point he isn't responding so I throw it in park and jump to the back to see if hes still conscious/alert. He looks up at me and so I was like alright we're good. On the way there my vet calls me back and is like hey talked to the Dr, he said you need to get him to the emergency vet asap, tell them I'm already on the way.

Show up to emergency vet and they get him in immediately, 3 minutes or so goes by and they call me and say he has bloat needs to have surgery. Surgery goes good, no necrosis of the stomach, no spleen issues, no heart issues during surgery. From the time he started trying to puke in the house to the moment I got him to vet, was probably an hr maybe hr and 10 minutes.

Honestly, was scary as fuck. Really glad I was home with him when it happened. Really wasn't 100% sure what was going on when he started but pretty quickly figured out it was probably bloat from what I knew. He seemed super out of it/in distress.

Here's a short video of how he was being weird af when I was initially trying to figure out wtf was going on.
https://i.imgur.com/06sK382.mp4

I am confused with all the dog threads going on here.  I put this one up in another thread, but it really belongs here;

Here's my ding dong...

Puppy

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He likes bubble baths

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Loves it when we get service loaners

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Likes to swim (taken in our pool)

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Complete ham.  My best friend.

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He sleeps with me every night.  Love this idiot.

Of course we all have the best doggies out there.  This is a great thread.  But @SauerPatchKid, your dog is full-on wicked.  Does he have "the tattoo" in his right ear?

Why would be have a MWD tattoo?

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Checking in. It’s been a while.

10 days until this sweetie comes home.

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Top- 8 weeks old and 8lbs the bottom was 2 weeks ago at 13weeks. Apparently I've got a wolf sized gsd. She had her last parvo booster yesterday vet weighed her at 33lbs.
Totally wasnt expecting the possibility of having a 100lb+ female gsd.

Kuiper finally came home!

Our newest edition...

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Belgian Tervuren?  I don't think I've seen a pic of one here yet.  I saw a couple in a herding trial recently.  I've seen quite a few in conformation trials. They're beautiful dogs!

Kai and Duke say. "Don't let the thread die..."

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She's Groenendal. Old school Euro origin on both sides, her Aunt is "Mach 6" and kind of a legend in agility. All working line. Her Dad guards million dollar Horses and thumps Coyotes for a hobby.LOL!

Still in the Belgian quad, just long fur and all black, with some slight variations on drives and personality.

Tervs are more herding, and guarding driven, where Groens are balanced and much more flexible as utility Dogs. Herding, protection, Skijoring, Retrieving, they do it all.
Interesting note. They were used by the Belgians as Machine Gun cart Dogs in WW1, and the Krauts damn near exterminated the breed, some figure that only 30-40 were left after the war.
Elly's blood line goes back to two that survived the war, and she's one of maybe two dozen in the states with direct lineage. The Breed is passionately guarded to avoid the AKC conformity mutations and access to the BYB's.


Our old Terv was a Megalomaniac and strung tighter than a Banjo string.Intergalactic domination was his goal in life, and the world was his chew toy.
I caught him one day, herding the neighbors pigs...another time, he got a wild hair and took off while in the field, and I caught up with him 3/4 miles away, dominance humping a Pit Bull in a Migrant worker housing a neighbor owns. He got started into Belgian ring, but he was not stable enough and showed some negative signs. He took every bite personally. Damn if he didn't hit like a Pro line backer though.. so back to thumping Woodchucks and being a farm pooch.

Awesome Dogs...but you have to understand Belgians, or they WILL own their owners and be problematic. They don't follow the rules and constantly push buttons for a reaction that can be exploited for control. They really are smarter than any Harvard Grad..and need constant challenges to keep their brain busy, or they start plotting mayhem. The show lines, have been absolutely corrupted in the U.S. and the working lines from original lines are almost a Cult situation. They are the only Breed that can outwork the Border collie or Aussies, and you have to force them not to kill themselves, as they have no off switch. LOL!

I have had Labrador retriever, red nosed pit bull, basset hound, Norwegian Elkhound, Cairn terrier, Kelpie, Border Collie, rough collie, Australian Shepherd, Mini Australian shepherd, mixed breed, toy American Eskimo, Yorkshire terrier, and while I loved each and every one of them, the herding breeds are my favorite.

A little over a month ago, a large Owl killed and took away my small 18 year old mixed breed terrier ..that hurt like the devil.  Both wife and I missed the sounds of things like the thundering of dog feet running up and down the halls in the house, So, after three different rescue agencies failed to even return our phone calls while we were attempting to adopt a dog.  Eventually we went to a breeder and ended up with a red, tri-color, female Mini Australian Shepherd pup.

We may be out of our minds taking on the work of raising a pup, but we both admit that she has already stolen our hearts.  So far, while we both get tired of all the work, we know it is adding to our quality of life.

All the herding breeds (German Shepherds, Mal, Dutchie, Border Collie, Kelpie, Aussie, etc, etc) are marvelous dogs, and quickly turn a house into a home.

We were able to get some good work in today.  Moved a few goats across a friends ranch, let them graze a bit, then took them back to their pen.  It's kidding time, so they're in lockdown except for the lucky few that went out with us.

A couple of weeks ago I was at a trial and one of the owners had a license plate frame with Groenendal on it.  I was like "That's what the dude from Arfcom mentioned.  I know what that is now." Her two dogs she trialed looked just like yours.

They are still rare and fiercely guarded thank God!
Glad ya got to see a couple in person.
They are a treat to work with, and have as family. Even if they can go all mouthy Belgian Groengator like a Mal, and play pranks like a Terv.

I would love to start Elly on some herding. Shes only 1 year and she's too small for Ring sport. Pocket rockets like her absolutely love the herding.
Just no clubs near here. Your GSD is lucky!

LOL!!
Next on Belgian Bingo...Lakenois.

Keeping busy.

Picked up this girl from the pound this morning.  They think she is 13 weeks old and a GSD mix.  My other two are very slowly warming up to her but they're definitely jealous.
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The birthday boy is Baxter, he turned 7 on the third. The white one is Elsa.
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Half Malinios, half Dutch Shepherd.  8 weeks old.  We got her this week, but we chose her from the litter over a month ago and have been waiting until now.

So far she's incredibly smart, bitey when she's riled up, but sweet when she's tired.

This is Otto. He came from @Joker1  Semper fi dog rescue. He and I are close buddies.
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This is Bear, he was being given away at the local Walmart. I picked him up to look him over and couldn't put him down.

Dad is a white GSD, mom is a blackmouth cur. He's a good boy

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