Top 5 Dog Breeds I would NOT Own As A Veterinarian

DerekJohnson

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CFetters_Nacho_Lover

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DerekJohnson

Btw, WOOD

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

DerekJohnson said:

Btw, WOOD

The lady or the dogs?

chuck

I'm a dog guy. I've had a few German Shepherds, a couple of Siberian Huskies and two malamutes in addition to many other mixes. Those are the three breeds I'd never have again. Shepherds are too smart and high strung. They need a job worse than anything. Huskies and malamutes are just assholes who do whatever they want.

We adopted a one year old labradoodle several years ago. It was actually a rescue from a wild couple we knew who weren't taking good care of him. He's cool as shit. He's about the size of a skinny great Dane, shaped pretty much like a poodle, but with the personality of a big, goofy lab. He's a little obsessive about playing his games...fetch, racing, tug of war, etc, but he's fun as shit especially around water. He's also gentle as could be and trustworthy around little dogs, kids, babies etc. A handful but a great dog.

YellowSnow

chuck said:

I'm a dog guy. I've had a few German Shepherds, a couple of Siberian Huskies and two malamutes in addition to many other mixes. Those are the three breeds I'd never have again. Shepherds are too smart and high strung. They need a job worse than anything. Huskies and malamutes are just assholes who do whatever they want.

We adopted a one year old labradoodle several years ago. It was actually a rescue from a wild couple we knew who weren't taking good care of him. He's cool as shit. He's about the size of a skinny great Dane, shaped pretty much like a poodle, but with the personality of a big, goofy lab. He's a little obsessive about playing his games...fetch, racing, tug of war, etc, but he's fun as shit especially around water. He's also gentle as could be and trustworthy around little dogs, kids, babies etc. A handful but a great dog.

Doodles are really great dogs. Not stinky like fucking labs. Not neutronic like poodles.

I also hate all trailer park dogs- i.e., bull terroirs, Rottweilers, etc.

RaceBannon

We had a Doberman retriever mix and a German Sheppard st bernard mix

Always go with mutts

Mutts won 2 world wars

America baby

PurpleThrobber

DerekJohnson said:

Btw, WOOD

Doggy style, no doubt?

chuck

YellowSnow said:

chuck said:

I'm a dog guy. I've had a few German Shepherds, a couple of Siberian Huskies and two malamutes in addition to many other mixes. Those are the three breeds I'd never have again. Shepherds are too smart and high strung. They need a job worse than anything. Huskies and malamutes are just assholes who do whatever they want.

We adopted a one year old labradoodle several years ago. It was actually a rescue from a wild couple we knew who weren't taking good care of him. He's cool as shit. He's about the size of a skinny great Dane, shaped pretty much like a poodle, but with the personality of a big, goofy lab. He's a little obsessive about playing his games...fetch, racing, tug of war, etc, but he's fun as shit especially around water. He's also gentle as could be and trustworthy around little dogs, kids, babies etc. A handful but a great dog.

Doodles are really great dogs. Not stinky like fucking labs. Not neutronic like poodles.

I also hate all trailer park dogs- i.e., bull terroirs, Rottweilers, etc.

I try not to hate on the dogs but...yeah same here. The infatuation with tough dogs among trashy people is a sore spot for me.

RaceBannon said:

We had a Doberman retriever mix and a German Sheppard st bernard mix

Always go with mutts

Mutts won 2 world wars

America baby

Agreed. Our other dog is a mystery mutt mix that is handsome as hell but also just about perfect. He knows what a cushy dog's life is supposed to look like and embraces it. No training and very little discipline required, ever.

YellowSnow

chuck said:

YellowSnow said:

chuck said:

I'm a dog guy. I've had a few German Shepherds, a couple of Siberian Huskies and two malamutes in addition to many other mixes. Those are the three breeds I'd never have again. Shepherds are too smart and high strung. They need a job worse than anything. Huskies and malamutes are just assholes who do whatever they want.

We adopted a one year old labradoodle several years ago. It was actually a rescue from a wild couple we knew who weren't taking good care of him. He's cool as shit. He's about the size of a skinny great Dane, shaped pretty much like a poodle, but with the personality of a big, goofy lab. He's a little obsessive about playing his games...fetch, racing, tug of war, etc, but he's fun as shit especially around water. He's also gentle as could be and trustworthy around little dogs, kids, babies etc. A handful but a great dog.

Doodles are really great dogs. Not stinky like fucking labs. Not neutronic like poodles.

I also hate all trailer park dogs- i.e., bull terroirs, Rottweilers, etc.

I try not to hate on the dogs but...yeah same here. The infatuation with tough dogs among trashy people is a sore spot for me.

RaceBannon said:

We had a Doberman retriever mix and a German Sheppard st bernard mix

Always go with mutts

Mutts won 2 world wars

America baby

Agreed. Our other dog is a mystery mutt mix that is handsome as hell but also just about perfect. He knows what a cushy dog's life is supposed to look like and embraces it. No training and very little discipline required, ever.

I hate tuff guy dogs.

I used to walk around with our faggy little mini poodle.

Fishpo31

Ours was a golden doodle that thought she was a golden retriever, smart as a whip. Loved to run and swim, she was a 60 lb lap dog…

PurpleThrobber

YellowSnow said:

chuck said:

YellowSnow said:

chuck said:

I'm a dog guy. I've had a few German Shepherds, a couple of Siberian Huskies and two malamutes in addition to many other mixes. Those are the three breeds I'd never have again. Shepherds are too smart and high strung. They need a job worse than anything. Huskies and malamutes are just assholes who do whatever they want.

We adopted a one year old labradoodle several years ago. It was actually a rescue from a wild couple we knew who weren't taking good care of him. He's cool as shit. He's about the size of a skinny great Dane, shaped pretty much like a poodle, but with the personality of a big, goofy lab. He's a little obsessive about playing his games...fetch, racing, tug of war, etc, but he's fun as shit especially around water. He's also gentle as could be and trustworthy around little dogs, kids, babies etc. A handful but a great dog.

Doodles are really great dogs. Not stinky like fucking labs. Not neutronic like poodles.

I also hate all trailer park dogs- i.e., bull terroirs, Rottweilers, etc.

I try not to hate on the dogs but...yeah same here. The infatuation with tough dogs among trashy people is a sore spot for me.

RaceBannon said:

We had a Doberman retriever mix and a German Sheppard st bernard mix

Always go with mutts

Mutts won 2 world wars

America baby

Agreed. Our other dog is a mystery mutt mix that is handsome as hell but also just about perfect. He knows what a cushy dog's life is supposed to look like and embraces it. No training and very little discipline required, ever.

I hate tuff guy dogs.

I used to walk around with our faggy little mini poodle.

Kickdogs are snacks for my beasts.

1to392831weretaken

On our second standard poodle because my wife is allergic to everything. Very similar dogs. Really, really smart, but "neurotic" is right. They want to be people.

biak1

German Shepherd or death

YellowSnow

biak1 said:

German Shepherd or death

LebamDawg

I had two German Shepards - the male was obediance trained and responded to hand signals. One smart puppy, the female was a different story - she defined the word bitch. I had to get rid of her after the people across the street let a little poodle run into our yard (5 acres) and think she was tough. I paid the vet bill to have her euthanized. She got a job working nights at a gas station in Juanita,

Mrs Lebam last purchase was a chihuahua mix that the vet keeps asking "are you sure she is a chihuahua?" - she is now 7 yrs old couple more b-days and we will be the same age

chuck

biak1 said:

German Shepherd or death

My last shepherd was a tightly wound female. She was good but never happy...just constantly worried and anxious about something.

She used to steal my firewood as I chopped it and then stand at a distance, holding a chunk of wood that she could barely get her jaws around, and whimper until I acknowledged her. Then she'd wander off and add it to her stash in the woods. I found the stash and it took several wheel barrows to bring it back with her watching and whimpering the whole time. Crazy dog.

biak1

I'm curious if y'all got your shepherds as pups and if you went to a puppy mill or forked over some cash and got something with papers. The correlation between high intelligence and anxiety is pretty high and GSD are no exception.

Wouldn't trade mine for the world.

chuck

biak1 said:

I'm curious if y'all got your shepherds as pups and if you went to a puppy mill or forked over some cash and got something with papers. The correlation between high intelligence and anxiety is pretty high and GSD are no exception.

Wouldn't trade mine for the world.

I've only ever had unpapered Shepherds from private parties. I think I paid $200 for the last one to cover shots and a vet visit. They said she was half husky half Shepherd, but i suspected that the husky half was actually a Shepherd mix. She looked like a pure bred with no husky traits I could see.

I agree with what you said though. Those aren't the right dogs for me, but they're amazing and I love being around them. I've known a couple of males that, while you'd never call them laid back, were extremely happy, playful and good natured. They were even intense about that.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

YellowSnow said:

chuck said:

I'm a dog guy. I've had a few German Shepherds, a couple of Siberian Huskies and two malamutes in addition to many other mixes. Those are the three breeds I'd never have again. Shepherds are too smart and high strung. They need a job worse than anything. Huskies and malamutes are just assholes who do whatever they want.

We adopted a one year old labradoodle several years ago. It was actually a rescue from a wild couple we knew who weren't taking good care of him. He's cool as shit. He's about the size of a skinny great Dane, shaped pretty much like a poodle, but with the personality of a big, goofy lab. He's a little obsessive about playing his games...fetch, racing, tug of war, etc, but he's fun as shit especially around water. He's also gentle as could be and trustworthy around little dogs, kids, babies etc. A handful but a great dog.

Doodles are really great dogs. Not stinky like fucking labs. Not neutronic like poodles.

I also hate all trailer park dogs- i.e., bull terroirs, Rottweilers, etc.

CFetters_Nacho_Lover

I’ve had 3 dogs over the last 8 years.

1st was an AKC papered Doberman. My favorite breed since I was a kid and first watched Magnum PI. Diagnosed with blood cancer at 2 1/2 and we put him down a little shy of 3 1/2.

Our next dog was the Dobie’s companion dog, a pit-hound mix we got through the shelter on Kauai. Flew her to Seattle sight unseen when she about 3. We think she’s about 11 and that little fucker is still running strong. We were told she had a couple litters and was bred for hunting dogs but she hates loud noises so whoever had her probably ditched her on the side of a road.

Got dog #3 after the cancer diagnosis. He’s a bull terrier- whippet mix and he said that @YellowSnow guy for his disparaging comments. Also from Kauai but he was found on the side of a road at about 2 weeks with his sister. Timing worked out as we saw a picture of him and were going to Kauai giving us a chance to meet him. He’s a little high strung but we don’t know if that’s just him or Mrs Nacho projecting it on him. Maybe both. He’s great as long as other dogs don’t get too close to him and he’s got 11 confirmed kills and 2 unconfirmed kills on field mice, chipmunks, squirrels and a bird. He also doesn’t have the football shaped head.

When we get another dog, I’m torn between another Dobie and a pit mutt from the shelter. I don’t need a tough guy dog but I also know pits make up at least half the dogs at the local shelter.

My one thought on dogs is always this. There are no bad dogs, just bad owners.