Gang of GSD's

[frankie8]

I've posted some pictures up before of our crew but I thought I'd add a few more

Tegen, who we have had from a pup-she reckons herself as royalty!

She also loves the camera

Barney and Tegen, Barney is an irish rescue. We've had him since 4 and is now coming up 10

Barney having a dip

Fritz who is also an Irish rescue looking lovely and grubby

Taking a stroll through the forest

Fritz enjoying the snow

Finbar our most recent Irish boy

Fin doing his 'snob dog' impression

Fin being a handsome lad

Jess our GSD x Collie

Lovingly known as 'half a dog'

And finally the gang together

 

[ladyearl]

A fantastic gang of GSDs indeed!

 

[The Original Kao]

Fab pics and gorgeous dogs

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

OMG a post full of mahoooooooooooooosive ears!!

Fabulous piccies and they are stunning looking dogs

*stands back so as not to be trampled by the GSD mafia*

 

[Dobiegirl]

Lovely pack of Dogs, beautiful scenery and pics.

 

[Kellys Heroes]

Lovely dogs
gorgeous piccies indeed!!
Nothing better than a gang of GSDs!
K x

 

[MurphysMinder]

Lovely pics, had to laugh at the one of a very muddy Fritz! It looks like you have some lovely walking country.
Can I ask, and please don't take this the wrong way I am just interested, why do you have rescues from Ireland rather than over here?

 

[Ilovefoals]

Stunning dogs!

 

[Booboos]

Gorgeous dogs! It must be so much fun to go for a walk with that gang!!

 

[Sprout]

Lovely pics, and what a stunning and happy pack - gorgeous.

 

[welshcobmad]

What a stunning collection you have! Wow!

 

[MrVelvet]

ditto what everyone else has said !! gorgeous dogs!! your X looks like my mums dog who is also a GSD x something or other! Il try and hunt out a pic

PS loving the 'snob dog' impression

 

[CorvusCorax]

Lovely pack, Tegan looks very like my old girl

 

[frankie8]

Thanks for all the lovely comments about the gang!

Lovely pics, had to laugh at the one of a very muddy Fritz! It looks like you have some lovely walking country.
Can I ask, and please don't take this the wrong way I am just interested, why do you have rescues from Ireland rather than over here?

No offence taken. We sort of fell into homing Irish dogs through our first rescue, Barney. We came across BigGSD through google and that's where we found Barny. When we enquired about him he turned out to be in Ireland and that's how it all began!
Southern Ireland has the highest dog destruction rate in Europe and the majority of Irish dogs have a sorry existence. Of course there are the good homes, we have many close friends over there that are also dog lovers themselves and provide wonderful lives for their dogs. There are also many people working very hard to provide Irish rescues with new, loving homes.
However there are simply too many dogs for the amount of good homes, resulting in most either living their life outside on the end of a chain or being surrendered into the pound to be destroyed the self-same day. In fact Dundalk pound is listed on their council website under 'waste disposal'. Quite like the horses, the dogs have been victims of over breeding, leaving many abandoned. They also don't have the same protection in the South as our English dogs, much of the legislation being outdated. For example all GSD's must be muzzled and kept on a lead when walked and cannot be walked by someone under 16 years of age. The same rules apply for various other breeds too.
For these reasons we have continued to home Irish dogs. I'm aware there are still many English dogs in just as much need of loving homes but the Irish dogs are the ones we have chosen to support. Hope that explains it!

 

[MurphysMinder]

Thanks for explaining, I just wondered if you had found problems with the UK rescues as I know some people have. Big GSD is a great site isn't it, and you are right that GSDs probably have an even harder job finding homes in Ireland due to the restrictions over there. Good luck with your gang and keep the pics coming.

 

[CorvusCorax]

A lot of pounds in the RoI automatically PTS a dog described as a GSD during their first few days of surrender/capture because of their inclusion on the dangerous dogs list
A lof of people also own Belgian shepherds.....

 

[frankie8]

A lot of pounds in the RoI automatically PTS a dog described as a GSD during their first few days of surrender/capture because of their inclusion on the dangerous dogs list
A lof of people also own Belgian shepherds.....

This would have been the fate of our Finbar I'm afraid. Being that he was originally used as a guard dog living his life on the end of a chain, he was lucky he was surrendered into a sanctuary instead of a pound as I am sure his time would have been up very quickly. He is now rather accustom to his life of luxury and will regularly take himself off upstairs if he is feeling sleepy to climb into bed!