GSD looking for home

Clodagh

Clodagh

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A friend of mine posted this on another forum. Any suggestions? She is trying to help someone out, the dog isn't hers.
He did go to a new home but got stressed and started to chew his legs badly so he has gone back to the owner.

5 year old German Shepherd. Blue is neautered and is a large male dog,he is a bit overweight at the moment as due to an injury in July when my friend snapped his tendon he has been very under excercised.
He is a typical GSD, slightly afraid of his own shadow and is rather wossy but he sounds the part when he is on the lead but off lead socalises nicely and likes other dogs.
He is fine with cats and older children, he has had no recent exposure to smaller children so dont know, though he has always been fine with mine and youngest was 5 when she first meet him as a pup!
He is a good house dog doesnt chew though he is allowed to use the furniture! He is a large strong dog and my friend can no longer manage him which is a terrible shame, if you can help find Blue a new home please get in contact.

And an addition...

he was breed to be a police dog by a police dog trainer but they dont take white ones apparently, they took the rest of the litter!?
 
Clodagh said:
he was breed to be a police dog by a police dog trainer but they dont take white ones apparently, they took the rest of the litter!?
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If I had a pound for every GSD I met who was 'bred to be a police dog' or is 'a failed police dog' or 'trained as a police dog'. A lot of it is rubbish, sorry :(

Police dogs these days are bred from specific bloodlines and they are looking for a very specific type of dog, usually west or east German, Dutch and Belgian lines. They are not known to throw whites.
Most police forces have their own in-house breeding operations and/or import stock from the continent.

The genetics from which white GSDs come, tend not to make good working dogs, in the nicest possible way.

I have never seen a white police dog, service dog, or high level sport (Schutzhund/IPO) dog in the UK. I can't remember the last time I heard of a white being born in a litter of working line GSD pups.

Try posting his details on the BIGGSD forum, they are quite helpful on there :)
 
I will point her in that direction, thank you. What I know about GSDs you could write on a postage stamp! (A small one).
 
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