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For rehoming….
‘He’s 7 months old and well over 40kg already.

He’s a Central Asian Shepherd and needs a home with land and space
These dogs are bred to guard livestock from wolves and require specific training.

my dog - his sister is an incredible girl. At only 7 months she guards the shiz out of everything and has been trained to look after the horses.

He’s had 2 foster homes and 2 family homes.

1 for a week where the family dog hated him then the people he’s with now have had him for a month. 😳
He’s chasing and growling at their cat and trying to dominate their Burmese mountain dog’


40kg of guards the shiz out of everything sounds great,
For extra fun they mention his sister is off to the vets this week with hip issues so all sounds great
 
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ester said:
For rehoming….
‘He’s 7 months old and well over 40kg already.

He’s a Central Asian Shepherd and needs a home with land and space
These dogs are bred to guard livestock from wolves and require specific training.

my dog - his sister is an incredible girl. At only 7 months she guards the shiz out of everything and has been trained to look after the horses.

He’s had 2 foster homes and 2 family homes.

1 for a week where the family dog hated him then the people he’s with now have had him for a month. 😳
He’s chasing and growling at their cat and trying to dominate their Burmese mountain dog’


40kg of guards the shiz out of everything sounds great,
For extra fun they mention his sister is off to the vets this week with hip issues so all sounds great
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Is there a requirement in the UK to protect livestock from wolves?
 
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skinnydipper said:
Sister is bunny hopping on the video but no video of bro running. Hmm, I wonder why.

Whatever the size he is puppy. Owners should be able to sort out the cat chasing and pushy behaviour with the other dog.
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Adopters want him back to rescue asap but they have no where to put him.
When I initially read it I presumed OP had kept back sister and was breeder, obviously they’ve not wanted him back.
 
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skinnydipper said:
Sister is bunny hopping on the video but no video of bro running. Hmm, I wonder why.

Whatever the size he is puppy. Owners should be able to sort out the cat chasing and pushy behaviour with the other dog.
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With the best will in the world, these dogs aren't actually designed to be 'trained' or 'sorted'. They're not meant to live in houses or be nice to cats and other 'strange' dogs, which it probably sees as a threat.
They're bred to be out roaming the plains, doing their thing, mostly independently, scaring off scary things. With vanishingly small exception, they are not meant for the type of life available to them in the UK.
It's easy to say this behaviour can be sorted, but it is a lot easier to stop a 10kg dog from doing something, than a 40kg dog with a genetic proclivity to Be Like This.
 
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CorvusCorax said:
With the best will in the world, these dogs aren't actually designed to be 'trained' or 'sorted'. They're not meant to live in houses or be nice to cats and other 'strange' dogs, which it probably sees as a threat.
They're bred to be out roaming the plains, doing their thing, mostly independently, scaring off scary things. With vanishingly small exception, they are not meant for the type of life available to them in the UK.
It's easy to say this behaviour can be sorted, but it is a lot easier to stop a 10kg dog from doing something, than a 40kg dog with a genetic proclivity to Be Like This.
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I came back to delete the second sentence.

Guarding a herd or flock is the ideal but not the reality for LGDs in this country who need a home.
 
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CorvusCorax said:
With the best will in the world, these dogs aren't actually designed to be 'trained' or 'sorted'. They're not meant to live in houses or be nice to cats and other 'strange' dogs, which it probably sees as a threat.
They're bred to be out roaming the plains, doing their thing, mostly independently, scaring off scary things. With vanishingly small exception, they are not meant for the type of life available to them in the UK.
It's easy to say this behaviour can be sorted, but it is a lot easier to stop a 10kg dog from doing something, than a 40kg dog with a genetic proclivity to Be Like This.
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You are so wrong. Live can cure all. Furbabies forever 🥰🥰🥰
 
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Our neighbour has been in hospital after an on lead GSD got hold of his knee, it went for his on lead dog and latched onto his knee instead. The owner bolted and left an 80 year old man with a significant bite wound down in a remote wood. He is ok now, and on the mend. Just saying though, don’t have a dog you can’t hold in a crisis, they were passing on a narrow path.

ETA she managed to hold the dog in order to leave the scene.
 
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Clodagh said:
Our neighbour has been in hospital after an on lead GSD got hold of his knee, it went for his on lead dog and latched onto his knee instead. The owner bolted and left an 80 year old man with a significant bite wound down in a remote wood. He is ok now, and on the mend. Just saying though, don’t have a dog you can’t hold in a crisis, they were passing on a narrow path.

ETA she managed to hold the dog in order to leave the scene.
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What is wrong with people?! That is beyond irresponsible, it's bordering on homicidal. What if your neighbour had been unable to get out of the wood, had no phone or no signal? Accidents can happen, try to avoid them, but if they do happen own up to them and do your best to put them right.
I'm glad your neighbour is on the mend.
 
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What is wrong with people?! That is beyond irresponsible, it's bordering on homicidal. What if your neighbour had been unable to get out of the wood, had no phone or no signal? Accidents can happen, try to avoid them, but if they do happen own up to them and do your best to put them right.
I'm glad your neighbour is on the mend.
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There was no signal but thankfully he wasn’t too far from the car and he managed to get himself back there. He couldn’t drive though but amazingly someone went past (it’s a very quiet lane) and they helped.
 
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It's bad enough the dog couldn't be restrained (and how many simply can't hold their dogs physically 🙄) but it's beyond disgraceful to leg it and leave an injured person, whatever their age and location.

I am glad he's on the mend and hope it doesn't affect him too badly mentally.
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I hope the incident has been reported to dog warden and the police. If that isn't a dangerous dog, I don't know what is.
 
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Titchy Pony said:
Just reminded me of at least 3 instances this summer of seeing people driving along with the dogs head and shoulders out of the window. Dogs like that don't they? You see it all the time on TV. No need to worry about flying debris (you know, the small piece of gravel that can break your windscreen), being hit by oncoming traffic or road sign, or it possibly falling/jumping out of a moving vehicle.
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There is a dog training/agility centre locally and the traffic arrives via a road that is a public footpath also, there was a stupid woman with a GSD hanging out of the window of the car completely unrestrained, I was walking along and the dog was baying at me and mine, I shook my head to get given a load of abuse, which I'm not proud to say that she got back with bells and whistles on...I made a complaint to the centre but they don't seem to ever say anything to these idiots....and don't even start me on the one that drives to the doggy daycare with a chihuahua on the dashboard,...
 
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Alwaysmoretoknow said:
So if your animal is at the vets it's potentially ill with something possibly contagious perhaps? Why the hell would you let it or allow someone else's animal interact with it? And whats with the shared water bowl thing - how to spread any infections going around.
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I have said before that you might want to keep your dog away as mine has ringworm and fleas (he didn't have either) they can't drag theirs away fast enough!!
 
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Out and about with Goose, blasted red and white setter comes bowling round the corner, I ask the owner to keep it off me but it promptly dives between my legs as per last time. If I hadn’t been balanced, I’d have gone over. Older person would be on the floor, slippy and very muddy out there today, it would have decked a child. I was not happy and made my feelings known. I’m going to give her a right mouthful if I encounter it again. 🤬
 
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Clodagh said:
Our neighbour has been in hospital after an on lead GSD got hold of his knee, it went for his on lead dog and latched onto his knee instead. The owner bolted and left an 80 year old man with a significant bite wound down in a remote wood. He is ok now, and on the mend. Just saying though, don’t have a dog you can’t hold in a crisis, they were passing on a narrow path.

ETA she managed to hold the dog in order to leave the scene.
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I hope they can find her, what an absolute disgrace to leave someone that her dog has injured! 🤬
 
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Today in the papers, a terribly sad hunting story.

A group of 7 hunters cornered a herd of wild boards in the forest, the wild boards took refuge into some thorns and
the dogs couldn't go in there, much too thick.

One of the hunter did shoot to scare them off, which is totally fobidden. You are not supposed to shoot without really knowing what you shooting at....

One wild board came out and another hunter aimed at him but missed and shot his friend instead.

The man is dead...

The police checked them for alcool but they were sober.

Stories like that happen often here, when the hunting season open, many cats go missing, last year, a hunter shot a horse thinking it was a deer....

Two years ago, they shot a Bernese Mountain dog thinking it was a fox....

Hopefully, they will change the law and make it more difficult to get a hunting licence or stop hunting altogether.....
 
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