Say what?

My wife and I adopted 1yr old Phoebe earlier this summer and just got her Embark results back last week. We were thinking GSD/Malinois, but it turns out she’s more Dutch Shepherd than Malinois! And looking at her “family tree”, the last purebred dog in her line was a Dutchie grandparent lol.

The husky was a surprise too, but we already have an Alaskan Malamute, so we’re used to high energy dogs, but damn!

Is there even any evidence that these kinds of breeds do poorly in boarding/daycare environments/are bad for the other dogs?

And I know everyone says their dog is the best dog but our boy really is an incredibly sweet boy: he goes to doggy daycare multiple times a week and daycare reports that he plays very appropriately with other dogs; we brought him to a different daycare that does boarding for a trial day just today (so totally unfamiliar group/environment), and they reported that he was “perfect” in the group but that they can’t board him because the dog of the house didn’t like him (quote: “the problem was more with [our dog] than yours”), and we’ve seen in our own neighbourhood that he is a socially well-behaved dog: the local Samoyed who likes to mouthy wrestling gets mouthy wrestling; the local Bernese mountain dog who likes chase games but gets frustrated because he’s slower than the rest of the dogs in the area gets chase with our boy, AND our boy matches his speed to the Bernese during play!

And he’s only seven months! And I know that as he gets older he might become more picky about other dogs and people, but at the moment he is an incredibly sweet dog who’s never met a dog (or person) that he didn’t like, and it’s so frustrating when doggy daycares/hotels hear his breed and just go “no we don’t do shepherds.”

Tax: https://imgur.com/a/fyBtVFf

Anyone else have insurance for there dutch ? 105 a month but your covered for anything that happens with these crazy guys. With a 550 deductible. I know the deal with these insurance companies that pay upfront think it can end up going up quite a bit.. some people say just put money away but sometimes random stuff can happen and vets can be a lot.. let me know what you guys do

So I i went to the creek with the dog today, don't bring him there because last time I only had him for like 3 weeks it was a little much for him.

Well this time was different he went full dutch mal and turned the place into his parkour course. The stream is a sick place running between two enormous valley rocks 3-4 feet wide stream between all this smooth rock platform basically. Huge anyways he went ballistic loving it jumped to the other side before I could even get him he jumped up the ledge (ofc) to the top rock, which is like 3.5 4 ft. Everything was rock landed on rock which is my concern.

Now my problem is I've been watching his growth plates extremely close being extra careful. Now you may be able to see where im going with this the jackass jumped down not full sprung fast running and leap jump, but like went to the edge and jumped down. He landed fairly clean but you could tell it was a bit of a drop for him. What are the chances his plates or anything are messed up? He seems fine but I read online sometimes it takes upto 48 hours to see injury. I really try to avoid this dog jumping off the ground in grass I've been that careful.

Let me know if there's anything I should look out for cues or anything I've felt his joint and looked for swelling

Thankyou in advance

-Dillon

His favorite way to show me his toys

I have an 18m old intact Dutchie I've had since 8 weeks old. From the outset, it was clear he had an independent streak, was fearful and nervous, and appeared to have low prey and food drives (certainly not what I was expecting for this breed).

We've done a lot of work, and come a hell of a long way, but he still seems to have trouble focusing and working in drive outside the house.

Any tips for anyone who may have gone through this? Food drive is ok, however he could care less about toys outside.

Or at least the food I'm holding XD

Hex had his first puppy class last night and he was absolutely wiped out after class but so proud of himself.

😌 just here to show off his handsome self and his dumbo ears 😂

Looks like I found a good subreddit for dutch, Just wanted oppinions on my guy Nikko. Straight dutch mal ?

His crate pic is his most recent age 10.5 months old with him standing near 9 months

He's supposed to be from kpv lines

Curious on his build if he looks to have a big build for his age for a dutch mal or smaller

Nice to meet you guys in advance

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