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You May Think You Want a Doberman Pincher
We decided to get a Doberman Pincher, we already have a twelve year old Labrador . Years ago we had a Husky and thought he needed a younger brother, so we adopted the Lab. They got along perfectly, so perfectly in fact the Lab mimicked the Husky. The Husky had a habit of removing a couple of pieces of dog food from the bowl, walk three feet and spill the food. Eating slowly while savoring every tid bit. The plan was to pass these habits and others on to the Doberman. Boy was that wishful thinking.
The five month old puppy insists on playing with the old lab, who has no interest at all! The plan was to introduce the puppy to the old man in the old man’s house. We recently purchased a new house and wanted the puppy to get used to the old man’s home. Maybe thinking the puppy wouldn’t be as dominant. That didn’t work. The old Lab can’t even crap in peace, the Dobie has to be up his ass, quite literally! What did work was the puppy had his on mind, we knew what we getting into, a stubborn breed of dog, but a five month old, forty five pound puppy had other ideas. He bites everything, not serious a nibble here a nibble there. He bites shoes, even when you are wearing them.
The fact about Dobermans is that they follow everyone in the family and cling to one person, i am the one he picked, lucky me. He is able to sleep by my side of the bed which is sweet, until you need a bathroom run, he must lead the way into the bathroom. While waiting for me nothing is sacred, he must inspect everything dozen of times. He sleeps seventeen hours a day, the other seven can be hell. He pretends he doesn’t know his name, but he will automatically sit for a treat. The pet store sells this spray to deter dogs from biting, he loves it!
There is no book, “Doberman’s for Dummies,” but there is a training book, “101 for Dobermans.” We hope the book will give us some insight, or at least train us.
I better sign off now, I hear him stirring and must baby proof the house once agin. Oh, well we wanted a Doberman.
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Great story, Peter. Love it. It is flashback for me. Every puppy goes through the stages of puppyhood. I told you that I got my German Shepherd, Chase, when he was eight months old. Chase must not have been socialized because he did not know to enter doors, go down and up the stairs, no name, did not know what toys and bones were, and never had human food before. At first I thought he was retarded. The breeder was asking $2,500 for his pups and why was Chase $800 dollars? I got myself a retarded dog. GREAT. He was scared of little toy poodles, peed like a girl, but he did know destruction. He took one shoe, sandals, flip flops, boots of a matching pair. He then took a brand new prescription glasses I just paid for $1,000 and chewed them. He kept of finding these knick knacks from years or even decades ago totally out of the blue. I think it is about one year before he started to normalize and mature. I heard German Shepherds and Doberman Pinschers are very intelligent and very easy to train. It took me no more than 15 minutes to train Chase how to sit and 15 minutes to train Chase how to stay. I did not train him down or heel because when am I going to have him down. Sit is just fine and stay. However, these dogs do not need formal training because they pick up on everything their owners do and say. Chase knows how to communicate with me and control me. However, he was extremely stubborn and he was and is NOT a retarded dog. Quite the opposite. Very important to spend lots of time together with the dog and communicate with them. Thank you for sharing your story. Please post pictures and video clips. Love to see him in action. Enjoy the seven months with your Doberman troublemaker. He is only a pup once. As he gets older, he will mature and you are going to miss his silliness. Great that sleeps because that is the time they grow and mature.
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When will it stop? Lol,,maybe Chase can teach Bullet some manners.