Dutch Shepherd Forum

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My favorite picture I love her expression!

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Raven & her puppy LOL!

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As you can see their inseparable! Everywhere he goes, Raven is not far behind.

Also has anyone experienced their Dutch performing something they haven't been trained for yet? Raven performed a perfectly executed (IMO LOL) bark & hold on a stranger (stranger to her I knew who it was, and had previously warned them about her) who walked into my house....unannounced! She held him at the door barking at his ahem unmentionables LOL until I called her off to which she dropped to a sitting position. I tell ya the sweat that was pouring off that man Afterwards he said to me "Would she really have bit me? My reply "If given the command? Yes....to protect me? Most certainly" Recently we had a stranger (a real one this time) my husband was not home so no car in the drive for all intents & purpose the house appeared to be empty....I guess this person thought no one was home and decided to take a tour of my property....needless to say he was met with all 60+ lbs of very angry Dutch Shepherd and one Westie pavement special and one angry mama with gardening shears! Yes I was going to trim his hedges! Turns out the person we purchased the house from a few months ago missed removing a "for sale ad" from a website and he was literally checking out the property I love my girls! Raven will be 2 in November, can't wait to see what the next few years will bring with her.

I love the last one. She's like "excuse me mom, we're coloring." Too cute.

LOL! Exactly! She usually steals his crayons and begs for belly rubs. Most times she lays across the paper...or takes the paper and runs with it so he can chase her.

with no training whatsoever, Tracedog was excellent at managing visitors, guests, invited and uninvited, passersby, etc. he took many different approaches, some astounding in their brilliance. they are amazing dogs!
like Stephanie probably got the caption for the last just right - or, ''what?! you want something? i'm a bit busy right now.''

hahaha, I think she was waiting for you to go away so she can eat the crayons.

I was coloring with my daughter one day, and we were done, so we put the books away, but the bucket, remember I said bucket................the bucket of crayons were left out. Later I went into the living room and the bucket was empty...........none.........nada............no crayons anywhere.......no wrappers either. For many days I was finding rainbow poop outside.

ha ha, I remember rainbow poop with a dog I had many years ago...

Oh yes we also never found all of those crayons....She is absolutely crazy about my him! They do everything together. I even have him train her in basic obedience. They watch tv together and occasionally share the same snack...yes...together at the same time...from the same bowl and I have to remind him about germs and nasty doggie spit but really the only thing that worked was me saying "you know? She just finished licking her behind."

what a great relationship to have growing up so intimately with a dog!