Does anyone else have this issue...

lol, I want that dog from the commercial too. I'd kidnap him in a heartbeat.

I want a Vizsla!!!
I want a Boston Terrier.
I MOSTLY want an SBT (like, SUPER bad. WANT.).
I want another pit bull.
I want a scruffy-faced mutt.
I want a JRT.
I want a pug.

Yes, oh my gosh.

For three years all I was looking forward to was getting my GSD.
Got introduced to English Shepherds, got one. Thought, oh but my next dog will be a GSD for sure!
Longer I had Quinn, the more I began to flip between GSD and ES. I'm talking changing my mind multiple times a day or week. I also briefly was interested in Belgian Shepherds (Tervurens and Groenendaels specifically) but after meeting some decided they were not for me.
After dealing with Quinn's new issues though, finally I settled on 90% I was going with another English Shepherd. Her problems can be tiring to me but are actually not that major, so I didn't want to go with a breed that's actually prone to SSA like the GSD.

My phase of being fairly confident I was going for an English Shepherd didn't last long. I met a BC belonging to one of my trainer's students who helps out with our class and just loved him, found a stray BC, had a few really nice BCs come into the store and my mind started wandering again. I've always said that BCs are pretty close to my ideal but I didn't think my lifestyle was set up for them (maybe some years in the future, I hoped), but my life has really become dog oriented lately with Quinn and I think I could manage it. I've also come to realize that the things I love about Quinn are very BC-ish traits, and I my mind gets going and I wonder if it's going to be hard to find a male English Shepherd that's as serious and something intense as Quinn is. I have to admit I love having a rarer breed though and I do really love the breed itself. These past few weeks I've been flip flopping between the two - I'll have a BC come into the store, or be looking at breeders and want one, but then I look at dogs belonging to the breeder I've loved since I first discovered English Shepherds, or have an awesome day with Quinn, and I just want another one.

Toller.
The end.

Oh, or a tailed Springer if the right one comes up in rescue.

Yes and no.

While I can't imagine not getting a Border Collie for my next dog, I also don't want to pass up the opportunity to get a Traveler baby since he's from such good lines and I wouldn't have to import.

Then throw in there the super huge want for a smaller dog.

So I have the breeds picked out - love them all. No problem there.

My theory is to just wait 5 years, get a degree, get a super duper job, and get all the dogs I'm wanting.

Psychotic? Screaming Banshee?

Best Loon ever?

You have to meet him one day, I think you will love him

just to outdo Becca:

I want a Rhodesian Ridgeback
I want a Boxer
I want a Rottie
I want a Neopolitan Mastiff
I want a springer spaniel
I want a poodle
I want a pug
I want another JRT
I want a havanese
I want a st. bernard
I want a bernese mountain dog
I want a greyhound
I want a collie
I want a GSD
I want an aussie
I want a golden

I think those are all my *serious* wants....

I need to meet a non-issue Toller before they become part of the want list. I know you say the other's from Vito's breeder are sane, but there just seems to be a butt-load of behavior issues in the breed. That's what drove me away from a PWD, though I still want one sometimes.

Yup. I do this ALL the time. I find myself interested in other breeds, researching, etc. But then I just feel so comfortable with Jackson and Yorkies and I change my mind. That fact of the matter is, I actually DON'T like most Yorkies.... well at least standard ones, so I find myself looking at rescue out-of-standard big Yorkies that are like Jackson, LOL.

Plus it probably sounds dumb but I like the look of having two breeds together that look similar or the same. I think it's sooo cute! Hehe.

When we find a Frodo sitter, we shall all go visit the normal tollers...

I will often do that. Though I can go for long periods of time not thinking of any other dogs.

But today, I was thinking of a breed that I never would have imagined I'd ever own before. I was grooming a black femal lab that I fell in love with. Not that I didn't like labs in the past, they just never were a breed I'd ever thought of owning, except for today. She was a sweety!

Kind of.

I mean, I know my next dog will be a BC.

I just have a hard time deciding where I stand with boxers. On one hand, they're what I've grown up with; I know them best and I love them... but then, there are SO many breeds I want to experience. Boxers don't necessarily fit me the best, they're just the most familiar and it's hard for me to picture not having one. So I know I'm going to come to a point where I have to decide between breed X and a boxer.

In a weird way I almost feel guilty for it, because I loved Molly SO MUCH, and she is the reason my friends, family, neighbors etc have been turned onto the breed... so "getting away from" the breed just feels wrong.

I never question the Dobermans, but you know what we've gone through regarding corgis... and you know that we've settled on a mutt as our next dog. We couldn't find a purebred that was "like a corgi, sort of, but without X, Y and Z."

Pretty much. I really want a corgi with legs, and Frodo has longish legs for the breed. I worry how far the long back and short legs thing can be taken. There is a breeder in Texas who has some really nice sport corgis, they may be the route I go. There is a woman here who has two of their dogs, I need to meet them. They have the confo I want at least.

The hair and the barking, well, they certainly aren't going to stop me from getting another one. I can tell you that all puppies are getting used to forced air dryer from here on out though

As far as the potential for reactivity, if I am really honest about how much it affects my life, the answer is not that much. I can still take Frodo for walks and to Petco and to classes. If I start Control Unleashed type work with a puppy, even if they are dog selective, they should be able to be fine in public. And I think if you get rid of the **** and vinegar attitude that corgis have, you also lose what makes them so fun to work with.

If I could hand Frodo's leash to Ryan and send them out on the town, he'd be **** near the perfect dog for me. I love my dog

Ah see that's why you lurve Z - she's a not-corgi corgi. LOL DH calls her a corgi with a lift kit.

Now that I have a malinois, I've checked off my one "must have just to see what it's like" breed, and while I toy with other breeds, I'm pretty sure that we'll continue to be a herding breed family, probably primarily ACD and maligators from here on out! I have been looking at Hanging Tree Dogs recently, tho.... LOL

I want an American Pit Bull Terrier as my next dog.

When my first border collie passed away, I swore I would never get another (he had some obsessive tendencies).... Then after having nothing but giant, slow (mentally and physically) beasts in my house, I ended up with a very border collie like border collie x. Some breeds you can try to move away from, but they suck you back in.

Same with danes. I doubt I'll ever be a dane only house again, but I will always have a dane. I've learned to stop looking at breeds first, but rather figure out what I want the dog to be able to do and then choose the individual dog based on that. Despite that, I have my list of NEED to own breeds still.

The problem with this is that there are a LOT of breeds that can do agility, tracking, nosework, and obedience/rally. And corgis tend to be able to do all of those things fairly well
Plus, I'm pretty sure Frodo's vote for next dog would be a corgi. We spent the weekend with 9 dogs the other weekend, one of them was a corgi. Frodo followed Lance A LOT during the weekend, he even humped him! :lol-sign: He is also the only dog that Frodo didn't get super snarky with on Sunday (we slept over and it was a little much for Frodo).

True, but there are a handful that EXCEL at those things. Great danes CAN do agility (Classic can even do it very well) but lets be honest, it's not a breed I would choose if I wanted to be competitive. For me, I need a dog that will excel at sports, hence why I went back to the BC x.

Not saying everyone chooses their dogs this way, just the way I will from now on!

My next pup will definitely be a Border Collie, though the litter that I was supposed to get a pup from is not happening now. (Woe!)

After that, I'm really up in the air about breed. I'd like something smaller, I think, but I don't know what.