Giant Schnauzers
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Both of my breeds are out of working/sport lines and are go, go, go. They're activity levels are almost evenly matched. Although they're stubborn and pushy I find the Giants a whole heck of a lot easier to deal with. Easy to train, travel with, live with, etc. Jacks have the it's my way or the highway attitude as I'm sure you know lol. **** terriers. With that said they are equally as fun to work with although it takes more effort to train them. 
My old bosses have one named Pepe.
He's cute, but he's... a bit unstable, IMO. He's great with their family but he's not great with strangers. Plus some potentially dangerous quirks - if I came to work and I had handled my ferrets that day, he would follow me around the store and snap at me, continuously. Not even aggressively, just... excitedly? I guess his prey drive was turned on but he knew I was human. His teeth caught me several times, bad enough to leave scars for awhile.
I think a lot of his behaviours might be attributed to his going to the stores all the time and not really being a social dog, and not really getting any positive associations with social behaviours (always reprimanded for going anywhere near people). He's my only real experience with GS.
He's cute, but he's... a bit unstable, IMO. He's great with their family but he's not great with strangers. Plus some potentially dangerous quirks - if I came to work and I had handled my ferrets that day, he would follow me around the store and snap at me, continuously.
Not even aggressively, just... excitedly? I guess his prey drive was turned on but he knew I was human. His teeth caught me several times, bad enough to leave scars for awhile.I think a lot of his behaviours might be attributed to his going to the stores all the time and not really being a social dog, and not really getting any positive associations with social behaviours (always reprimanded for going anywhere near people). He's my only real experience with GS.
My old bosses have one named Pepe.
He's cute, but he's... a bit unstable, IMO. He's great with their family but he's not great with strangers. Plus some potentially dangerous quirks - if I came to work and I had handled my ferrets that day, he would follow me around the store and snap at me, continuously. Not even aggressively, just... excitedly? I guess his prey drive was turned on but he knew I was human. His teeth caught me several times, bad enough to leave scars for awhile.
I think a lot of his behaviours might be attributed to his going to the stores all the time and not really being a social dog, and not really getting any positive associations with social behaviours (always reprimanded for going anywhere near people). He's my only real experience with GS.
He's cute, but he's... a bit unstable, IMO. He's great with their family but he's not great with strangers. Plus some potentially dangerous quirks - if I came to work and I had handled my ferrets that day, he would follow me around the store and snap at me, continuously.
Not even aggressively, just... excitedly? I guess his prey drive was turned on but he knew I was human. His teeth caught me several times, bad enough to leave scars for awhile.I think a lot of his behaviours might be attributed to his going to the stores all the time and not really being a social dog, and not really getting any positive associations with social behaviours (always reprimanded for going anywhere near people). He's my only real experience with GS.
Yeah, Sally routinely kills critters in the yard, but has never behaved that way with a person that smells like prey animals. Her sniffing session will be a bit more involved, but that's it.
Once I took Jack to an indoor dog park while wearing jeans that I'd worn to feed horses and clean stalls that morning. I actually had one dog follow me around barking at me the entire time I was there. The owner was totally baffled by his behavior and I strongly suspect it was the horse smell.
Once I took Jack to an indoor dog park while wearing jeans that I'd worn to feed horses and clean stalls that morning. I actually had one dog follow me around barking at me the entire time I was there. The owner was totally baffled by his behavior and I strongly suspect it was the horse smell.