Sky_Mel

awwww theres our babies.

My last girl had something similar when she was 13yrs old and we decided if she wasn´t in pain, still eating etc we would let her be and we had her till she was almost 14. She was a gorgeous big baby

Ah right, Yea I have a German Shepherd and her ears just went up on their own so I never really looked into that kind of stuff so don't know alot about it

I agree, my girl had a yeast infection and although different I was advised by my vet not to clean the area with salt water as it is a very sensitive area and this could irritate it further.

Yea I would have thought so as well but I'm not a breeder either

Same, I have a singer and a spewer. Cars trips are great fun LOL. Window open works well for the spewer. Only ear plugs work with the singer. LOL ;) If you do have the window down though First Timer make sure your pup has a doggy seatbelt or just the window down slightly, Unfortunately I have seen dogs leap from the car open windows I trust my girl now but she always has her doggy seatbelt on when we are driving - call me paranoid Oh dear we have had a dog do that before. Its horrible Luckly she didnt have any serious injurys. Oh no Very lucky! I guess you don't think of these sort of things until you see it happen or they happen to you or someone you know.

Same, I have a singer and a spewer. Cars trips are great fun LOL. Window open works well for the spewer. Only ear plugs work with the singer. LOL ;) If you do have the window down though First Timer make sure your pup has a doggy seatbelt or just the window down slightly, Unfortunately I have seen dogs leap from the car open windows I trust my girl now but she always has her doggy seatbelt on when we are driving - call me paranoid

No problem Yea I agree with the not feeding before driving definitely. My last girl got car sick and it was associated with the vet but once we started driving to the beach that dissapeard quickly because she was going somewhere fun

Just incase you mistook what I said about feeding, I was not advised to feed her and drive around with her, just work on getting her used to the car and sounds etc

Hi, My girl was the same when she was little and our trainer back then told us to feed her in the car so she was getting a good experience with the car. Once she was comfortable with this I was then told to turn the car on and she was to eat in the car whilst it was on so she was getting used to the noise and the vibrations of the car. I know you have to be careful though because if your pup is incredibly fearful you don't want to reward this behaviour but definitely get in contact with a trainer as they can go through what is best for your pup as I'm not a trainer this is just my experience This seemed to work really well and quickly for us and then we had no issues with this car and now she will actually leap into the car now Hope your little pup enjoys the car soon.

I have been to the RSPCA one in Burwood and was not happy with it. I did go about 1.5yrs ago so it may have changed, I did write a letter to the RSPCA regarding how unhappy I was with their puppy classes and they did inform me they would be changing this so hopefully it is better now. When I did it puppies were not allowed to look at each other or play with each other and I was really annoyed over it as I did enroll for the socialisation. We didn´t finish the course and I went to another school to do puppy school and they were fantastic but unfortunately no longer in business. Again though it may be different and it may have just been the teacher we had

My last girl had surgery to repair her Cruciate Ligament , she was a 9 year old German Shepherd, We definitely didn't crate her nor were we told to, just to take it easy and as it was she made a full recovery which even surprised the vet being how old she was, never had any more problems after this :p

My girl started puppy school at 9 weeks of age, it was just mandatory that she had been cleared of her first vaccination, I wanted her to be as well socialized as possible and her puppy school wouldn't take puppies over 16 weeks. :p

My last Shepherd was on it when she tore her Cruciate Ligament, after her operation the vet suggested we add this to her meals and she never had an issue eating it, infact when we went back to the vet for her follow up he had said he has never seen a Shepherd my old girls age heal so quickly and so well so very glad we put her on it. It´s great stuff!

I´m bias but German Shepherds are a wonderful breed but they do shed all year round, my girl drops hair everywhere she goes but she is incredibly smart and very well behaved and is a friend for life ;) Training was quite easy, she picked things up very quickly but did like to test the boundaries. My partner has a Lab and his Lab is a very very active boy and he is 6 years old and still runs around like an 8 week old puppy but is also obedient when training hehe Between my girl and my partners boy the Lab is definitely the active of the 2 but I am lucky as I have a very placid easy going Shepherd. All I can say though is do as much research as possible on both breeds and maybe check out the German Shepherd Club and Labrador club and get a feel for the breeds