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thank you for all the replies, just wanted to double check, absolutely love her, she has just gone to lie down after a walk and run around

Hi All i am looking for some advice about dog food for a GSD puppy 12 weeks old i may completely off here but am puitting it out there to see if others have experienced this or not. got my puppy from a regisdtered breeder at 11 weeks age. cant fault the dog at all, already toilet trained from day one, no accidents at home or in my office, eats her food, a perfect dog in every way. i am feeding her eukanba puppy pet food for large dogs, it seems that when ever she eats she about 10 minutes later she becomes uncontrollable. i am wondering if it may be the food i add a msall amount of mince meat, vegetables, oil to her food as guided by the breeder. i walk her for aorund 15 minutes in the moring, same in the evening and then around 3 to 4 small 5 minute walks during the dayt, also spend time with her playing games, and some training before she commences training this weekend. I feel she is getting sufficent exercise for now as i have bene told not to exercise her so much at first at this age. Thank you

Thank you for all the answers, the dog is going to be a family pet only, well exercised and we want the pet to be healthy, that is the main thing and why we want to go to a proper breeder. Thank you

Hi all looking at buying a puppy and wanted to get recommendations of breeders around sydney people have used and any feedback. ideally we are looking at straight back GSD, Thank you in advance.

definitley not going ot give up on her, as long as the carer is ok with this, the carer is going ot start taking her prozac under the guidance of the vet so for now she will remian with the carer, at the same time we are are planning to be more involved in her walks and training to enusre that when she comes over to us she will be completley settled in from day one, thank you for all the answers

thank you for your replies on the occassions i took her for walk with the carer we went for along walk, walked around people, joggers, horses, and came accross other dogs, and also birds, during these times i did shorten her leash, she was observant of them but at no stage showed any signs of agression or anything towards them, she was very well behaved, the first 1.5km of the walk she was pulling, after that she settled down and would walk by our side for most of the time quite well, i never had a fear she would suddenly jump at someone or another dog. on another walk i did with her pretty much same as above, even did anearly mornig walk 6am, still dark was mostly ok for all the walk, i think in the darker parts of the walk she may of been a bit anxious but that quickly passed. i know she is on 30mg prozac which i think is quite high, unfortunatley hard to say the real history as you are only told what the previous owners want to say or what they make up, but apparatnley she did nip ( or mouth) sorry not 100% sure of exact term, from my point of view this would appear to be understandable considering the environment she was left in all day long, no human interraction, not allowed in, no exercise and then a smaller yard, why bother having a dog in the firt place if you are not prepared to commit time and dedication. we are thinking along the lines of continuing on being involoved with her and the carer the entire time till she is weened of the miedication and see what she is like, spending more time with her on walks and training, introducing her into our home more regularly to give her a stable environment which will in my opinion give what what she needs, love, exercise, training, a safe place, all the things she should of had, not got and instead was medicated to compensate for not getting. Thank you for the replies very much, just cant give up on her.

Hi All, first time poster on this forum, great forum, I am hoping ot try and get a better understanding and assistance in deciding on how to proceed. We are looking at adopting a resuce gsd girl 13 months old, the history we know is she has bene neglected and left as a yard dog, not alowed in since 10 weeks of age, dosent sound like she has bene walked or interracted with in her short life, due to behaviour issues she has bene medicated with prozac by the vet, she was transported to a carer in our area. the following morning upon my wife and myself meeting her at first she was extremely scared but within 5 minutes would not let go, we could walk her, play with her and she was a totally different dog, for the past few days i have gone for walks with the carer and the dog and all seemed well, she walks well on the lead and is attentive, you can call her and she comes, she listens very well and is overall well behaved. Carer came to house to look at house with dog, as the dog was in new surroundings she was excited , ran around looking att things and quickly settled down, my wife walked in 30 minutes later and the dog ran to her to greet her and followed her around the house. Our only concern where we cant seem to fins an answer to is what will the dog be like when she is weened of prozac, so far the carer has dropped her dosage from 1.5 to 1 prozac a day and all seems to be ok, our concern is will she become uncontrollable or start behaving differetnly when completley weened off? will there be a change in personality? is she so loving now due to the fact she is on prozac? we love her dearly and want to take her as we know we will give her a loving home, include her in our family and she will be an inside dog, exercised twice a day for walks of an hour at a time, we plan on getting another dog later on, we also have 2 dog frindly parks 5 minutes walk away from our house. we have not had a german shepherd as adults. or do we look for another dog that is not medicated, so what you see is what you get, we understand any rescue dog may have issues, thank yuo for your time