Okay, this is my adopted dog. His name is Max and hes the best dog ever. The other day the maintance guy came over while i was taking a nap, and my wife let him in to fix the vent above the stove. Well the dog was growling and bareing his teeth at the guy and my wife couldnt even sign the completion sheet without the dog going after him. He is very protective of me and my family but not the least bit agressive towards us, he wont even stare me down and hes great with my daughter, i love this dog.

By the way if you dont know yet, my cam is jacked up the date is a few years off. Sorry bout that im to poor to by a new one.

Thats cool DT. I love loyal dogs like that. I have always had german shepherds but am looking into getting a doberman.

im trying to get a dobby too. but the wife says if i want a new dog then this one has to go. the only kid of dog i havent had is a dobberman, i come from a broken family so i had like 3 dogs at a time in different places, but i never got to raise a dobby.

BTW he is a shepard/ rot mix.

My favorite dog. They will pretty much do whatever you want to. When I wanted to just chill she would too and when I wanted to go out and run or play catch she would do that too. You will not regret getting a German Shephard, Animal.

That's awsome because I'm really thinking of german shepard as well when I move into my new house for school in August..Probably will wait until second semester though..

Rots and dobbys are pretty much the same way, by far my favorite dogs from wat ive seen of dobbys at least. Rots IMO are the most loyal of all dogs that ive had, and theyre really smart. i trained mine to turn the TV on and bring me the remote, never could teach him to roll over though.

Yeah I definitely want a dog that's loyal..but also friendly..I don't want him to snap on every person he sees and doesn't know..I would just want him to be cool with the people unless he knows there's something wrong..

That is any dog. I can raise a tea cup poodle to be agressive as hell and bite everything that moves, that dont mean its an aggressive breed of dog. A dogs temperment is entirely based off its owner, and how its raised and trained. No dog is aggressive by nature, unless you count feral dogs( wolves, cyotes). My brother has a pit that is huge, but its one of the most mild mannerd dogs ive seen. The only time she barks is when she see's violence cuz it scarres her.

What ever dog you get just train it to be how you want it, dont worry about the breed just get one you like.

Yeah you're exactly right DT..

Sorry about the rant but my housing area just passed a new law about "aggressive breeds". Im totally pissed about it.

Wow that sounds like bullshit...so you cant breed dogs that are aggressive by breed or what?

no we arent allowed to have aggressive breeds in are housing.

Wow that's fucking gay..so do you have to get rid of your dog then or what?

hell no, they would have to go through me to get him, and i doubt thats gonna happen. The ones they consider aggressive are- pits, boxers, chows, rots, dobbys, and bull dogs- hah kinda funny the marine corps mascot is a bull dog and we arent allowed to have them in base housing, go figure.

I had a golden retriever for years when I was growing up. Very loyal, very friendly and pretty intelligent. Great dogs. Right now I've got a bulldog (pics are in the first page or two of this thread) and she's awesome too. Great if you've got an apartment and can't exercise the dog too much. She can only do a block or two before being completely winded, lol.

Mad Max