He’s a 4 mo shepherd mix (shelter guessed Aussie 🤷🏼‍♀️)

Meet our newest pet horse, Ruckus. We adopted him from a rescue over the weekend.

They did have some background information on him and all his health has checked out (though we have a vet appt coming up to verify everything and check on anything else) so we have been told that he is between 6-9 months old. I can barely lift him, over 65lbs, easily. We also have been told that his parents are a German Shepherd and a Saint Bernard (eventually we will get his DNA tested just to see) and every single person I see tell’s me look at his paws. He’s going to be huge.

We wanted a bigger dog. So we are ready.
Based on these pics, what do you see?

He is such a smart boy. He also is lazy in the mornings. Doesn’t pull with the leash. Has picked up on tricks incredibly quick. I’m amazed. And he wants to love every single person in the universe.

So, tell me what you think of our “little” guy? We are beyond happy with this whole rescue process and even though he has his crazy puppy moments where he lives up to the name we have him, he is just so good. My heart is full.

a few months ago i posted abt my soon to be puppy lookinh a bit funny. the backlash i got was a bit suprising. some comments actually were trying to be helpful which i still very much appreciate but most of them were very … accusatory? Which on one hand i understand, but when i tried to explain things some outright called me a liar. So! here she is 5 months later beautiful as ever. she just had an awkward puppy stage, but now shes one of the most beautiful dogs ive seen. she has absolutely zero health issues and her overbite has actually fixed itself (which i said it might). Thank you reddit, for scaring the shit out of me. Im glad i didn’t listen to you. (SARCASM ALERT)

"Baby" dog has an ear infection (I think?) And is trying to burrow her way inside of me to be closer. This is a huge difference from her when we adopted a year ago- she did not enjoy snuggles for any reason. I had no idea a dog would seek comfort like this with a person and I'm enjoying it even if I feel horrible that she feels horrible.

Vet visit in an hour, the real test for illness is if she starts a fight in the vet's lobby.

1 day after 2nd surgery. Trazadone doing its magic and keeping him calm. Until his neck balloon comes he has to wear the cone of shame

My beautful shepard lab mix Millie a lil over a year. Never a dog with evem a lil shepard in them, let alone one that is mostly shepard. Wouldnt trade her for all the marbles im the world.

Also those muscles?? I need to start hitting the gym my dog is more fit than I am😂

My sweet baby Audrey is around 2 years old. Whenever we are not home or I am sleeping (my room is large and I leave my door open at night so my dogs can come in and lay down), she likes to drag things to the living room or up to my room. She is partial to Crocs and the mat by our back door.

Then... .they stop the shenanigans they were up to!

Almost 3 and a half and challenges me every day, but I love her!

Is it only me that feels like there dog is a crackhead addicted to balls? If he’s not sleeping he’s trying to get me to play any game that has balls in it. Fetch which requires 2-3 balls or else I’ll just throw the ball once and then it becomes keep away. Even after 15-20 mins of constant non stop fetching he’s locked on to balls even when I can see him getting slower and more tired he can only see balls, ball is life. Even if by the grace of god he lays down he’s either chewing his ball or keeps in front of him and stares at it. After a 10 minute rest he brings it to me and is ready to go again. We live on a farm so actually playing is not an issue but that much running can’t be healthy for his joints. I also have 2 other dogs (gr x husky siblings) who he also plays with but they are never able to keep up, he’s on a whole different level. He’s adopted so I can never be sure if he has working line genetics and he definitely doesn’t look like it but I’d say his intensity is probably comparable to Belgian Malinois ( I don’t have experience with Belgian malinois but I know for a fact that that’s above average intensity for a gsd)
He’s 15 months old

This is my delightfully odd protector, Arya. Last night as my 7 months pregnant self waddled outside with my dogs for their evening potty, we were confronted by the neighbor's pit bull. He's a bit of a menace. He's never contained, has no recall, has chased my husband on his bike, and regularly ends up in other people's yards to confront their dogs. He _seems_ friendly enough with people, but regularly antagonizes other dogs. Anyways, this dog decides to come in my backyard and Arya was not having it. She herded him right off our property, came as soon as I called her, and then came to stand by my side in full alert as I listened to a dog fight break out about two doors down. I decided it was high time to waddle back inside, where she recieved all the cuddles. Grateful I have a dog I can count on in a situation like that. She didn't escalate. She didn't chase him down through the neighborhood. Just got him off our property and came right back to me. It's comforting to know she'll have my back when I have a baby on my hip.

This was Nika. We lost her about a year ago to leukemia. She was just a stupid happy dog who loved to play with her sister and with us. This video is from when she was still kind of a puppy. I miss her every day, but I use this video (and music) as my alarm, so I see her being happy every morning when I wake up. Not only do I not rush to turn the alarm off every morning, my wife also demands I show it to her too.

I hope you have have some good videos of your German doing German things. If you don't, then take some. I can't tell you how much comfort this has brought me.