Control a German Shepherd? Whew!
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11 July 2007
In this case we’re talking a German Shepherd bitch.
Chelsea was a handful, there’s no doubt about that. She was very strong, very playful but unfortunately unaware of her own strength. That could have caused problems when children were around, so it meant taking some stern action to keep her in control when kids were around.
While she would love to play with kids and run around like a lunatic, I had to keep stopping her whenever she got excited in case she sent them flying like skittles. Actually she did that once when she was just a puppy, so I knew I had to take action before she grew into a full sized dog!
Obedience training classes were swiftly arranged and although she was disruptive I learned a lot of things in order to keep her as obedient as she was going to get.
Which wasn’t that obedient!
Sure, I could shout at her and she’d usually stop what she was doing and come to me, but she never really became fully trustworthy. I therefore took some extraordinary steps to take her out of harms way.
I moved to a mountainside farm in southern Spain where she wouldn’t be a problem to anyone else. That was also for her own protection, because the laws in England were becoming so tight that all she had to do was bark at someone and they could report her and unbelievably have her put down!
So she spent the rest of her life here in Spain and to be honest, I’m glad I did it.
Terry Didcott
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