Want to get a dog (in the future, just want to ask some questions first)

basin79

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I meant no offense... just offering up what I have seen in the almost 20 years I have been working with dogs and their people.

Typhon is a very handsome boy! I have been following your thread of him. I haven't been hands on with too many Ovcharka, but a good friend of mine breeds/works CAS and I work Gamprs. LGDs are fascinating!
Thanks. I do appreciate you know dogs but I bond a ridiculous amount with the dogs I'm lucky enough to spend my life with. Because we spend so much time together and it's predominantly just me and them we click.

Typhon's a little star. He's so much fun and intelligent. We have an absolute riot together.
 

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Thanks. I do appreciate you know dogs but I bond a ridiculous amount with the dogs I'm lucky enough to spend my life with. Because we spend so much time together and it's predominantly just me and them we click.

Typhon's a little star. He's so much fun and intelligent. We have an absolute riot together.
Dogs are my life. My human partners fully know and understand this lol I am with dogs 24/7... I don't know how to function any other way :)
 

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Dogs are my life. My human partners fully know and understand this lol I am with dogs 24/7... I don't know how to function any other way :)
Due to my head/brain/mind being somewhat of a rascal I'm unable to work so I'm with Typhon pretty much 24/7. I type that as he prefers to sleep downstairs at night. He comes up to check on me early in the morning.
 

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Due to my head/brain/mind being somewhat of a rascal I'm unable to work so I'm with Typhon pretty much 24/7. I type that as he prefers to sleep downstairs at night. He comes up to check on me early in the morning.
I cannot work a regular full time job either due to medical issues, but I can manage training and handling if I pace myself.

Because of the temperaments of my dogs, they can't all sleep with me... but my medical alert dog does and he is a snuggler <3
 

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I cannot work a regular full time job either due to medical issues, but I can manage training and handling if I pace myself.

Because of the temperaments of my dogs, they can't all sleep with me... but my medical alert dog does and he is a snuggler <3
I wish Typhon was a snuggler. I think he treats his guarding duties very seriously so once he grew a bit started sleeping downstairs. Any noises and he's up to my bedroom.
 

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I wish Typhon was a snuggler. I think he treats his guarding duties very seriously so once he grew a bit started sleeping downstairs. Any noises and he's up to my bedroom.
None of my LGDs or any I've known have been real big on snuggling. I think in addition to it not being in their guardy nature, there is also the simple fact that fluffy dogs get hot easier lol
 

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None of my LGDs or any I've known have been real big on snuggling. I think in addition to it not being in their guardy nature, there is also the simple fact that fluffy dogs get hot easier lol
Oh definitely. I have to grab Typhon for a snuggle. He puts up with it for a few minutes than starts rolling.
 

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Oh definitely. I have to grab Typhon for a snuggle. He puts up with it for a few minutes than starts rolling.
All of my dogs are snuggly except my Salukis... they think humans are icky and make funny faces when you hug and kiss them :rofl:
 

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All of my dogs are snuggly except my Salukis... they think humans are icky and make funny faces when you hug and kiss them :rofl:
It just makes the snuggles even more special when I get them.

To be honest I think I'd actually get more off Typhon if I had a huge settee. He's too big for my 3 seater with me on.
 

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Sorry, but what is LGD? I know American tarantula shorthand (like GBB...) but not dog abbreviations...
 
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