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lovelysparklykid · 9 months

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Panda Eating Plant

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ahornblatt-german-shepherds · 1 year

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Facts About the German Shepherd Dog Breed

One of the most well-liked dog breeds in America is the German Shepherd Dog. The ever-popular German shepherd is intelligent, simple to teach, highly active, and wants to be busy. They generally require a lot of daily movement; else, they develop mischievous or high-strung behaviour.

Breeder Overview

Weight: 75-95 lbs

Height: 23-25 inches

Coat: Medium Length Double Coat

Color: Most colors other than white, Black, Black & Tan, Sable, Red & Black, Black & Silver, Grey

Features: Naturally Upright Ears

Energy Level: Average

Tendency to Bark: Low

Age: 10-13 Years

Hypoallergenic: No

Personality

German Shepherd personalities tend to be distant but not typically hostile. If they were reared among kids and other animals, German shepherd dogs get along well with both. German shepherd dogs should begin socialising and obedience training early in life to help prevent over-guarding and aggressive behaviour. The breed is thought to be intelligent and simple to teach.

Health

The majority of German Shepherds are healthy, however like all breeds, they are prone to some health issues. It's crucial to be aware of these diseases if you're thinking about getting a German Shepherd even if not all of them will affect them. Hip dysplasia, elbow dysplasia, gastric dilatation-volvulus, exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, degenerative myelopathy, and allergies are a few of these conditions.

Care

German shepherds need weekly brushing because of their double-layered, thick coats. German Shepherds are bred for action and were first developed to herd flocks all day. They must exercise every day to expend all of their energy, which they have a lot of. A early age should be chosen to start socialisation and training for your German shepherd due to their protective nature.

Feeding

Your dog's diet will vary depending on its size, exercise level, age, and other characteristics. German Shepherds need a minimum of 22% protein during growth phases and 18% protein for adult dogs in their diets. To meet their energy demands, puppies require 8% fat, while adults need 5% fat. Give your German Shepherd a high-quality, protein-rich diet that includes meats like beef, chicken, lamb, pork, eggs, fish, and plant-based proteins found in foods like grains, beans, and vegetables. The food should also be rich in minerals, vitamins, and fats.

History

In the late 19th century, German breeders developed the forerunners of the German Shepherd as working dogs, notably as sheepdogs and farm security dogs. Max von Stephanitz recognised the first German Shepherd dog, whom he named Horand von Grafrath, in 1899, after much debate over the traits to emphasise in the breed.

After World War I, the German Shepherd was renamed the Alsatian wolf dog (or just called an Alsatian) in the UK and the US, and this practise continued until 2006.

Getting a German shepherd from a breeder

It's easy to get a German Shepherd, but you should be ready. If you purchase a German Shepherd puppy, you should expect to spend a lot of time training it on critical behaviours like sleeping through the night and going pee outdoors, as well as preventing biting and barking.

Contact a reputable German Shepherd breeder, pay a visit before committing to the purchase, and make your own decisions to help you find a German Shepherd puppy or adult dog.

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skelingtonsderek · 1 year

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I find it really interesting how preoccupation with how small humans are is like a thing. Yeah staring up into the cosmos you feel small but like it’s like people forget that the reason we have to look to the heavens to feel small is because humans are huge like seriously genuinely big bigger than trillions of other creatures

Wolves are one of the largest predators we fixate on and we constantly fear them. We are scared because they’re big. What if I told you that they weigh less than 90 lbs most of the time? The smaller end of the human weight average is at 130 pounds. Most people can name off hand a good chunk of the animals bigger than us. It’s not a big list and that’s because we’re fucking megafauna like that’s so cool

And it’s even cooler that we don’t have any of the accoutrements of most megafauna like we don’t have giant tusks or huge claws or massive fangs or enormous horns like it’s uncommon to be megafauna without some sort of weapon on your body. Even wolves have claws and fangs and group hunting what do we have?

Like we can walk for a super long time and we can breath while running but we got super soft skin that gets hurt if we’re out in the sun too long and nails? Not exactly winning any knife fights with nails. Our teeth are small and blunt and our hair is largely decorative. We can see and hear pretty well but like tons of things can see better or hear better and definitely smell better like how did we get so big? So many of our identifying qualities are considered detriments and risks in other animals. Being furless is a death sentence to most mammals. Hell can you imagine a squirrel trying to make it out here with no claws? It’d never get to our size that way.

We have no coat pattern no camouflage at all not even a coat of hair to break up our silhouette. Like it’s almost like we’re supposed to be seen with how impossible it is to hide. Not to mention we’ve got a pretty distinct odor and most animals don’t make noises like ours. We stand out. How is that an advantage?

Yknow im beginning to wonder if it is. Im beginning to wonder at this idea that we somehow managed to make it to here because we were miraculously magically better at hunting like school tells us. It seems odd that a creature with the opposite of what it takes to be good at hunting got so far flung through it. Im beginning to think that maybe what’s unique about people isn’t tool use (other animals use tools) or hunting (other animals are way better at that.) Hell media likes to say it’s war that makes us human but it seems weird that this would be the case when both ants exist and the culture at large is so desperate to convince me of this.

At least in my experience if everything is trying to convince me of something it’s because otherwise I wouldn’t think it. I mean. They trick you into going to war by telling you it’ll help others and keep them safe. Not exactly the kind of convincing you would need for a war monger.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how friendly people are. About how inclined to helpfulness we are. Nearly all corporate manipulation tactics rely on people wanting to feel helpful and in minimizing the suffering of others. Don’t call off work you’ll leave your team short handed. Stay late off the clock so that we can tidy this mess for the people who come after us etc etc etc I’ve been thinking about the fact that domestic relationships haven’t been observed between any other species. Humans make friends with cows. Humans make friends with dogs with sheep and rats and cats and birds and ferrets and chickens and and and and and…. How many other animals have we seen go to humans for help when tangled in something? How many goose mothers have honked for help and humans scoop their babies out of harm. How many times has a human risked their life lost their life dedicated their life to another creature? Any other animals out here domesticating other animals?

We occupy ourselves on how to give a tiger dental surgery. We have hundreds or thousands of specialty wildlife shelters for helping injured wild animals. We plant trees just to help them grow knowing we’ll never see what they make of it. Right now my grandparents are spending their retirement caring for local wild birds. They spend so much of their time and money on bird stuff and for what? Just to see them from a distance. My grandpa has a friend named Moochie. She’s a wild deer. She sleeps in his truck bed and he leaves a scoop of feed a salt lick and water out for her every day. He’s not trying to domesticate her. He talks about her the same way he talks about any of his other neighbors. “Moochie stopped by t’other day to show off her baby. Was wondering why she hadn’t stopped by in a while. It’s good to see she’s ok.”

This isn’t unusual. How many wildlife professionals and park rangers and animal control employees are right this very second begging someone to not try to make friends with the wild animal in their living room? How many depressing colonizer anecdotes from the something hundreds talk about how cool it is that no one has taught the locals to fear them are there? Do we have to teach animals to be wary because they don’t know us and we’re dangerous or because we weren’t supposed to be scary in the first place?

What if the friends we made along the way were the real treasure all along?

#unhinged monster journals publicly #animals and pets #I’m just saying your parents had to teach you not to go looking for the lost puppy

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99artist · 1 year

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