#english shepherd

[riley-coyotl]

Maple heard that I wanted a puppy, so she's helpfully decided to play Puppy Simulator™️ with me, which is where she makes me stand outside with her in the middle of winter in the rain and wind and cold in the dark while I beg her to go to the bathroom PLEASE

#dogs #dogblr #english shepherd #maple #total hip replacement #surgery recovery #puppy

[embracingwild]

my little girl crushed her first big hill climb

#personal #running #trail running #tali #dogblr #dogs #english shepherd

[csolarstorm]

Hey have some serotonin, on the house.

His name is BB as of now, and it stands for Bailey's Baby. Our shepherd Bailey found him in the street while she was on a walk, and he immediately bonded with her.

#Kitties #Kitty #Cat #Cats #tw: dogs and cats #dogs and cats #Dogs #english shepherd #female shepard #baby kitty #baby kitties #Kitten #Kittens #Baby Kittens

[emilythedog661]

Here is the 10th Doctor and Simm! master as dogs, the doctor is a border collie and the maste is a english shepherd (which looks like a floppy eared australian shepherd)

#doctor who #tenth doctor #10th doctor #simm master #the master #border collie #english shepherd #my art #ipad drawing #dogs #dog

[is-the-dog-video-cute]

what are your thoughts on english shepherds, and do you have any tips for potential future owners? my mother is thinking of getting an puppy from a family friend if it turns out her english shepherd is pregnant - we've had a border collie/aussie shep cross before, but there was a lot we didn't know about a herder when we got her, and i want to avoid making the same/similar mistakes with potential new puppy.

I'd never heard of English Shepherds before, but from looking them up they seem to be similar to Border Collies and Australian Shepherds.

In general with herding breeds you have to make sure you're ready to commit to giving them a lot of mental stimulation. A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that high drive dogs only require a lot of physical exercise, but mental enrichment is just as, if not more, important.

I would say if you're wanting a dog that you can do a lot of training and activities with then an English Shepherd may be a good choice, but be prepared to provide a lot of enrichment.

#asks #english shepherd

[continent-of-wild-endeavor]

I don't ever see this documented in breed histories, but I've always figured the breed name came about as disambiguation, once German Shepherd dogs started to become common in the US.

The dogs that became English Shepherds (and Aussies, though there's some geographical difference*) descended from the old farm dogs that British immigrants brought over with them. Not necessarily any particular breed, but definitely a specific type of dog. Old Shep, colley dogs, farm shepherds, heelers**, farm collies, shepherd dogs - they got called a lot of things, and people knew what you meant, because they had one laying on their porch, too.

Dogs like the modern GSD existed in Germany & thereabouts for just as long, and surely some German immigrants brought theirs over as well, to mix & mingle with similarly useful dogs. But the breed was formally created in 1899, and shortly after that these new type of shepherd dogs began to be imported into the US. So now (this bit is my speculation) when you talked about your shepherd, say, who just had pups, or impressed you in putting errant cows up on her own, people might say, "oh, German Shepherd? I've heard those are expensive/fancy/whatever" and you'd have to clarify, "No, these are the old kind, the English shepherd dogs."

The GSD breed club even dropped the "German" from their name, and the breed's official name, for a while after WWI, which probably didn't help matters. That's around the same time as the earliest documentation I've seen of "English Shepherd" used in a formal, capitalized way by breeders, and by 1927 the breed joined the UKC registry under that name.

Oh, you have shepherd dogs? Which kind - English, German, or Australian?

*Aussies mostly descended from western US dogs, while ES mostly came about in the east & midwest of the country. Both breeds are all over now, and there was also historically some overlap & interrelation. I've read stories, from people who were active in the breeds at the time, that early in the formalization of the two breeds, sometimes the only distinction was color: Merle puppies would be sold as Aussies, and non-merles from the same litter would go as ES.

**Now we use that as shorthand for Australian Cattle Dogs, which are genuinely Australian in origin. It refers to a style of herding, going low for the heels to turn & drive stock, which is common (and desired) in both ACDs and ES. Probably Aussies, too, though I'm not sure.

#dogs #english shepherds #dog breed history #dog breed names #english shepherd

[gean-grey-blog]

This handsome boy is named Quincy Jones but fandom brainrot has me so bad I accidentally called him Clinton Jones and then the lady who owns the farm was like "actually that's a good name, he was named Quiggly before so I had to go with a Q" 😂

#english shepherd #white collar #kind of

[snoots-and-wiskers]

#mars #vega #scotch collie #english shepherd #mixed breed #may 2022

[nubluv]

🐾тнιѕ ρнσтσ мυѕт gєт fяαмє∂ 💗🥹💗

#Adorable #Agile #BestBuds #BestFriends #English Shepherd #Gentle #Herding Dog #HerdingDog #Intelligent #Kitten #Precious #PreciousMoments #Shadow Shepherds #Strong #TinyKitten

[riley-coyotl]

Tumblr may have taken away their boops but they can never take away these boops

#dogs #dogblr #english shepherd #maple #juniper #boop

[embracingwild]

trying to shape her towards swimming and every time is just

“you want her majesty tali… to venture into unknown??… mother, it move and be shiny and I cannot see ground!!!but i dare boop it and maybe get cookie???” (she got many cookies)

#personal #tali #dogs #doggo #dog training #english shepherd

[brokenarrws]

Still can't get over how cute my dogs looked for their holiday card photoshoot 🥹

Especially my boys holding hands 😭

#australian shepherd #Aussie #Aussies #english shepherd #mix breed #Black merle: Ozzie #Blue merle: Vision #Red merle: Rapunzel #My furballs

[caitlinsdrawingblogisback]

Reposting the dog goldbloods

#hiveswap #dogstuck #zebede tongva #bearded collie #cirava hermod #border collie #kuprum and folykl #smooth collie #azdaja knelax #english shepherd #dogswap #note: I had to update cirava’s eyepatch

[blackjacksalem]

I've been distracted with my first puppy. Being a devoted cat person, it's very confusing for me. Cats are so intelligent, they teach themselves everything but a puppy is like a human child.

I'm learning quickly how to be very patient with him. It's hard to not baby him when I hear him whine.

He's name is Caeser, a pure breed sable colored English shepherd

#puppydog #puppies #puppy #newpuppy #english shepherd

[emilythedog661]

Today is the 60th Anniversary of Doctor who so here is a drawing of The Doctor, The Master and Donna as dogs

(tenth is a border collie, simm master is a english shepherd and donna is a husky)

#doctor who #tenth doctor #the master #donna noble #tenth doctor and donna #border collie #english shepherd #husky #my art #ipad drawing #doctor who 60th anniversary #happy 60th doctor who #ipad doodles #dogs #dog

[comfortkatsworld]

Our new puppy❤️

#cute puppy #english shepherd