Please don’t drag me if any of the questions below seem ignorant or insensitive.
We live in a rural area on five acres with a low traffic road. I have an indoor labradoodle and an outdoor rescue that seems to have some GSD in him. He’s a great family dog and does a great job looking scary although he doesn’t have an aggressive bone in his body. He’s getting up in years. When he was little we trained him with a perimeter fence and we haven’t had it active in five or six years but he never leaves the perimeter.
It will be time to add a puppy to the outside before too long and I’d like feedback on the breed.
We live in a rural area on five acres with a low traffic road. I have an indoor labradoodle and an outdoor rescue that seems to have some GSD in him. He’s a great family dog and does a great job looking scary although he doesn’t have an aggressive bone in his body. He’s getting up in years. When he was little we trained him with a perimeter fence and we haven’t had it active in five or six years but he never leaves the perimeter.
It will be time to add a puppy to the outside before too long and I’d like feedback on the breed.
- We have two boys under 8. As they get older they’ll be free to go play in our creek, wade up and downstream, go to the neighbors woods, etc. Ideally we’d have a dog that’s home-centered and wants to stay close but will go with them when they go.
- I’m in the ozarks so winters are pretty tolerable, but my outside dog has a bed in the garage with a heat lamp.
- We have chickens which was a problem with my outside dog for a while but we got him to leave them alone and now he’s protective of them.
- I have a large fenced in area that’s a “back yard” with our play equipment, pool and such. Labradoodle has free run of it through a dog door. This would be a “front yard” dog that isn’t contained (except by underground fence if necessary).