what is best dog for us
We lost our two dogs to old age in the past 3 years. Our yellow lab was my best friend in the whole world and our rescue dog helped change my life. Now we are both retired and are looking to get a sma...
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I've always been a big dog guy!
My old buddies were a Shepard/Husky mix in the 80+lb range & then a Springer, that I thought would be a medium size dog, but turned out to be the "moose" of the litter at about 70lbs.
After losing the Springer a couple years ago, I finally talked the wife into getting another dog.
We too wanted to go the smaller route and we were going to get a mini-Aussie, but a special situation arose and we adopted a 8 month old mini-Dachshund.
While I originally had no interest in the Dachsies, after a couple months I'm now converted! :B
What characters these little guys are! And sooo smart!
He was house-broken pretty quick (a little stubborn!) and rings the doggie-door-bell to go out now.
As far as barking it's all about training. First taught him to "speak" & then rolled that into "shush".
Great little pups!
My old buddies were a Shepard/Husky mix in the 80+lb range & then a Springer, that I thought would be a medium size dog, but turned out to be the "moose" of the litter at about 70lbs.
After losing the Springer a couple years ago, I finally talked the wife into getting another dog.
We too wanted to go the smaller route and we were going to get a mini-Aussie, but a special situation arose and we adopted a 8 month old mini-Dachshund.
While I originally had no interest in the Dachsies, after a couple months I'm now converted! :B
What characters these little guys are! And sooo smart!
He was house-broken pretty quick (a little stubborn!) and rings the doggie-door-bell to go out now.
As far as barking it's all about training. First taught him to "speak" & then rolled that into "shush".
Great little pups!
