lmao that’s funny and I feel your pain … mine is 6 month now, she has been very good, but she is not without challenges. I fell the same, sometimes i am like she is so good, other times she makes me question my capabilities and I am afraid the worse is comming. I was scared to get a GSD, i was afraid to have my hands full and that fear is justified, they are a handful their combination of prey drive and stubbornness is something else. She made me think, re evaluate research and try new methods. I am not judging I also lost patience with her once or twice I try my best not too and keep that has last resort but sometime it is what it is, i gave her many chances and if you don’t seize them something will happen and you won’t like it. (within reason of course I make sure my timing is bang on, it’s about hurting their ego not them) I am bless to have a land that i can bring them daily, I am off 2 weeks at the time so we can spend time together and do a few training sessions a day, she sleep in a crate which help. I have a wonderful energetic Lab that treated her like her pup at least she did but now that’s giving use some challenges on its own, we have to give them some time apart because we have some dominance issue between them, (two females). We are working on that, right now that’s my biggest challenge, so we are working on leave it and stay. I attributed them some places in the living room and it’s infantry style no more free for all… second is we have lots of work to do on the leash, I found a effective method now so progress is being made, we had some recall issue at first but now she good just maintaining that training. We have done lots of socializing my last time off, that little bugger is a dominant one, she flipped on their back all 3 of my sister dogs ( a GSD (2 year old ish) a young great dane (1 year old) and a older Lab (6 ish)) i was blown away not what i wanted or expected… but at least it was all positives.
