BrokeFarmerJohn
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- Oct 7, 2016
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- Columbus Ohio
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- 2017 Mahindra 5555, John Blue G-1000, Massey Ferguson 98, John Deere GP
Yes he's constantly talking, he has a indoor bark for when he wants treats or I taunt him with toys.
He whines constantly for a number of reasons from being bored and wanting attention to his toy fell off the couch and he can't be bothered to jump down to get it so he just stares and whines then looks at me and whines louder, that's the time I push him off the couch and tell him to go get it lmao.
My dad had a Shepard and his does the same, whines all the time. There very vocal dogs.
Max stashes toys and stuff in the couch also, when I tell him to go get his toy he dives head first in the couch cushions and a few mins later comes out panting with a toy I thought he lost months ago lol.
The road with max was not a easy one, when I got him he was the most skittish and uninsured dog you had ever seen, the first day I got him he ended up in the back of a police cruiser lol. He ran from me, I called him back but he just kept running like he was scared he was in trouble, but he would walk up to a stranger like he did when he first met me.
He would never put his ears forward when I first got him, he always had them set back like he was scared.
I had issues of him peeing himself when he would walk up to people. when I came home from work and I haven't seen him for a long time as soon as he got near me he peed all over the floor, then he started crying and whimpering and would run away to a corner of the dining room to lay down/hide in fear he was in trouble for what he did.
I had to post on a dog forum because all my tricks of training a dog wasn't effective/ made things worse. I got bashed a lot and even was threatened by the stupids but a few took the time to see it how it was and told me to just ignore him when it happens, let him outside, clean it up and act like it never happened at all and also when you greet him do it in the garage or outside so if he pees it's no big deal. Some days he peed 4-5 times on the floor, crazy annoying but I just ignored it and let him outside.
It took a solid 4-6 months of just ignoring him when I got home, I would walk in, open the door and just wait for him to go outside or only greet him outside before he's had the chance to go the rest room.
Now he's a super playful and confident Sheppard, I constantly aggravate him, play with him constantly and do things to build his confidence as a dog and he loves it and always wants more. I let him out and he goes strait to the bathroom and sits at the door and barks to get in, if I go back to the barn and he can see me or hear me making noise back there he constantly barks even if there's other people in the house because he can't get near me, I had to stop leaving him outside when I went to feed the cattle because he's so dang loud when he barks lol.
He's a great dog, I'm not sure what his life was like before I got him but I can tell you that he's much happier now. His only downfalls is he likes to exercise cattle, he doesn't bite or nip them he just exercises them like a herding dog, so he's restrained to the house via a wireless electric fence I trained him on but it hasn't been live in months. Also he throws up with car rides, if it's more than about 15 mins he just can't handle it and throws up every time so he doesn't take many rides.
