DumDog
Posted : 11/20/2007 9:00:14 PM
no not at all!! mine never were anyway.... but i was a kid... i never had anywhere to go, didnt hang out with friends at the mall after school so i spent all my spare time with my dogs...
The temperament mine all had was mellow, very relaxed, very much the same personality as ... sofa cushions... but in a good way they werent lazy.. just large calm indoor dogs.
one of them was like my shadow.. anywhere i went he was sure to follow. he only growled at one person and that was when the guy next door surprised us both..
another one i had (dobie/aussie/pit) was a bit more active but not a mean bone in his body. he was also my shadow. he had more of the aussie herding instincts with just a smidgen of protectiveness from the dobie. but i could take him anywhere and not worry about him acting like a psycho..
with either breed... you get what you put into them. you can either get the best or the worst out of either mix (and i am only guessing at the dobie part, i could be way off!) but i've owned pure breds and mixes of dobies and shepherds and NEVER had a problem with any of them.. but that was probably because i put a lot of work and time into them.