"German Shepherds Turn On Their Owners. . ."

I've been bitten by 3 dogs in my life - one was a chi, one was a small something fuzzy mix, other was a Maltese.
I don't care for small dogs because of it...I don't mind a nice one (my aunt had a toy poodle when I was a kid and I adored that dog but she was friendly), but little yappy ones unnerve me cause you can't see them coming. But do I give them ALL a bad rap - no.
Molly would be livid if I told her this LOL

Yup, they still have a bad rap and yup, it's getting really old...

Well, dog bites happen.  I understand that.  But to be bitten 3x by the same breed...  you must be doing something wrong. 

I sleep very soundly sharing my home with SIX gsds.......fearmongers tick me off.....

maybe the dogs felt threatened by him. I am as sure as i can be that Kaiser would never bite me. Of course you can't be 100% sure, but he is very sweet and very gentle. However, i could understand if Kaiser bit someone that wasn't in the family if he felt i was being threatened. He's actually a pretty crappy watch dog, but i've seen him get really protective a few times. I stay away from the people he raises his hackles at (it's only happened like 3 times)

I have never been afraid of my German Shepherds.

Honestly, I've never trusted a dog as much as i trust Kaiser...and he's definitely the most capable of hurting me.

ORIGINAL: nocturnal76

Well, dog bites happen.  I understand that.  But to be bitten 3x by the same breed...  you must be doing something wrong. 

I wonder if it was - maybe - the same dog 3 times for reasons
 
edit to add - some ppl are sslow to learn

Well, dog bites happen. I understand that. But to be bitten 3x by the same breed... you must be doing something wrong.

I guess it depends on what he thought is a "bite".  If unruly play and hard nips count as bites, then I've been bit by at least five different labradors, two pit bulls, and countless terrier mixes.  When I think of a bite in the dangerous sense, I think of something other than just being mouthy or inappropriate play...an unsolicited bite, like when my brother walked past my aunt's dog and the dog lunged and bit his thigh from behind, tearing his pants, his underwear, breaking the skin, and leaving a big bruise.

Well, dog bites happen. I understand that. But to be bitten 3x by the same breed... you must be doing something wrong.

 
I have been bitten 3 times by the same breed in my life and it is the only times I have been bitten.  Was I doing anything wrong no.  None of the bites were serious but skin has been broken 3 times. 
 
 

i never judged the breed that did the biting. i know sometimes breed has something to do with it... but so does circumstance. i was bitten by a rotti when i was a kid.. but the circumstances said i deserved to get my hand chomped on. i was growled at by a pit bull... but she didnt know me, she was in a fenced in yard and her family was on the other side...

every dog has its reasons for biting. a lot of people fail to read the signs and just get bitten too many times.

I dont own a GSD. But I still hear allabout how aggressive they are when I mention to people (who are not as dog smart as I am (Not to say I'm super dog smart, but alot smarter then them)) that I would love to own a GSD some day.

Blaze (my collies) best friend at the dog park is a GSD. Me and the GSDs owner are good friends and walk/hike together almost everyday at the park for a hour or 2 (and she is 7 months prgnent whata trooper lol) so many people are intimadated by her dog, which is a super friendly guy. And think my dog must be super friendly (becuase he is Lassie right haha) and that they should send their little children running up to my dog, screaming LASSIEEEEEEE!! (I dont know why people bring toddlers and young children to the dog park. And not teach them to just run up to a dog). My dog is friendly. But he can be skittish with small children. he wont bite. But you can see he is scared.

People are ignorent. This GSD things has been going on since before I was even born. And it still continues.

That guy who got bit probably doesnt even know whata bite is. Maybe he got one or maybe even 2 good bites from the GSDS but to get bit 3 times is either a mircle, or he is doing somthing wrong.

I have been bitten once when i was 1 1/2 years old, don't remember it at all, just my mom told me about it.  Was an Irish Setter, she didn't even break the skin and mom said I just wouldn't leav her alone.  She  grabbed my hand--didn't even leave prints much less  break skin.  Actually yu could hardly call it a bit.
 
Both of our sons have been bitten once and it was a German Shepherd both times.  yougest son was about 5, we wre a company picnic.  he was sitting on the ground in front of me (in a chair) eating and the VP's  dogs was walking in front of Randy.  Some tossed a bone at it and it almost landed in Randy's lap--and the dog turned and nailed him right in the face.  This was in Sept.  In Dec. he was still be treated for staph infection in the place at his hair line.  Thje doctor was very concerned, but in the end it did heal without the surgery the ped. thought was going to happen.
The dog was food aggressive and should never have bneen brought to the picnic.  By the way, the VP never once asked hubby how Randy was doing.
 
oldes son had a paper route, was in the middle of the street on his bike and a shepherd jumped the fence and got him on the back of his thigh.  Doc tried to close it with butterflies, but didn't work so had to put stitches in.  Found out Ron was the 3rd child the dog had bitten--a little girl on a trike and another boy on a bike.  Each time it had come over the fence to get them on the sideway.  When it got the 4th child 3 months after it got Ron, it was put to sleep. Billy was badly bitten.  Each child was bitten worse than the one the time before. That child, same age as my son & a friend of his, was on his bike in the driveway across the street from where the dog lived and it went over the fence and across the street and up the drivewy to nail Billy.  I suspect that sometime in the past that dog had been tormented by someone on a bike.

IDK, I will say that the majority of the really negative insidents I've had with dogs have been with GSD.  The first one was my fault.  I was 7 years old, went into a gated yard with a "Beware of Dog" sign and hugged a strange GSD around the neck.  I got bitten in the face and had 21 stitches.  I've also been chased by two of them.  Sally and I had a truely terrifying incident with a GSD at a state park while hiking, and Jack had one go after him as a pup (not just correcting, actual lunging and attempting to bite).

However, a friend in school had a wonderful GSD, the trainer we use has a pair of them that are great, and the lady who owns Jack daycare place breeds white german shepards and they are wonderfully behaved dogs.

I think with any very popular breed you just have the good ones and then you have the not-so-well-bred, not-so-well-trained, and not-so-well-socialized ones.  You generally don't hear about labs "turning" on people but I've some across a number of tales of lab aggression that deeply disturb me.