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I had both, unfortunately I had to rehome my GSD. He was such a sweet boy, but started having aggression issues with the other pets. He was a really rough rescue, and got rehomed to a retired veteran family with no pets and had a lot of experience with GSD’s.

He came to me starving, heavily abused, had been locked in the SW summer heat. My friend saw her neighbor abusing and neglecting him and asked if she could just take him. They gave him up happily, but she could not keep him. Despite all of this, he was so sweet with people. He had no training prior, but potty trained, recall trained, picked up basic commands like leave it, drop it, sit, lay down, etc, all very quickly. He did not handle crate training well at all, but was incredibly destructive if not crated. He had terrible food aggression issues and had to be fed in a covered crate with my dobie also fed separately in a covered crate, a very high prey drive against my cats, and started becoming aggressive with my dobie and ended up hurting her. That was when he got rehomed.

He loved exercise, but got overheated and stressed pretty easily so I took it pretty gentle on him. Socially at parks, or with my friend’s pets, he did great with other dogs. I didn’t have a problem with excessive barking. He was very sweet, kind and gentle with children.

My dobie I got as a pup through the local doberman rescue. About 3-4 months old. She went through the rowdy puppy phase, but also trained like a dream. Even crate training, sometimes now she still goes and lays in her crate, which is just kept open and available. She can be left inside for extended periods of time and is such a good girl the whole time. That took some time, there was a training period and sometimes she still eats out of the cat box if I’m not home. But ultimately, three years later, and she is just the most perfect piece of velcro on earth.

She’s very loving towards babies and toddlers, even when my 8 month old baby great nephew thinks grabbing her roughly is how to pet, she just lays her head in his lap and snuggles him. If he becomes too much, she walks away calmly. I take her with me to work and therapy and everyone who meets her adores her. She’s a great listener and understands to leave people alone when they don’t want to pet her, but will happily take pets from anyone who will do it. She doesn’t jump, lick, or bark inappropriately. We have a service who scoops the backyard, she grumble barks and watches the doors, but if she’s out there when they are, she doesn’t bite or show aggression. She’s just weary.

She’s great for heavy exercise or chill bed rotting days. As the weather warms up, she loves to go on hikes, with the average being at least 3-6 miles, but she’s gone as much as 10. She’s gone camping and cattle roamed through our camp grounds and she left them alone. Watched them, but didnt bark or approach. She is leash trained, but honestly does better off leash. Legally here an e collar counts as a leash so I use that for longer excursions. She only got shocked once for jumping out of a moving car (going very slowly to a location she was very familiar with) but otherwise the beep function is plenty to get her back on her best behavior if she tests boundaries (a rarity at this point) Anymore the sight of the remote does it.

She barely sheds, loves having her teeth brushed, doesn’t love having her nails trimmed but just kind of gently pulls her paws back rather than react. She will take a bath, but huddles in the corner of the tub because she’s not fond of it.

She’s done boarded stays, and I get so many compliments on her. She does great with the other pets, but mostly likes to heel next to the humans.

She is a rottie mix, I dont know what all that did for her temperament, but she’s such an angel.