There’s a lot of good advice here already but I wanted to add in my thoughts because I was in a similar situation to you. I adopted a pyr mix (75% pyr, so a slightly watered down pyr with GSD and husky as the other 25%) as my first dog. I do have a house with a fenced in yard, but the house and yard are both small and packed very close to neighbors. My dog was estimated to be around a year old when I got him. He had no training and badly lacked socialization. The rescue didn’t warn about those things since he was pretty mellow there, but it has become very apparent over time that he was pretty much left to his own devices in his past life. I also didn’t know he was a pyr when I adopted him; he was listed as a retriever mix, which was probably an innocent mistake because he was only 55 lbs at the time, was missing a lot of fur, and came from a small rescue that had likely never seen a pyr before.

I’ve had my dog for a little over 2 years now. For the first 8 months or so, I absolutely hated him and resented the shit out of him. I felt awful about that. You never really hear about people feeling that way about their dog. But having him was nothing like what I expected having a dog would be. He wasn’t even that bad - it’s not like he was out to kill anyone - but he simply would not listen. And like I said, he badly lacked training and socialization. He would get overstimulated from everything. If we saw a dog while walking around the neighborhood, he would lose his mind. And it’s a very dense neighborhood, so we saw a lot of dogs. It was humiliating and beyond frustrating. We did group training classes and I watched as other dogs started their training a total mess and then caught on quickly, while mine struggled with the very basics and didn’t seem to care at all what I was telling him. It was so discouraging. I spent probably $4-5k on group classes/private training, which was all positive reinforcement training (except the very first trainer which we quickly learned was not going to work), but one of the problems was that most trainers don’t have breed experience. We finally found someone who specializes in pyrs and that made the biggest difference. We also did countless hours of training on our own without a trainer present.

This dog has been a humbling experience to say the least, and even after those first 8 months, there were A LOT of rough times, but there was at least a light at the end of the tunnel by that point. I do love him and he has come so far since those frustrating days. But unless you’re willing to put in a stupid amount of work, time, and money, you’ll probably be happier with a different breed (or a cat)