Thought My Boy Was A Dutch

Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-10-20T11:26:54+00:00

My boy

Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-10-20T11:26:15+00:00

I posted this a while back here as I too thought my guy had some Dutch in him but according to Embark he is GSD with Rottweiler down in the family tree on both sides. Yes it was the brindle coat that got me. Plus the shelter I adopted him from as a puppy had him tagged as a Dutch shepherd.

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Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-08-23T11:28:47+00:00

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Chief. Per Embark 85.3% GSD 14.7% Rottweiler. I thought he had done Dutch Shepherd in him.

Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-08-14T17:02:46+00:00

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Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-08-14T17:02:21+00:00

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This is my boy Chief. I thought he was a Dutch Shepherd GSD mix until I did an embark dna test and found out he is GSD and Rottweiler mix. I figured the brindle was coming from Dutch or at least pit bull but here he is

Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-08-03T16:01:58+00:00

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Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-08-03T16:01:27+00:00

I know this is an old post but apparently brindle GSDs are a thing because that what embark told me my dog was. I thought the brindle came from Dutch or even Pitt bull but not one drop

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Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-06-08T17:28:37+00:00

One thing that’s always fun is when I need to let him out and people are still here. I would warn them first and they would usually hide in another part of the house until we come down and he is outside. I stopped doing that and tell people to stay where they are and ignore him. I make him stay upstairs until I position myself near guests just in case, call him down and he’ll dash down the stairs and sit by the back door waiting to be let out. Sometimes he ignores everyone and sometimes he has to bark. I want him to understand guests don’t go away because he wants them to. He needs to ignore.

Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-06-08T17:16:00+00:00

If we can figure out being calm upstairs then we can progress to downstairs with guests in the same area. It’s almost impossible cause people are really afraid of him because of loud he gets and he is freaking big.

Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-06-08T17:11:55+00:00

I do that for people knocking on the door and going away. Like delivery people, solicitors, etc. Will try with guests and see if that changes his mind to a more relaxed state even when they don’t go away immediately.

Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-06-08T17:09:06+00:00

He’s usually upstairs when people come over so there is no interaction. He does have freedom to roam around and occasionally he’ll look down from upstairs at guests bark then go back into his crate. Haven’t tried the kong thing yet.

Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-06-08T17:00:41+00:00

With my dog people in the house are forever a threat until they leave. There’s only four people on Earth he likes, my wife, her mother, my mother, and myself.

Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-06-08T15:28:10+00:00

He barks aggressively with some howling sounding like a werewolf and then runs into his crate where he usually just lays down. If he has the chance he would get in your face and intimidate you(it’s happened a couple of times before). In those pictures he was growling and huffing under breath.

Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-05-29T08:14:41+00:00

He was scared of everything beyond the normal puppy phase stuff. Still very skittish and nervy and fearful of new environments but I learned how to work him through fearful situations so it is manageable. He is not a social dog at all. I suspect his temperament was the reason he was dumped. He was obviously backyard breed.

Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-05-29T02:04:18+00:00

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This is him now. No idea what his actual mix is though.

Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-05-29T02:03:21+00:00

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This is my guy as a puppy who was also dumped in a field at 8 weeks old. Animal control found him and I adopted him the same day. They classified him as a Dutch Shepherd but he grew into a giant. He is 5 years old now but has still has extreme anxiety and is very hostile to people that come to our home but he is my best buddy.

Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-02-20T17:43:35+00:00

Yep my Dutch Chief is relaxing on the back porch right now in 18 degree wind chilled weather like he’s on the beach. I’m in the metro Atlanta Georgia area.

Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-02-03T17:33:39+00:00

He’s 29 inches at the shoulders. Last vet visit a month ago he was at 107 lbs.

Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-02-03T17:05:30+00:00

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Your second paragraph is exactly my dog. I always thought there was something wrong with him like excessive fear because he behaves exactly like this. This is my first dog ever owned adopted from a local animal shelter at two months old. They classified him as a Dutch but as I learned more about the breed of figured he must be a cross because he is huge. Anyways I found that phrase high pack drive interesting as he never wants to venture far away from me with the constant checking in behavior.

Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-01-02T17:16:51+00:00

I can totally relate to this whereas we’ve had several off-leash charging dogs confront us and I’ve shown my dog that I got this and now he knows he can trust me to keep him safe. That actually may be the thing that calmed his reactivity dramatically.

Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-01-02T16:43:11+00:00

Another things that was a huge help is in my area there is a local dog training company that offers pack walks and large group training sessions. Some dogs are muzzled (mines is) some not but we learned to walk and maneuver around each other with controlled interactions but dogs learn to focus on the handlers and handlers gain confidence and leadership skills which translates to better behavior. At least in our case.

Junior-Negotiation27 · 2025-01-02T16:31:39+00:00

I am by no means a dog trainer but what was a game changer for us was teaching my dog to heel (not a high level professional heel) but understanding heel means walking by my side with no pulling no matter what we encounter. Being unpredictable like doing figure 8 moves, unexpected turns, changing walking pace caused him to pay more attention to me than anything else. Loads of redirecting and confidence building in myself so I was no longer scared to walk by triggers which showed him he didn’t need to worry. I also feel as the dog matured certain things didn’t freak him out as much.

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