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Originally Posted by bm bradley
models all day, grandson swings by... he's 3.. and the mastif?
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That decides it.
Don't buy anything buy a puppy you can train and shape it's personality.
buying anything over 4 months is risky, a dogs character will start to form in those months. Training a 3 month old is hard, training a 3 year old a nightmare. You end up with someone else's dog. A dog fits into the family, not the other way around.
A boxer or lab will love children and guests. For instance our friends with very young children love Rajah and play with him. sometimes taking away his bone. He knows it's a game and lets them. Most dogs will turn if a kid does this. Will turn if an adult does it.
They will be a bit boisterous when young, but this can be trained out of them with time. It takes at least 2 hours a day to walk/train a medium size dog. They are animals not ornaments.
Small dogs have been crossed bred for so long they have their own problems and can be very highly strung.
You're going to be adopting a very cute lovable sweet puppy, that in 6 months has his own opinions, ideas, character and be powerful, simple minded with very big sharp teeth.
Remember this?
This was taken a few months ago.
When that thing hits you at full pace, you know you were hit. He's bigger now and more.
Just more.
Just had to go into the garden and see why Rajah is barking. He's annoyed one of his toys isn't doing what he wants it to or something. He's literally sitting in the middle of the garden barking at a rope toy.
Good luck shooting porn with that going on around you.
And boxers are not "barking dogs" Good luck with other breeds that love to bark when someone walks pass the house, a plane flies over, a bird lands in your garden, they want food attention, water, walking, to be lat out, to be let in, to be let, because they feel like it and because they just bark. Models wil love this distraction.