re: #777 wahabicorridor

Shepards are great dogs. Mine was Dylan. When hubby and I decided to get a dog (finally) I thought about another one (along with Labs and Rotties), but decided all of them were just too big to carry if they ever needed to be. But one thing - I don’t know of ONE law enforcement agency that will use American-bred shepards. Fairfax county gets them from the Czechs and Hungarians. I spent a summer helping train shepards for the Penna. State police and those dogs came from - wait for it - Japan.

When I was young, my parents got me a Shepherd, but that was the time when the US ones had some problems. This one was vicious. Go to hit it with a newspaper, it would bite the newspaper. After it bit my ear, we gave it back to the pet store.
Now we have poodles, and the little ones really like to lick my ears; I guess they want to make up for what their predecessor did.