A dog is part of the family, not a toy.

I get so angry, frustrated, sad and many other feelings when I see all these Pet Rescue-pages on Facebook (mostly dogs). So many cute individuals get abandoned for several reason of which almost everyone is stupid and the owners own fault. It can be allergy (I can understand that one), "aggressivity", the dog is just "too much" to handle, it doesn't obey, there's no time etc...

So many people doesn't think before they go buy an animal. The pups or kittens are really cute, the children are nagging for one, you feel alone. But then what? For me a dog is equal to a child in every way.

• If you're not parenting your children they may be nasty against other children, destroying toys, furniture or other things and they will not respect you. 
• If you doesn't rise your dog it may be aggressive to other dogs and humans, will destroy toys, furniture and it will not see you as it's leader. 
• If you feed your children fast food all the time they might get a lack of nutrients. That leads to sickness and diseases as allergy, obesity, osteoporosis etcetera.  Give them healthy food with a lot of minerals and vitamins in it. 
• If you feed your dog cheap fodder it might happen that your dog will get sick. Fodder-related allergy is very common, and hairloss. The most expensive is not always the best but the important thing is the nutrients. 
• Your kids need school and activities to learn and to be happy. To be "good" citisens and grown ups and be prepared for work. 
• Dogs need obedience-training (school) and playtime to be happy pets. If they don't get these two you may have a dog that disobey and go rioting in your home and everywhere else. 

The list can be longer but I think I've made my point here. A dog is a family member and should be cared of as one. It is not a toy. 

What do you want to be when you get old?

Some people have asked us what we want to do with our German Shepherd, a fair question since Gsd's are a working breed. And the answer? We don't know yet. Even if Drama's father Cairo is a patrol dog/ army dog with a lot of merits behind and her mother is doing obedience and tracking we don't have the claim or pressure on us with little Drama. Even so we want to do something, since she is of a breed that need stimulation.

I like obedience, and everytime we've seen grandmother Nira, uncle Hummer or daddy Cairo I and my boyfriend had said to each other that our baby girl is going to be that good also =) We have talked about tracking too, but only time will tell. Drama was from the beginning a really quick learner, and in two days she knew how to "sit" and "lie". Since the puppy-courses doesn't begin until autumn we have started on our own and this weekend we did the first obedience-training. With a lot of candy, patting and a cute voice we came far!

What she can do, more or less:

• Sit
• Lie
• Stay (I walk away 10 meters, waiting a few seconds and then call her in). Of course she follows after a few seconds some times but more often than not she is actually sitting/Lying until I say "here".
• Paw (a greeting with your hand)
• Heel (By having a candy above her head so she has eye contact with me she is walking really nice by my side. After a few rounds she automatically sat down when I stopped)
• Let go

Drama is only 12 weeks and I'm really impressed of her quick learning. The challenge now will be to let Christoffer do some of the obedience-training. He is still working, but I have summer vacation from the Registered Nurse-programe a few more weeks and have a lot of time to spare with Drama. He will get his chances when he has vacation and I'm at work ;)