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Hi, We live in NC and my wife and I have two German Shepherds
The female is going on 6 years old and the male is around a year and a half. Even though both are pedigreed, I'd almost swear that the male was a German Retriever - if they existed. That dog loves LOVES to retrieve bouncing, squeaky plastic balls. When he goes out to pee, there's one in his mouth (in anticipation of us doing the retriever thing with him). When the female goes over to the back yard fence and barks at the neighbors dogs, he runs over too, ball in mouth, and bites down to squeak the ball instead of barking. Yes, he keeps one in his mouth while he's pooping too. Our neighbors probably think we've glued a ball to the end of his nose. Anyway, we love them to death.
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When we got her a brother about 1.5 years ago, she was physically active - she liked to do various running and jumping games in the back yard with us. We socialized her, primarily, by going to the local park every single day, rain or shine - and I still do. She's very sociable except somewhat aggressive toward, maybe, 1 in 10 dogs that she encounters. We call the new dog her "brother" because we have no intentions of letting the two breed and we wanted them to develop fully (physically) so we didn't have them spayed/neutered. They live indoors on our back porch that's open air to our living room but cordoned off with a gate/fence so we can keep them out of the LR when we have guests and when our cats are roaming the house (they really get excited around those cats), geez. Anyway, making a short story long, we love them dearly.
Hi, welcome to the forum. I had to laugh at the mental picture of your male GSD squeaking a toy instead of barking. I’ve known a few GSDs, so I can picture the scene quite well. 🤣🤣
But, that’s not the biggest concern regarding your girl;
Every season comes with the risk of pyometra, a potentially fatal infection of the uterus; mammary tumours which may or may not be cancerous and phantom pregnancies.
Whether or not you keep your male intact is your decision, but for the sake of your girl, especially as she’s getting older, get her spayed.
If you’re not intending to breed them (and even if they were brother and sister - full, blood related, littermates brother and sister), once the female comes into heat, the male will do anything and everything possible to try to mate her - and when she is in her receptive stage, she’ll be just as determined as he is.When we got her a brother about 1.5 years ago, she was physically active - she liked to do various running and jumping games in the back yard with us. We socialized her, primarily, by going to the local park every single day, rain or shine - and I still do. She's very sociable except somewhat aggressive toward, maybe, 1 in 10 dogs that she encounters. We call the new dog her "brother" because we have no intentions of letting the two breed and we wanted them to develop fully (physically) so we didn't have them spayed/neutered. They live indoors on our back porch that's open air to our living room but cordoned off with a gate/fence so we can keep them out of the LR when we have guests and when our cats are roaming the house (they really get excited around those cats), geez. Anyway, making a short story long, we love them dearly.
But, that’s not the biggest concern regarding your girl;
Every season comes with the risk of pyometra, a potentially fatal infection of the uterus; mammary tumours which may or may not be cancerous and phantom pregnancies.
Whether or not you keep your male intact is your decision, but for the sake of your girl, especially as she’s getting older, get her spayed.
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