Bigger is not better in the breed and not in the Dobe conformation ring. They are medium sized dogs, which is better for working and more ideal for agility and stamina. The standard states : Dogs 26 to 28 inches, ideal about 27 1/2 inches; Bitches 24 to 26 inches, ideal about 25 1/2 inches
Thanks! She is a bit awkward right now! I started to worry after whitecatlover mentioned her front leg joints. Both of them are sort of funny and she bends them forward when she sits, almost like her front legs are too long for her right now. I did some searching and I found that a lot if not most of the pictures and videos have that funny looking joint. I was looking at puppy into adulthood pictures and they seem to grow out of it by six months.Originally Posted by carolinalima
Opa! That's good news! You are not going to need to worry for 2 years until she is ready to test.... by then you are going to be completely in love with her regardless of a crooked joint here and there
Enjoy your puppy - she is really really cute! I hope the cats get to love her soon too!
I'm having fun already!!! I did find a lot of information and have a lot of plans for her! I found it's a lot less expensive to show dogs than horses! Thank heavens! To show a horse in a small nothing special show it's about $100 just for one or two classes if you're lucky! I also found out one of my coworkers has a friend that was a professional dog handler that she's going to get me in contact with. They are the people you pay to have them show your dog for you. Of course, I'm showing her myself, but it would be awesome to get some pointers from them! I'm so excited!Originally Posted by cococat
Your welcome! She is very cute and you are going to have so much fun with her.you might find a lot of your showing questions answered on the links. You want to start young teaching her the basics, but keep it very short so it is fun
Thank you!!Originally Posted by CATTYBIRD
She is absolutely gorgeous!What a cutie!
Thank you! Her dad is gorgeous! They look up at you and their eyes just cut into your heart. She's too cute, tilts her head at every funny noiseOriginally Posted by BabyWukong
She is ADORABLECongrats on your gorgeous new addition. I'm totally in love with her dad, by the way. I've never actually known anyone who owns a Dobe so I've never interacted with them, just admired from afar. They are such a beautiful breed, I'm jealous of you!!Do share many pics of your lovely little lady growing up okay?
Hopefully she won't be too big, I only have a two inch margin for error! She wasn't the biggest pup and she wasn't the smallest, other than that, we'll just have to see how she grows up! Thanks for the advice and don't worry! My plans are to show her and see how she does before breeding, and even then only one or two litters. She's not going to be a breeder, she's my baby and hopefully a show/agility dog
They it is....my two inch margin.
Yep, the females have their own set of rules, height, weight, etc.
Originally Posted by babyharley
Congratulations! She's such a cutie, and her parents are stunning, especially her father!
Thanks! I think so tooOriginally Posted by lovemykitty3
She's beautiful. So are her parentsI love Dobermans!
I hope you get one. I've never seen one with a full tail, uncropped I've seen, but I really like the cropped look. The breeder seems to have an awesome vet because her website has a bunch of past puppy pictures and all their ears are perfect! The breeder really cares about her pups, she has everything docked/cropped, posted, and two sets of shots before letting the pups go.Originally Posted by Siggav
I absolutely love Dobes, hopefully I'll be able to have one eventually. Although my dog will have uncropped ears AND a full tail, since both ear cropping and docking tails is now illegal in the UK (became illegal when they outlawed formally declawing on cats as well).
I do prefer the natural uncropped ears though, however from seeing the parents of your gorgeous pup, the breeder goes to a vet that really knows how to do the ear surgery, i.e the ears look good. It's always sad to see badly done ear crops on dogs.
Anyway contrats on the puppy, she's gorgeous and I'm very envious
Really? I've hardly ever seen them uncropped! I think they are absolutely gorgeous with their ears cropped. In my opinion they look too much like coon hounds with their ears natural.
Probably illegal in NZ too, it is here in Aus. I think quite a few countries have banned it, along with declawing cats
What was the name of the stud you are interested in?Originally Posted by EnzoLeya
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Hopefully she won't be too big, I only have a two inch margin for error! She wasn't the biggest pup and she wasn't the smallest, other than that, we'll just have to see how she grows up! Thanks for the advice and don't worry! My plans are to show her and see how she does before breeding, and even then only one or two litters. She's not going to be a breeder, she's my baby and hopefully a show/agility dogAlthough I'm dissapointed about THE PERFECT champion stud I found for her, he's already 9 years old and there's no way he's going to make it long enough to breed herMaybe we'll meet some studs in the show ring when she's older!
Yeah it's vWD, von Willebrands disease. Actually I have a mild form of it. A woman in my neighborhood has Dobermans, she competes with them in obedience (one of them is the #2 Doberman in Obedience in the US) and does animal-assisted therapy with them (she was in the same therapy dog group/same hospital as I took my therapy Golden). One of her dogs has vWD as well.Originally Posted by EnzoLeya
I'll keep an eye on it! I understand where you're coming from though. I think the breed has a lower risk for joint/hip problems, but they have REALLY bad genetic problems. Luckily the mom and pop were both tested for them and were negative. Dobermans have genetic thyroid problems, and a genetic blood clotting problem. I can't remember what's it's called, something like.... WVD or VWD something or other.
I'd have to look it up, but I'm at work and I'm getting ready to sleep....don't tell anyone!But the weather is bad and I'm stuck here for 24 hours till the next shift MAYBE comes in.
I just LOVE undocked Rottweilers. I think their tails are adorable. There was a woman who did dog rescue in my neighborhood, she rescued a pregnant Rottie and she did not have the pups docked. They had the cutest tails... I used to walk a Rottie mix and people who saw us walking always told me I should cut his tail (why?!?)
It is not really "has" vWD. Do you mean one of her Dobermans is affected? In Dobermans, you can have affected but not clinically affected too, which means some affected Dobermans are not bleeders and don't have problems, for instance, they can be cropped and docked and spayed or neutered and so forth, and then some do have issues from their vWD status. There are three options though, clear, carrier, and affected. They are vWD type I. There are other types.
Just as an FYI females have just as much probability of being gender aggressive, if not moreso than males. Male dogs in general if left intact will have problems with other intact male dogs, however most of the time in altered dogs males are usually the more easy going ones.
She knows what she is talking about when it comes to that issue.
