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Not to disparage your experience but it sounds like you're warning people about the reality of owning a work-directed breed, not a large dog. Small hunting dogs
by zemvpferreira 3y ago
Not to disparage your experience but it sounds like you're warning people about the reality of owning a work-directed breed, not a large dog. Small hunting dogs are equally miserable stuck in apartments all day. My little Podengo can go on 4-hour hikes without tiring.
Folks, don't get working dogs if you don't have a job for them to do.
- OJFord 3y agoWhere are we drawing the 'working dog' line? Does a Labrador retriever count? Terriers?
- reissbaker 3y agoYes, a Labrador requires a lot of daily exercise and is more similar to a working dog. A Great Dane, though — which is much larger, but not a working dog — requires very minimal exercise. But Great Danes have very short lifespans; on average they die between 7-10 years old. I'm hopeful that LOY-001 works (the article even specifically calls put Great Danes as a research target); I'd love to have a Great Dane since they're so easy-going, but the thought of losing one after such a short time has put me off.
- OJFord 3y agoMy point was that labradors are ridiculously popular, you are not going to stop people getting them because they don't have retrieval work for them to do. And that's mostly fine, a lab that gets a 30-40m walk (especially off-lead) every day and isn't over-fed is fine IMO. I just think 'working dog' is ill-defined (most breeds are technically, so colloquially it generally means a dog that you use for work, which makes the advice tautological) and so it's not really helpful advice.