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Essentially, if this is your first dog, DON'T get something large, intelligent and forceful. You will get a crash course in cainine psycology and chances are both you and the animal will come out badly in it. Bascially, the best advice is to get a medium-sized breed that is known for being good to get along with. An alternative is to go to your local shelter and get an older animal that's calmer and is just happy to be in a place where it gets fed reguarly and no one kicks it.
Yes, the look of the animal is important; my family keeps GSDs and we like the way they look very much, to the point we even got a solid black morph and a solid white morph. But we also like GSDs because they're intelligent, good companions, loyal, excellent guard dogs and generally great dogs. The traits we love in them, however, aren't really reccomended for everyone. They're strong, powerful, require lots of attention and training and you have to make sure they know you know you're in charge. GSDs go to the bad very quickly if they're in the hands of idiots who buy them just because they look good. I have a powerful loathing of Rotties, for example, because I've never come across someone who keeps them because they like them. The only Rotties I've come across have been owned by idiots who think that large, vicious, uncontrolled dogs make their penis larger. In short, good looking dogs are great but looks are NOT the first thing you should be looking for. It's not even the third or the fourth.
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