12 Weird German Shepherds Behaviors Explained

Most of the strange things a German Shepherd does get filed under one of three labels: dominance, anxiety, or stubbornness. In most cases all three labels are wrong. The breed was designed on paper, by one man, starting in eighteen ninety-nine, and a surprising amount of what your Shepherd does in your living room still follows that original job description almost line by line. Here are twelve German Shepherd behaviors that confuse owners, what drives each one, and what you can do about it. Where the science is solid, you will hear that, and where it is thin, you will hear that too. One of these twelve, number nine, is a habit most people laugh at, even though researchers in Finland have studied it as a model for obsessive compulsive disorder in humans.