12 Signs Your German Shepherd Has Bonded with You

📘 My book — The German Shepherd Decoder: https://tailtell.store/decoder/ Most lists of German Shepherd bonding signs open with the same one: he follows you to the bathroom. That sign is real, but on its own it tells you surprisingly little. A shepherd with separation distress follows you too, and so does a bored young dog who has worked out that you are the only interesting thing in the house. What separates a secure bond from plain dependence is a set of quieter signals, and most of them have been measured in research over the last twenty-five years. Here are twelve of them, each with what is happening underneath, what it looks like at home, and where a healthy bond ends and a problem begins.