18 Things You MUST KNOW Before Getting a German Shepherd!

📘 My book — The German Shepherd Decoder: https://tailtell.gumroad.com/l/decoder 50 behaviors, one per page, and what each one means. In a large study of veterinary records from German Shepherds in the United Kingdom, the two most common causes of death were not cancer and not accidents. They were joint and muscle disease, and a dog that could no longer stand up. That tells you something most puppy buyers never hear: many of the problems in this breed are predictable, and a lot of them are decided before the puppy comes home. Here are eighteen things worth knowing before you get a German Shepherd. Number twelve is the one most owners only check once it is too late to change.