Describe your idea of a perfect dog- physical characteristics and personality.?

Question

My ideal dog would have the physique of a Rottweiler- the size and head shape. With a honey colored light brindle coat- short hair. Mellow personality like a Rottweiler but less stubborn (lol).

This is intended as a fun question only. I love the 2 dogs I have now......

Answer 1

i think a perfect dog is one with a good temperament, loyal and obedient. i never worry if they are pedigree or a Heinz variety. i prefer middle size dogs but thats just me.

Answer 2

Wow awesome question! And one I've though of a lot! I think I would want a dog that looks like a Siberian Husky (they are so beautiful) but with the temperament of a Labrador and built a lot like a Lab. I love those Labby eyes too, they are so expressive. And the way Labs are so loving and friendly I would want that. When I think about it though you have to deal with so much hair on the Sibes that I would probably want short hair like Labs have as well. OK well I just described the perfect dog and I still wound up wanting the very same breed I have. I think Labradors are perfect all the wa around although they could be a lot less wild. Fortunately show Labs tend to be a lot less wild than the actual hunting ones although we hate distinguishing between the two like that. Unfortunately that's just the way it is.

Answer 3

My baby is a Suez-Sui (I sure cannot remember how to spell it). He is perfect. He has such cute eyes and the sweetest small nose. He is black and white and when he is shaved, he looks like a miniature dalmatian. When my daughter's big dalmatian is with my little baby, we tell everyone they are twins.
Now, he has a mind of his own and does what he wants. When we start our walks, he has to ride on my lap; I have an electric wheelchair. There is a certain place I put him down and he does his job. He will take 20 steps and he must be picked up. We have to ride around for a while and when we get to his spot, he walks the rest of the way home.
Sometimes he will walk ahead of me. There are times he wants everyone to think he is big enough to walk alone so he walks as far in back as the leash will allow. The funniest times is when he does not want to go any further. He sits down where ever he is; including the road. We have a contest to see who can out wait the other, He usually wins, He is 4 and we found him at the shelter. Thank God. I have not told him that I adopted him. Please do not tell him, he thinks he is human.

Answer 4

For specific breeds, I love Border Collies, but I know they're a challenge and not for everyone. I love the intelligence and with that, the abilty my puppy has to learn very quickly. Knowing this breed needs to be active and have a job, we are persuing agility and obedience training for her. Then there's that intense stare they have and I can just see the wheels turning in her head. When it's time to learn, she's all about it and into it every time!

Tho this is my favorite breed and I really enjoy my puppy, I love mutts too. They can make the best companion dogs and seem to know if you've saved them by adopting from a rescue group.

Answer 5

The body and size of a Labrador Retriever, the personality of a Golden Retriever and the loyalty of a German Shepherd.

Answer 6

i think it depends on your situation. I used to only like big dogs, but when I made a move to the city, I went small. I love them all, but vicious is not for me. my golden was perfect, my sheltie was too, many mixed breeds are great and I've always wanted a dobie. but I do love the yorkies and maltese....a yorkie is a baby forever and is not the least bit independent.

Answer 7

My dog is the perfect ideal pet for me. He is part boxer and part shephard. Light tan color with black around his face and mouth. He has one blue eye and one brown eye. He is so sweet and listens to me no matter what I say. He is about 100 lbs and I love big dogs. His name is Scar. He has a ferocious bark and scares anyone near our house, but he is a big baby. His temperment is perfect. I love him to death.

Answer 8

First of all, a response to those mentioning dog breeds that attack: it's nature vs. nurture, folks. For example, Pit Bulls are the sweetest of breeds because they were bred for dog fights - and the owners of those dogs had to be able to wade into the middle of an active dog fight to yank the dogs apart without getting bitten. It's all about having a tough rep dog in the cases of dog attacks. Nurture over nature, those poor dogs were made mean as a status symbol to their owners.

My perfect dog. Well, I prefer short haired, non-pocket pooches. My mother grew up with huntin' dogs, so that sleek hound look got passed down to me. There are certain breeds that I've always wanted to have, but whenever the time came for a new dog, it has always come in the form of an abandoned dog landing on my doorstop. Mutts, usually medium to large.

One thing I've come to learn through the years, you get one perfect dog. I had mine, a English Pointer/Dobie mix. Smart as a whip, good looking, good sized, sweet-minded, and a total gentleman. He always managed to strike these elegant poses no matter what he was doing, and people would comment on his elegance and asking for the number of his breeder.

"Uh, roaming dog packs about three blocks down the street."

Honestly, it took some arguing to force people to believe it at times.

He lived to be fifteen, which was very, very old for a dog his size, particularly since he had Parvo as a puppy. As with the loss of any animal friend, my heart was crushed, pulped, Tiger-Juiced. By this point, however, I no longer worried about when and if I should get another dog, because when the time was right - BLAM, there's a new puppy on my doorstep, drawn by the invisible neon sign on my house that only unwanted animals can see. I believe the sign says, 'Homeless Animals Apply Within.' Seriously, I've had somebody once say that if they died, they wanted to come back as one of my pets.

So, my one Perfect Dog died. A few weeks later, the aforementioned person who wishes to be resurrected as one of my animals runs over a puppy down the street.

Don't freak, but literally run over. The puppy was so small and the SUV so big that there was no contact. Naturally, the friend stopped, wrapped it in a blanket, and brought it to me. At the time, I still had (and have) other dogs, money was tight, and the dog didn't technically make it to the doorstep on his own. I have a close, close relationship with my vet... I've put three of his daughters through college. So I took the puppy there and asked him to find a home.

The details of how that didn't happen and my ending up with the puppy are fuzzy. Honestly, I really don't know how it happened. That happens a lot with my vet. "Yes, I'm here to pick up some Science Diet," and I leave with food AND a sudden addition to my animal family.

Now, this puppy was about the size of a grapefruit, stumpy little legs, teeny little feet, and it was generally agreed upon by the entire veterinarian staff that he was some small terrier mix.

That should have been my first warning. Suffice to say that he's now around 100lbs. and his head is level with my hip. Good thing I have a large, gated property. He is also not a perfect dog... remember, I already had mine. Nonetheless, like parents always say about their children, I don't love one more than the other, I love them the same, but different.

Don't get me wrong, he's smart, he's sweet, he thinks he's a cat as he was smaller than all my cats when he first came home. Once upon a time he could also propel you from 0 to 60 in .5 seconds. After the second shoulder dislocation, I sought help. Usually my dogs just behave with little training. Not this guy. My dog trainer had a technical term for him: Doofus. He didn't mean this in a bad way, in fact he said that my guy would be perfect for acting jobs.

I decided I didn't want to be a stage parent and that I didn't want my puppy to end up following a path of alcohol and petty thefts later in life. In some ways, his being the antithesis of the perfect dog has made us closer because I had to spend all that extra time with him.

He's still happily goofy and lets my adopted, hugely abused pit bull 'beat him up'. It's great for her self-esteem and truly hysterical to see the big guy just lying there with a happy grin on his face as she jumps all over him. He's managed to finally convince the feral cat population on my property that he really is a cat despite all evidence to the contrary.

Oddest of all, when he finally got all the grow out of him... he began striking the exact same elegant poses that my one perfect dog did. This happened after we shifted him from one dog run to the one where my late, one perfect dog used to be.

Note: I don't leave the dogs in the runs, it's only for when people are on the property, and they come inside at night as well.

So it's an eerie thing, seeing this huge Doofus dog settling into the exact same place, exact same pose as my one perfect dog did. It's comforting, too. I've often felt like my animal friends occasionally dropped by to make sure that the newbies had some form of mentorship on etiquette.

Answer 9

German Shepherd

Answer 10

A Doberman or rotty that didn't want to kill every other dog