I wrote it up in Observer 'My Crap Holiday' column. There is more to this story involving a train strike at St Lazaire and some very unpleasant fellow passengers on the train to Bayeux and a house flooded and filthy on arrival. He did ! He took pity on the weary bag/dog lady. I was reduced to going onto the ground at a bus stop and begging a driver to take us. I could see us being stranded forever in Paris. No taxi would take me from Gare L'est to St Lazaire because of the dogs, I was forbidden to enter the metro with them and no bus would take me either. This was obligatory because of the dogs -they also had to pay a half fare each. This despite the very expensive first class ticket that I'd had to buy in order to have a whole sleeping compartment to myself. It was a couple of days before Xmas and I'd already had a very difficult overnight train journey from Budapest - train broke down/ detrained onto freezing platform at Strasbourg and then loaded onto a commuter train and forced to sit on the floor next to the toilets as my dogs were not welcome in the carriage. I was working in Budapest in those days but also sort of living in Normandy France. Huh ! I had a dreadful experience years ago trying to get from one station in Paris to another with two dogs. I love shepherds, I had two many years ago but I wouldn't have one now because I simply don't have the time to put into a young gsd, I'm happy raising silkens into civilised members of society, they require much less effort Just as an aside, we call them german shepherds, shepherds or GSDs here, when you write GS I think Giant Schnauzer for some reason It sounds like you have a time consuming job, I might look towards a breed that requires less intensive work in the first year, it's very easy to ruin a shepherd. They are wonderful dogs if you get it right from the start, and can put the time and effort in to training and socialisation. It's great that you're doing research, but your research should also tell you that shepherds are not ideal first dogs. Given your questions here I really don't think you should be looking to get a GSD, based on your family maybe being nervous of one and the fact that they are not easy. I have seen many GS with e collars and owners using bip or vibration only, is it necessary or you should use only good regular training? It is never necessary to use an e collar, they are used by lazy trainers as quick fixes, which often don't work.
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