Well guys,
I hear ya!
Around Black Forest, Germany, is correct.
Yes, obviously I was thrilled a bit to much of what I knew about the Malinois.
Honestly I wasn´t aware of that "tactical" side of him, like you are in the US.
He isn´t that much present and used in that section over here.
It´s just that I love to watch them, being highly aware of his surrounding, giving attention to his owner, their physics, stature and showing off their pride - like I see it.
I´m a dog guy because I love their honesty and loyalty, which is concentrated in dogs like the GSD or the Malinois.
And I´m not a Sissy, my dogs know exactly who is the boss, they get their training when they are young and this goes on their life time.
A dog has to obey first of all and then comes the rest.
Like I wrote before, I grew up from baby´s feet with a German Sheperd.
Maybe it was always that character which I was looking for in dogs.
The health issues which they have, especially with their rear hips and legs, always did hold me back to get one.
Rex was the name of my childhood´s German Sheperd, he was a very proud and strong sucker.
He suffered enormous in the end, couldn´t stand up then, crawled on his front feet, it was a mess and a horrible experience to see him wrecked like this, so we let him go.
Maybe I have to look for the "right breed", so that this doesn´t happen again, I don´t want to live through this again indeed.
Maybe I look out for a mixture.
But well, if there is an opportunity to get me a healthy German Sheperd, I think I will go this way.
Reading all of your comments and thinking about them and my own motivation, maybe that´s what I was looking for in the Malinois - a healthy version of the German Sheperd.
Thanks for your thoughts and your support guys,
it kept me brain-busy the last days,
best wishes,
Jay
