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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Virtually all large dogs were bred to do a job and they go crazy if they can't do that job.
Some dogs were bred to do nothing all day but be a companion. They are called lap dogs. And that's completely fine! But many people find those dogs wimpy-looking and are trying to force a big dog into a lap dog role.
If you can restructure your life so that your big dog gets to do the job it was bred to do, good for you. The vast majority of owners don't do that.[/quote]

Not really.  Sporting dogs were bred to lie around 90% of the time and then go for a long walk with owner and retrieve some birds.  We have a big house and all my golden wants to do is lie with the same 100 square feet 99% of the time, and then go on a hike once a day.  He would hate living on a farm and being forced to spend lots of time outdoors.

A Great Dane is arguably a better apartment dog that a small hyper yappy dog.  [/quote]

You know what breed makes surprisingly good apartment dogs, provided they can get out for a good walk? Greyhounds. Laziest mfers...  :mrgreen: [/quote]

We used to live in a big building with a lot of dogs and this is really true -- we saw lots of smaller dogs come through who gave their owners a lot of trouble, were noisy and hard to train. But our direct upstairs neighbors the entire time had two large greyhounds and they were silent, not active, took two sedate walks a day, and otherwise slept all day long. I'd take a greyhound as a neighbor over like 90% of other breeds including the ones that get billed as good apartment dogs.[/quote]
And this is why bans on dogs over a certain number of pounds don’t necessarily have the desired effect. My 79 lb greyhound only wants to walk 3 times a day, doesn’t want really long walks, and doesn’t want to be outside when he’s not walking. He wants to spend his days lounging on a dog bed or sofa, sleeping 90% of the time. He rarely ever barks and doesn’t react to other animals or people beyond a friendly tail wag or a sniff.[/quote]

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