Don't keep a dog, or any other pets (except pet rock).
You can google up all those questions that you are asking, but you expect people to spoonfeed you the answers.
It shows that you have a low interest level in the dog. It shows that you don't have the drive to learn more.
Soon you'll be asking why your dog is not active like last time, but won't bring it to the vet for whatever reasons.

Spoken like a 13 year old growing his first pube.

Your questions were not on in-depth analysis of GSD or advance dog-keeping. They were just basic like what is socializing your dog? How much to feed?
Information that can easily be found on the internet. No personal experience required.
Please consider keeping these guys; cute, cheap and easy.

Perhaps suggesting a pet rock as an alternative is pretty rude of me.
But the truth is, GSD is not a beginner's dog. It is actually a working class dog and requires much work for it to settle down as a good house pet.
A toy class dog should work better for a beginner. But please avoid those teacup toy dogs. They are very unhealthy and usually die in a short time.

Here I've listed out a number of toy dogs for your consideration. Not sure about their availability in Malaysia though.


This post has been edited by xecton: Jun 25 2013, 07:56 PM

This is the ultimate conflict between raw feeders and cooked feeders.

The raw side is against the idea of cooked bones because cooked bones become hard and brittle, and will splintered (as said previously) into sharp pieces that will potentially cut the internals of the dog. Bacteria is not a concern due to the very acidic level (pH2) in the dog's stomach.

The cooked side however is afraid of bacteria and perhaps don' know/buy in into the idea that bones' structure changes when cooked. Generally for the raw feeders, it is better not to feed bones than to feed cooked bones.
However in your case, you are actually not feeding bones but instead providing recreational gnawing bones for your dog. So your dog does not actually eat the bones in pieces but probably tiny pieces scrapped of from the bone.
But perhaps you should consider also that those big bones could possibly be weight bearing bones and thus very hard. It is then made harder by the cooking process. This might potentially cause dental issues with your dog.

I have suspected that your 1 cup a day is actually 2 cups. Mine is the same too.
However, I feed my 28kg dog 4 cups (the measuring cup, not the scoop cup itself) a day. It lost weight when I reduced it to 3 cups a day.
Not seeing your dog personally, I'll leave it at that. You should know better seeing that you actually see and touch your dog everyday.


Now this thread do contains some good info. Hopefully the idiot can comprehend the infos here that were not directly spoodfed to him.