Murray Hill Ken and the Unleashed Dog

For everyone's sake, just leash your dog.

It is a full time job to be a Doberman Dad. They are beautiful dogs that people want to meet and pet and cuddle with, but they’re not like other dogs. They’re working dogs, which means whenever you see a Doberman or German Shepherd from a working line, that dog is at it’s work place.

Early on, I’d get frustrated with people that didn’t understand working dogs or were too casual around my dog at his work place. Mr. Chow would respond aggressively and I was the one diving in between him and other dogs.

Over time, I adjusted because even though other people and their dogs were the ones agitating him, it was going to keep happening if I didn’t take the proper precautions. While I envy owners with dogs that can go to a cafe or birthday party, I just had to acknowledge mine would fail in an environment like that and ultimately he would get blam…