As Alpha Admin has posted they are evil little puppies. But they grow into the most amazing, adoring and wonderful dogs. When Princess was 12 weeks old and had just had her ears cropped, the most important thing to her was exploring the world.

I would feed in in the kitchen and she would rather go and explore the house to find anything more important. I had to sit between the food bowl and the exit. It did not take her long to figure out that I would not let her explore until she had eaten. When she had eaten all she was going to, she would sit and look up at me as if to say, Ok, I'm done, it's time to explore.

House training went well. Five minutes after she ate, I would pick her up and carry her outside. When she was done I would lead her back inside. Note I did not let her walk outside until she was about four months old, lest she suddenly decide midway to do it. Same thing if she took a large drink of water - five minutes and outside. If she was awake and it had been around two hours since she had been outside - back outside. When she did her duty, she go praised. If she had an incident in the house - no yells, no fusses, just a stare and a slight scolding. It did not take long.

But then after having had Dobermans for over 28 years, most of the time multiples, I know I have to stay ahead of them or they will take control. My first two did. My first one is my Avatar, and she taught me the ways and wiles of the Doberman. But she was a wonderful loving dog, it was just at times she took control and I had to rush to catch up. But like a parent with multiple kids, you learn from the first (and from forums like this) so when the last comes along, you have been there and done that.

If you have any questions, ask away. The members have a variety of experiences and are free with their advice and stories. Welcome to the Doberman world and the forum.

welcome, would love to see some pics and hear some more stories!  Pics kinda small, but she looks gorgeous!

Where's her picture?  I don't see it; sorry!

Gingersmommy, the only pic I see is in the avatar.... too small to really see well though

Aren't doberman's the best? Seriously. I mean not to hate on other breeds, I love all dogs...but compared to Dobies, other breeds just seem so "generic."

Control_Freak, can't wait to see some more pics. Since I adopted an adult, I missed out on all the "fun" puppy and teen years....and although I am greatful I have a well mannered gentleman (and had to do nothing to get him that way) I would love to see a gangly teenager...all legs.

Good luck with you baby girl!

Control_Freak said: Thanks everyone!  I have tons of pictures and will be working on a gallery soon...unfortunately its going to be a lot of work since I have my camera take large pictures and they won't upload until I size them down.

Control_Freak - I use Windows Paint to resize my photos before uploading and/or pasting on a variety of forums. The process is the same but the path is different for the recent versions of Windows.

For XP, you click on Image and then on Stretch/Skew. This opens a dialog box where you choose the percentage by which you wish to reduce the image. I generaly use 50% on both vertical and horizontal axis which actually reduces the file size (and image size) to 25% of the original. If your camera is like mine, a 2MB photo is then about 500KB. If necessary you can do it again and reduce it to 125KB.

For Vista, you click on Image and then on Resize/Skew and from that point it is the same.

For Windows 7, you click on the Home tab (Home Ribbon) and then on Resize. From then on again it is the same process.

What a gorgeous pup!  How I love seeing all the newcomers, hearing their wonderful, and agitating stories of how those evil puppies have outsmarted us at times.  Hope to hear more of the special girl, she's gorgeous!

Hello to all the wonderful dobie owners. Aren't they a special breed?  I have a male - 3 years old, 131 lbs of go get um.  He loves to go with me everyplace - of course this is not my first dobie.  I have a passion for them but can only own 1 at a time.  Two is just out of the question. ha. ha.  He's by companion, my protector and my best friend!  He loves me unconditionally as I do him. Look for pix's of him in the near future, he's beautiful and when he looks at me with those beautiful brown eyes he can have anything he wants!  They are a special breed of dog so treat yours like he's really one of the family and he will serve you like no other dog you have ever owned. They are stubborn, but learn really fast, you must excerise them daily, my Zeus is a house dog but he does have an agility course in the back yard that we work at least 3 evenings a week. He loves his bath and he loves to cuddle with his mama on the couch. so there you have it, treat them as you would you child and they will be yours forever!