We enjoy a nice, low-maintenance Rottweiler. Food and outside in the morning and afternoon. Sleeps on the couch for the other 23 1/2 hours. A few baths a year and a trip to the vet. Nice.
I’ve had three Labradors; two Blacks, currently one Yellow - and I want to add a Chocolate to the mix. (I currently also have a Basset Hound; maintenance free if you don’t mind slobbering, LOL!) I adore the Lab breed.
However, I DO live on a farm and we DO spend a lot of time outdoors, so aside from a few gnawed shoes along the way, they’ve not been the trouble others seem to have with them.
Just as with trees, shrubs, perennial plants and husbands; the right one for the right place makes ALL the difference in performance! :)
I read that story yesterday. I can certainly testify about the border collie. We had a border collie/wolf mix. That was one creative dog! He could climb trees, sniff out all sorts of stuff and was on the go, all the time. Around Christmas one year, we put the presents on the top of the fridge to keep him from investigating the packages while we were gone. We returned and found that dog lying on the top of the fridge with some curl ribbon hanging out of his mouth.
I have two Australian Shepherds. Definitely high maintenance, but absolutely worth the trouble. They must be entertained, or else. They also shed like the dickens. Unfortunately, Aussie fur does not make strong yarn (someone tried, on YouTube), otherwise we’d have an endless supply of fiber for weaving.
I would like to know the opposite: the 10 lowest maintenance dog breeds: basset hounds ?, ???
“I don’t know what kind of dog he is, but before I cut off his tail and painted him yellow, he was a alligator.”
Jack Russells don’t need a lot of maintenance but they do need to move.
I didn’t see the breed that includes Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, Barbara Waters, Rosie O’Donnell, Whoopie Goldberg, Susan Estrich, Mara Liasson, et. al.
I hate articles that fail to simply list what their talking about, forcing others to jump through a pages of photos etc.,
We did a lot of research and settled on a Havanese. Perfect house pet—calm, loving, smart, one of the so-called “non shredders”— low maintenance if you keep the fur cut short.
One of our Corgis has a non-standard “fluffy” coat. She certainly requires far more grooming than her standard nephew.
My Dobie is very high maintenance. Not in terms of grooming (what’s that) but in terms of need for exercise, attention and affection. Also most people couldn’t control him - very willful and very strong.
For later -
Thanks for posting. We adopted a pointer-setter mix when our daughter’s marriage ended, and he proved to be a great challenge, but he was so lovable! He lived to be 16, as did our lab mix.
One of our neighbors took in a little male chihuahua mix and asked us to take him (he’s a little over 16 pounds and has a very long body, short legs and muscular build, so we’re thinking there’s some corgi in there.) The vet estimated his age at 5 1/2 years. When he gets excessively happy, it takes him about 5 minutes to stop vocalizing and bouncing around the room. He’s great with the cats, and he actually guards the house and yard.
Glad to see German Shepherds didn’t make the list.
My current GS being the massive exception. NO dog is more maintenance than this 1.
But my previous - no trouble at all, except she didn’t like going to strange abodes and not going home. Our 1st 1 Gs wasn’t tough, either, but she didn’t last long. My sister’s have been, but for the same reason my current is. It’s not a character thing - it’s health.
Paid 2300 for my sons English bulldog. Have spent more money in maintenance than for the friggin dog. Has to go in now for Ear surgery and palate surgery, another 1800 bucks...
We put our 11year old Doberman female down a year ago...was just yearly check up. If anyone has a Doberman young female to get rid of we will give it an exemplary home.
The Toy has also taken on the role of my unofficial service dog when I'm asleep or have my hearing aids out. I'm over 50% hearing loss so she jumps on my chest barking and shaking the covers if someone is outside, the phone rings, or anything she thinks I need to know LOL. She's my wife companion dog though and can easilly jump from the floor into her lap in the wheelchair.
They're great for home security. No noise gets by them.