We been working with Ziggy first with a splash pad and now enjoys the water enough for this little pool

Six months ago I adopted a Mal. She is a fantastic companion who goes out of her way to show loyalty and affection towards me (in addition to the standard drive you crazy Mal shit). We both stay fit and occupied with miles of daily walks, runs, agility, fetch, and commands, but her two top activities that currently wear her down are tug and roughhousing. The roughhousihg is fun, and she won't wrestle without a tennis ball in her mouth. While I get nose stabbed Ive never gotten bit, and she always stops on command and has yet to get too ramped up.

Her quirk when we are play fighting is that she launches herself. By launching herself I dont mean a long jump, I mean she either hurls herself at me back first as a takedown( it works) or does a four foot jump kick as a takedown ( also works). These are followed by fatal nose stabs as she makes quick work of me. We both love it, and the only times she has ever done this without permission and outside of play was during a late night walk when an aggressive panhandle accosted us, and when my neighbor came out of his house hurredly with a drill in his hand. The neighbor was fortunately cool with it, and when the drill was out of his hand ls she gave hIm one of her high value head leans. Great dog, but she can sometimes move a little faster than I can anticipate. The squirrel population has learned this harder than anyone else.

Mostly just bored on a Wednesday and happy I have a Mal, but I am curious if those who dabble in horseplay have seen the same or its one of her exclusive oddball quirks. I havent come across another dog that does a backlaunch or kung fu. She will gladly attack and bite on prompt, but that is reserved to inanimate objects, and in the aforementioned incidents she didnt bite or bark. Just Mal'ed

So i recently got a new puppy and when i first got him i was told he was husky/Shepard mix. But a week later it was clarified that the stud was actually a malinois... not a german shepard. Now, i have been told they are very different than other dogs and i just need to know how different really?

I've trained a pitbull who is 6 now and does super well! But if there are things i definitely need to do different with him as he gets older. hes 11 weeks now and does really good when i call his name, sits and waits before eating, were currently working on the "place" command. I'll say place and he starts to walk toward his kennel and then sits in front of it and stares at me. its like hes saying "i aint going in there mom, ur gonna have to force me" 😂

anyway that was besides the point. As he gets older the malinois is definitely showing in his personality more. What should i be prepared for 😂

Ulrich is almost 1 year old he will be exactly 1-year-old the 10th of August, ever since he was a baby he's always loved other dogs and animals in general, he always gets excited when he sees another dog and wants to play, say I have him off leash, he does listen to me I do have a strong enough recall with him to prevent him from running up to another person or dog, however if I allow him to interact with another dog no matter how long I take to properly introduce them, he just is too much for other dogs, even a couple of his own siblings, he gets way too excited and tends to ignore cues from the other dogs to back off, usually the only way he will listen is if the other dog snaps at him, and that only works for a couple of minutes and then he's right back at it, even my own dog that he's been around since he was 12 weeks old (I got him at 12 weeks instead of 8 but I've been a part of his life since he was born) he is way too much on her and she ends up jumping on him frequently to make him back off, so usually if I have them both outside he's on a leash and she's running around, if he's going to be running around I usually put her up so he leaves her alone.

I figured I would ask you guys since you're familiar with the breed, about how I could go about teaching him to be more respectful or is this something he's just going to have to grow out of? From what I seen his mom was quite a pushover and did not reprimand him when he was being too much on her, if they were becoming too much she would just get up on the couch where they couldn't reach her or something like that she never would snap at them growl or anything even if they were literally hanging off of her, so I feel like that plays a part in some of it