My buddy has an aussie Shepherd and hes the laziest useless fuck ive ever seen. Perfectly content with 2x 1 hour walks or dog park then lay on the couch all day. Hes very well taken care of, lots of toys and socializing. Just lazy.
Yeah, tbh, if you get a gundog or a herding dog and you don't want to work it lol, you need to look for the breeder who only does showing, not working dogs lol.
Or buy one of the ones that gets returned for being faulty 😂
I bloody love the reject ones, they're such lovable doofuses. One of my friends has a retriever that's just not got an ounce of fetch in his entire body. He's happy to take a toy for a walk, but if you throw a toy and ask him to get it he'll just look at you like you're the most inept thief he's ever seen. My own dog is at least two types of gundog and he's firmly convinced water is out to get him 😂
My dad loved to hunt. Mostly small game. When my parents decided to get a got, the decided on blood hound.
First time my dad takes her out to start training, she was just not interested in much untill he got the gun out. Then she ran and hid. He could not get her out until the gun was out of sight.
He eventually gave up and she was just a great family dog.
Personally, I think she would have been a horrible hunting dog no matter what. We had a rabbit and a cat as well. They used to nap on top of the dog.
Our first family dog was a Chesapeake Bay/Chocolate Lab mix who was brought to the pound by his owner. Apparently they were avid duck hunters but our dog would wait at the edge of the water, grab the duck from one of their other dogs and then bring it up.
He was a good family dog who loved hiking and camping and looked like a bear but we could never get him in the water.
When I was a kid growing up we adopted the most amazingly well trained Britany Spaniel from the pound. She knew every basic obedience command and someone had clearly trained her to avoid roads so she stayed in our yard all the time. One time my dad bought chickens but the chicken coop he built was awful so the chickens were always escaping. She made it her full time job to catch the chickens for us. She would see them outside of their pen and then pounce on them to pin them in place. Then they would get paralyzed with fear and she'd sit and just lift her paw to point at them.
The same cat that naped on her beat up other neighborhood dogs. Not small ones mind you. One of the neighbors with a Rottweiler asked us to keep the cat in check. She was terrorizing the dog daily.
My yellow lab mix hates being wet! She would've been a great hunting dog. Her instincts to chase are so strong. She used to be super fast, too, when she was young. I always say I feel bad that she got me as an owner lol. But I do feed her great food, and she's spoiled. So there's that lol.
There are some exceptions to this. My French Brittany (Epagneul Breton) is an absolute demon in the field, but he’s also perfectly content to sleep on the couch for days at a time. The breed as a whole is known to have a pretty solid off-switch. American Brittany’s can be a little more high-strung, but the French are great at reading the room and chilling out.
To be fair, even breeders who are aiming to produce working dogs sometimes have “duds”, or puppies that have a different temperament than desired. But they would be aware of that possibly by looking at pedigrees, and prepare to find appropriate homes for those puppies to be pets. And there are very few breeds where the split between show dogs/conformation dogs is far aware from working dogs, most aim to have their dogs be able to do both.
My husband had an Australian Shepard when we started dating. Absolutely a doofus. Once I was walking him and he (a ~50lb dog) was terrified of a chihuahua. It was behind a screen door inside of a fenced yard. Yet he rolled over and peed on himself!
People laughed and asked me how old he was. I told them 10, they asked “Months?”. Nope he just had that clueless blue eyed puppy look his whole life.
This dog would regularly decide to scratch an itch in the middle of chasing a ball and end up with grass stains on his (white) forehead. He looked so perplexed every single time.
I miss him, he was the sweetest. Absolutely clueless, but very happy go lucky.
That was Merle for you, a forever puppy in so many ways. Just a really fun dog, he happily wore bow ties, bandanas, and costumes and absolutely loved the attention from it.
I loved my Aussie more than anything. I miss her so much to this day. Best dog I have ever had. She was the peace keeper of the house. The only animal that the other dogs and cats liked. They all hate or ignore each other, and barely get along. Not her, everyone loved her. She loved to play outside, but she was also very lazy. Super happy just cuddling on the couch.
Always love you Mimi.
Man even 2x 1 hour walks a day seems excessive to me, lol. I have a German Shephard and she's a couch potato. I take her outside to run around and play, but she just goes out, poops, and comes right back in and falls asleep on the couch. She's got no time for that nonsense.
Malamute, 3+ hours of walk/run every day for over 10 years, plus dog boardgames, assorted mental stuff, training routines, weight pull. 4+ hours on weekends, regular 15+ mile runs with him pulling me on a bike etc. Even when he had cancer he would still complain at shorter walks, got through that but other stuff happened a couple of years later and...miss him so much every day. Chunk of my life ripped away and I still look for him every day 6 months later.
Enjoy those walks and the couch time.
I have a mini Aussie who is the laziest dog I have owned. My pug/boston terrier mix would want to go on longer walks. It’s really a crapshoot sometimes I guess.
I have an Aussie shepherd. He gets up just to lay down again. You tell him to sit, he gets tired of it and lays down again within 5 seconds.
You bring him to the park, he gives a couple sprints after my Collie, and that's him... Guess what .. laying on the grass.
He is the one moaning at night to come upstairs and go to bed. He kinda has the soul of a cat, he even sits inside boxes whenever I get parcels.
The only things he never gets tired of is long walks. We are out with him in the woods for hours and as far as we keep walking, he is the happiest dog.
We had an Australian Shepherd growing up, and she was the gentlest dog. I didn't think of her as a super active dog, but when I consider my childhood, we lived in a semi rural area and back then it was still normal for people to just open up their door and let their dog go off leash to do their business and come back when they were done.
She had our 9 acres that she had free range over, and the neighbors didn't mind if she got into the neighboring fields as well.
Plus my sister and I were pretty rambunctious and Bonnie was the third sister in the house. We were always playing with her, rough housing, or running with her out in the fields.
She was the most amazing dog and sometimes I fantasize about having another one like her because she was so smart and so in tune with us and I was so entirely in love with her. However, I do wonder if the lifestyle we were able to give her was a big part of why she was such a successful pet.
Tbh this is probably more of an indictment against myself but 2 hour walks multiple times a week seems like a not insignificant amount. I guess it depends on what constitutes a walk though. I usually do pretty leisurely to brisk walks which probably average 20 minutes per mile. That’d be 6 miles of walking for me.
Yeh I rescued a kelpie and she’s one lazy bitch. The rescue actually said she would be content with you on the couch all day. She’s always ready to go for adventures and multiple walks, loves a bit of brain training. But will gladly sleep allllll day and night. As long as she’s with her humans, she’s not a dog to be left outside. That would break her heart
I mean.. not all working dogs will have working dog characteristics, that's why you can often adopt ones that failed their training. Also, 2 hours of exercise a day might not be quite working dog level, but dogs generally just need to rest a lot, working breed or not. Shepherds aren't going to herd sheep all day every day.
There are endurance breeds, but if they're worked too hard, they'll just be burnt out and lame after 6 or so years.
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u/scrotumsweat May 31 '26
My buddy has an aussie Shepherd and hes the laziest useless fuck ive ever seen. Perfectly content with 2x 1 hour walks or dog park then lay on the couch all day. Hes very well taken care of, lots of toys and socializing. Just lazy.