• Haha. Thanks for the replies all. I've always wanted a dog but I'm not going to force the issue with my wife. She's worried that my view of our life has become skewed by lockdown and that when we eventually emerge from a year's hibernation i'll realise that dog ownership is more of a hinderance than I bargained for. I'll keep reading and talking and thinking.

    Saw the beautiful lurcher looking for a home. Would love to step up. But steady as she goes with the family conversation I think.

  • I'd imagine you'd need to be careful about getting dogs older than a few months when you have young kids (as much as I'd snap up the lovely lurcher above in a heartbeat if I was able to!). We were lucky to have Odie pretty much fall in our laps at 10 weeks, so he's growing up with kids around. It's probably a bit more of a lottery with an older dog in terms of how well socialised they've been and how tolerant they're able to be with kids.

    I don't think we'd have considered a German shepherd or similar breed if he'd have been much older. Although as a breed they've got a fairly high tolerance to stress, which comes in handy with our bonkers 2yo.

    Other forumists might be more experienced with kids/older dogs and have alternative views, though!

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