#Shepherddogs - Twitter Hashtag

Aurora ⸆⸉ || please share pinned post @_taysmyoxygen1d

4 months ago

🆘🚑 INJURED DOG TO BE KILLED TODAY 2.25 BY #SANANTONIO ACS #TEXAS‼️ NICK 🍭#A794965 4yo, 68.7lb 🚨Not eating, non-weight bearing RH Underlying pelvic fx vs RH lux #AdoptDontShop 📧[email protected] #Foster 📧[email protected] #PledgeForRescue #ShepherdDogs

_taysmyoxygen1d's tweet photo. 🆘🚑 INJURED DOG TO BE KILLED TODAY 2.25 BY #SANANTONIO ACS #TEXAS‼️

NICK 🍭#A794965 4yo, 68.7lb

🚨Not eating, non-weight bearing RH
Underlying pelvic fx vs RH lux

#AdoptDontShop 📧acsadoptions@sanantonio.gov

#Foster 📧acsfoster@sanantonio.gov

#PledgeForRescue #ShepherdDogs https://t.co/0kmgabZnN1

Aurora ⸆⸉ || please share pinned post @_taysmyoxygen1d

4 months ago

🆘🚑 INJURED DOG TO BE KILLED TMW 2.24 BY #SANANTONIO ACS #TEXAS‼️ NICK 🍭#A794965 4yo M, 68.7lb ☠️Deadline: 2.15 🚨Not eating, non-weight bearing RH. Underlying pelvic fx vs RH lux #AdoptDontShop 📧[email protected] #Foster 📧[email protected] #PLEDGE 🙏🏼

_taysmyoxygen1d's tweet photo. 🆘🚑 INJURED DOG TO BE KILLED TMW 2.24 BY #SANANTONIO ACS #TEXAS‼️

NICK 🍭#A794965 4yo M, 68.7lb
☠️Deadline: 2.15

🚨Not eating, non-weight bearing RH. Underlying pelvic fx vs RH lux

#AdoptDontShop 📧acsadoptions@sanantonio.gov

#Foster 📧acsfoster@sanantonio.gov

#PLEDGE 🙏🏼 https://t.co/7KDns9HUop

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Stefan F. Wirth

@wirthstef

6 months ago

I wish everyone a happy and healthy start to the New Year 2026. In my New Year's Eve article, I report on aspects of #dog #behavior and its relationships to humans, and introduce a new scientific study about #Shepherddogs and the #geneticbasis for their sociable abilities. Dogs have accompanied humans for a vast period of human history. Wolves have thus become #domesticated animals. This was only possible because #wolves that interacted with prehistoric humans apparently already possessed #traits that facilitated later human-dog cooperation. Wolves are good observers and social animals. They thus possess a priori fundamental #abilities to communicate with their own #conspecifics—visually, olfactorily, or acoustically. Or even by using several of these senses simultaneously. This was an important basis to use the same features not only for intraspecific #interactions, but even interspecifically with #humans. In my view, it must have been an incredible stroke of luck that wolves and early humans grew closer, because some characters of both were exactly fitting to each other, and, as a consequence of domestication, were not only able to communicate efficiently but also to #work together very successfully. No other domestication story has been so successful; in no other have humans and animals developed such close relationships. It probably began with wolves approaching early human settlements in the hope of finding sufficient food there without expending too much energy. Wolf populations living near human settlements gradually lost their fear of humans. Humans took advantage of this. As a result, they bred various #dogbreeds from wolves, each designed to perform #differenttasks and be optimally adapted cognitively, motorically, and anatomically for their intended purposes. To this day, they all share a common trait: they can understand their human caregivers not only verbally but also nonverbally. This is because they have learned to recognize and correctly interpret human #facialexpressions. Scientific studies have shown that dogs are so adept at recognizing human facial expressions and corresponding #moods that they can accurately assess human emotions even when partially covered face photographies are displayed on a monitor. However, individual dog breeds also differ from one another, not only in size and proportions, but also in their behavioral repertoires and character traits. #Herding dogs, for example, have the ability to communicate not only with humans but also with grazing #livestock. Underlying this instinct is a genuine drive to herd animals of other species, to keep them together, to guide their movements, and to protect them; all of this in close cooperation with the human owners of the herds. The authors H. Jeong et al. (2025) addressed the "Genomic evidence for behavioral adaptation of herding dogs" in their study. They found that a specific haplotype of the ephrin type-B receptor 1 (#EPHB1) plays a significant role in the typical behaviors of herding dogs. They conclude that #functionalselection is responsible for the #geneticarchitecture of herding breeds. My #photos show me in a self-portrait with the herder mix Hank, and in the separate dog portraits I deliberately placed the dark dog against a dark background to create artistically appealing #lowkey photographs, which can be seen in detail in my current Behance project. © #StefanFWirth Berlin 31 #December 2025 Reference H. Jeong et al. (2025) https://t.co/n6wq5mHmOP Photos © Stefan F. Wirth, Berlin, December 2025

wirthstef's tweet photo. I wish everyone a happy and healthy start to the New Year 2026. In my New Year's Eve article, I report on aspects of #dog #behavior and its relationships to humans, and introduce a new scientific study about #Shepherddogs and the #geneticbasis for their sociable abilities.

Dogs have accompanied humans for a vast period of human history. Wolves have thus become #domesticated animals. This was only possible because #wolves that interacted with prehistoric humans apparently already possessed #traits that facilitated later human-dog cooperation. Wolves are good observers and social animals. They thus possess a priori fundamental #abilities to communicate with their own #conspecifics—visually, olfactorily, or acoustically. Or even by using several of these senses simultaneously. This was an important basis to use the same features not only for intraspecific #interactions, but even interspecifically with #humans.

In my view, it must have been an incredible stroke of luck that wolves and early humans grew closer, because some characters of both were exactly fitting to each other, and, as a consequence of domestication, were not only able to communicate efficiently but also to #work together very successfully. No other domestication story has been so successful; in no other have humans and animals developed such close relationships. It probably began with wolves approaching early human settlements in the hope of finding sufficient food there without expending too much energy.

Wolf populations living near human settlements gradually lost their fear of humans. Humans took advantage of this. As a result, they bred various #dogbreeds from wolves, each designed to perform #differenttasks and be optimally adapted cognitively, motorically, and anatomically for their intended purposes.

To this day, they all share a common trait: they can understand their human caregivers not only verbally but also nonverbally. This is because they have learned to recognize and correctly interpret human #facialexpressions. Scientific studies have shown that dogs are so adept at recognizing human facial expressions and corresponding #moods that they can accurately assess human emotions even when partially covered face photographies are displayed on a monitor.
However, individual dog breeds also differ from one another, not only in size and proportions, but also in their behavioral repertoires and character traits.

#Herding dogs, for example, have the ability to communicate not only with humans but also with grazing #livestock. Underlying this instinct is a genuine drive to herd animals of other species, to keep them together, to guide their movements, and to protect them; all of this in close cooperation with the human owners of the herds.

The authors H. Jeong et al. (2025) addressed the "Genomic evidence for behavioral adaptation of herding dogs" in their study.
They found that a specific haplotype of the ephrin type-B receptor 1 (#EPHB1) plays a significant role in the typical behaviors of herding dogs. They conclude that #functionalselection is responsible for the #geneticarchitecture of herding breeds.

My #photos show me in a self-portrait with the herder mix Hank, and in the separate dog portraits I deliberately placed the dark dog against a dark background to create artistically appealing #lowkey photographs, which can be seen in detail in my current Behance project.

© #StefanFWirth Berlin 31 #December 2025

Reference
H. Jeong et al. (2025)
https://t.co/n6wq5mHmOP

Photos
© Stefan F. Wirth, Berlin, December 2025

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Manchini @Manchini11

7 months ago

Which Guardian Dog Wins? -CAO Sagi Dahmarda vs Cane Corso Battle Explained https://t.co/T8RweDfVwM via @YouTube #sagidahmarda #centralasianshepherd #canecorso #dogfightcomparison #dogfight #livestockguardiandogs #workingdog #shepherddogs #guardiandog

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Christine Rosi @CLEERFITness

7 months ago

Another 🐾 Memory popped up from 2020…… Mommy and Me.... 🐾🥾🐾 #myg_man #CleerFitDog #hiking #hikingdoggie #hikingadventures #mothernature #getoutdoorsandmove #walkingadventures #germanshepherd #shepherddogs #gsd #dogsareawomynsbestfriend #unconditionallove #mentalhealth

CLEERFITness's tweet photo. Another 🐾 Memory popped up from 2020……

Mommy and Me....
🐾🥾🐾
#myg_man #CleerFitDog #hiking #hikingdoggie #hikingadventures #mothernature #getoutdoorsandmove #walkingadventures #germanshepherd #shepherddogs #gsd #dogsareawomynsbestfriend #unconditionallove #mentalhealth https://t.co/Ojip0SZYRF

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Mr Indian You 🇮🇳 @MrIndianyou

9 months ago

Two shepherd dogs, one epic roundup! Watch these furry pros herd hundreds of sheep into a pen with jaw-dropping precision, not missing a single one. Nature’s ultimate teamwork! #ShepherdDogs #HerdingHeroes #FarmLife

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Dog Desk Animal Action

@DogDeskAction

10 months ago

🐕✅ This shepherd dog health & ID programme is a HUGE step forward for animal welfare in Turkey. 👏 Be proud, Çanakkale — be very proud! 🇹🇷💚 #AnimalWelfare #ShepherdDogs #DogCare #ResponsibleOwnership 📽️Turkish Republic Canakkale Governorship

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Dog Desk Animal Action

@DogDeskAction

11 months ago

🐾 Every year, ex-working dogs are dumped on the streets 💔 📢 We’ve long called for shepherd dogs to be treated like owned dogs… and someone listened 🙌 ✨ Here’s to streets without discarded Kangals & shelter gates without boxes of puppies 🐶❤️ #AnimalWelfare #ShepherdDogs #Kangal #RescueDogs #EndAbandonment #StrayDogCrisis

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GSD Lovers Club @gsd_loversclub

about 1 year ago

#GermanShepherd #LongHairedGermanShepherd #GSD #DogsofTwitter #DogLife #CuteDogs #PetLover #Woof #DogLove #BestFriends #ShepherdDogs #Doggo #TedEBear #Schatzie

gsd_loversclub's tweet photo. #GermanShepherd #LongHairedGermanShepherd #GSD #DogsofTwitter #DogLife #CuteDogs #PetLover #Woof #DogLove #BestFriends #ShepherdDogs #Doggo #TedEBear #Schatzie https://t.co/SdHj57PoPT

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Thông đỏ @shasha300

almost 2 years ago

🐕✨ Spectacular timelapse of 7 shepherd dogs guiding a flock of sheep down from the majestic mountains of Dagestan. Like watching a perfectly choreographed dance in nature! #NatureMagic #ShepherdDogs

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tj_thomas-gibson @tammyt_pike

about 2 years ago

@Iza_2021 @LabsAndFriends #shepherddogs #dogs #rescuedogs

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Maybe Tomorrow Ranch @mthranch

over 2 years ago

The smiling dogs #maybetomorrowranch #alberta #albertadogs #germanshepherd #dutchshepherd #belgainmalinois #shepherddogs

mthranch's tweet photo. The smiling dogs
#maybetomorrowranch #alberta #albertadogs #germanshepherd #dutchshepherd #belgainmalinois #shepherddogs https://t.co/bqrF4JH5la

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tj_thomas-gibson @tammyt_pike

over 2 years ago

@TomJumboGrumbo @HopeForPaws @LabsAndFriends #rescuedogs #shepherddogs #dogsarefamily

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Dawg4Life21 @Jcardwell21

over 2 years ago

@DynastyCLE This guy was diagnosed with kidney failure today. It's been a sad day in our house. I am letting him do and eat what he wants. Spend what days or weeks we may have left. #loveGSD #shepherddogs

Jcardwell21's tweet photo. @DynastyCLE This guy was diagnosed with kidney failure today. It's been a sad day in our house. I am letting him do and eat what he wants. Spend what days or weeks we may have left. #loveGSD #shepherddogs https://t.co/KWDHvWZ4LR

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Manchini @Manchini11

over 2 years ago

My Top 10 Shepherd Dogs and their Bite Force #shorts #shepherddogs https://t.co/fagKdFQXwj via @YouTube

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MariaVB @MariaVB731

over 4 years ago

Nacho(granpa) and Luca 3 months old #mountaindogs #shepherddogs #countrylife

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RayRay 🇬🇧✝️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@RayMairead

over 4 years ago

#BelgianMalinois #ShepherdDogs #Malinois #Maligator

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RayRay 🇬🇧✝️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@RayMairead

almost 5 years ago · Birmingham

Who dunit? #Malinois #ShepherdDogs

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FaeryQueen44 🍗🍖🥩🥓 @FaeryQueen44

about 5 years ago

@tvanouvelles Et juste comme ça, il va devenir le héro d'un paquet de gens ayant encore un peu de bon sens... Merci à la GRC d'en faire un martyr. C'est très apprécié. 😊😘 #shepherddogs

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