[AnnieK]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

To be honest though I don't feel like you can keep a dog like a German Shepherd and never let it off-lead... Really you'd have to pack it off to someone with land or at least a very large enclosed garden where it can run around. Keeping a large dog in a house + on lead on walks is honestly quite cruel.

Though I also don't think there's an easy answer or compromise.

I had a Rhodesian ridgeback and if he didn't get at least an hours run twice a day he was like a caged animal in the house. Luckily there was a wood nearby where he could be off the lead and just run.