Get to Know Joe E4-The One About Scout

Hey guys, welcome to another get to know Joe. This one's going to be all about Scout. So what is Scout? Is he a Belgian Malinois? Is he a German Shepherd? Is he a Deer Dog? Is he a Coyote? I don't know. I met some people a few years ago and the woman Evelyn writes an article called The Barking Journal and it's all about dogs. So I'm going to read to you what I submitted for her called Scout's Story. My wife and I moved from Windsor to Sault Ste. Marie six years ago. we brought our standard poodle Hershey. Hershey was used to living in a house with eight people and had no training whatsoever. We went from living in a large house in Windsor to a small apartment in the Sioux. My wife and I were both starting college and had to leave Hershey alone in the new apartment. Hershey is not used to this at all. Halfway through the first day of school, I received a phone call from the landlord saying that Hershey had been crying and howling since we left that morning. This went on for three days and they told us that we would have to get rid of him or move out. We reluctantly decided to make the seven hour drive back home to Windsor after being in the Sioux for less than a week. We left Hershey with my wife's parents with the promise that we'd come and get him as soon as we found a pet friendly place to live in the Sioux. Less than a month later we were informed that my wife's parents gave Hershey away. I was crushed. Hershey was my wife's dog but had become my dog over the few years that we had had him. I loved the outdoors and living up north in the Sioux I knew I needed a companion for my trucks in the woods. We started looking for a dog. We did not know what breed we wanted but something kept drawing me to the Humane Society. We waited a few weeks checking now and then we went to meet a few dogs but none of them felt like a perfect fit one day our neighbor who knew we were looking ran over to our apartment and told us that the Humane Society just put up some new puppies on the website she said there were some German Shepherds we wanted a big dog and Shepherd most certainly fit the bill we checked them out online and that day after school we went to the Humane Society to see them when we arrived there was only one left a little furball that they had named Sherman it turns out that Sherman's mom was found at the side of the road with eight puppies the Humane Society split up the puppies into a few different shelters it also turned out that Sherman was not a german shepherd he's a belgian malinois i knew at first glance that sherman would be ours i also knew that sherman was now named scout i vowed to myself and to scout that i would not ever let anything happen to him or take him away from me like what had happened with hershey i researched dog foods dog training and dog care until i was a very knowledgeable dog owner we now live back in the sioux scout is a very happy six-year-old dog he's helped me to train other dogs as well and his best friends with my two-year-old daughter scout is the best dog anyone could ask for. I'm blessed to have him. Now that's a few years dated, obviously. Scout's turning nine this year, my daughter's turning five, she just turned four, and I don't know if he's a Belgian Malinois or not. Some part of me thinks he's a mix, Belgian Malinois and German Shepherd together, but if you do your research, if you look online, there are some Malinois that look just like him, but 90% of them don't. Belgian Malinois are named after a city called Malines if I'm not mistaken, Malines in Belgium obviously they're herding dogs there they use them over in Europe for a cop dogs a lot and they're starting to use them over here more often it's actually the same kind of dog that they took in to get Osama bin Laden he's a little bit bigger he's about 85 90 pounds not a hint of fat on him but like I said he's getting older there I just went to the vet and dropped like $300 on him getting this Metcam stuff or Metcam I think it's called it's a liquid I give him glucosamine and chondroitin as well for his bones and joints and his hips but he's a good dog he he protected protected my daughter actually I went to when I went away for the for the show alone I was gone and I had no contact with my family or anything like that when I got back my wife told me there was an American Bulldog that charged my wife my daughter and my dog and Scout I've seen Scout put dogs down before just for like smelling them he didn't like it and he put them right down and big dogs and i guess all he did this full-grown american bulldog charged them and went right for emerald my daughter and scout stepped in front of emerald and just stood there and took this vicious attack on his face i think in his head he knew he needed to create a barrier in between my daughter and the dog um and he got mauled he had to get all stitched up and glued up and all on the face um which is crazy i'm so very surprised he didn't did not fight back again i think he just thought he had to create a barrier which is awesome i never taught him that i wasn't even there if i was there that dog wouldn't be walking away that's for sure but he did it he he protected my family he he's a good dog he knows the deal he's very aware of what's going on um when i go away camping i leave him a lot of the times at home because he's a good watchdog he nobody's coming in my house and if they come in they're not leaving you know what i mean so uh yeah i love him i love him a lot gonna be nine this year like i said so i had fed him holistic foods for the longest time i had him on a raw diet as well now i just um i feed him a good balanced diet of not a holistic food it's it's a high-end food it's not iams or or pedigree or any of that garbage it's uh it's a good food um first three ingredients are like rice meat and uh another meat so not too bad but uh yeah he sheds like a mad man i have to brush him out all the time um just a good dog when he goes in a couple years i don't know what i'll get i i've been tossing back and forth between a bouvier a bouvier de flanders and an australian cattle dog but i've seen a lot of different variations on those australian cattle dogs and a lot of them i don't like there's only some that i do like so we'll see what happens but if I get a Bouvier she's going to be a girl because I don't want a 120 pound dog and if I get an Australian cattle dog it'll probably be a boy but we're not going to think about that until Scout's way gone he's not the kind of dog who wants another puppy around the house or any of that nonsense so yeah all right you asked for it there it was get to know Joe the one about Scout thanks for watching guys I'll see you again soon take care