| I've only had the one Dobe so I can't say definitively if his particular traits are typical of the breed (though from reading DobeTalk for a few months, it seems that they are). Anyway, the following observations:
He absolutely is not heat tolerant. Even in the warm-to-hot British summer he quickly becomes hot, panty, slow and on walks he needs plenty of cool-down paddles in the river, and water to drink.
He's a good boy but "patient" certainly isn't a word I'd use to describe him.
Even at 10 going on 11, he still needs a lot of exercise. He has around 90 minutes off-leash every morning and another 30 minutes off-leash in the late afternoon/early evening. If he doesn't get enough exercise, he boings around the house like a hyperactive rubber ball (as I experienced recently, when he wasn't allowed any walks for 5 days following some surgery on his foot).
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