I miss our GSD, except for the shedding fur and I will never forget the day she came down with diarrhea and ran through the whole house. We were just waking up and I just stood there and cried. It was everywhere! I told DH then, never again, You want a big dog, be ready to do all the cleaning up after it. My 3 Yorkies and my Biewer are just getting over having diarrhea, and all 4 of them together for the past 4 days do not make as big a mess as the GSD did that one time!