Standard Schnauzer Forum:
re: Standaed Schnauzer

Hello. We purchased "Ed", a 25 month old male standard schnauzer, at 8 weeks of age for my daughters 7th birthday. Ed has been a perfect dog with "personality" to spare.

Ed was exceptionally easy to train even for me as a novice dog owner with no episodes of barking, chewing items, using inside for the bathroom or being aggresive with people. I was always firm and consistent and it worked. He will bark if someone knocks on the door or a squirrel/racoon goes past the door where he sleeps.

Eds always slept in his crate (after about 2 months we took the door off) in the dinette areas of the kitchen and he heads off there on his own about 9pm. He gets up about 6 (so do i) and goes out and does his business. I watch him in the backyard as we have no fence but he always comes when called and has never done "walkabout".

I did notice that as he matured that he was getting a little bit ornery. We had him fixed at about 11 months and that pretty much ended that. My d