y father in law has a 9 month old german shepherd and shes totally wild ! Whenever someone enters the room she jumps up all over and runs around. She gets a 2 hour RUN each day but is still full of energy when she returns home. She is fed dry biscuits and rice twice daily. She is also constantly panting, even if shes just sat down. I know he should take her to the vets to have this checked out , but does anyone have an idea what the problems could be????

Quite possibly mental boredom. What training does he do with her? Remember, the more exercise a dog gets the fitter it becomes, and the more it needs. Apart from anything else, she's having way too much exercise for her age. Breeds which are prone to HD should have limited exercise (at 9 months a couple of 45-minute walks would be ample) until they're adult.

Hope this helps.

As JG says this is far too much exercise for a GSD.  Not sure what you mean by dry biscuits and rice?  Sounds a bit odd.

She sounds as though she may need looking at.  Also if she comes from strong working lines she may be mentally underemployed.

She needs things like dog kongs and some time spent training her hide food round the house so she has to use her brain, if she likes playing hide her ball from her hide it under something and see if she works out how to get it out. I have border collies and a gsd and if i didnt do silly things like that to amuse them they would be bouncing of my walls.

I agree with the others that you need to give your dog more to stimulate its mind rather than just its body so provide it with more toys, balls than you can fill with your dogs food are great because the dog has to roll the ball around to get rewarded with a biscuit. Your dog should have been on a good quality puppy food, ask your vet about the best diet to feed it.

Excessive enthusiasm with visitors often occures when the dogs see relitively few strangers, so maybe if increasing the amount of visitors is possible this may help, but normally the problem is that the over enthusiasm visitor. When your dog was a puppy every one was probably excited to see him and likewise for the dog, and he was probaly allowed to jump up to greet people and every one was happy with the puppy's friendly welcome, but now the dog is a great deal bigger its not so pleasing. But the poor dog does not know what it is doing wrong it's always been allowed to greet people in this manner. If you shout and screan at the dog and try to push him down this will be seen as attention by the dog and is actually a "reward" for its behavior. The best thing to do is IGNORE the dog, this is the worst type of punishment for a dog. Stand upright and fold your arms turn away from the dog if it jumps up and do not say a word. As soon as the dog is on all four paws then it can have gentle praise, (just a calm stroke) if the dog jumps up again then turn away and do the same thing. It is important that EVERYONE take part in this exercise. The dog soon learns that it will get more attention if it is an all four paws.

I have done this with various dogs and always had good results, let me know if it works.

could be the food shes on coz some dog foods can make them hyperactive! she just sounds like a normal puppy to me!

I agree with jeangenie on this, the dog probably isn't getting enough brainwork.It will get worn out if you let it use it's nose to find treats hidden round the house or garden. You'll never wear it out taking it for walks nomatter how many miles you do. Teach it things so it has to think.
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Good luck