[jeff19]

I agree about small dogs being more misbehaved than many of the breeds I've come across. My gsd has no problems being with larger breeds, but she absolutely hates to be around smaller dogs, especially the loud obnoxious ones that for some reason never seem to be leashed and like to run around and fck shit up.

What i meant was smaller breeds will probably be easier for OP as a first timer to handle. Training could be a diff story. Everything about owner a larger breed is 'bigger'. You gotta put up bigger space, bigger cage, bigger bills etc. etc. When i was considering adopting a dog half a year ago, 60-70% of the dogs at shelters were larger breeds. If you have a small dog and he/she happens to be a little shit who doesnt listen, at most you'll just have poorly trained dog. A poorly trained large dog is a whole diff story.

But like you said, it's probably why theres so many poorly trained small breeds out there.Theyre still alot of work, just not AS much work as owning a larger breed. I'm sure many would agree