Alsatian experience

For years my family had cats as I was growing up but, for whatever reason I think my father always wanted to have a dog. However, for years we continued to have cats until we moved to the house my parents currently live in.
Shortly after the cats passed away my parent were talked into having an Alsatian puppy. Unfortunately this experience didn’t go well. The Alsatian soiled the entire house (well almost) and was generally nasty. On top of that they realised that you have to take them for walks and clean up after them.
They have since never had another dog, although we do like them a lot.