Breedia Dog Forum
GSD or Alsatian is more about the people than the dogs. Some breeders like the more continental type but they also like the continental way of...
The new KC standard does not lay down a length of coat but its usually accepted that a dog with excess hair around the ears or extremely long or...
Epilepsy is a very complex subject as A) it can be a hereditory or non hereditory form & B) it is aparently not just a straight forward yes or no to...
The problem with looking at parents scores etc is that some times you need to look further, I remember a dog in the 90's with a score of 2-2 which...
Think I may have met some of the Icemead dogs at some of the white & longcoat shows I've been to. From their web site it certainly looks as though...
If you are certain you want a long coat why not get in touch with the white & long coat club & have a chat with them. See if they have any of their...
Interesting. My friend who is a breeder, finds in later life all her males adore her, but the same is not true of her females who are often closer to...
One other point about hips, as well as an overall low score an even score, ie the same for each hip in the parents is ideal or only one number...
I've had both & don't think gender has a lot to do with attitude. I've just lost my old boy at 14 & taken on a rescue who they thought was ten but my...
Thanks for the link. my favourites are the 1994 dog & the 2005 dog. AS for the stance all my bitches through the years have regularly stood in that...
The colour makes no difference to temperament at all in my opinion. Whites are fine as pets or for obedience though not for the show ring. The...
Always used to amaze me how different hand reared sheep were from the rest of the flock, used to holiday on a farm (friends of my parents) & if we...
Think the topic wandered a bit from your original question, but some useful facts nevertheless. Had you seen the term silver sable somewhere as...
While I agree that the standard was changed in the 40s I find your remark all big breeders bred windy dogs a little sweeping. I know for a fact that...
It is possible to produce a white in a litter of normal colour GSDs but very rare, this is why they tend to have taken very light dogs & bred like to...
All my GSDs have used their back legs for swimming as well as their front. Even my boy who is virtually off his back legs with DM uses them when...
Have looked at your pictures & he looks fine. My biich has completely thrown her coat after a litter & she looks as though she is lacking in muscle,...
I'm afraid it is instinct, & its the fun of the chase. Have had two GSDs whose natures with people especially children were fantastic but one of them...
Sorry can't do pics though thanks to a lot of help my avatar is Dax my 13 year old & then there's Hannah whose just 4. I had Dax at 11 from rescue &...
I thoughly agree with you there. In the last three competions I've been to with my friend who is working in this class it has not been a collie who...
