This could save both the dog’s life and yours. If I was walking through the forest and came across a bear I would feel safer knowing I had a dog that would stand its ground, but also listen while given a command to back off.
They are high drive, high energy, and always wanting to please. They have to be worked or both you and the dog will go crazy. When they are assigned a task and they have been trained how to do it, then they put every effort into completing it.Ī working dog is not your normal companion dog. On the other hand, a working dog will push through it, and give 100% until the task he was assigned to do is completed. If for some reason something comes up that might not normally be what the dog expects, he might just call it quits and not complete the job. I can take a show dog and assign him a job to do and more and likely he will follow the commands given to him. What they lack however is the hard drive that the working line has. They will also show the protective qualities one desires in the breed coupled with the same great intelligence.
The average person would not be able to tell the difference, except for the variations of colors and markings, but a true German shepherd breed connoisseur can tell a major difference.Ī German shepherd that comes from show lines will be very beautiful in physical appearance. This is where today’s working German shepherd came from. Their backs do not slope like the American show lines of German shepherd, but have a straight appearance. The most common colors for the working lines are sables, but they also come in black and red, black and tan, and bi-colors, as well as solid black. They tend to have dark pigmentation, a large blocky head, big bone structure and a lean build. They focused on the breeds temperament and drive. This is where today’s show dogs came from.Įast Germany DDR (Deutshe Demokratishe Republik), used the dogs more for working during the time of the war, and they were bred to be more aggressive. The most common colors are black and red, but they also come in colors of black and tan, sable, bi-colors and black.
The West German shepherds are the most popular, and have a more sloped body than the East German shepherd, but not as much slope as the American German shepherds. Today the German shepherd breed is used in variety of jobs, protection, detection, herding, search and rescue, service dogs, guide dogs, and therapy dogs.ĭuring World War II the breed really became divided into two separate categories.West Germany continued to breed the German shepherd, but focused more on breeds apperance more than work ethic. Bred to herd livestock the German shepherd had the drive and temperament to perform any task that the owner needed it to perform. The German shepherd was originally bred to be a working dog with handsome features.
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