Posted on 02/15/2017 11:04:26 AM PST by Gennie
A German Shepherd named Rumor won Best in Show at the 141st Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New Yorks Madison Square Garden on Tuesday.
Rumor was a sentimental favorite of the crowd, having finished second in 2016.
This marked the end of a drought for the breed, which had last won in 1987.
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I usually DO adopt but I have a 9 year old cat, and I’m not sure of the temperament of dog like a Shepard from a shelter when it comes to cats.
Their backs used to be strong and straight when they were first bred. Now rounded.
You can get a beautiful German shepherd at your local GSD rescue for a whole lot less.
Look at some of our dogs at German Shepherd Rescue of Orange County. We do adoptions out to southern CA, southern NV, and western AZ.
http://www.gsroc.org/available-dogs/
We can talk or not talk for hours, and still find things to not talk about.
Lol!
This is true, but there are lines that have a straight back and breeders who breed for it, you just won’t find them in the show dogs. Mine are all straight back and sturdy like a table :)
I think some go to law enforcement but some just as regular pets - my GSD was very intense with high prey drive but a great pet, he would never have been a good therapy dog, that’s for sure!
“Mine are all straight back and sturdy like a table :)
Glad to hear it. The others are pathetic.
I understand...mine are a bit lower key than that, I always tell people my kids are overly active so I don’t want my dogs to be, hah.
I got my dog from some Russians in the area. The parent dogs were from East Germany. They advertised them as german shepherds. When we talked to the owners, they said the parents were brought from Russia, and were considered East German Shepherds, and while the parents were “registered”, the puppies were not. That was ok way me, as I wanted a big dog, with a big bark (to scare strangers off), that was smart. $200, and I got Titan. Really smart, really a good companion, but hates the heat and loves the cold. A little research recently, and I see pictures of of the ‘breed’ Eastern European Shepherd - (VEO Shepherd). They were german shepherds bred in the 1930’s-1950’s in the USSR to be bigger, cold resistant Shepherds without the dysplasia problems of the GS. I looked at some of the pics after I read the description, and said ‘yep, that's him. Scary looking (his face looks like a mask with wide silver cheek fur), big (30” high at withers), REALLY long when he lays down, but loyal, doesn't bark needlessly (although he's spoiled and does his share of whining), loves to go out and roll in the snow (and hides out in the basement in the summer).
I'd recommend those to anyone looking for a Shepherd as a pet. He has no joint problems, only had ear mites when we got him, and at 7 yrs old had his 1st problem - staph infection on his chest. 3 wks antibiotics and he was just fine.
Mine had some weird medical issues. She chewed on a piece of straw, and somehow it went up behind her eyeball. Special dog eye surgery....
But she is mostly black with a little tan. She is a sweetheart, but scare the hell out of anyone coming in the house uninvited.
Easily the best dog I’ve ever had.
I will be out walking her and people stop to ask about her. And not people we are walking past, they stop their cars. It was a little weird at first.
Nice!
Our dogs could be siblings.
That is funny.
Nice balance, ha!
Are you sure they were Eastern European Shepherds and not DDR East German line? The EES from Russia were crossed with Caucasian Ovcharka (sp?), Black Russian Terriers, and other breeds from what I remember. I’ve had some DDR dogs (and some are in my lines) that were huge, supposedly before the wall came down some of the dogs utilized were massive. Not all, of course, but some. My big male who is going on 12 has some West German (touch of DDR), along with some various other lines and he’s 30” and 145 pounds . Would love to see a pic of your dog.
I don’t think so. The DDR Shepherd images I’ve seen are colored primarily in black and brown. Titan is black, blond, silver, and white, with a very straight back. He looks a lot like this one: https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse3.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.dJxyp3QV9skHmxPb0EHEMgEsCd%26pid%3D15.1&f=1
Although they were living very lower-middle class, Mrs. Russian had all gold teeth - a real status symbol in Russia ;-) I understood their daughter (spoke english with a thick accent) to say that Mr Russian went back to Russia often, but their dogs were for protection. I didn't even WANT to know what he was doing going back and forth to Russia for that he needed 2 enormous Shepherds for protection!
I'll see if I can find a picture of him to freepmail to you. I'm a bit handicapped in that by having lost my laptop (which was still Windows Vista) to a power outage and being forced to get a Windows 10 replacement, so the restoration of my data is going slow...
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