4 Things You Should Know About German Shepherd
From its name itself, the German shepherd breed’s original origin is Germany and it falls from the same family tree as the Doberman Pinschers, Affenpinscher, Miniature Pinscher and the Schnauzers – the giant, standard and the miniature. The appear in books as eary as 1884, back then it was called Smooth Haired Pinschers and a picture that was dated in 1780 has a dog that really looks like a German Shepherd.
This particular breed was almost put to extinction because of the adversity during the World War I and World War II; fortunately it was saved by Werner Jung, a German fancier. He was really dedicated to saving the German shepherd breed as he roamed around the entire Germany in 1958 to look for Pinschers on farms and even manage to smuggle a bitch in black and red color from the eastern part of Germany. Its quite amazing how the dogs he got from the farms, the bitches he smuggled and the 4 huge Miniature Pinschers was able to revive the breed and to think that that most of the German shepherd in the present era came from those dogs. So, much credit should be given to Werner Jung for a job well done.
Contrary to the popular notion that the German shepherd is a much smaller version of Doberman, it is actually a breed with longer and older history. This breed is indeed flexible dog – it was once a farm dog and ratter. At the present, the dog is just a companion dog at most part and shows dog.
During the latter part of 1970s and early 1980s, the first German shepherd dog came to the United States but it was only until the year 2003 when the American Kennel Club gives recognition to the dog and currently holds the position of 198th rank amongst the other registered dogs in AKC.
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