For those of you who breed. Have you noticed a general tendency in the normal pet owner to prefer one color to another? Does one color have a stereotype from the general public?
In my experience--yes. Color was the #1 question. Roughly one half were interested in black&red, the other half in black, which leads me to believe that people are looking for either "pretty" or "mean". The #2 question was "how big?"--the bigger the better, of course. I don't remember anyone asking about the temperament :rolleyes: ...
Yes color is a major concern, because a lot of people believe that it has some reference to the dogs working back ground. To most pet owners they want beauty or their imagine of what a GSD was or is to them.
What I look for, is no white dogs in the parents or immeadiate background. Though it use to be that two near perfect couple could throw a white or blue, sometimes. And nothing be wrong with the parents or puppies.
Now breeders are breed whites, Go figure??? Few are capable to work even at tracking. IMO.
I don't particularly like the blues or bleached out colored GSD, either. Though they might have good temperment.
I do like Blacks, Sable, and of course Saddle bagged almost any of the two standard color, especailly the Black&Reds. Is this a color of a certain origin's in region, West of East Germany or Czchec? The Black&reddish coat.
Or is it just by chance?
The dog is not a GSD if the temperment is not there, of course I'm not talking about the fire breathers, to me there a lot of room for balance.
i now have a black female frome ED and i am always asked if she is a pure-bread . I have been told by people who know nothing about dogs that " there is no way that you can have a black GSD and have it be pure." This just tells me that people in up State new york are nott used to seeing a working line dog. It also tells me that no matter where you go you can be sure to find people that don't no $&!% about dogs
David T Klinetob
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Does one color have a stereotype from the general public? I would say that would depend on which time period to which you refer...
I don't know the ages of the current posters, but I remember the dogs of the 1950's. Due to the popularity of the RinTinTin TV show (in B&W of course!) pet owners then were clamoring for the Black and Silver color. In fact I had one: shiny black saddle, cream/white legs, undersides and chest, small dark mask. That coloring wouldn't have a chance in the show ring today: lacking pigmentation the judge would say.
Years following became popular the bicolor or large blanket, along with the black-n-tan. More recently the black-n-red is in vogue...to the point that some show dogs regularly get fed beta-carotene and look alarmingly (to me anyway) Orange!
Coat color can be a fad. Breeders will present what wins in the ring. If show judges would suddenly start awarding all black dogs, soon there would be an abundance of black dogs around.
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Anna wrote: "Pity. Temperament is so much more important."
Which is exactly why the working bloodlines still represent nearly every color variation.
If you see a dedicated bloodline of any ONE color, somewhere along the line some jackass decided to start selecting dogs based on the coat color. . .and thus had fewer dogs to breed from. . .and most likely wasn't at all concerned about what the dogs could do, just what they looked like.
We all know what happens to a breed when this trend takes over. . . :rolleyes:
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