Ok, maybe this is a "newbie" question but I gotta ask! I like the advice I get from this board.
My question is:
What are the general temperment characteristics associated with a german shepherd that is BLACK in color?
I understand that color does not determine temperment, that is why I ask this from a GENERAL point of view... for instance, generally, "sables are good working dogs", "whites have health and temp. problems", & "american gsd are ruined". I know everyone has a story of an exception to the general point. What is the general info about a black gsd?
Anything would be helpful! Thanks!
Alison Voore
Top Paw Training: serving Canyon Lake & New Braunfels, San Antonio to Austin.
I find no differences between the working abilities of my black dogs versus my sable ones. The only differences are their personalities and that each dog is an individual with some being stronger than others in varying areas.
Robert VanCamp Webboard User Reg: 11-28-2001
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A black GSD from working lines will have the same general temperament as a working line dog.
A black GSD from American showlines will suck.
A black GSD from Canadian showlines will suck.
A black GSD from back yard bred "lines" will suck.
It's the bloodlines that one wants to look at. White GSDs are a bloodline of their own perpetuated by a group of people. Although there are a few goofballs here or there that are breeding for black dogs only, there is not a removed bloodline of black GSDs anywhere. Thus there is not a group of black GSDs who have a genetic relationship that one can generalize about.
The coat color of a working line dog will give you exactly zero indication of the temperament of the dog.
Thanks VanCamp. That's exactly what I wanted to know. Working lines are working lines to me too. I heard someone talking about how his dog's black coat color meant that "he was more dominant because the black color is a dominant color gene paired with a dominant temperment and so he will be a more dominant, mean dog." Sounded a little (ALOT!) crazy to me too.
Just needed a little info before I correct him...
If the guy is saying that about a GSD (black dominant therefor dominant personality), then tell him he's got it backwards! Tell him black is a recessive in GSDs and his dog is over compensating. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
Stephanie Vanderhaegen Webboard User Reg: 01-08-2004
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(oh my gosh! that link shows the most awful looking gsd!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> his back is terrible! are ALL american gsd show dogs like THAT! That's just plain cruel!) <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />
Sorry, I just had to react there.
If you are referring to the "A typical recessive black" photo...that is a typical American Bred Speciality Show GSD.
The show stance exaggerates the upright front and low-rider look, but in general Speciality Show dogs look like that. The long thigh bone allows the stifle joint to be postioned lower than the hock joint, so the dog can stand like that. And Speciality Show folk consider it beautiful...obviously, since they continue to breed such structures.
*shrug*
To each his own....but it's not my cup of tea.
Stephanie Vanderhaegen Webboard User Reg: 01-08-2004
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People like dogs like that? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> Sorry but I think its terrible. I have been around show dogs in South Africa and here in Belgium and none of them (thank goodness) look like that!
Can those dogs actually function properly? Can they walk well? Once more I appologise for my shock, I was totally horrified when I saw that pic, I practically fell out of my chair <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/blush.gif" alt="" />
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