The Look of this new Puppy???? I was with the Breeder and looked at the pictures of the Sire she said he was once a patrol dog. The Puppies were mostly black and tan with one light sable.

But the more I look at this puppy the more she looks like a German Shep/Mal. Her ears are bigger then most GSDs, her muzzle is more pointed, their is not a lot angulation from back to rear. American GSd have that pointed muzzle look but they usually have the sever angualtion, and weak drive. She has that rat look to her like a Mal and she seems to have energy and speed to spare and great prey drive.

And we get, you need to feed her she looks skinny for a Shepeherd, all the time. She is tall and thin but if you touch she is soild as a rock.

Now she does have the GSD color, thank goodness. I'm hoping that this just her ugly lanky teen age look. But the more I look her and watch her move and work with her all that diving in the air at the tug or the ball. My friend my have gotten took and she has mix GSD/MalX.

Does the Mal have a Sabre tail like the GSD? They move so fast I haven't noticed. What are some traits of the Mal/GSd mix?

Fast, large and ugly as hell <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Here is pic of one:
Lakkie
from his scores from object guard and ph1 he is not that bad.

And another with full ph1 score:
Rico

Rico, kinda looks like her, he not a bad looking dog. Kinda look like some the early GSD dogs used to create the current GSD. So she might be full bloodied just got some throw back blood in her.

But the narrow head and supline body, he looks muscular, but not full bodied like a GSD. At 5 months she is as tall as my 3.5 years old Rottie/Pitt.

Last night I went to Walgreen left the windows down both the Rottie and Natasha jumped out the window after I went in the store. As I came out the store they were b-lining it back to the Jeep.
Usually they stay in the Truck, Mulan getting hard headed as she gets older. Of course the GSD stayed in the Truck. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

There was a car following Natasha as if to pick her up if Mulan the Rottie wasn't there.

So she must look pretty good after I put them back in the Jeep, the car drove off. Now they could have just been Good Samaritains, naw I think they were dognappers. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Thanks Ivan, I may post a head shot of Natasha just to see what you guys think.

All herding dogs go through some really weird, ugly, gangly stages. Heads look huge and then too small, noses pointed and snipey and then too short when the back-skull grows.

Our american x west german shepherd had a little, pointed head and mule ears for a couple months at the same age. Her head looked huge for a couple months, and then her body ballooned. I wondered if she was ever going to look like a dog I'd be seen in public with! She's actually a very pretty, balanced dog now.

Tig, the one in the pictures, didn't go through as obviously distorted stages. But she did go through them -- bear, hyena, coyote -- she's been them all on the way up. She's changed since those pictures were taken last spring. Has really come together.

Don't look too close at what she goes through now.

Stephan Tig is a very pretty girl and you say she skipped the teen age ugly stage. She is a doll!

You lucky Dog. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Thanks! She's exactly the dog I hoped she'd be, and I'm pretty nuts about her. She actually came from the city pound, but couldn't be more what I wanted.

She was a basket case when I got her out, but she's a testament to her breeder's good care and work, and to the breeding she's out of. She's stable as a rock, hard and active as a rubber ball and when we started working in sch. you can tell she's had good puppy imprinting.

She's had her strange looking stages too, but nothing like the other shepherd of ours.