Colours. - Page 2

Blue is indeed a Dilute color and not very liked...I personally love the color. What a lot of "confirmation" show people do not add is, back in the 70's it was a BLUE GSD that was kicking ass in the show ring....so a bunch of sore losers got together and changed the breed standard to not allow blues.

I just put my blue male down at age 12...he is a solid working dog that worked hard and played all day long. Very social and active and of course no one wanted him in the SchH clubs but he did train for SchH just could never compete...he even passed all the PSD test at age 9 months. The trainer said he never had a dog hit so hard as he did......some may not like the color and although some colors I do not prefer, if it is a good dog and trainable...who cares what color it is.

There is no color requirement for working, training, competing and titling your dog in Schutzhund.

molly

Oleos93,the litter I told you about was 5 solid blues and blue/gold and 3 whites.

You are right eichenluft, colour has no influence on working ability, nor does length of coat, but please, have you seen all the pics on the link? Pick a colour, and give it name? And as for the panda shepherds?  They vaguely resemble shepherds. !

You're right - color has no influence on working ability - but it does influence the people who are in charge of the training.  It's sometimes very hard to find a club that will give a 'faulted' dog a second glance before pffing it off the field.

~Cate

When a club has it's standards and want to abide by the German regulation you can't much argue with what is right or wrong...I just shrug my shoulder sand say "whatever"  So many people bash me for my blue German Shepherd, most are the "showy show" people that have dogs that look like their rear end is going to fall off it drags on the ground so bad...when I tell them they can certainly challenge their dog to mine in what a GSD was meant to do and can do, I never hear from them again...they breed for looks ONLY and their dogs can't work a lick.