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| Germany and Breeders in Germany | 4 weeks ago | German Shepherd Dog |
| The best quote ever about dogs | 3 months ago | German Shepherd Dog |
| CLASSIFIEDS : TOP - EXCEPTIONAL - OUTSTANDING - GERMAN SHOWLINE ...and so on | 4 weeks ago | German Shepherd Dog |
| Request To buy | 6 months ago | German Shepherd Dog |
| Useful video on Genetics | 6 months ago | German Shepherd Dog |
| IDIOPATHIC EPILEPSY IN THE GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG | 2 months ago | German Shepherd Dog |
| Anyone Know where Russ Osburn is? | 8 months ago | German Shepherd Dog |
| Dog cars | 3 months ago | German Shepherd Dog |
| Inbreeding/Line Breeding | 11 months ago | German Shepherd Dog |
| The Definitive German Shepherd Dog - Auth: Louis Donald | 1 years ago | German Shepherd Dog |
| Fero-Troll-Yoschy free breeding lines | 1.3 years ago | German Shepherd Dog |
| I am looking for a puppy from the JINOPO kennel. | 1.4 years ago | German Shepherd Dog |
| Reading a breed survey | 1.6 years ago | German Shepherd Dog |
| Line Breeding | 1.1 years ago | German Shepherd Dog |
| Undescended ***** | 1.3 years ago | German Shepherd Dog |
| Looking for Info on Importing Adult WGSL | 1.6 years ago | german_shepherd_dog |
| working line breeders | 1.7 years ago | German Shepherd Dog |
| Anyone at US Sieger Show who can report? | 1.7 years ago | German Shepherd Dog |
| 2024 Dates & locations info needed | 1.7 years ago | German Shepherd Dog |
| Looking for WGSL companion | 1.8 years ago | German Shepherd Dog |
The personality of a dog is flexible and indeterminate. Dogs can be exuberant or shy; friendly or hostile; fearful or bold; aggressive or passive or some combination of the above. These differences in personality may to some extent be determined by breed, or individual genetics, but for the most part it is based on how and to what extent each particular dog has been socialized.
Is there such a thing as the perfect puppy? In all likelihood there is not. There is always something one might change in any dog (or person really), but the goal should be to always strive towards raising a puppy to be its most perfect self. This is hard work, to be sure, but it is not only possible, it is necessary.
The best tool for breeders in the fight against canine hip dysplasia (CHD), to come along in years, is the SV's HD Zuchtwert, or Breed value assessment number (HD ZW). The HD ZW number is an estimation of the probability that a dog will produce progeny with CHD.
