"Nice 4 mths old male Shepherd - pet/working/show" - Page 2

I was thinking Australian Cattle dog mix myself. BxrNGSD, why would you breed to produce puppies that look like mixed breeds? You surely aren't breeding to "Perfect the breed"... so it is safe to say, you are another person breeding to keep your pocket book heavy. And to top it all off, the fact that you are even considering offering FULL REGISTRATION on that poor mixed breed puppy, is just sick! What is this world coming to...

This is a working breed and color should not matter. Your dogs may be clear in the head but you are not.

Ok, I can't find the ad.. can someone resend the link... I need to see this

To let you all on alittle secret I am NOT a breeder and more then likely NEVER will be...I got my pup for a Search and rescue prospect and he so happens to be EXACTLY what I wanted..I did NOT breed this dog,I have him for myself and His littermate because he wasn't getting the attention he needed so I brought him here to socialize him and start his training and then find him a new home for the owner...So just wanted to clear that up!!!!

On the other hand, Bxr should not be advertising that a pup can work unless his parents have proven they work AND he shows potential at this age. Then again, few folks on this database will be fooled. We should be open-minded about color and style and stay focused on PROVEN WORKING ABILITY. Criticism should not be directed that this innocent pup's odd markings (which may come from another breed somewhere close up, as the boston markings are somewhat dominant, but just may come from a white purebred gsd who is somehow carrying the boston gene masked by his complete cover white gene) but on the claim that he can work without a record of his pedigree with titles and lines made clear. That's what makes the GSD so much better than most breeds. Once we start poking fun at color and style we go the way of the Bouvier, Rough Collie, or worse. Let's stay as clear in the head as our dogs, folks!

In my long winded way I failed to say Good Luck with your pup. It's great that he's loved and great that he's working for you!

Great he's supposedly working out for you...even though you listed him for sale on this website - joke or otherwise. If you truly "loved" your puppy, and he's "working out great," why in the world would you post a for sale ad for him online? Sorry, but maybe I'm just dumb as a box of rocks, but I can't see ANY humor in that. Your ad seemed pretty darn real to me. You listed his details down to a "t."

Bxr: you've just discovered how sharp some of the folks on this database can be. I recently lamented a guy promoting back-to-back breedings of a relatively old bitch, and he almost went out of his mind with a long ad hominem diatribe against me. You have to not take it personally around here.

I have to agree with EnviroGA who is being gracious. It sure seemed like an ad for sale with suspicious credentials backing it up.

http://www.pedigreedatabase.com/gsd/marketplace.viewad?id=31585 For future reference, if you click on a poster's name, it will show what pictures/ads they have recently posted. IMO, colour should not matter for a working dog. And show/schutzhund people have a reputation for being catty. It was the same when I was showing horses, and it's the same here on the message boards. People were saying my little unregistered QH/TB cross should have gone for dog food. I just went out and won ribbons with her, anyway! I was just reading about a shepherd who was doing schutzhund with his herding dog. They laughed at him and made snarky comments as he and the dog were getting ready. When his dog went for the decoy, and laid him out flat on the ground, you could have heard a pin drop! Go ahead and enjoy your dog. Like they say in the horse world that 'a good horse is never a bad colour!'