The SV and longcoats - Page 2

The longcoat is very popular with the police and prison service here in UK,  Visual deterrent value of a dog that looks bigger than it is, but the advantage of the the agility of the normal size GSD.   I've never had a service dog handler decline a dog because it was longcoated and many ask for one as a first choice, all else being equal.

Margaret N-J

Kaffirdog, you are correct in what you say, but I think the main reason the long-coated dog often appears in police service is that they are an otherwise perfect dog save for their coat type/length. This type of coat will not pass a breed survey and these dogs are usually cheaper than one with a "correct" coat who may have a show/breeding career ahead of him/her.

Personally, I like the long stock-coated dogs and the long-coats as well. I never bred for them on purpose (and never will) but I owned  a very nice one until she died of old age and I did once produce one (1) long stock-coated puppy in a litter. That is when I discovered that one of my bitches was definitely a carrier of the long stock-coat gene.

Regards,

Bob-O

You see more and more long coat dogs popping up in litters and in Germany they are plentiful...the most recent I dealt with is   

Milan v Hexenmeister.....from a very good pedigree of a lot of dogs we all have lines bred to...and from...

Still dont have an SV rating on this dog...but soon will have an OFA rating..here in the USA ..

Hey STEVE 1 ....Milan just happens to be standing in knee deep snow....HA HA  lol 

LOL : - }  Very pretty dog too by the way.............

Here's one for ya,

Why do you think the SV DQ's White GSD's?

Speaknow,  I think that must be the answer, which is what Blitzen said in the first place.  Unless anyone else has information on it, that's the one I'm going to go by anyway!

The shorter haired stock coat may have made for a better weather resistant and low maintence coat.  We have something called a Kenai River Husky in Alaska, a big husky strong husky dog which was bred by the native peoples here as a sort of "draft dog" for pulling heavy loads.  Most Alaskans are familiar with the long coated Kenai River Huskies, but in fact, the dogs preferred by the natives had a shorter stock coat with a dense undercoat.  The long coated dogs were ones they gave away or sold to non-natives as not being preferred for the work of pulling heavy sleds. 

Hi Yellowrose

He's a cracker. One thing though, You should have put some Muffs on his feet to keep them warm

Steve

Well, Steve, I would have except he is still in Germany and that pic was taken in Germany,...He will be living in  Oskosh, Michigan in a few weeks...so he will see snow every winter..so he better be able to stand the cold.