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Agreed, but unfortunely, there are lots and lots of people seeking oversized gsd in order to produce oversized gsd for the market. so its not a waste to neuter, then place in a home with people who want/need a good family protector a dog that is not breed worthy because of being oversized.

I'm not trying to say coats can't work, I was merely enquiring

whether the OP had thought through - IF s/he actually does

SAR with the dog/pup they get - the disadvantages of a long

coat.  Particularly with the kind of 'very long, very silky'  (i.e.

open) coat the OP wants to find.

Believe me, having worked for over a decade with a mixture of

GSDs,  half of which were longstockhairs,  none of which had the

incorrect very long soft coat btw, who lived outside, I have had

sufficient struggles with wet skins & coats, knots & tangles, mud &

frost balls, to know what I am talking about.

I've also known individual dogs with the long silky single coat type

mainly kept as pets, not expected to do much roughty-toughty

stuff as per a field worked dog or a Search Dog, who even so got

into a dreadful mess just wandering round their local parks.